In the first episode, everything started because of meddling
Drug trafficking organizations headed by Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell have been secretly operating in the West Side of Baltimore for a year and have been involved in many homicides, but they have been out of sight of the police. Police officer of the Homicide Section, McNulty, paid attention to this drug trafficking organization.
Occasionally, Avon's nephew D'Angelo Barksdale (Xiao Di) shot and killed people in the process of managing drug trafficking in the building area. Two witnesses appeared in the indicted court. The first witness, a black male, Gant, identified Xiao Di. It was the murderer; and the second witness, the female security guard, temporarily changed her testimony due to the secretive dealings of the drug trafficking organization and did not identify Xiao Di. In the end, the jury unanimously decided Xiao Di was not guilty.
Judge Phelan noticed that McNulty was in attendance at the trial that had nothing to do with him, so he chatted with him afterwards. McNulty revealed the numerous crimes of the Barksdale drug trafficking organization, and the police knew nothing about it. So Judge Faerun asked the police to investigate the organization.
Burrel, the deputy bureau of the police station, deployed the Narcotics Division and the Homicide Division to set up a task force, and requested that fishing be used as a means to make a quick fight. The task force is led by Daniels, a black police inspector from the Narcotics Division, with Kima Greggs from the Narcotics Division and McNulty from the Homicide Division as the main investigators. At the same time, the task force must cooperate with female prosecutor Rhonda to ensure that the investigation process is legal.
McNulty was invited by FBI friend Fitz to visit their advanced video surveillance system. Fitz said the FBI will do its best to fight terrorism after being affected by 9/11 and will not investigate drug cases again.
Xiao Di was sent to the bungalow area by the drug trafficking organization because of the fault of the murder. The drug addict Bubbles took his white brother Johnny in the bungalow to buy drugs with fake money. The white boy was severely injured when he was found out. Bubbles decides to become an informant for revenge, helping the policewoman Greggs find out the inside story of the Barksdale drug trafficking organization.
Gant, the first witness who identified Xiao Di, was found shot to death on the street at close range. Xiao Di was quite uncomfortable when he saw it.
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The second episode of the game being manipulated
The task force was assigned to an abandoned basement office, and the manpower assigned was not very effective. In addition to McNulty and Kima, it also included police officers Carver (black) and Herc (white) from the Narcotics Division; Santangelo from the Murder Division (compared with older people) Skinny white people); Prezlevsky, the son-in-law of Sheriff Wachter (young and delicate white, who often wipes out his guns); Lester Freamon (Lester, middle-aged and old black), who likes to do craftsmanship by Jilenko, two The old white comrades Polk (the thinner) and Mahon (the fatter) who have not handled the case for ten years, and the black police officer Sydnor, whom Daniels managed to win.
McNulty told Judge Phelan about the death of Gant, an eyewitness in the Xiaodi case, and hoped that he would put pressure on the deputy bureau and give the task force more resources. Policewoman Greggs took Carver and Herc to the roof of the church and used the unforgettable ability of the informant Bubbles to secretly photograph the main members of the drug trafficking organization.
At the same time, McNulty and Bunk came to the bungalow to take Xiao Di away for questioning, and moved him to write a letter to the child of the dead witness. Xiao Di apologized and convinced McNulty that the death of the witness was related to the drug trafficking organization. . In the process, it was discovered that Xiaodi often used a pager to contact him.
Daniels's wife told him that this investigation was like a game of manipulation. Whether he wins or loses, he must be backed up and hoped that he would quit the game.
Carver, Herc, and Prez went under a building late at night, trying to show the drug traffickers, but they were raided, and Prez injured a provocative teenager, causing him to lose his sight.
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The third episode of the king's hidden soldiers cannon fodder
When Xiao Di talked with his younger brothers Wallace, Poot, and Bodie, he was different from ordinary drug dealers. He is a man who grew up in New York, is educated, has a sense of rules and is compassionate, but because of his family's drug trafficking, he has to go this way. He compares chess to drug trafficking organizations. The king hides his secrets, and Wang Wei is always firm. Let his men charge (boss Avon Bucksdale); the queen is shrewd and capable (armor Stringer Bell); the car is like a poison spot, often Move, and need human protection; creeps charge into battle, sacrifice at any time, unless they are cunning enough.
Daniels saved him because his son-in-law Pretz wounded him, so Sergeant Vachette owed him a favor and promised to provide radio monitoring equipment and manpower. But Prez can only be in charge of clerical work in the task force for the time being.
McNulty's superiors asked Santangelo to be the eyeliner on the task force, staring at McNulty's irrational actions.
The task force investigated for two weeks and still couldn't find any information about Avon. Under the guidance of a line report, Lester finally found photos of Avon before boxing in the boxing club.
Mcnulty and Kima went to the FBI to borrow eavesdropping equipment. Friends Fitz told McNulty privately that Daniels had corruption issues, but was protected by the deputy bureau.
Xiao Di went to the Orlando striptease bar to deal in drug money, got the bonus, and invited the strippers to drink.
Omar, who often robbed the house, secretly discovered the drug hiding spot in the bungalow area, and took a white boyfriend and another black Bailey to raided the bungalow area, grabbing drugs and $2,000, but was accidentally by the white boyfriend The name was revealed during the time.
Sydnor pretended to be a drug addict and Bubbles went to the bungalow to buy drugs, but did not find any useful information. The deputy bureau asked the task force to launch an emergency arrest operation against the cottage area based on the intelligence at hand, but failed. The fat old comrade Ma Hong was also injured by the drug dealer Bodie.
McNulty refused to participate in the arrest and went to the female prosecutor Rhonda to ask how to copy the drug dealer's pager message.
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The fourth episode of The Wire reveals its clues
At the beginning was the bridge section where several people from the task force moved the cabinet.
The emergency arrests in the last episode hardly yielded any results: a drug dealer who participated in direct transactions in the phishing law enforcement process was sued, but he would rather accept five years in prison than be a tainted witness to disclose to the task force the organization of Bucksdale. Any information. The drug dealer Bodie who had beaten Mahon was caught to the juvenile control office, but sneaked away. Carv and Herc were going to the juvenile control office for questioning, but they went to nothing. They went to Bodie's house to search and they still returned to no avail.
The only clue from this operation was that the old black policeman Lester found a number on the wall of the cottage area, which was later confirmed to be Xiao Di's pager number after investigation, which also provided important conditions for the subsequent copying of the pager.
Ma Hong applied for early retirement after being injured; Polk also wanted to roll up the stairs to get a work-related injury to retire early but had no courage.
McNulty's director Jay discovered a shooting case that may be related to Xiao Di and threw it to McNulty and Bunk for investigation. The two of them found the bullet magazine at the time after a good operation. Xiaodi, Bodie, Wallace, and others told about their experience of robbing Avon's ex-girlfriend, but they didn't clearly say whether they killed it by themselves.
The task force met to discuss the monitoring plan. First, they have to apply to the judge for monitoring, and prove that they have exhausted various investigation methods (including pretending to follow Xiaodi deliberately losing it); secondly, they know Xiaodi's pager number, and the task force can also receive Xiaodi's pager after copying. Third, they need two computers, one to record the text information received on the Xiaodi pager, and the other to monitor the call records of public telephones near the bungalow area (only record the number and duration of the outgoing/incoming calls, The content of the voice call has not been monitored yet). Under further pressure from the judge, the deputy bureau also agreed to their monitoring plan.
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Episode 5 The Drug Dealer Walking on Thin Ice
The task force finally managed to obtain a copy of the pager information. As a result, the information received was all empty numbers, presumably the information was encrypted. Fortunately, Prez, who is good at word games, cracked the code and found that the number on the diagonal of the phone is the real number.
Carv and Herc finally caught Bodie in the bungalow, did not cooperate during the interrogation, beat him up, and then sent him back to the juvenile management office.
The Barksdale organization thinks that Omar must be a ghost who can find a drug hiding spot. Stringer makes Xiao Di deliberately owe his salary to see who is not in a hurry to ask for money and who is a ghost. Wallace and Poot both ask for money. At the same time, the drug trafficking organization also sought revenge on Omar and his accomplices: Bailey was shot and killed; the white boyfriend was found in the game hall by Wallace and Poot, and was eventually killed.
Stinkun opened up a new drug trafficking area and became the head of this area.
The cartridge case of the shooting case discovered by McNulty and Bunk in the previous episode was compared and found to be consistent with the other two drug-related murder cases. So they found the policeman—a friend of the victim’s woman, to understand the situation, and learned that the victim was one of Avon’s girlfriends. Because of jealousy, they threatened Avon to write a report to the prosecutor and was killed. And learned that the Orlando striptease bar is one of Avon's assets.
Avon took Xiao Di to the hospital to visit another drug dealer in his family who had become a vegetative, so that he knew that he had to be fast and accurate, otherwise he would be defeated.
McNulty and Kima follow Omar, hoping to catch him, so that he can cooperate and disclose more information related to the Barksdale organization. The two sides had a friendly meeting and exchanged information-McNulty told Omar that Bailey had been killed; Omar told McNulty that Bird had killed the workers (a witness in Xiaodi's case).
Lester suggested that Daniels start monitoring the voice of public telephones as soon as possible. Lester was also working in the Homicide Division more than ten years ago. The investigation involved a certain chief editor’s son stolen. He refused his boss’s request to protect the editor’s son, so he was transferred to the department where he least wanted to go. He reminded McNulty not to tell his boss which department he least wants to go to, or he will eventually be assigned to that department, but M has told Jay before that he least wants to be a marine police 2333...
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The sixth episode of the evidence collection will not miss any detail
The opening scene was the tragic death of Omar's little white boyfriend on the street. Nearby is the place where Wallace and others live. Wallace called the black children to school early in the morning. The drug trafficking organization raised these children and was actually cultivating future drug dealers.
The task force finally began to monitor the voice call content of the public telephone near the cottage area. But the monitoring hands are strictly limited-only phone calls related to drug trafficking can be monitored. Therefore, the task force personnel need to take turns staring at the roof near the bungalow to see who is calling. If someone from a drug trafficking organization is calling, inform Lester and Prez to turn on the monitoring device to listen to the conversation. After Ma Hong applied for retirement, Polk, another old policeman who was inseparable from him, drank and slowed down every day. Daniels asked him to either work or go to the infirmary to stop drinking. He chose the latter.
After Bodie was sent to the juvenile management office again, Stringer was worried that he would be interrogated by the police and asked his lawyers to fully defend him in court, so that he would be exempt from custody and only need to accept family supervision. Xiao Di only found two horses who stole drugs (including the girl who went to the supermarket to buy eggs), but it seemed that he hadn't found the inner ghost yet.
Bubbles and his white brother Johnny went to steal the copper bars, and the money they made after changing hands was squandered on drugs. Johnny was caught by the police on the way to buy drugs.
Sergeant Rawls saw the report on the murder of Avon's girlfriend and two other pistol homicides of the same caliber. However, the current lack of evidence makes it impossible to win the case even if the prosecution is taken. In order to prevent this from happening, Daniels and the deputy bureau fought hard on reason and secured an additional month of investigation time.
Omar learned of the tragic death of his little boyfriend and decided to cooperate with the task force. He said that he was an eyewitness to Gant's murder and was willing to appear in court to correct Bird as the murderer.
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Episode 7 Be a man with a bottom line
Sheriff Rawls forced Santangelo to either provide McNulty's news as an eyeliner or increase the rate of detection. Santangelo chose the latter instead of betraying his teammates. But the case was too difficult to solve. Under Jay's bad idea, he went to find the goddess to solve the case through fortune-telling. But in the end, the case was solved through the efforts of McNulty and others. He also told him about Rawls wearing small shoes for McNulty.
The task force eavesdropped that the cottage area was almost out of stock, and Stinkum was going to replenish it. The task force tracked Stinkum’s drug delivery vehicle and deliberately let it discover that the horse in the car ran away with the goods. The police only caught the horse and released Stinkum. At the same time, they monitored Stinkum’s phone calls to Stringer to obtain Stringer’s pager number. , To facilitate follow-up monitoring. The Ma Tsai who was caught back to the task force turned out to be a black boy who was previously blinded by Pretz. Avon felt that there was a conspiracy behind the police not catching Stinkum, so he decided to suspend business in the cottage area, and removed the public phone near the cottage area, asking his subordinates to call further blocks in the future. Orlando took the opportunity to recommend other sources of drugs to Xiao Di.
Kima helps Bubbles release Johnny on bail, but only if he promises to give up drug treatment and regularly participate in drug treatment meetings. At the drug rehabilitation meeting, Bubbles was impressed by other people's sharing, but he still couldn't resist the temptation of drugs.
Daniels went to a reception for upper-level people, and met Burrel, the deputy bureau. Burrel had to curry favor with higher-level officials in order to be in the position. Daniels mingled with the drivers and chatted for a while with one of the drivers named Day Day.
In order to confirm Bird's crime of shooting Gant, in addition to Omar, an eyewitness, other evidence is needed. McNulty and Bunk came to the scene of the crime and found an old lady who lived nearby. The old lady confirmed Omar's statement. Omar told the task force that one of Barksdale’s rules is that his subordinates are not allowed to take their own drugs. As a drug addict, Bird is likely to find another drug dealer to buy drugs, so the task force seized Bird and conducted ballistic tests on his guns. The result is consistent with the murder of Gant. So far there is sufficient evidence in this case.
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Episode 8 Don't miss your hand while walking on the tip of a knife
McNulty and his two sons ran into Stringer at the vegetable market, so they asked the two sons to follow him, and the eldest son recorded the license plate (Camry). McNulty then followed these two Camrys, only to find that Stringer went to the university to take an economics course. Stringer also applies the learned theories to business. For example, copy shops are flexible products, and only high quality and low price can attract customers; while drugs are inflexible products, and price increases will not suppress demand, because the desire of addicts determines They are bound to buy.
While drug dealers are struggling to learn scientific and cultural knowledge, police Carv and Herc are struggling to upgrade their exams.
Bey, Stinkum and others broke into Omar's house and burned his car, then went to a party with Xiao Di. The girl who took a striptease at the party died. Xiao Di's girlfriend (also a dancer in a striptease bar) questioned Xiao Di after discovering that her colleague was missing. Xiao Di said that she did not like her job.
The task force detected that Stringer asked Mani to hand over 20 copies of drugs to Day, and then launched an arrest operation. $20,000 was found in Day's car (it turned out not to be 20 drugs). Daniels knew that he was the driver of a certain congressman who met at the reception a few days ago and demanded that 20,000 yuan be confiscated, but then the deputy bureau appeared and demanded that the money be returned, not to be nosy, and the case was closed within a week. After seeing Daniels compromise, McNulty asked him if he had a handle. Knowing the news that the task force was about to close the case, the judge put pressure on the police officers to continue monitoring.
Avon learned that Orlando had sold other drug sources privately and taught him a lesson, because the reason why this bar allowed him to be the nominal owner was that he had no criminal record. If he was involved in drugs, it would affect the operation of the bar.
Bey and Stinkum were going to pick up Scar (another wave of drug dealers), but Omar suddenly appeared and shot them both. Stinkum was picked up by Cole from the Homicide Section, and Bey ran away with his injured leg. The task force originally wanted to use Stinkum to follow the path to a higher level of return, but Omar's behavior undermined their plan, so they warned Omar to converge. McNulty decided to tell Cole later that the murderer was Omar.
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Episode 9 Basketball Game
The task force detected that WeeBey was going to collect money in a high-rise area. Carv and Herc intercepted WeeBey's car and intercepted a large amount of cash. They originally planned to embezzle some, but they were worried that the amount of money was monitored, so they gave up. Afterwards, the count of the money was 15,000 US dollars, and it was monitored that the drug dealer claimed to have lost 22,000 US dollars. Daniels believed that Carv and Herc had embezzled them and asked them to hand over the money as soon as possible. The two finally found in their car that two dozens of money had fallen in the wheel well.
Lester asked Pretz and Sydnor to use the Orlando bar as a breakthrough point to collect assets that may be related to Barksdale from the business and real estate departments, and to obtain relevant information about the city of Baltimore's campaign donation. Daniels had just been warned by the deputy bureau not to investigate assets in the last episode, so he had a grudge against his subordinates' behavior in investigating assets.
Bubbles went to steal drugs, only to find that the stolen goods were fakes. He decided to quit drugs, so he sought help from his sister and asked for shelter.
When Carv and Herc were monitoring the public phone near the high-rise area, they found that there was no one there. They discovered that everyone had gone to watch the basketball game in the east and west of the public housing area. While watching the basketball game, I learned that Avon was also on the scene through a conversation with the drug dealer next to him. When Daniels learned about it, he advocated following Avon, but the two passed by, and Avon looked very provocative.
Kima and Lester approached the bar dancer Sheldon (Xiao Di's girlfriend) to understand the situation, and told her that another dancer was thrown on the street by a member of the drug dealer organization, so they sought the cooperation of the dancer.
Omar once again robbed the drugs in the bungalow area and gave them to the "skinny" in the east district for free. In exchange, the skinny provided him with Avon's pager number and WeeBey's code 07. Omar pretended that WeeBey called Avon at the entrance of the Orlando bar, and planned to kill him when Avon came out to use the public phone, but at this time WeeBey just came back, saved Avon's life, and shot Omar.
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Episode 10 Policewoman Shot
Omar's attack on Avon made the drug trafficking organization more cautious. Stringer asked Avon to hand over the pager and not manage drug trafficking for the time being. "Skinny" as the guarantor, Omar and Stringer meet and negotiate, Omar agrees to a truce, but it will cost $5,000. Stringer agreed to give the money, which made Omar think something was strange, so he decided to go to New York to avoid the limelight.
Lester discovered a pattern through monitoring-whenever the high-rise area is out of stock, he will call the same number, and will soon receive a call back from the public phone at the entrance of the Mondo Supermarket-from this it is inferred that the nest of the drug trafficking organization is in Mondo supermarket. As a result, the task force included the public telephone of Mondo Supermarket and found a suspect. Sydnor followed the suspect and saw the suspect enter a house full of cameras. Pretz and Sydnor pretended to be rubbish workers and picked up the rubbish from this house for investigation.
McNulty found Wallace, and he quickly reported the murder of Stringer, WeeBey, Stinkum, Bird, and Omar's white boyfriends. But the case will not be heard until 6 months later, so Daniels sent Wallace to his grandmother's house for temporary stay.
Bubbles intends to buy some new clothes in order to get rid of drugs and borrows money from Kima. Kima says he will perform the task at night and will contact him tomorrow.
Although Avon warned Orlando not to be involved in drugs, Orlando took the risk and went to meet with drug sellers. It turned out that the "seller" was pretending to be a police officer of the Criminal Investigation Division, Wig, and captured Orlando through fishing law enforcement. Lawyers from drug trafficking organizations came to the police station to force Orlando to sign an agreement to transfer the bar.
After interrogation, Orlando easily confessed to Avon. After Wig informed the task force, the task force intends to use Orlando to investigate Avon. At this time, the deputy bureau intervened and asked the task force to immediately launch fishing law enforcement and make a quick decision. According to the plan of the task force, Orlando contacted Savino to buy drugs, and Kima pretended to be Orlando's girlfriend sitting in the car. Savino got out of the car and said that he would be given drugs, but he was shot.
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Episode 11 The Collective Awakening of the Police Force
After being shot, Kima almost lost her vital signs and was rescued urgently. Lester asked everyone not to panic and continue to catch the murderer through monitoring methods.
Lester heard that after the shooting, a number 07 called Stringer (should be a report of the killing), and found a can with LittleMan fingerprints at the phone booth where Stringer called back; Pretz discovered that before Omar attacked Stinkum and WeeBey, Stringer also received it. Arrived at number 07, and called back to a hospital public phone (WeeBey injured his leg that day). It is inferred that the killers who shot Kima were Little Man and WeeBey.
While other people in the task force were monitoring the high-rise area, they stumbled upon the process of replenishing the bungalow area by the high-rise area (thrown down from the window).
After Bubbles knew that Kima was shot, McNulty asked him to go to the public housing area to see who was gone, who might be the murderer (run away). This is a torment for Bubbles who is detoxifying.
McNulty and the female prosecutor found Levy, the drug dealer's lawyer, and asked him to contact Savino to surrender. But what Savino sold to Orlando was actually flour, and he faced at most three years in prison, which was not enough for Savino to confess behind the scenes.
The high-level police asked for a city-wide search, raided all drug-related dens, and seized a large amount of drugs to give the citizens an explanation. The task force originally wanted to conceal Barksdale's nest (a house full of cameras) so as not to get rid of the grass, but the deputy bureau had already known it through the eyeliner, so it had to search the nest. During the search, Carv and Herc found the stolen money, and did not hesitate to secrete some.
Prez overheard Wallace's call to Poot to borrow the car to return to the cottage area, but did not notice that it was related to the case and missed the opportunity to restore Wallace.
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Episode 12 A Losing Victory
After the nest was cleaned up by the police, Avon and Stringer set out to rectify the loopholes that might threaten them. First, confiscated the pager in the bungalow area, switched to using a mobile phone and met and discussed in detail. Second, killed the female security guard who perjured Xiaodi in the first episode, shot LittleMan who shot Kima, and Wallace who left the organization.
As the means of monitoring pagers and public telephones were no longer useful, the deputy bureau asked the task force to reduce the manpower and let Santangelo and Sydnor return to the original department.
The boss of the female prosecutor took the initiative to refund the campaign donations received because of concerns that she might be involved. Congressman Davis (the leader of the driver DayDay) pressured Daniels not to find him, but Daniels refused to cooperate.
With the assistance of dancing girl Sheldon, the task force installed surveillance cameras in Avon's office, and obtained intelligence that Avon asked Xiao Di to drive to New York to replenish goods, and accordingly captured Xiao Di, who was transporting drugs. Xiao Di decides to break with the drug trafficking organization after learning that Wallace has been killed. Based on the content captured by the surveillance cameras and Xiao Di's drug delivery, the police captured Avon. But Stringer is still at large.
Lester stumbled upon news in the newspaper about the funds received by the drug rehabilitation center.
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Episode 13 "This is why we can't win"
Kima woke up, Bunk came to her to identify the murderer. Although various clues pointed the finger at Wee Bey and Little Man, Kima only saw Little Man at the time of the incident, and Bey was blocked from seeing, so she only identified Little Man (and this person has been cleaned up by Avon) ). Kima asked McNulty to send money to Bubbles. Unfortunately, at this time, Bubs has relapsed.
The police continued to capture middle and low-level members of the drug trafficking organization, but Avon was released on bail because he had no previous convictions. The lawyer advised Avon to find someone to commit the crime as soon as possible. Stringer guessed that the organization had been wiretapped by the police and the bar had been seized by the police, so they moved to the funeral home and stipulated that they would only talk face-to-face outdoors in the future.
Xiao Di told the police that Bey went to Philadelphia and that Avon's ex-girlfriend was also killed by Bey. Lester asked someone to help retrieve the phone records of a recent call from Philadelphia to the lawyer Levy. Based on this, he found Bey's hiding place and brought him to justice.
Xiaodi proposed that if the police can let him join the witness protection program and start over from a different place, he agrees to confess Avon and Stringer. At this time, the judge stopped helping McNulty for his official career, and the deputy bureau and other police officers were also pressing for the case to be closed. The desperate task force sought the FBI's cooperation. However, after 9/11, the FBI no longer controls anti-drug cases, unless the case is related to anti-terrorism or corruption. Daniels said the case was related to the bribery of high-level political leaders, but the problem is that the current witness, Xiao Di, does not involve bribery to high-level officials. The FBI requires that Avon and Stringer be included as tainted witnesses. If they confess to the high-level bribery (Congressman Davis), Avon and Stringer can be commuted. But this went against the original intention of the task force to manage the high-level drug dealers, so they gave up cooperating with the FBI.
In the end, Xiao Di did not confess Avon and Stringer under the persuasion of his mother. Instead, he went to New York to transport drugs alone and faced 20 years in prison. Avon was sentenced to several years for instructing Xiao Di. Bey fought all the homicides committed by the drug trafficking organization, including the crime of killing Gant for Bird, and faced life imprisonment.
The fate of the task force: Daniels later refused to submit to the deputy bureau and offended the top political ranks, so he was not promoted. Another police inspector who was equal to him was promoted. McNulty was assigned to the Marine Police Department he hated the most; Kima continued to recuperate and was still hesitating whether to continue to do dangerous front-line work; Lester was transferred back to the Homicide Division because of his outstanding crime-solving ability; Carv was the eyeliner of the deputy bureau. And got a promotion; Herc did not get a promotion even though the exam was better than Carv; Santangelo, an old policeman who refused to be the eyeliner, was sent to the street as a patrol.
In the end, Omar returned to Baltimore and worked his way up.
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