The Wire

'Ain't never gonna be what it was.' -- Little Big Roy Det. Jimmy McNulty--exiled to police-boat duty--ma...

'They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you out.' -- McNulty Major Valchek gets back at Sobotka for t...

'What they need is a union.' -- Russell Bunk and Freamon chase their crime scene, a container ship, to P...

'If I hear the music, I'm gonna dance.' -- Greggs Sobotka reprimands his nephew Nick for stealing the ca...

'They used to make steel there, no?' -- Spiros Vondas Ziggy loses his prized Camaro to drug dealers. Una...

'It don't matter that some fool say he different...' -- D'Angelo Trying to let go of police work and ret...

'Don't worry, kid. You're still on the clock.' -- Horseface Russell tells Sobotka the investigation is o...

'How come they don't fly away?' -- Ziggy McNulty is back to his old self, on a drunken binge. Urged by f...

'The world is a smaller place now.' -- The Greek Bodie's effort to improve sales ends disastrously, forc...

'It pays to go with the union card every time.' -- Ziggy The Detail uses satellite technology to its adv...

'I need to get clean' -- Sobotka With the clock ticking, the Detail makes a desperate move, and Daniels...

'Business. Always business.' -- The Greek The Detail has a setback, while Russell and Bunk revisit Phill...

"Don't matter how many times you get burnt, you just keep doin' the same." -- Bodie A wave of urban refo...

"There's never been a paper bag." -- Colvin Omar continues his bold strikes on Barksdale stash houses, n...

"The gods will not save you." -- Burrell Colvin feels the sting of Burrell and Rawls during a Comstat as...

"Why you got to go and fuck with the program?" -- Fruit West Baltimore residents get surprising straight...

"I had such fuckin' hopes for us." -- McNulty Frustrated in his grass-roots reform efforts, Colvin arms...

"Just a gangster, I suppose." -- Avon Barksdale Stringer Bell gets an education in construction manageme...

"Conscience do cost." -- Butchie Herc discovers a blast from the past, which he belatedly reveals to his...

"Crawl, walk, and then run." -- Clay Davis With Amsterdam running full-tilt, Carver and Truck discover t...

"...while you're waiting for moments that never come." -- Freamon Responding to an officer's call for he...

"Call it a crisis of leadership." -- Proposition Joe Brother Mouzone returns to Baltimore on a mission o...

"We ain't gotta dream no more." -- Stringer Bell The wire begins to yield information about the Barksdal...

"...we fight on the lie." -- Slim Charles In the Season Three finale, a reticent Avon readies his troops...

"Lambs to the slaughter here." - Marcia Donnelly Four West Baltimore boys wrestle with what to do with t...

"I still wake up white in a city that ain't." - Carcetti In the hopes of possibly saving her job, Pearlm...

"I love the first day, man. Everybody all friendly an' shit." - Namond Brice Prez is shocked by his stud...

"No one wins. One side just loses more slowly." - Prez Freamon and Greggs move to Homicide, while Herc a...

"If you with us, you with us." - Chris Partlow Commissioner Burrell loses Royce's support; Chris Partlow...

"Don't try this shit at home." - Norman Wilson Carcetti responds to a campaign smear. Randy is accused...

"Aw yeah. That golden rule." - The Bunk Omar calls in a favor to the police; Carcetti gets advice from t...

"We got our thing, but it's just part of the big thing." - Zenobia Prez wants to teach off curriculum. C...

"Might as well dump 'em, get another." - Proposition Joe Herc and Dozerman search for Little Kevin; Omar...

"World goin' one way, people another." -Poot Walker catches Donut boosting cars and teaches him a lesson...

"You play in dirt, you get dirty." - McNulty Randy has trouble with his friends at school, while Carcett...

"That all there is to it?" - Bubbles While searching for the missing bodies, Freamon goes around the cha...

"If animal trapped call 410-844-6286" - Baltimore, traditional Burrell tries to help Daniels. Bubbles' b...

"The bigger the lie, the more they believe." - Bunk Moreland. McNulty and the detail continue to stake o...

"This ain't Aruba, bitch." - Bunk Moreland Freamon keeps a look out for Marlo, who is putting together a...

"They're dead where it doesn't count." - Fletcher Mayor Carcetti's police department plan is leaked. Ma...

"Buyer's market out there." - Templeton Omar plots his revenge for his former associates murder now that...

"Just because they're in the street doesn't mean they lack opinions." - Haynes While the crew awaits a s...

"If you have a problem with this. I understand completely." - Freamon Marlo's crew goes on full alert af...

"They don't teach it in law school." - Pearlman After cooking up another scheme for the homeless case, M...

"A lie ain't a side of a story. It's just a lie." - Terry Hanning A shift in the police department sends...

"Deserve got nuthin' to do with it." - Snoop A promising lead makes Freamon's hard work worthwhile, alth...

"...the life of kings." - H.L. Mencken A damaging report by Pearlman and Daniels gets a reaction from Ca...