Episode 5x2
McNulty thinks Marlo Stanfield is getting a free pass and there is nothing he can do about it. He is pissed. CID is shut down. The FBI only likes dealing with terrorists and political criminals, and yet Baltimore's big drug kingpin is let loose from the grips of a year investigation purely for political and financial reasons.
We also are getting more of a sense on how the local newspaper works and what its effect on society is. Templeton brought a definitely incomplete story about a kid going to a Baltimore Orioles game in a wheelchair, but it was decided by the top dog to put it out on the front page anyway because it was a feel good fluff piece. We can see that the big thing the newspaper room storyline is going to deal with this season is "what is news". What is important enough to be written about in a city with a high crime rate like Baltimore?
And more importantly… where is Omar?
