Greggs joins Freamon in Homicide, and learns that Landsman shares her disdain for new Major Crimes Units (MCU) head Marimow.
Royce has asked Burrell to slow the investigation so that no proof that the motive was the victim's upcoming testimony will emerge before the election.
Bunk and Freamon serve a warrant on Lex's home, where they find that his grieving mother has set up a shrine to her son.
While drinking with Bunk, Freamon theorizes that Marlo has not been linked to any murders because he is hiding corpses in an unknown location.
When Andre tries to get out of a debt, Marlo demands that he hand over his diamond ring as collateral and tells him to pay what he owes.
Proposition Joe tries to convince Marlo to join the New Day Co-Op and aid their planned war with the New York drug dealers intruding into East Baltimore.
Marlo, unconcerned because his territory is on the West Side, declines Joe's offers of protection and ends the meeting.
Omar finds the opportunity to his liking and robs the game while Marlo is playing, taking Andre's ring and the money.
Meanwhile, Bubbles berates Sherrod for missing school and warns him that not attending classes could mean the end of their business partnership.
Dukie, Randy, Namond and Michael spend time at Cutty's gym and discuss the box cutter incident.
He learns that the school rounds up truants to meet minimum attendance figures it needs to secure extra funding, rather than to ensure they are educated.
The dialogue between Marlo and the security guard (specifically the "You want it to be one way" section) was sampled in Little Brother's 2007 album Getback on the song "Sirens".
This quote is almost certainly a reference to the 1975 film Night Moves, in which the protagonist says virtually exactly the same thing to his wife when she asks him who is winning a televised football game: "Nobody, one side is just losing slower than the other."