In a meeting with
Snoop and
Levy,
O-Dog reluctantly agrees to take the charge for Snoop and Partlow. Levy tells O-Dog he might have to do a short stretch but assures him that he will be well-compensated. At the
Baltimore Sun,
Gus enlists an old colleague, Robert Ruby, to do
fact-checking on
Templeton's articles. Garrick and Dozerman are watching the warehouse at
the docks while Partlow is inspecting a shipment and then they see
Cheese and his crew arrive.
Rawls and
Daniels express their frustration to Steintorf, who tells them to continue manipulating the crime statistics. While Freamon tells Daniels about the sting on Marlo, Sydnor calls to tell him they caught
Monk "riding dirty." In the resulting raid, the narcotics shipment is seized while Marlo, Partlow, and Cheese are arrested. After
Mayor Carcetti gives a rousing speech about the raid,
Alma attempts to interview Daniels, who is still upset because of the fabricated remarks Templeton attributed to him in the
Sun. As Marlo and his crew sit in jail, a comment by Monk about
Omar causes Marlo to go into an angry tirade. The crew debates whether
Michael was the snitch. McNulty becomes depressed at the situation he has put himself in with his
serial killer hoax. Templeton continues to get praise for his fabricated stories, which he learns might give him a shot at a
Pulitzer Prize. Gus scratches the quote Alma received from Daniels and his suspicion of Templeton flares up once again.
Colvin and his wife proudly watch
Namond deliver a speech about
AIDS at a youth debate event.
Mayor Carcetti appears and tries to apologize for
not supporting the Hamsterdam project, failing to mention how his budget cuts terminated Colvin and Parenti's pilot program. Carcetti is frozen out by the bitter Colvin. McNulty works the serial killer case with little enthusiasm and is ordered by
Landsman to go to the scene of another homeless man's death. After questioning Templeton, Gus goes to the
Walter Reed Army Medical Center to investigate Templeton's writing regarding Terry, the homeless
Iraq War veteran. He meets a patient who verifies that Terry served, and that he was not involved in a firefight on the day Templeton had claimed.
Bubbles continues talking with Fletcher, and takes him to a
Narcotics Anonymous meeting where he finally opens up about Sherrod's death (without mentioning his own involvement, however). Freamon meets
Senator Davis and manages to get information on Levy's corrupt dealings. Marlo talks with Levy and comes to the conclusion that no one on his crew snitched because everyone who knows about the clock messages is locked up and charged.
Greggs approaches
Carver, who indicates that he has made peace with his decision to bring
police brutality charges against
Colicchio. Carver's words convince her to go to Daniels with her knowledge about McNulty's conduct. Daniels and
Pearlman visit evidence control and realize that the tapped phone that was supposed to be the "serial killer's" actually belonged to Marlo. Snoop tells Michael that with everyone locked up, she needs him for some "serious business" and tells him that there is no need for him to bring his gun because she has a "clean one" for him on location. Realizing he's the target, Michael follows Partlow's advice and catches Snoop at the hit's location beforehand. He takes the clean gun stashed there and kills Snoop with it on the way to the supposed hit. Michael goes home to find Duquan watching a TV show about
a serial killer who only kills serial killers and asks him to pack up. He, Dukie and Bug pack and drive to his aunt's house in
Howard County. Michael walks Bug to the door with a shoebox full of cash. Back in
Baltimore, Michael tells Dukie that it would be too dangerous for them to stay together. At Dukie's request, he drives him to the squalid area where the junk man lives among homeless people and junkies. Dukie recalls the
day when they "threw the piss-balloons at the terrace boys", but Michael responds that he does not remember. Dukie hesitates when he sees a man injecting
heroin and turns back to Michael but he has already left. ==Production==