Episode guide
The Wire: Season 3
12 episodes · premiered Sep 19, 2004
The heat is on in Baltimore. The drug war is being lost, bodies are piling up, and a desperate mayor wants the tide turned before the election. But the police department hasn't got any answers. Wiretaps haven’t worked. Neither have stakeouts or street busts. With the demolition of the Franklin Terrace towers, Stringer Bell and the Barksdale crew have been forced to improvise. But no matter how hard McNulty and the detail try, the dealers always seem to be one step ahead of the game. It’s time to change the rules.
- Episode 1: Time After Time Sep 19, 2004 · 59m · TMDB 8.0 "Don't matter how many times you get burnt, you just keep doin' the same." -- Bodie A wave of urban reform brings down the notorious Franklin Terrace public housing towers, forcing the…
- Episode 2: All Due Respect Sep 26, 2004 · 59m · TMDB 8.2 "There's never been a paper bag." -- Colvin Omar continues his bold strikes on Barksdale stash houses, now heavily guarded. Under orders from Stringer Bell, Bodie faces a critical test…
- Episode 3: Dead Soldiers Oct 3, 2004 · 59m · TMDB 7.9 "The gods will not save you." -- Burrell Colvin feels the sting of Burrell and Rawls during a Comstat assessment of his district's felony numbers; a blown wiretap forces Daniels's detail…
- Episode 4: Amsterdam Oct 10, 2004 · 59m · TMDB 8.1 "Why you got to go and fuck with the program?" -- Fruit West Baltimore residents get surprising straight talk at a community meeting from Major Colvin. Bubbles finds gainful employment…
- Episode 5: Straight and True Oct 17, 2004 · 59m · TMDB 8.0 "I had such fuckin' hopes for us." -- McNulty Frustrated in his grass-roots reform efforts, Colvin arms himself with intelligence from Daniels's detail and personally delivers a message to…
- Episode 6: Homecoming Oct 31, 2004 · 58m · TMDB 8.3 "Just a gangster, I suppose." -- Avon Barksdale Stringer Bell gets an education in construction management; Bunk uses shoe-leather to catch up with Omar and deliver a searing message; a…
- Episode 7: Back Burners Nov 7, 2004 · 56m · TMDB 8.3 "Conscience do cost." -- Butchie Herc discovers a blast from the past, which he belatedly reveals to his ex-colleagues. Daniels blows a gasket over the real reason the detail was…
- Episode 8: Moral Midgetry Nov 14, 2004 · 59m · TMDB 8.6 "Crawl, walk, and then run." -- Clay Davis With Amsterdam running full-tilt, Carver and Truck discover there really is no honor among thieves. Prez impresses the detail with what he's…
- Episode 9: Slapstick Nov 21, 2004 · 59m · TMDB 8.1 "...while you're waiting for moments that never come." -- Freamon Responding to an officer's call for help, McNulty and Prez turn down the wrong alley, with unanticipated results. A…
- Episode 10: Reformation Nov 28, 2004 · 59m · TMDB 8.4 "Call it a crisis of leadership." -- Proposition Joe Brother Mouzone returns to Baltimore on a mission of revenge and casts a wide net in his search for Omar, who has his own plan. Colvin…
- Episode 11: Middle Ground Dec 12, 2004 · 59m · TMDB 9.1 "We ain't gotta dream no more." -- Stringer Bell The wire begins to yield information about the Barksdale organization, while Stringer and Avon reminisce on how far they have come.
- Episode 12: Mission Accomplished Dec 19, 2004 · 1h 4m · TMDB 8.4 "...we fight on the lie." -- Slim Charles In the Season Three finale, a reticent Avon readies his troops for a war against Marlo. Meanwhile, as the detail works towards the top rungs of…