Maria enters Liz in a blind date contest; Max and Kyle commiserate about their shared feelings for Liz; Michael and Isabel send a signal to the fourth alien.

“Buyer’s market out there.” – Templeton Omar plots his revenge for his former associates murder now that he’s returned from exile. Gus stresses the need for a city-court reporter, after…

“The bigger the lie, the more they believe.” – Bunk Moreland McNulty and the detail continue to stake out Marlo and his crew. Recently promoted Sergeant Carver is met with…

“We got our thing, but it’s just part of the big thing.” – Zenobia Prez wants to teach off curriculum. Carcetti visits the Homicide Department and goes on ride-a-longs for…

“Don’t try this shit at home.” – Norman Wilson Carcetti responds to a campaign smear. Randy is accused of a serious transgression. Colvin’s special class gets its first enlistees.

“Lambs to the slaughter here.” – Marcia Donnelly Four West Baltimore boys wrestle with what to do with the rest of their summer vacation as the new fall school year…

“…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 Barksdale…

“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…

“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…

“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…

“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 the…

“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;…

“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…

“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,…