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S3E3 · Dead Soldiers

The brutality at police headquarters continues over the perceived failure of department commanders to rein in the city's crime stats. Another hit by Omar on the Barksdale stash houses goes horribly wrong. Proposition Joe summons Stringer Bell to a meeting and tells him that the cops have screwed up. Daniels reassigns his detail after the wire on Stringer Bell goes dead.

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Epigraph: "The gods will not save you." - Burrell Colvin selects three low population neighborhoods to push drug activity into, planning to make sales legal there. Carcetti repeats Burrell's issue in an interview, who Royce forces to take the scorn the news brings but allows him to keep his job for his loyalty. Bunk is tasked with finding the stolen gun, while McNulty investigates the room where D'Angelo died and concludes that suicide was impossible. He and Greggs are irate when Daniels switches the detail's focus to an easier target. Cutty informs his old girlfriend, schoolteacher Grace Sampson, that he has gone straight, but she gently rebuffs his advances. Fruit forcibly takes some of Bodie's territory for Marlo. Omar's boyfriend Dante accidentally kills his accomplice Tosha Mitchell in a shootout following a botched Barksdale robbery. Stringer has her wake guarded in case Omar shows up, who observes it from afar.

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