Richard Burton

A wave of urban reform brings down the notorious Franklin Terrace public housing towers, forcing the Barksdale drug crew to find a new home on the streets of west Baltimore.

Sobotka reprimands Nick for stealing cameras; Burrell asks Daniels to lead the detail investigating Sobotka; McNulty begins courting his estranged wife.

Ziggy loses his prized Camaro to drug-dealers who aren't buying his excuses about not paying up. Unable to dump the homicide investigation on other police agencies, Colonel Rawls identifies Detective Moreland for the blame if the cases go unsolved.

Bunk and Freamon chase their crime scene, a container ship, to Philly, where none of the crew finds it useful to speak English. Lt Cedric Daniels - disgusted with his exile to the evidence control unit - lets it be known he's going to leave the department.

Omar continues his bold strikes on Barksdale stash houses. As the wire on east Baltimore's Proposition Joe continues to yield little, a restless McNulty launches his own reinvestigation of D'Angelo Barksdale's prison suicide.

Frustrated in his grass-roots reform efforts, Colvin arms himself with intelligence from Daniels' detail and personally delivers a message to the management.