McNulty visits medical examiner Randall Frazier, skeptical that D'Angelo Barksdale's death in prison was a suicide.
Daniels and the Major Case Unit want to make arrests for the murders, but McNulty argues that they should gather more evidence in the hope of ultimately bringing down Bell.
Herc, Carver and Kenneth Dozerman go to the movies with their girlfriends, where they are mortified to bump into Poot, Bodie, and Puddin with their dates.
The next day, Colvin tells his men that he is suspending all undercover narcotics work, likening the War on Drugs to Prohibition.
In particular, a strong contrast is drawn between the cordial meeting between police (Herc, Carver, and Dozerman) and drug dealers (Bodie and Poot) at the movie theater, when they are all "off-duty", and their more fraught interactions during a typical day.
This is a prelude to his forthcoming policy of non-enforcement of narcotics laws in unofficial free zones, which will become a significant part of the season's storyline.