EPISODE

S2E7 · Backwash

"Don't worry, kid. You're still on the clock." – Horseface Rawls attempts to persuade Daniels to take the Jane Doe homicides but is unsuccessful. Lester Freamon and Russell continue to study the docks' traffic using their cloned computer, and suspect irregularities in containers handled by "Horseface". They track a container back to the Greeks' warehouse. They watch the warehouse and see Sergei Malatov meeting with Proposition Joe. Stringer discusses a business deal with Proposition Joe to revitalize the Barksdale organization, but Avon turns it down flat. D'Angelo's funeral brings together the Barksdale Organization.

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Epigraph: "Don't worry, kid. You're still on the clock." - Horseface At D'Angelo's funeral, Joe offers to share his drugs with Stringer if he shares his territory, which Avon rebukes when Stringer relays the deal to him. The cousins begin supplying drug dealer "Frog". Herc and Carver borrow a bug on a free trial and stash it in a tennis ball, but Frog tosses it and it is run over by a truck. Sobotka is horrified when he attends a seminar that advocates for automated port work and leans on the union's lobbyist to hurry his Silo Point efforts. Russell and Freamon use the computer to monitor Horseface sidelining a container for smuggling, which the detail follows to a warehouse and photographs Serge meeting with Joe. Greggs and Prez tail a van of trafficked strippers to an apartment building. Elena rejects McNulty's attempt to restart their relationship. Daniels resists Rawls's attempts to push the women's case to the detail, but they persuade him to take it, leaving Marla Daniels disappointed as he drops his career change.

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