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At first, there were only a couple of us in the office.

“The Wire” fans, that is. We rented the earlier seasons and got everybody into it. Two became three and four, and pretty soon our whole side of the office was ranting and raving about The Wire. We caught the fever for season 4 and watched week by week, whispering in hushed voices on Monday so that we wouldn’t ruin it for others that had tivo’d it. Now the fifth and final season of The Wire is filming and we caught some of the action today.

HBO’s The Wire is the critically acclaimed series about the city of Baltimore. The depth of its story-telling and accurate portrayal of our city makes this one of the best shows on television. So when I found out they were shooting scenes in the garage of my office building, I couldn’t be more excited.

When I got to work this morning, there were trailers parked next to my office and signs directing cars for “The Wire” to our garage.

The first thing I did when I got to my cubicle was to take out my camera. “Let’s get some photos,” I told cube-town. A few of us donned our coats and walked outside. After standing at the front of the building for a little, we decided to try our luck upstairs on the roof of the garage. Sure enough, the crew were all set up on the south side of the building. We stood there for a while, talking to the Sun papers maintenance guys who were watching the scene too.

Then, we heard a loud noise from the set. Behind the wall of crew members, we saw someone attacking a blue police prop car, the same one that blew by me in the garage yesterday afternoon as I was leaving work. It was McNulty, the main character of The Wire. He was kicking the car. Pretty hard, it seemed, as the sound of crunching metal echoed towards us.

After a while, he got back in the prop car and did the scene again. Then, after those two takes, they wrapped up. Someone walks over and hands McNulty a light coat, and the crew start packing their things. We make our second character spotting as the Deacon walks by. Didn’t recognize him at first, but he’s walking over to the north elevator as we make our way back to the office.

During lunchtime we set out again to get another glimpse of The Wire. For our third and fourth character spottings, we ran into FBI agent Fitzhugh and Detective Freamon down the block. We also find McNulty’s trailer but he’s nowhere around.

Our next stop was the roof of the garage where they were filming in the morning. All the police prop cars are still there, including the car McNulty kicked, with fresh dents and flat tire

We find that the prop cars weren’t locked, so we had some fun staging some photos.

After that, it was pretty much it. Cast and crew were nowhere to be found. Hopefully they’ll come around again and we’ll get another sneak peek on the set of HBO’s The Wire.