Season 3, Episode 12 - Air Date: 12/19/2004

"...we fight on the lie." -- Slim CharlesA reticent Avon readies his troops for a seemingly endless war against Marlo.

Season 3, Episode 11 - Air Date: 12/12/2004

"We don't need to dream no more." -- Stringer BellThe wire begins to yield information about the Barksdale organization, though finding links to the top proves elusive.

Season 3, Episode 10 - Air Date: 11/28/2004

"Call it a crisis of leadership." -- Proposition JoeBrother Mouzone returns to Baltimore on a mission of revenge and casts a wide net in his search for Omar, who has his own plan for vengeance.

Season 3, Episode 9 - Air Date: 11/21/2004

"...while you're waiting for moments that never come." -- FreamonResponding to a call for an officer's call for help, McNulty and Prez turn up the wrong alley, with unanticipated results.

Season 3, Episode 8 - Air Date: 11/14/2004

"Crawl, walk, and then run." -- Clay DavisWith Amsterdam running full tilt, Carver and Truck discover there really is no honor among thieves.

Season 3, Episode 7 - Air Date: 11/7/2004

"Conscience do cost." -- ButchieHerc discovers a blast from his past which he later reveals to his colleagues.

Season 3, Episode 6 - Air Date: 10/31/2004

"Just a gangster, I suppose." -- Avon BarksdaleStringer Bell gets an education in construction management; Bunk uses shoe-leather to catch up with Omar and deliver a searing message; a frustrated Colvin unleashes the troops on the corner boys ignoring his new edict; Avon sends Cutty and Slim Charles against Marlo; Bubbles refocuses the picture for Greggs; Donette receives Brianna's blessing of her hookup with Stringer and lets slip that McNulty visited about Dee.

Season 3, Episode 5 - Air Date: 10/17/2004

"I had such fuckin' hopes for us." -- McNultyFrustrated in his grass-roots reform efforts, Colvin arms himself with intelligence from Daniels' detail and personally delivers a message to the next level of corner management.

Season 3, Episode 4 - Air Date: 10/10/2004

"Why you got to go and fuck with the program?" -- FruitWest Baltimore residents get some surprising straight talk at a community meeting from Major Colvin.

Season 3, Episode 3 - Air Date: 10/3/2004

"The gods will not save you." -- BurrellColvin feels the sting of Burrell and Rawls during a Comstat assessment of his district's felony numbers; a blown wiretap forces Daniels' detail to turn to a new target; Proposition Joe cautions Stringer Bell that the police have been tapping phones, as revealed by Cheese's failed bust.

Season 3, Episode 2 - Air Date: 9/27/2004

"There's never been a paper bag." -- ColvinOmar continues his bold strikes on Barksdale stash houses, now heavily guarded.

Season 3, Episode 1 - Air Date: 9/19/2004

"Don't matter how many times you get burnt, you just keep doin' the same." -- BodieA wave of urban reform brings down the notorious Franklin Terrace public housing towers, forcing the Barksdale drug crew to find a new home on the streets of West Baltimore.