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.
| Title | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Target | 2002-06-02 |
| 2 | The Detail | 2002-06-09 |
| 3 | The Buys | 2002-06-16 |
| 4 | Old Cases | 2002-06-23 |
| 5 | The Pager | 2002-06-30 |
| 6 | The Wire | 2002-07-07 |
| 7 | One Arrest | 2002-07-21 |
| 8 | Lessons | 2002-07-28 |
| 9 | Game Day | 2002-08-04 |
| 10 | The Cost | 2002-08-11 |
| 11 | The Hunt | 2002-08-18 |
| 12 | Cleaning Up | 2002-09-01 |
| 13 | Sentencing | 2002-09-08 |
