Season 2
🎬 12 Episodes 📅 2003 ⏱ 94 min
In Baltimore's unforgiving streets, two sides of the same coin collide in a brutal dance of survival and corruption. The Wire strips away the veneer of the war on drugs to reveal the human cost on every level—from corner boys to detectives trapped in a system designed to devour them. Neither side holds the moral high ground; both are prisoners to an machinery that demands bodies and results. What emerges is a portrait of a city where the pursuit of justice becomes indistinguishable from the pursuit of power.
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12
Episodes
2003
Year
94
min / ep
18.8
Watch Hours
2/5
Season No.
⭐ 8.6
Best Episode
Ep. 11 · Bad Dreams
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🎬 Episodes 12 episodes
1
⭐ 7.8
Ebb Tide
'Ain't never gonna be what it was.' -- Little Big Roy
Det. Jimmy McNulty--exiled to police-boat duty--makes a shocking discovery in the Baltimore harbor. Bodie drives to Philly to make a connection for the Barksdale crew and Stringer Bell takes the train to New York to feel out the crew's reticent …
🎬 Ed Bianchi ✍️ David Simon
2
⭐ 7.9
Collateral Damage
'They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you out.' -- McNulty
Major Valchek gets back at Sobotka for the church gift fiasco, and a feud begins. Valchek ups the ante by asking Deputy Commissioner Burrell for a detail to go after Sobotka. Avon Barksdale continues to run his empire from a prison cel…
🎬 Ed Bianchi ✍️ David Simon
3
⭐ 7.9
Hot Shots
'What they need is a union.' -- Russell
Bunk and Freamon chase their crime scene, a container ship, to Philly. Lt. Cedric Daniels--disgusted with his exile to the evidence control unit--makes it known that he's leaving. On orders from Barksdale, Bell finds a way to set up the correctional officer w…
🎬 Elodie Keene ✍️ David Simon
4
⭐ 7.6
Hard Cases
'If I hear the music, I'm gonna dance.' -- Greggs
Sobotka reprimands his nephew Nick for stealing the cameras and orders him to bring the cargo back--too late. McNulty is on a self-assigned moral mission to identify his floater, but his old partner, Bunk, says they have a more pressing matter at ha…
🎬 Elodie Keene ✍️ Joy Kecken
5
⭐ 7.8
Undertow
'They used to make steel there, no?' -- Spiros Vondas
Ziggy loses his prized Camaro to drug dealers. Unable to dump the homicide investigation on other agencies, Rawls measures Bunk for the blame, if the cases go unsolved. Homicide detectives hand out grand jury summonses to stevedores involved in …
🎬 Steve Shill ✍️ Ed Burns
6
⭐ 7.8
All Prologue
'It don't matter that some fool say he different...' -- D'Angelo
Trying to let go of police work and return to his marriage, McNulty gives up on identifying his Jane Doe. In their investigation of Sobotka, the detectives discover a pattern in the computer and explain the connection to Daniels, but …
🎬 Steve Shill ✍️ David Simon
7
⭐ 7.3
Backwash
'Don't worry, kid. You're still on the clock.' -- Horseface
Russell tells Sobotka the investigation is over, but, in fact, a port computer is cloned, and when a container goes missing, the detectives follow. Simultaneously, Greggs and Prez tap into a circuit of Russian prostitutes. With two sets of…
🎬 Thomas J. Wright ✍️ Rafael Alvarez
8
⭐ 7.6
Duck and Cover
'How come they don't fly away?' -- Ziggy
McNulty is back to his old self, on a drunken binge. Urged by fellow stevedores to fight Maui, Ziggy is again humiliated. Worried about McNulty, Bunk tries to get Daniels and Rawls to take him on. After some labor, the wiretap is up--just in time to catch an…
🎬 Dan Attias ✍️ George Pelecanos
9
⭐ 7.8
Stray Rounds
'The world is a smaller place now.' -- The Greek
Bodie's effort to improve sales ends disastrously, forcing Bell to rethink his strategy. Ziggy pulls Johnny Fifty into a new caper that should make the Greeks pay off big. McNulty, undercover and outnumbered in the brothel, awaits 'rescue.' Daniels a…
🎬 Tim Van Patten ✍️ David Simon
10
⭐ 8.3
Storm Warnings
'It pays to go with the union card every time.' -- Ziggy
The Detail uses satellite technology to its advantage. Bodie is unhappy that Proposition Joe's people are slinging on his turf, but business flows--until a new face arrives. Stringer Bell looks to an unlikely solution to the problem. Valcheck…
🎬 Rob Bailey ✍️ Ed Burns
11
⭐ 8.6
Bad Dreams
'I need to get clean' -- Sobotka
With the clock ticking, the Detail makes a desperate move, and Daniels reams out Landsman for dropping the ball. Nick's deceit is in the open as Sobotka is overwhelmed by bad news. The Greeks ease out of an encounter with the Detail, and Omar's suspicions are valida…
🎬 Ernest R. Dickerson ✍️ George Pelecanos
12
⭐ 8.5
Port in a Storm
'Business. Always business.' -- The Greek
The Detail has a setback, while Russell and Bunk revisit Philly to look for evidence. Brother Mouzone talks with Stringer Bell about their agreement, leaving Bell to contend with a dissatisfied Avon Barksdale. Bubbles and Johnny pull another caper and McNul…
🎬 Robert F. Colesberry ✍️ David Simon