Homicide: Life on the Street - Luther Mahoney

Lewis outsmarts Luther Mahoney in the box. Another amazing scene from the highly acclaimed series.
Episode: Bad Medicine

[@1longshot3]

Erik Todd Dellums has one of the greatest voices around, he's outstanding

[@Fraptab]

Absolutely agree.

[@generalzod7959]

He sounds exactly like the narrator on sinful's horror stories.

[@gedward3761]

I came to this video just to hear his voice after watching him in homeland

[@ifragpsn6431]

Nah nah, Three-Dog from Fallout 3 sounds *way* better.

[@johnconway6976]

@@generalzod7959 He does a lot of narration for the Science Channel.

[@jmnga20]

Luther Mahony, at the time, was the most cold-blooded villian on television.

[@brandonb3174]

Before Walter white was doing food poisoning Luther did it first

[@KumiesCummies]

Erik really needs to become more mainstream. He is an amazing actor. Loved his expressions in this clip. That's dedication.

[@stellarocquie7957]

Watched this clip a hundred times just to watch his facial expressions. Shame he does so MUCH voice work where we can't see his face. Priceless.

[@v.a.993]

The one dislike is from a fan of NYPD Blue.

[@williamparker6817]

You're dead right!

[@jessealvarez779]

Is it OK that I like them both??

[@sebastiantravis9406]

Yeah seriously! So many likes on this comment, but Im all for multiple Pre-Cable Quality TV Series & Nypd Blue (also responsible for Hill Street Blues) was top form tv. Granted I do love Homicide a little more due to its Pure Authentic On Location Shooting in actual Baltimore, MD!

[@davsaltego]

NYPD Blue came close to this quality. In some ways better. I assume you meant Hill Street Blues? 🥴

[@KempoCombatives]

I wish I could like this comment 18 times

[@beaudure01]

“You know, I heard that.” Great dialogue, great acting.

[@DiamondLil]

I haven't watched any Homicide since it was first run, but I have never, never forgotten Luther Mahoney's face, voice, or presence. One of the, if not the, most impressive TV villains ever. Imagine Luther facing off against Raylan in Justified.

[@773SleepyHollow]

It's amazing that Erik Todd Dellums (interesting side note: his father Ron Dellums was a Congressman from a district in Oakland from 1971 - 1998) doesn't have a much bigger acting career than he does... his work as Luther Mahoney was one of the high points of Homicide (and that's saying something, given how great a show Homicide was).

[@wfberan]

I always loved how David Simon flipped two Homicide actors from one side of the law to the other in The Wire--Dellums from a drug dealer to a medical examiner, and Clayton LeBoeuf from a cop to a front for a drug dealer.

[@danielcalvn3234]

773SleepyHollow. Wow! Didnt know that!

[@tomcoty5886]

Homicide was the best detective show ever. Frank Pembleton is a god.

[@JediDanD]

Wow, for Erik Todd Dellums; I can hear the character he plays in Avatar: The Last Airbender in his voice . . . "You're a different person now . . . You've come to me with a new face . . ."

[@MateusHonrado]

He now voices Aaravos in The Dragon Prince.

[@TangoSierra888]

This show was absolutely brilliant. Luther Mahoney was one of my fav tv villains. And NOBODY could beat Det. Pembleton in the “box”.

[@ACraig-og8tn]

RIP Andre Braugher. He died yesterday.

[@TangoSierra888]

@@ACraig-og8tn WHAT?????

[@theevilascotcompany9255]

Your post reminds me that they kind of kept Mahoney and Pembleton away from each other's storylines, and made Mahoney the nemesis of Kellerman, Lewis and Stivers. Mahoney and Pembleton would be no slow burn, it would have gone nuclear on the first encounter.

[@TangoSierra888]

@@theevilascotcompany9255 I think you’re 100% correct! But it would’ve been epic.

[@richardl.5054]

Love how Erik Todd Dellums played Luther Mahoney on Homicide, and went on to play a medical examiner on The Wire, while Clayton LeBouef played Colonel Barnfather on Homicide, and went on to play Orlando on The Wire...

[@ajbahus]

Keep people talking during an interrogation. They'll reveal something eventually.

[@joseyeastwood]

Dude's voice is amazing.

[@stephenburton869]

Who... Are... You...fooling?

[@marquesjohnson6359]

this was Luther thinking he was smarter than Lewis and Stivers the whole time I was like Luther say less LOL

[@asimhusain8087]

This is tv this individual in real life would have showed up with a top defense attorney and would not have spoken he would have mentally rehearsed what & what not to do

[@markpolice3585]

Smug, arrogant people always screw up like this. They begin to believe that they are too smart to get caught.

[@blackknightdl]

King James Bible - Proverbs 16:18 : Pride comes before the fall

[@nateo200]

+Mark Police And when they fall and you get to step aside as they crash hard, its something classically beautiful....

[@blackknightdl]

Xpenguin17revived A war is never won in one battle, he started to let his guard down and act drastic. Thats all they needed at the moment, not a victory but a start

[@markpolice3585]

That was the catalyst for his downfall.

[@markpolice3585]

That shooting was 100% justified. I don't know why in the hell they got in trouble.

[@septiawoman2911]

This show was the shit back in the day. I loved to watch episodes with Luther and Georgia!

[@dreamquesttv]

Don't forget the shootout with Junior Bunk in the squad room.

[@thedabara2477]

I loved watching Luther's lips. Fascinating. There was a FU in every expression, and yet he was angelic. Unless riled.

[@easilyjaded2]

God, Erik Todd Dellums is amazing.

[@michaelreidperry3256]

I love watching these artists work. Homicide... is merely one excellent platform for professionals to demonstrate their cinematic, literary and theatrical artistic strengths. That is this business. It’s a good and important business, showing us ourselves and finding meaning in this monotonously simple, but often pleasurable or exasperating human experience. It’s a chance to step outside of our self-awareness to safely look back at ourselves and learn more how we respond to outside forces in relation to what we must conclude is our ego or self, and what we hopefully understand is our identity. That is the valuable service artists and the arts provide. We make humans more human, for better or for worse. It’s enjoyable, isn’t it?

[@mikekling7144]

I am on a mission to get Homicide airing somewhere.

[@Mimi-cq4bg]

Awww.... the 90s. Everybody smokin. The awful cars. The half uptight half street dialogue. Takes me back to high school.

[@Dizzydog214]

Excellent writing, excellent acting, and an excellent tv show.

[@TvGyrl]

truly not the STEREOTYPICAL criminal. Mahoney looked like a mild mannered College Professor.

[@kendallrivers1119]

The black James Moriarty.

[@hollywoodwerewolf]

Luther Mahoney was Baltimore's Teflon Don

[@Anselcat1952]

The greatest bad guy since Professor Moriarty. Mr. Dellums should be a big star

[@stellarocquie7957]

SHOULD be? LOL!

[@scotthockenberry3085]

God I love this show

[@71brighteyes]

Thanks for posting this. Love it.

[@VeNuS2910]

i like this side of Three Dog. :-) he's a very good actor. and he looks handsome here too. i wish he will still be at Fall Out 4.

[@BirdGang6]

David Simon has always been a master of dialogue

[@timbrown5576]

Luther got SWAG!

[@Shadowking8]

Just finished watching the last season of The Wire and I wanted to see how Homicide held up. I watched this as a kid and it's still better than some of the unrealistic cop shows that are on TV now.

[@JeroenZM]

Homicide was my gateway to The Wire

[@positivevibesandmorelife7307]

@@JeroenZM is this worth watching?? Me being a wire and all I see some characters that was in the show the guys with the smooth voice is the one who worked in the morgue

[@ryangivins]

this was a great show

[@ViperGTS737]

he seems so....serene

[@supremeoverlorde2109]

I heard Erik Dellums's voice in ATLA years ago and have recently been enjoying him in The Dragon Prince, so I thought I'd look him up to see what else he's done. I'm surprised he hasn't been involved in more projects. Even without ever having watched the show, I was so drawn in to this scene. His line delivery and facial expressions are fantastic.

[@bloke_19xx33]

Great scene. Dellums was awesome in this series. I was sorry to see his character killed off.

[@aragincajun4789]

Bloke_19xx spoiler

[@bloke_19xx33]

A Ragin Cajun Sorry.

[@cjjonez]

when you get in that box its just best to be quiet!!!!

[@carbootstudios2459]

So this is what Aaravos was doing in his early years

[@pilummurialis6490]

He's perfect as Aaravos in The Dragon Prince

[@evaristoquiroz3806]

Luther was a great adversary for the Homicide squad. Him and Gordon Pratt.

[@outlawwolf621]

I love the look he gives at 2:30"you know I heard he died"-LOL

[@septiawoman2911]

Luther! A bad ass!

[@ridedamaverick]

"You reek of death, my friend. I salute you!" - Skyrim

[@antediluvian99]

Before seeing this, the same actor portraying Luther Mahoney was so believable as the medical examiner on The Wire that I assumed he actually was.

[@TheJoshuamooney]

Wow, Dellums was perfectly cast for this crucial and powerful bad guy. Mesmerizing as hell.

[@CraigTheApache]

"Bringing you the truth, no matter how bad it hurts"

[@stellarocquie7957]

Quite possibly the greatest scene in HLOTS history!

[@jazzolinejazz]

here to listen to aaravos's voice

[@rnforstall]

I have not watched homicide in a little while I pretty sure it's the same actor but is he the same character that was the coroner. Did the coroner kill somebody?

[@Dr.Thirteen-bb1ub]

He played the coroner on The Wire.

[@theprofessor172]

Except for those crazy expressions in the last minutes of his life...

[@773SleepyHollow]

As much as I love this scene (I come back to watch it from time to time, as you can see from my comment 8 years ago), in retrospect I find it hard to believe that Luther, even in the midst of his hubris, would make such a dumb mistake. I know his screw-up worked for the storyline, but he was a savvy dude, and he would have gamed out every which way the conversation/interrogation at the station might have gone in advance, certainly to the extent of not blurting out details of a murder that weren't publicly known.

[@hodzal5258]

All I hear is Aaravos

[@sduking]

Threeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawg!! Incoming in Fallout 4 in about a year?? I think so.

[@em4300]

If you ever see a show called NASA's Unexplained Files, he is the narrator. I miss Homicide.

[@Sarnarath]

This is Three Dog from Fallout 3!!! THREE DOG AAWWWWW!!

[@RARA64HUNNID]

Luther Mahoney is the one and only reason i even Bothered to start watching HOMELAND!

[@ghysling]

The cycle of life and death continues. We will live, they will die.

[@anhalathrak]

So this is what Nazir was talking about when he said he wasn't proud of his past.

[@michaeldiekmann6494]

Just like Gordon Pratt, Mahoney wasnt as smart as he thought.

[@ross7825]

anther great actor, Steve Buscemi, played Gordon Pratt

[@outlawwolf621]

I liked Luther-he was the guy you loved to hate.Such a smug guy,and I think they should have kept him on as long as possible.

[@stellarocquie7957]

"Smug" is the operative word whenever you talk about Luther.

[@RobertDeLuca-b8t]

This was a good show not too many shows that take place in baltimore

[@Anselcat1952]

Luther is STILL the best bad guy since Prof. Moriarty. The show collapsed after he was killed.

[@stellarocquie7957]

Geez, he WAS phenomenal, but he was only in a couple of episodes ( UNFORTUNATELY ). He never carried the whole show, though,

[@Hoching03]

Luther was cool as fuck.

[@stellarocquie7957]

Even COOLER ! ! !

[@JohnSmith-gb5vg]

I didn’t like how they played this out. At the time I really felt he would not have fallen for this much less just talk with them. His character is to smart and would have ask for a lawyer right off. But my understanding was they wanted to move the luthier plot along.

[@SrBananas]

It's cool he was Three Dog. Fallout 3 is lucky to have had'em in the game. :)

[@goku1489]

Nazir I completed your contracts

[@binaryusenet4943]

Meldrick talking big, talking tough, he still ended up not having enough to put Luther away and resorted to extrajudicial killing to get rid of Luther in a later episode.

[@stellarocquie7957]

I truly believe the shooting was justified. He stole Lewis's gun in a fight, and THEN he REFUSED to drop it on command. Even though Kellerman had a vendetta, he was justified.

[@NormAppleton]

He puts Luther on the back foot. There was no way to put Luther away. Meldrick throws him back.

[@strangebrew1231]

He turned it around and became a doctor on the Wire lol

[@waltwhitman7545]

0:09 damn really shaking the hand of that fucked up killer

[@artytoons]

Gotcha!

[@olliephelan]

That detective has mannerisms and nuances like Denzel Washington. "Lemme axe yuu dissh. OH NO yuu DINT !!! " When was this made ?

[@svhecjb]

Luther looks like Antoine Dodson.

[@URBANLEGENDKB]

3 Dog heeeeyyyyyyyyyyyy childreeeennnn !!!

[@JTatef14]

Heck yes!

[@milliebouitez4439]

Oh my God

[@hm-qz4zg]

KOH THE FACE STEALER?!

[@thomasbrown3356]

Seems to me The Wire's Avon Barksdale was created with Luther Mahoney similarities. His nephew, Junior Bunk, was about to rat on the family. Sound familiar?

[@jbr496]

Luther was a badass villian. And then his sister took over and was even worse.

[@veneziablau]

Hawaii Five O could learn a thing or two from these guys.

[@danielcalvn3234]

veneziablau Yeah true! Love the Hawaii fve o. But this Homicide.

[@kendallrivers1119]

Dude don't even mention that Bs remake of the classic 70s Five O! The original Five O like Homicide was the SHIT!

[@Zetheseus]

i want Erik and giancarlo in the same show

[@rwwdzzm5608]

That would be illegal

[@irishpogi]

@TheBlackDragon54321 It's funny you mentioned Oakland, CA, Erik's dad Ron is the current mayor of that city.

[@vanhalenman60]

ive never heard three dog so quite

[@BlueBalloon97]

hands down for THE JOCKY OF DISCS, AND TELLER OF TRUTHS...............

[@soleplain234]

Mahoney is probably the bast villain in the history of television...

[@MaskofPoesy]

Hey nifty America, it's me, your President John Henry Ghahaha gotcha! Three Dog here, how's everyone doin'?

[@JasonAlredge]

Luther Mahoney is played by that guy who played that medical examiner on The Wire.

[@Adam-qf2ub]

Jason Alredge m

[@ackbarfan5556]

You dare do this to the Emperor of Zakuul?

[@oliviamoore2991]

YES ANOTHER SWTOR AND PRINCE ARCANN FAN

[@proffesionalidiot5994]

Three dog would never murder.

[@michaeljoefox]

How the universe works.

[@KikiDiki]

DON'T FEED THE YAOI GUAI. That is all.

[@zaxbitterzen2178]

Koh from Avatar. Gave me nightmares as a kid.

[@nicholasperry56]

Soon you will all know him as Nazir.... I'll wait for you to catch up to me in Skryim....

[@Shmubek]

it looks like everyone came to see three dog in this video

[@karod777]

luther mahoney is in my opnion the best villian ever until david simon created the character in The Wire who took over after stringer bell can't think of his name he was having people popped then having their bodies in abandoned row houses.

[@JeroenZM]

Chris Partlow, great character

[@TeyCallMeBigMac]

whenever i play skyrim and talk to nazir, i go THREEE DAWWGG BOWW WOOW.

[@djlennondbm]

Im watching apocalypse 2012 revelations and i think erik does the narrator's voice

[@Proximitus]

No shit Sherlock!

[@SerrinMorg]

Is it just me or does he sound almost EXACTLY like Ron Perlman. I thought Perlman narrated AND did Three Dog for the longest time. I also thought Perlman did Koh in A:TLA. Guess not.

[@FreeWater]

I googled Three Dog :)

[@vedicardi]

no country for old men vibes

[@ORENGEcarot]

Poor three dog !!!!