Plot summary
Epigraph: "They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you out." - McNulty McNulty and Russell deduce through an extra bedroll that the harbor woman was in the container and notice a crushed air pipe, getting the case deemed a homicide and given to the partnered Bunk and Freamon. Daniels, stuck in an evidence room, plans to resign and become an attorney. Avon points Brianna Barksdale to a drug contact in Atlanta. Wee-Bey Brice is harassed by guard Dwight Tilghman for claiming to have killed his cousin. Sobotka's delinquent son Chester "Ziggy" Sobotka is denied a supply when he tries to sell drugs.
Valchek is given a detail to investigate Sobotka by Burrell, now acting commissioner, in exchange for backing his promotion, while stevedore Thomas "Horseface" Pakusa steals his surveillance van. The Greek's lieutenant Serge Malatov follows the container's ship to Philadelphia and abducts Sam Choksey, the seaman who killed the women, who explains to the Greek that he prostituted them, killing one when she resisted before suffocating the rest. Underboss Spiros Vondas kills him.
Credits
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