EPISODE

S3E9 · Slapstick

Responding to an officer's call for help, McNulty and Prez turn up the wrong alley with unanticipated results. Cutty is surprised to find help from within Baltimore's power structure for his proposed boxing gym. Omar decides to go it alone against Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell. Bubbles is wired up and sent into Hamsterdam.

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Epigraph: "...while you're waiting for moments that never come." - Freamon McNulty gives up on pursuing a serious relationship with D'Agostino due to their intellect gap. Pearlman leans on the phones' manufacturer to secure a wiretap. Sydnor follows Bernard from the rental place as he buys and delivers phones. The detail gives Bubbles money to buy up Bodie's product and force a resupply. Stringer's men shoot at Omar and his grandmother as they leave for church, violating the universal "Sunday truce." Avon tries to convince Brianna that McNulty was lying to her when she confronts him. Cutty finds support in delegate Odell Watkins, who is allied with Marla and likes that the gym is in her district. Carcetti and Gray convince Watkins to fund witness protection. Carver finds a man killed by the Barksdales and drags the body out of Hamsterdam. Colvin threatens to close Hamsterdam to make the shooter turn himself in, and a disgusted Herc tips off the Baltimore Sun. Prez kills a black plainclothes officer on the street after mistaking him for a shooter.

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