Al Brown

Pearlman and Freamon continue arguing over the subpoenas, as the election draws closer. Elsewhere, Carcetti drops a bombshell on Royce during their televised debate, while Herc makes a shocking discovery about the mayor himself.

Carcetti maps out a damage-control scenario; McNulty asks Landsman to pull police off the homeless case; Haynes' concerns about Templeton fall on deaf ears; Dukie seeks out an old mentor for a loan.

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.

When a witness who testified against D'Angelo Barksdale is discovered murdered, McNulty and the detail take the opportunity to link the killing to Avon Barksdale's drugs crew.

The brass begin to panic when Mayor Carcetti's master plan for the police department is leaked to the press. Meanwhile, McNulty shares some knowledge with Gutierrez and Marlo turns to proposition Joe with an enviable problem.

Valchek leaks details of the Braddock case to Carcetti, who contemplates how to best leak it to the press. The ensuing negative attention turns Royce against Burrell, who takes the heat, while Rawls comes to the rescue.