Daniels attends a meeting in Burrell's office to account for the actions of his men at the tower projects.
Afterward, Burrell again insists on a simple investigation focused on arrests and seizures rather than securing convictions against the Barksdale Organization.
She suggests that he needs probable cause and to demonstrate exhaustion of other investigative techniques in order to get a signed affidavit from a judge.
McNulty meets again with Fitz, who reveals that the FBI investigated Daniels after discovering he had hundreds of thousands of dollars in unexplained liquid assets.
Omar Little and his gang spend several days in a white van watching the Pit crew sell drugs.
D'Angelo instructs Bodie, Poot and Wallace in showing respect to their customers and shares his belief that if there were no violence involved in their trade, the police would not be interested in them.
Back in the Pit, D'Angelo leaves to buy food just before Omar's crew steals their drugs.
When one of the low-rise dealers, Sterling, refuses to reveal the location of the stash and insists that nothing is there, Omar shoots him in the knee.
This episode introduces the recurring character Omar Little, a stick-up artist who robs drug dealers for a living.
A San Francisco Chronicle review picked the scene of D'Angelo instructing his subordinates in the rules of chess as one of the first season's finest moments.
[5] They praised the character of D'Angelo and the show's portrayal of his difficulties as "middle management" in the drug organization having to deal with unreliable subordinates, demanding superiors and his own conscience.
[5] In a 2009 retrospective for The Guardian, about The Wire season one, Saptarshi Ray praised D'Angelo's speech at the chess game and the police's botched raid as two "iconic scenes" in the series.