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Epigraph: "Come at the king, you best not miss." - Omar McNulty spots Stringer in public and has his sons write down his license plate. He follows him and discovers he studies economics at BCCC. After learning about a money drop on the wire, the detail pulls over senator Clay Davis 's driver Damien Price and finds money in the car. Phelan stops Burrell from subsequently shutting down the detail by threatening to charge him with contempt. Poot notices Wallace's withdrawn behavior and alerts D'Angelo, who passes Orlando's request to Avon and is denied. Stinkum is promoted and thrown a party, where a stripper dies of an overdose. D'Angelo lies when her coworker and his side girlfriend Shardene Innes asks after her. Omar ambushes Stinkum and enforcer Roland "Wee-Bey" Brice, killing the former. Stringer suggests luring him out with a false truce. The detail learns of Omar's crime but do nothing to keep him as a viable witness. A guilty Bunk and McNulty go drinking, and Bunk cheats on his wife, forcing McNulty to take him in for the night.
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