The heat is on in Baltimore. The drug war is being lost, bodies are piling up, and a desperate mayor wants the tide turned before the election. But the police department hasn't got any answers. Wiretaps haven’t worked. Neither have stakeouts or street busts. With the demolition of the Franklin Terrace towers, Stringer Bell and the Barksdale crew have been forced to improvise. But no matter how hard McNulty and the detail try, the dealers always seem to be one step ahead of the game. It’s time to change the rules.

• Dominic West
• Lance Reddick
• Sonja Sohn
• Wendell Pierce
• Michael Kenneth Williams
• Deirdre Lovejoy
• J.D. Williams
• Jamie Hector