“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….

“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…

‘… 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…

‘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…

“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…

“..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…

“I had such fuckin’ hopes for us.” — McNulty Frustrated in his grass-roots reform efforts, Colvin arms himself with intelligence from Daniels’s detail and personally delivers a message to the…

“There’s never been a paper bag.” — Colvin Omar continues his bold strikes on Barksdale stash houses, now heavily guarded. Under orders from Stringer Bell, Bodie faces a critical test…

“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’s…