The Wire - Season 2 - Eps 5: Undertow

Name: Eps 5: Undertow
Released: 2003-06-29
Rating: 4.3

2003-06-29 • 58 min • ⭐ 8.6/10

'They used to make steel there, no?' -- Spiros Vondas Ziggy loses his prized Camaro to drug dealers. Unable to dump the homicide investigation on other agencies, Rawls measures Bunk for the blame, if the cases go unsolved. Homicide detectives hand out grand jury summonses to stevedores involved in the homicide case, and port cop Beadie Russell talks to an old boyfriend to find out how cargo disappears from the docks.

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About The Wire

Title: The Wire

First Air Date: 2002-06-02

Last Air Date: 2008-03-09

Status: Ended

Rating: 8.6/10 (from 2482 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 6

Total Episodes: 60

Network: HBO

Genres: Crime, Drama

Production Companies: Blown Deadline Productions, HBO

Synopsis

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.