The Wire

2002
4.7
523 reviews
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Season 4 episodes (13)

1 Boys of Summer
9/4/06
Season-only
In the Season Four premiere, four boys from West Baltimore play out their summer vacation in the streets. Meanwhile, Marlo has solved the problem that baffled Stringer Bell: how to maintain discipline--read: murders--without getting police attention.
2 Soft Eyes
9/11/06
Season-only
Herc's soft-duty job with the mayor takes an unexpectedly hard turn. Despite the potential damage to her career, Pearlman provides Freamon and Sydnor with subpoena ammunition for their 'grizzly bear' hunt in City Hall.
3 Home Rooms
9/18/06
Season-only
With his lead dwindling, Royce resorts to extreme measures to stall Carcetti's momentum. At Bodie's corner, Michael proves adept as a runner, with Bodie and Marlo taking notice. A re-up bodega is put under surveillance by Omar and Greggs.
4 Refugees
9/25/06
Season-only
With Freamon and Greggs moved to Homicide, Herc and Dozerman join Marimow in the stripped-down Major Crimes Unit. Cutty gets a 'custodial' job at Tilghman School mopping up truants, but can't make headway in his efforts to mentor Michael.
5 Alliances
10/2/06
Season-only
Valchek leaks details of the Braddock case to Carcetti, who contemplates how to best leak it to the press. The ensuing negative attention turns Royce against Burrell, who takes the heat while Rawls comes to the rescue.
6 Margin of Error
10/9/06
Season-only
With Election Day approaching, the three mayoral candidates make last-minute appeals. Carcetti wrangles for votes as he responds to a potentially devastating smear. Norris and Greggs get a lead on the Braddock case, but end up being detoured.
7 Unto Others
10/23/06
Season-only
With a bounty on him, Omar calls in a favor to Bunk. The election over, Royce and Carcetti make peace and contemplate their futures. At school, Prez tricks his students into learning math. Finally, Greggs uses 'soft eyes' at a crime scene.
8 Corner Boys
10/30/06
Season-only
To monitor the pulse on the street, Carcetti makes the rounds with members of the force. With Marimow on his case, Herc resorts to strong-arm tactics to retrieve his pinched camera, but Marlo isn't impressed.
9 Know Your Place
11/6/06
Season-only
Poot returns to the corner after a stint in prison--and is welcomed back. Carcetti engages in a testy budget battle with City Council President Campbell, promotes Daniels, and hits a snag in his efforts to relieve Burrell of his duties.
10 Misgivings
11/13/06
Season-only
Acting on Clay Davis' advice, Burrell seeks to burnish his reputation by ordering the department to double their street arrests. The mandate does not sit well with McNulty, who sets his sights instead on cracking a string of church robberies.
11 A New Day
11/20/06
Season-only
After flexing his muscles around the city, Carcetti faces his first dilemma when a group protests Herc's mistreatment of one of their own. Later, the mayor reverses Burrell's mass-arrest mandate, but Burrell still has some cards to play.
12 That's Got His Own
11/27/06
Season-only
On the trail of missing bodies, Freamon turns to a higher authority after being rebuked by Landsman. Carcetti finds his promises of prosperity undermined by the school debt, forcing him to contemplate groveling before the Governor in Annapolis.
13 Final Grades
12/4/06
Season-only
In the Season Four finale, the bodies from the vacants pile up while Burrell offers his support to Daniels and admonishes Rawls for crossing him. A distraught Bubbles finds himself at his wit's end after his revenge plan backfires.

About this show

Follow a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore from the perspective of cops and criminals in this classic series.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
523 reviews
Yurt the Silent Chief
June 23, 2019
An wonderful insight into Democrat ran states & the poverty they self inflict upon themselves by voting in the same tired scamsters who only want to acknowledge blacks when elections are coming up. Then dump them on the prison pipeline, leaving households fatherless. At least Trump is making a genuine effort by pushing Prison Reform. Sad indictment of a race who chain themselves to a new form of plantation, although also too stupid to see how a welfare state only condemns you. America First.
5 people found this review helpful
Ian Ritchie
December 10, 2013
Was sent an email by Google Play and was delighted to see The Wire available to download...clicked on the link...shouldn;t have bothered. You can pick up the DVD boxed set of all 5 series for about the price of downloading 2 series worth of episodes. Waste of time.
6 people found this review helpful
Jay Cano
December 12, 2013
The DVD set of all seasons on Amazon is half the price it will cost you to get it here at current price (£1.89 each episode). It needs to be at least half that price to make it worth and even in that case with this is only a digital copy that depends on Google and your Google account.
41 people found this review helpful