The Wire (2002)

Budget cuts hit the police hard; corporate downsizing frustrates the staff of a local newspaper.

McNulty decides to take matters into his own hands; Marlo takes care of unfinished business.

Carcetti's police plans are leaked to the press; Marlo cleans up his cash.

The police brass changes; McNulty and Freamon look for bodies; Prop Joe pays his last respects.

Marlo's new alliance gives Freamon and McNulty a fresh lead; the press turns to a breaking story.

Templeton makes headlines; Bunk follows up on old leads; McNulty takes an interest in the homeless.

An unexpected call puts Templeton and the paper back in the spotlight--and gets McNulty unwanted extra attention.

Bunk returns a McNulty favor; Carcetti is forced to make deals; Hayes asks Templeton about his sources.

Four boys play out their summer; Royce and Carcetti hit the campaign trail.

Pearlman is on thin ice; Marlo plays Robin Hood; Prez preps for school; Carcetti drops a bombshell on Royce.

Royce takes extreme measures; the detail gets a new boss and agenda; Prez survives his first day at school.

A major case gets a new detective; Marlo is burned in poker; Colvin and Cutty get new jobs in the school system.

Burrell feels the heat from Royce; Marlo tries to enlist Michael; Dukie debunks Randy's 'special dead' theory.

Carcetti responds to a campaign smear; Randy makes a startling revelation; Marlo proves elusive.

Royce and Carcetti make their peace; Prez has a good day; Greggs uses 'soft eyes' at a crime scene.

Carcetti makes the rounds; Colvin uses corner logic in class; Daniels sees his stock rising.

A wave of urban reform brings down the notorious Franklin Terrace public housing towers.

Omar continues his bold strikes on Barksdale stash houses, which are now heavily guarded.

Colvin feels the sting of Burrell and Rawls during a Comstat assessment of his district's felony numbers.

West Baltimore residents get some surprising straight talk at a community meeting from Major Colvin.

Frustrated in his reform efforts, Colvin delivers a message to the next level of corner management.

Stringer Bell gets an education in construction management; Bunk uses shoe-leather to catch up with Omar.

Herc discovers a blast from the past, which he belatedly reveals to his ex-colleagues.

With Amsterdam running full-tilt, Carver and Truck discover there really is no honor among thieves.

Det. McNulty—exiled to police-boat duty—makes a shocking discovery in the Baltimore harbor.

Major Valchek gets back at Sobotka for the church gift fiasco and a feud begins.

Bunk and Freamon chase their crime scene, a container ship, to Philly.

Sobotka reprimands his nephew Nick for stealing the cameras and orders him to bring the cargo back.

Ziggy loses his prized Camaro to drug dealers who aren't buying his alibis about not paying up.

Trying to let go of police work and return to his marriage, McNulty gives up on identifying his Jane Doe.

Russell tells Sobotka the investigation is over, but a computer is cloned, and when a container goes missing, the cops follow.

McNulty is back to his old self, on a drunken binge of legendary proportions.

Baltimore detective Jimmy McNulty gets assigned to a new task force.

McNulty feels the heat when a witness who testified against D'Angelo is killed.

The early-morning "field interviews" by Herc, Carver and Prez result in a minor riot.

Greggs and McNulty try to get Hardcase to turn informant.

McNulty's detail finally gets "clone" pagers to track Barksdale and his gang.

McNulty and Greggs ask for a delay in a murder bust in order to preserve the wiretap.

Tipped off by the wire, Greggs, Herc, Carver and Freamon make a bust.

An unlikely source gives McNulty the tag of Stringer Bell's car. Later, Omar earns his 'loose cannon' reputation.