"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 against Marlo, a fierce young dealer with lucrative corners. As the wire on Proposition Joe continues to yield little, McNulty launches his own reinvestigation of last year's prison suicide of D'Angelo Barksdale.
- Directed by
- Steve Shill
- Written by
- David Simon, Richard Price
Guest stars
Jamie Hector
Marlo Stanfield
Chad L. Coleman
Dennis 'Cutty' Wise
Method Man
Melvin 'Cheese' Wagstaff
Rick Otto
Kenneth Dozerman
Ernest Waddell
Dante
Brandon Fobbs
Fruit
Melanie Nicholls-King
Cheryl
- L
Lizz Robbins
Pretty Lesbian (uncredited)
Al Brown
Stanislaus Valchek
Richard DeAngelis
Raymond Foerster
Tray Chaney
Malik 'Poot' Carr
Erik Dellums
Dr. Randall Frazier
All episodes — Season 3
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S3 E1Time After Time
Sep 19, 20047.959 min
"Don't matter how many times you get burnt, you just keep doin' the same." -- Bodie A wave of urban reform brings down the notorious Franklin Terrace public housing towers, forcing the Barksdale drug crew to find a new home. Stringer Bell
S3 E3Dead Soldiers
Oct 3, 20047.859 min
"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 detail to turn to a new target; Proposition Joe cautions St
S3 E4Amsterdam
Oct 10, 2004859 min
"Why you got to go and fuck with the program?" -- Fruit West Baltimore residents get surprising straight talk at a community meeting from Major Colvin. Bubbles finds gainful employment; Stringer lunches uptown; and Bunk dangles the promise
S3 E5Straight and True
Oct 17, 2004859 min
"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 next level of corner management. McNulty sees
S3 E6Homecoming
Oct 31, 20048.358 min
"Just a gangster, I suppose." -- Avon Barksdale Stringer Bell gets an education in construction management; Bunk uses shoe-leather to catch up with Omar and deliver a searing message; a frustrated Colvin unleashes the troops on the corner
S3 E7Back Burners
Nov 7, 20048.256 min
"Conscience do cost." -- Butchie Herc discovers a blast from the past, which he belatedly reveals to his ex-colleagues. Daniels blows a gasket over the real reason the detail was reassigned from an investigation in Pimlico to the Western D