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The Wire Season 3 Episode 5

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AIRED: 10/17/04

"I had such fuckin' hopes for us." - McNulty

Frustrated in his grass-roots reform efforts, Colvin delivers a message to the next level of corner management. McNulty sees Stringer Bell's legitimate business dealings as a sign that he is now unreachable as a drug target. Bubbles shakes the tree for Johnny one more time; Carcetti quietly seeks to fix the program for protecting state's witnesses after another one is killed; Omar struggles with dissention in the ranks; Stringer hard-sells his new business model to an under-whelmed Marlo. Greggs' surveillance gives McNulty reason to smile, and then he takes an interest in politics. Cutty flexes his muscle and continues to slide back into the life; and Avon returns from prison.

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In what looks to be a truly epochal episode, critical events occur that will definitely figure prominently in the storylines during the rest of the season.

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By rockin01, Nov 20, 2007

Another excellent installment, with events that will certainly have repercussions for the characters in this gripping series: Colvin's controversial Hamsterdam program gets off to a flying start, thanks to a highly unconventional assist from the police. Omar's crew, still reeling from Tosha's death, bicker among themselves, even as they prepare their weapons for what looks to be a major operation. McNulty falls into bed with Terri, Carcetti's campaign manager, after he meets her at a school parents' night. McNulty tires of chasing Stringer, suspecting that he has gone legit, until Kima, acting on a tip from Bubbles, leads him to observe a meet between Bell and Mario, where Stringer unsuccessfully tries to persuade the young dealer to join his newly-formed cartel. Cutty's re-entry into the game continues, as he and two of Avon's enforcers, Gerard and Sapper, confront a dealer suspected of skimming. The two enforcers administer a brutal beating, refusing to stop, even after Cutty admonishes them to. Avon is released to great fanfare from his troops and from Bell. Though Stringer makes elaborate arrangements to welcome Avon, Bell's rising prominence in the organization begins to make Barksdale concerned.moreless
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Wendell Pierce	Bunk Moreland
Wood Harris	Avon Barksdale
John Doman	Bill Rawls
Robert Wisdom	Bunny Colvin (Episodes 26-, recurring previously)
Lance Reddick	Cedric Daniels
Deirdre Lovejoy	Ronnie Pearlman

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Brandan T. Tate		Guest Star
Addison Switzer	Country	Guest Star
Eli Harris	Lieutenant	Guest Star
Kelli R. Brown	Kimmy	Recurring Role
Chad L. Coleman	Cutty Wise	Recurring Role
Jamie Hector	Marlo Stanfield	Recurring Role

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- Stringer: Nigga, is you takin' notes on a criminal fuckin' conspiracy?
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- Colvin: Middle management means that you got just enough responsibility to listen when people talk, but not so much you can't tell anybody to go fuck themselves.
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- Colvin: I swear to God, I have over 200 sworn personnel and I will free them all up to brutalize every one of you they can. If you're on a corner in my district, it will not be just a humble or a loitering charge. It will be some Biblical shit that happens to you on the way into that jail wagon. You understand? We will not be playing by any rules that you recognize.
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- Proposition Joe: For a cold-ass crew of gangsters y'all carried it like Republicans an' shit.
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- Although credited, Deirdre Lovejoy and Corey Parker Robinson do not appear in this episode.
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- Music: "Me and Baby Brother" by War; "On Fire" by Lloyd Banks
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