However, D'Angelo's mother convinces him to rescind the deal and take the charges for his family.
D'Angelo Barksdale is eventually arrested with a large quantity of drugs, and learning of Wallace's murder, is ready to turn in his uncle and Stringer. Wallace is killed by his childhood friends Bodie and Poot, on orders from Stringer Bell, after leaving his "secure" placement with relatives and returning to Baltimore. This causes the detail's targets to suspect that they are under investigation. (" The Cost") This triggers an overzealous response from the rest of the department. When an associate of Barksdale's is arrested by another team and offers to cooperate, the commanding officers order a sting operation to wrap up the case, during which Detective Greggs is shot and seriously hurt. The police have little success with street-level arrests or with securing informants beyond Wallace, a young low-level dealer and friend of D'Angelo. This leads the investigation to areas the commanding officers had hoped to avoid, including political contributions. The investigation eventually secures dialed number recorders, Title III wiretaps, and pager clones to monitor the Barksdale organization. (" The Wire") (" Lessons") Throughout, D'Angelo struggles with his conscience over his life of crime and the people it affects.
The organization is antagonized by a stick-up crew led by Omar Little, and the feud leads to several deaths. Meanwhile, the organized and cautious Barksdale gang is explored through characters at various levels within it. The detail's commander, Cedric Daniels, acts as mediator between the two opposing groups of police. (" The Target")Īn interdepartmental struggle between the more motivated officers on the detail and their superiors spans the whole season, with interference by the higher-ups often threatening to ruin the investigation. However, owing to the department's dysfunctionality, the investigation is intended as a façade to appease the judge. Phelan takes issue with this and complains to senior Police Department figures, embarrassing them into creating a detail dedicated to investigating Barksdale. He also tells Phelan that nobody is investigating Barksdale's criminal activity, which includes a significant portion of the city's drug trade and several unsolved homicides. McNulty tells Phelan that she has probably been intimidated by members of a drug trafficking empire run by D'Angelo's uncle, Avon Barksdale, having recognized several faces at the trial, notably Avon's second-in-command, Russell Bell. The investigation is triggered when Detective McNUlty meets privately with Judge Phelan following the acquittal of D'Angelo Barksdale for murder after a key witness changes her story.
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