When Detective Bell’s girlfriend, Chantal, is assaulted and her ex-husband is killed soon after, in what Holmes and Watson discover is a staged suicide, they search for one suspect behind…
Episode Title: Fly Into a Rage, Make a Bad Landing
Bayliss returns to duty to discover the bosses have renovated the squad room in an attempt to make everyone forget the tragedy of last May. Gharty and Ballard have also…
“They don’t teach it in law school.” – Pearlman After cooking up another scheme for the homeless case, McNulty and Lester become popular figures. Davis is set for his day…
“If you have a problem with this. I understand completely.” – Freamon Marlo’s crew goes on full alert after Omar’s mysterious disappearance. Meanwhile, Carcetti concentrates on the plight of the…
“Just because they’re in the street doesn’t mean they lack opinions.” – Haynes While the crew awaits a showdown with Omar, Marlo celebrates a business deal. Meanwhile, at the Sun,…
“Buyer’s market out there.” – Templeton Omar plots his revenge for his former associates murder now that he’s returned from exile. Gus stresses the need for a city-court reporter, after…
“They’re dead where it doesn’t count.” – Fletcher Mayor Carcetti’s police department plan is leaked. Marlo turns to Proposition Joe for help. Meanwhile, McNulty strikes up an unexpected ally —…
“This ain’t Aruba, bitch.” – Bunk Moreland Freamon keeps a look out for Marlo, who is putting together a deal with Avon Barksdale. Davis goes to Burrell for help, but…
“The bigger the lie, the more they believe.” – Bunk Moreland McNulty and the detail continue to stake out Marlo and his crew. Recently promoted Sergeant Carver is met with…
“If animal trapped call 410-844-6286” – Baltimore, traditional Burrell tries to help Daniels. Bubbles’ big plan backfires and leaves him in big trouble. Colvin tries to find a solution for…
“That all there is to it?” – Bubbles While searching for the missing bodies, Freamon goes around the chain of command after being rebuked by Landsman. Carcetti finds that his…
“You play in dirt, you get dirty.” – McNulty Randy has trouble with his friends at school, while Carcetti faces a huge dilemma. Meanwhile, Omar visits Proposition Joe, while Freamon…
“Might as well dump ’em, get another.” – Proposition Joe Herc and Dozerman search for Little Kevin; Omar gets out of jail; Carcetti has his first meeting with the City…
“We got our thing, but it’s just part of the big thing.” – Zenobia Prez wants to teach off curriculum. Carcetti visits the Homicide Department and goes on ride-a-longs for…
“Aw yeah. That golden rule.” – The Bunk Omar calls in a favor to the police; Carcetti gets advice from the ex-mayor and then Mayor Royce and his team; Cutty…
“Don’t try this shit at home.” – Norman Wilson Carcetti responds to a campaign smear. Randy is accused of a serious transgression. Colvin’s special class gets its first enlistees.
“If you with us, you with us.” – Chris Partlow Commissioner Burrell loses Royce’s support; Chris Partlow tries to recruit Michael to become a soldier in Marlo’s unit; Dukie shows…
“No one wins. One side just loses more slowly.” – Prez Freamon and Greggs move to Homicide, while Herc and Dozerman join Marimow in the lackluster Major Crimes Unit. Cutty…
“I had such fuckin’ hopes for us.” — McNulty Frustrated in his grass-roots reform efforts, Colvin arms himself with intelligence from Daniels’ detail and personally delivers a message to the…
“Why you got to go and fuck with the program?” — Fruit West Baltimore residents get some surprising straight talk at a community meeting from Major Colvin. Bubbles finds gainful…
“The gods will not save you.” — Burrell Colvin feels the sting of Burrell and Rawls during a Comstat assessment of his district’s felony numbers; a blown wiretap forces Daniels’…
“It pays to go with the union card every time.” — Ziggy The Detail uses satellite technology to its advantage. Bodie is unhappy that Proposition Joe’s people are slinging on…
“Don’t worry, kid. You’re still on the clock.” — Horseface Russell tells Sobotka the investigation is over, but, in fact, a port computer is cloned, and when a container goes…
“Ain’t never gonna be what it was.” — Little Big Roy McNulty makes sure to pay back Rawls for reassigning him to the marine unit by sticking City Homicide with…
“all in the game…” – Traditional West Baltimore. Every crew has weak links–including Avon Barksdale’s. With the heat turned up in the high-rises, Daniels and McNulty turn to a higher…
“Dope on the damn table.” – Daniels. The police turn up the heat on tracking down Savino, Wee-Bey and Little Man. Burrell orders Daniels to hit drug dealers for results…
“And then he dropped the bracelets…” – Greggs. With Wallace in custody, McNulty and Daniels try to figure out what to do with him in the months before he testifies….
“A man must have a code.” – Bunk. Tipped off by the wire, Greggs, Herc, Carver and Freamon make a bust, but the incident makes Avon and Stringer suspicious, leading…
“..and all the pieces matter.” – Freamon. When Rawls looks to make a premature arrest for three murders that are linked to D’Angelo and Avon Barksdale, McNulty and Greggs must…
“..a little slow, a little late.” – Avon Barksdale. McNulty’s detail finally gets ‘clone’ pagers to track Barksdale and his gang, but nobody can crack the codes used by the…
“It’s a thin line ‘tween heaven and here.” – Bubbles. Greggs and McNulty try to get Hardcase to turn informant as arraignment begins for those caught in the raid. Barksdale…
“The king stay the king.” – D’Angelo. The early-morning ‘field interviews’ by Herc, Carver and Prez result in a minor riot, a boy losing an eye and some bad publicity…
“You cannot lose if you do not play.” – Marla Daniels. McNulty feels the heat when a witness who testified against D’Angelo is found murdered. Meanwhile, Greggs is given the…
“… when it’s not your turn.” – McNulty. Baltimore homicide detective Jimmy McNulty gets into hot water and winds up assigned to a detail of narcotics outcasts charged with investigating…
A NYPD whistle-blower claims there’s been abuse of power within the organization, so Frank must investigate whether this is true. Meanwhile, Danny and Baez are suspicious of a car accident…
Frank, the Mayor, Erin and the DA’s office contend with public outrage after a grand jury doesn’t indict an NYPD officer for the controversial shooting of a teenager that was…
Linda needs Danny and Baez’s help after a co-worker has difficulties with an angry ex. Erin’s former mentor has been giving out unfair sentences following the death of his wife.