Jay Landsman

Four West Baltimore boys wrestle with what to do with the rest of their summer holiday as the new school year approaches.

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.

As McNulty and the detail continue to stake out Marlo's crew, newly elected Mayor Carcetti is finding he is stuck between keeping his promises on education and his promises on law and order.

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.

West Baltimore residents get some surprising straight talk at a community meeting from Major Colvin, Bubbles finds employment, and Bunk promises immunity to a group of corner boys in exchange for a little help.

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