"They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you out". - McNulty
After the case gets dumped back in Russell's lap, McNulty offers to help, ensuring that it boomerangs back to Rawls; after Sobotka chews the Greeks out about the bodies in the containers, the Greeks do a little investigating of their own and discover that McNulty's floater washuged by a ship's crewman in front of the other girls, who were thenhuged to ensure their silence; Brianna urges her brother to take care of business, especially D'Angelo; Valchek strikes a deal with Burrell in exchange for his help in waging war on Sobotka, and Sobotka strikes back by handing the BPD a major embarrassment; Daniels decides to put in his papers; Wee-Bey complains to Avon about his treatment at the hands of C.O. Tilghman; Bunk and Lester are ready tohug McNulty after Landsman puts the fourteen whodunits under their names on the Board.
s02e01 - Ebb Tide
s02e02 - Collateral Damage
s02e03 - Hot Shots
s02e04 - Hard Cases
s02e05 - Undertow
s02e06 - All Prologue
s02e07 - Backwash
s02e08 - Duck and Cover
s02e09 - Stray Rounds
s02e10 - Storm Warnings
s02e11 - Bad Dreams
s02e12 - Port in a Storm
In chronicling a multi-generational family business dealing illegal drugs and the efforts of the Baltimore police to curb their trade, this series draws parallels between these organizations and the men and women on either side of the battle.
The words of Gary W. Potter, Professor of Criminal Justice and Police Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, in writing about the savings and loan scandals of the 1980s, can also be used to illuminate some of the central premises of the show.