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S1E7 · One Arrest

"A man must have a code." - Bunk Using information from the wiretap Detectives Greggs, Herc, Carver, and Sydnor catch a runner on his way to the pit with a re-supply. Avon worries about a possible snitch and Stringer confounds the detail's investigative efforts by cautiously instructing his people to stop using payphones. Rawls pressures his detective in the detail for information on their case.

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Epigraph: "A man must have a code." - Bunk As the detail learns the Barksdales' routines, they arrest Johnston when he picks up drugs from enforcer Anton "Stinkum" Artis. Knowing there is a reason Stinkum was untouched, Avon and Stringer order Pit trade to halt and the phones in it to be destroyed. Wendell "Orlando" Blocker, the owner of Avon's strip club front, asks D'Angelo for help selling cocaine. To get Johnny out of trouble, Greggs makes him to go to NA, where Bubbles is moved by a speaker named Walon. Bird is arrested after another witness corroborates that he killed Gant and a ballistics test identifies his gun. Rawls orders detective Michael Santangelo to either solve an open case or give him dirt on McNulty to protect his job, and McNulty gets information from Omar that solves a case for him. A grateful Santangelo warns McNulty that Rawls is after him.

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