The Wire
"Listen carefully."
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
Season 1 Episodes
E1
"... when it's not your turn." - McNulty. Baltimore homicide detective Jimmy McNulty gets into hot water and winds up a…
E2
"You cannot lose if you do not play." - Marla Daniels. McNulty feels the heat when a witness who testified against D'An…
E3
"The king stay the king." - D'Angelo. The early-morning 'field interviews' by Herc, Carver and Prez result in a minor…
E4
"It's a thin line 'tween heaven and here." - Bubbles. Greggs and McNulty try to get Hardcase to turn informant as arr…
E5
"..a little slow, a little late." - Avon Barksdale. McNulty's detail finally gets 'clone' pagers to track Barksdale a…
E6
"..and all the pieces matter." - Freamon. When Rawls looks to make a premature arrest for three murders that are linke…
E7
"A man must have a code." - Bunk. Tipped off by the wire, Greggs, Herc, Carver and Freamon make a bust, but the incid…
E8
"Come at the king, you best not miss." - Omar. An unlikely source gives McNulty the tag of a car driven by Stringer B…
E9
"Maybe we won." - Herc. Barksdale plays an expensive game of one-upmanship with an east-side rival. Meanwhile, Herc a…
E10
"And then he dropped the bracelets..." - Greggs. With Wallace in custody, McNulty and Daniels try to figure out what …
E11
"Dope on the damn table." - Daniels. The police turn up the heat on tracking down Savino, Wee-Bey and Little Man. Bur…
E12
"This is me, yo, right here." - Wallace. The low-rise pay phones are out of service, so McNulty and Daniels try to ke…
E13
"all in the game..." - Traditional West Baltimore. Every crew has weak links--including Avon Barksdale's. With the he…
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