Crime
Drama
The Wire
5S | 60E
06/02/2002
8.6
S1E1
1. The Target
7.6
6/2/2002
S1E2
2. The Detail
8.0
6/9/2002
S1E3
3. The Buys
8.0
6/16/2002
S1E4
4. Old Cases
7.8
6/23/2002
S1E5
5. The Pager
7.8
6/30/2002
S1E6
6. The Wire
8.1
7/7/2002
S1E7
7. One Arrest
8.3
7/21/2002
S1E8
8. Lessons
8.0
7/28/2002
S1E9
9. Game Day
8.4
8/4/2002
S1E10
10. The Cost
8.4
8/11/2002
S1E11
11. The Hunt
8.6
8/18/2002
S1E12
12. Cleaning Up
8.4
9/1/2002
S1E13
13. Sentencing
8.8
9/8/2002
Overview
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
