EPISODE

S2E11 · Bad Dreams

"I need to get clean." – Sobotka Stringer manipulates Omar into pursuing Brother Mouzone. Omar shoots Mouzone and then leaves him alive having realized his mistake. The detail serves warrants on the targets of their investigation. A raid of Nick's home turns up large amounts of cash and heroin but Nick himself escapes arrest. Frank Sobotka is arrested when the FBI storms the union offices. Valchek ensures the press is there to see Sobotka embarrassed in a perp walk. Sobotka agrees to work with the investigation into the Greeks in exchange for leniency for Nick and Ziggy. In the wake of the arrests the Greeks decide to cut their losses and leave Baltimore. Vondas lures Sobotka into danger by offering him a meeting with The Greek and a promise to help Nick and Ziggy. The Greek receives warning of Sobotka's plan from a contact in the FBI.

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Epigraph: "I need to get clean." - Sobotka The detail arrests several Greeks and stevedores, including Sobotka. They leave Vondas on the street and have Russell tail him, mistaking his lawyer for the Greek while McNulty unwittingly catches the real one in a photograph. Stringer convinces Omar that Mouzone helped kill Brandon Wright, so he breaks into his motel room and shoots him. Mouzone convinces him that he is innocent. Ziggy bitterly expresses his hatred of Sobotka prioritizing the union over him when he visits him in jail. As his arrest tanks his run for treasurer, Sobotka agrees to cooperate with the detail so long as no stevedores are implicated. He goes to meet with Vondas and the Greek to get Ziggy freed, only for Koutris to call them as he arrives to relay that he met with the FBI.

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