Contains spoilers for this episode and earlier episodes.
Wallace and Poot find Brandon’s bloodied body in the Pit. Wallace is shaken by the sight, but D’Angelo tells him that killing is part of the business they have chosen. Avon rewards D’Angelo and Wallace for helping identify Brandon, and tells D’Angelo that Wee-Bey and Bird killed him. Stringer presses D’Angelo about possible informants; D’Angelo insists that nobody in his crew is talking. When D’Angelo discovers that Cassandra and Sterling have been stealing small amounts of product, he quietly moves them elsewhere to protect them from punishment and tells only Wallace.
The detail starts its wiretap, but Rawls pushes Homicide to charge the Barksdale crew in older murders before the surveillance can build a larger case. Daniels persuades Burrell to overrule him, while McNulty continues resisting a quick close. Freamon realises the team must listen to every legally monitored payphone call, and Prez shows unusual patience for logging them. Bubbles and Johnny return to stealing copper pipes to support their drug use; Johnny is arrested when he goes to buy more heroin. Omar identifies Brandon’s body at the morgue, then visits the detail and offers to testify in William Gant’s murder case. The episode closes with Omar ready to work with the police, while photographs of Brandon’s mutilated corpse reach Daniels’s desk.