Contains spoilers for this episode and earlier episodes.
Wallace refuses Poot’s request to return to the Pit, still unsettled by Brandon’s death. Wee-Bey, Stinkum and Savino raid Omar’s home and destroy his van while Omar watches from hiding. Orlando is beaten by Avon after suggesting he could sell cocaine on the side. At a party for Stinkum’s expected promotion, D’Angelo finds dancer Keisha dead after Wee-Bey takes her into a bedroom; the episode implies she was drugged and assaulted. D’Angelo later talks with Shardene about leaving the drug trade, and she tells him to pursue another life if he is unhappy. Omar then ambushes Wee-Bey and Stinkum as they prepare to take a corner, killing Stinkum and wounding Wee-Bey.
McNulty spots Stringer at a market and has his sons follow him long enough to record his licence plate, drawing Bunk’s disapproval. Herc and Carver stop Senator Clay Davis’s driver with a bag of cash, but Burrell orders it returned because of the driver’s political connections. McNulty discovers Stringer is taking an economics class. Omar denies killing Stinkum and is released. Bunk and McNulty agree to shield Omar from a separate homicide case, though they know they are misleading Cole. Avon raises the bounty on Omar. The closing scene follows a drunken Bunk trying to burn his clothes after an affair; McNulty takes him home.