Writer:	Ed Burns, Ed Burns, David Simon
Director:	Daniel Attias
Star:	Clark Johnson (City Editor Augustus "Gus" Haynes),  Dominic West (Det. James "Jimmy" McNulty),  Seth Gilliam (Sgt. Ellis Carver),  Michael Kostroff (Maurice "Maury" Levy),  Domenick Lombardozzi (Thomas R. "Herc" Hauk),  Isiah Whitlock Jr (State Senator R. Clayton "Clay" Davis),  Tristan Wilds (Michael Lee),  Michael Kenneth Williams (Omar Little),  Michelle Paress (Alma Gutierrez),  Gbenga Akinnagbe (Chris Partlow),  Sonja Sohn (Det. Shakima "Kima" Greggs),  Clarke Peters (Det. Lester Freamon),  Tom McCarthy (Scott Templeton),  Aidan Gillen (Mayor Thomas "Tommy" Carcetti),  Reg E. Cathey (Norman Wilson),  Jamie Hector (Marlo Stanfield),  Neal Huff (Chief of Staff Michael Steintorf),  Wendell Pierce (Det. William "Bunk" Moreland),  Corey Parker Robinson (Det. Leander Sydnor),  John Doman (Dep. Comm. William A. Rawls),  Lance Reddick (Col. Cedric Daniels),  Deirdre Lovejoy (Chief State's Attorney of Violent Crimes Rhonda Pearlman)
Recurring Role:	Edward T. Norris (Det. Ed Norris),  Shamika Cotton (Michael's Mother),  Sam Freed (Executive Editor James C. Whitting III),  David Costabile (Managing Editor Thomas Klebanow),  Michael Salconi (Det. Michael Santangelo),  Anwan Glover (Slim Charles),  Benjamin Busch (Off. Anthony Colicchio),  Marlyne Afflack (Council President Nerese Campbell),  Delaney Williams (Sgt. Jay Landsman),  Dion Graham (District Attorney Rupert Bond),  Frederick Strother (State Delegate Odell Watkins),  Melanie Nicholls-King (Cheryl),  Frankie Faison (Police Comm. Ervin H. Burrell),  Robert F. Chew (Joseph "Proposition Joe" Stewart),  Paul Ben-Victor (Spiros "Vondas" Vondopoulos),  Bill Raymond (The Greek),  Method Man (Melvin "Cheese" Wagstaff),  Felicia Pearson (Felicia "Snoop" Pearson)
Guest Star:	Troj Strickland (Ricardo "Fatface Rick" Hendrix),  Donald Neal (Jay Spry),  Bruce Kirkpatrick (Roger Twigg),  Roscoe Orman (Off. Oscar Requer),  Bobby Brown (II) (Off. Bobby Brown),  Ptolemy Slocum (Homeless Man),  Todd Scofield (Jeff Price),  William F. Zorzi (Bill Zorzi),  Derrick Purvey (Big Guy),  Edward Green (II) (Spider),  Thuliso Dingwall (Kenard),  Sho Brown (Philboy),  Larry Andrews (Donnie),  Alan J. Wendl (),  Joey Perillo (Medical Examiner),  Tim McAdams (Pedestrian),  Nathan James (Western DEU Officer),  Miriam Hyman (),  Jerry B. Whiddon (Washington Post Editor),  Jayne Miller (TV News Journalist),  Valerie Leonard (Washington Post Editor),  John Badila (Baltimore Sun Employee),  Duane Chandler Rawlings (Hungry Man),  Jeffrey Pratt Gordon (John "Johnny Fifty" Spamanto),  Jeff Roberts (Employed Homeless Man),  Curtis L. McLarin (Florist)

Music: "What You Know About Baltimore" by Ogun ft. Phathead; "Baby I'm Yours" by Barbara Lewis; "Drop The Bomb" by Trouble Funk; "Train In Vain" by The Clash; "Street Legendz" by Shortie (edit) Although credited, Andre Royo and Jermaine Crawford do not appear in this episode. (edit)

Jay Spry: (reviewing the draft of an article) Huh. "Incensed" means to inflame with wrath. It speaks to obsession. Is this the mayor's state of mind? Something more nuanced, perhaps galled, vexed, annoyed? Safer still- displeased.
Gus: You'd take the crab out of crab soup. (edit) Burrell: (to Rawls) To Carcetti, I'm a hack. Royce was no different. Maybe I am, but every day they send over a new priority. "Go after the bad guys. No, change that, make quality of life cases. Get on top of the murders. On second thought, run the whores out of Patterson Park." You think the Mayor tells the schools how to teach kids? Or the Health Department how to do it's job? Or sanitation how to pick up trash? But, get elected, and suddenly, they know police work. You might think you'll be different, when you sit here. But it won't. You will eat their shit. (edit) Snoop: (about Hungry Man) Man already shit he'self, and we ain't even get started yet. He's funky yo'. (edit) Herc: Carcetti finally dumps Burrell.
Prop Joe: Ervin was a year before me at Dunbar.
Herc: No shit?
Prop Joe: He was in the Glee club.
Herc: You're killin' me, I gotta ask.
Prop Joe: Stone stupid. (edit) Carver: When I gave you that kid to debrief last year, what's-his-face, you were supposed to get him to Bunk Moreland, you remember that?
Herc: Yeah, I fucked up. So what?
Carver: So, it mattered.
Herc: So what the fuck does this have to do with Colicchio?
Carver: It all matters. (edit)

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During the last scene, Marlo tells Prop Joe to close his eyes and says "There, there now." This was a key phrase in the 1964 Hitchcock film Marnie, where a poor Baltimore neighborhood plays a pivotal location. (edit)