Baltimore. New Year's Eve. A talented but troubled police officer is recruited by the FBI's chief investigator to help profile and track down a disturbed individual terrorizing the city.

With the fall of the Barksdale empire, and the ascent of a new young drug king in Baltimore, McNulty, Bunk and the rest of the detail continue to "follow the money" up the political ladder amidst a hotly contested mayoral campaign. Prez witnesses first-hand the role of inner-city education in the formation of youth as four students, Michael, Namond, Randy and Dukie, face dangerous decisions and adolescent angst in a city rife with the temptations...

A look at the lives of a poor African-American family, all of whom are involved at some level in the West Baltimore drug trade.

When Taryn, a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. But Kim and Bill have problems of their own: they're trying to handle the end of their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter Abby. A story of family revelations, people finding each other and letting each other go, looking for love where they've found it before and, when that doesn't work, figuring out where...

Follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, where easy distinctions between good and evil are challenged at every turn.

Charm city (Part 1 to Homicide episode For God or Country in season 4): A gas attack in a downtown New York subway station puts Detective Lennie Briscoe and Rey Curtis on the trail of the perpetrator. Pembleton connects the attack to a similar that occured years before in Baltimore, so he and Bayliss head to New York to assist with the investigation. However the Baltimore detectives quickly discover that their methods strongly conflict with those...