The plot outline of the fire line

Here is only a summary of the main plot. The first season focuses on the Baltimore police's investigation of the Baxter Dell drug trafficking group.

The investigation began with detective Jimmy McNulty. In the trial of DeAngela Barksdale, the key witness temporarily retracted his confession, which enabled DeAngela to get away with it successfully. After the trial, McNulty revealed to Judge Daniel Phelan that the witness might be forced to change his mind because he saw Iwan's deputy Stinger Bell and several other gang members at the trial site. McNulty also told Judge Phelan that Baxter's gang was suspected of large-scale drug dealing and many unsolved murders, but no one investigated their criminal acts.

Judge Phelan complained to the top of the police station, which embarrassed the top, so he ordered the establishment of a task force to investigate barksdale. However, the top management didn't really want to investigate the case, just perfunctory judges. There is a game between the police officer who wants to investigate the case and the boss who obstructs the investigation, while Cedric Daniels, the commander of the task force, is caught in the middle and is in a dilemma.

At the same time, there are contradictions within barksdale Gang. In addition, their struggle with Omar Park Jungsu, who robbed drug dealers for a living, caused many deaths and injuries, which further attracted the attention of the police. During this period, Di Angela felt guilty about her criminal life and influence on others.

The police launched a street arrest, hoping to get clues from Vallance, a street drug dealer, but little progress was made. Finally, the task force began to use electronic monitoring equipment to monitor the public telephones and pagers used by gang members. However, it led to the investigation entering the restricted area designated by the upper level and touching on political contributions and other issues. After a junior leader in Iwan was arrested by another police team, the boss asked to close the case. Detective Kima Gregos was injured in the operation, which made other policemen emotional and aroused their vigilance. Therefore, barksdale gangs suspected that they were being investigated by the police, and began to remove all suspicious persons and abandoned public telephones and pagers.

At Stinger Bell's behest, Vallance was shot by his childhood friends Bodie and Putt. Angela was found to be transferring a large amount of drugs for her uncle. When she learned of Vallance's death, she decided to give up her uncle and stinger. But his mother advised him to put his family business first. In the end, the task force lightly sentenced Iwan, and Wilbur Bryce, his man, was responsible for most of the murder charges, some of which were not even committed by Wilbur. Stringer escaped prosecution and continued to run Baxter's criminal kingdom. Daniels and McNulty were both transferred to the cold yamen for disobeying orders from their superiors. In the second quarter, the focus turned to the blue-collar workers in the port, who often used containers to smuggle drugs and other contraband. This season also tells how the Baxter Dell gang continued to develop without a leader.

McNulty was transferred to a "cold yamen" like the Water Guard because he angered his boss, but he found a container containing 14 female bodies during a patrol. Despite the boss's obstruction, McNulty tried to find out the truth of the murder. At the same time, Stan Valchek, the district head, and Frank Soberta, the chairman of the port trade union, were at odds over church donations, so Vacchek asked to set up a task force to investigate Soberta. Cedric Daniels was recommended by Vacek's son-in-law, Pranz, to investigate this case. He can choose his own suitable subordinates.

The blue-collar workers in the port work hard, the port is under-started, and their lives are difficult to maintain. As the chairman of the trade union, Sobeta hopes to lobby politicians and revive the port. In order to raise money to run this business, Sobeta chose to engage in smuggling activities. His son and nephew smuggled with him because they had no other way to make a living.

During the investigation, Soberta task force learned that the female body found in McNulty was closely related to the case, and the container was originally smuggled from the port. They re-used monitoring methods to find out the criminal chain and traced it back to the upstream commander "Greek". However, Vachak was greatly dissatisfied with the shift of the focus of the case and asked the FBI to intervene. After the "Greeks" learned about this through the informant of the FBI, they began to step up their efforts to get through the top of Baltimore.

Because of the uneven distribution of spoils, Sobeta's son Reggie murdered one of the "Greeks" and was arrested. Sobeta was also arrested for smuggling. He was anxious to save his son and agreed to cooperate with the task force. But the "Greeks" learned about it through the FBI and managed to kill Sobeta. The efforts of the task force made the truth of the murder case of fourteen women clear, but the culprit was dead. Some drug dealers and middle-level leaders connected with the "Greeks" were arrested, but he and the No.2 leader escaped smoothly. The warden was very satisfied with Sobeta's arrest. The top management thinks this case is a great success, but the members of the task force think it is a great failure.

After Iwan and Angela went to prison, the barksdale gang continued the drug trade under the leadership of Stinger Bell. After witnessing her uncle designing and murdering several prisoners and framing prison guards suspected of corruption, Di Angela decided to break up with her family. In the end, Stinger ordered Angela to be killed and faked the scene, causing the illusion of suicide. Iwan didn't know that Stinger was behind it. He felt sorry for his nephew's death.

At this time, Stinger is suffering from the loss of suppliers and poor product quality. Without telling Iwan, he gave Joe half his territory in exchange for Joe's drug supply. Iwan didn't know about the deal, and mistakenly thought that Joe and other drug dealers dared to invade his territory because Baxter Dell was short of thugs, so he hired the Mu Zong brothers. To solve this problem, Stinger lied to Ou Ma that the Zhou Mo brothers were the killers of his lover before. Revenge-hungry Omar shot Mozu, but soon realized that Stinger was lying and called 9 1 1 for help. Stinger was able to continue trading with Joe when Mozou recovered and left Baltimore. In the third season, the focus returned to the barksdale gang active in the streets, but the perspective also extended to the political field. This season, a new subplot was introduced to explore the potential positive impact of legalizing illegal drug trafficking and prostitution in some sparsely populated communities. This practice has achieved positive results in Amsterdam and other European urban areas, reducing street crimes in cities and enabling high-risk groups to enjoy medical and social security services. These are the continuation of the previous plot hints.

The tower, once the drug trafficking base of Baxter gang, was destroyed, so the gang decided to let drug dealers re-enter the streets of Baltimore. Iwan was released early as a reward for revealing the "truth" of the prisoner's death. By cooperating with other drug lords, Stinger Bell enjoys the territory, products and profits, and continues to carry out organizational reform. However, Stinger's cooperation proposal was rejected by Marlowe stanfield, a new gang leader. Despite Stinger's dissuasion, Iwan decided to seize Marlowe's territory by force, and two gangs fought fiercely, causing many deaths.

Omar took the opportunity to continue robbing the Baxter Dell gang. With the help of his new boyfriend Dante and two women, his robbery became a headache for Iwan. In a robbery, one of Omar's assistants was shot and injured, and a mob of Baxter gang was killed. The violence caused by drug trafficking has intensified, which makes Cedric Daniels, the current head of major crimes unit, start to intervene in the investigation.

Congressman Tommy Caseti began to prepare for the mayoral election. He manipulated a colleague against the mayor, diverted black votes, hired an experienced campaign manager, and began to increase self-promotion.

Howard Cowen, the retiring regional director, decided to bring real change to his district. After witnessing the destruction of the tower, the drug trade quickly spread to previously unaffected areas, and he thought of a solution. Without telling the headquarters, he set up a drug trafficking zone in his own jurisdiction, where drug trafficking is not punished, but it will be severely cracked down elsewhere. These measures are quite effective and have successfully reduced the crime rate in the jurisdiction. But bosses and politicians finally knew about it, including Caseti. He used the topic to make a long speech and exaggerated the matter. Under the pressure from the top, Cowen hastily terminated the reform, accepted the demotion, and went home for the aged with a greatly discounted pension.

Dennis wise and Iwan, former thugs of drug gangs, were released at the same time. He hopes to turn over a new leaf and try to adapt to the life of a free man. He tried to become a manual worker, but he finally returned to his old job and worked for Iwan. When he realized that he didn't intend to kill anyone, he turned to use the money borrowed from Iwan to build a boxing gym for teenagers.

Major Crimes Unit learned that stringer tried to purchase real estate for development to realize his dream of becoming a legitimate businessman. But inexperienced, he turned his focus back to drug trafficking after touching a series of nails. Stinger thinks that their war with Marlowe will only destroy everything, so he tells Cowen about Ivan's arsenal. However, Stinger himself was betrayed by Iwan: Brother Mozu returned to Baltimore and found Omar's help. He told Iwan that he would avenge his injury. Iwan remembered that Stinger disobeyed his orders and tried to kill his brother Mozou. Perhaps because he was sad about his nephew's death (Stinger had confessed everything to him), or worried that his reputation would be damaged outside the city, Iwan told Mozu that Stinger would visit the construction site. There, Mozu and Omar trapped Stinger and shot him.

Cowen told McNulty the location of Iwan's arsenal. Major crimes unit was able to arrest Iwan and most of his men through the cell phones with eavesdropping devices previously sold by informants to gang members. Barksdale's criminal gangs collapsed, but Marlowe's gangs began to seize territory. So the current situation of drug trafficking in West Baltimore has not changed. In the fourth season, we expanded our vision to the education system, but we still paid attention to the plot line of the mayoral election introduced in the third season, and also described Marlowe's drug trafficking gang in depth.

This season, four new characters were introduced: Duke weems, Randy wagstaff, Neimengde Bryce (the son of Wilbur Bryce) and Li Liwei. These four students from West Baltimore entered the eighth grade. Plance also began to teach in the school where they studied. Despite the guidance of the old teacher, it is still difficult for him to maintain good classroom discipline and let the students concentrate on the class. Neimengde and Michael run errands for Bodie one after another. Bodie sold Joe's medicine independently, with little effect.

Cold-blooded Marlowe began to rule the streets of the west side, using murder and coercion to make people buy his inferior drugs, but he lacked business acumen. His thugs, Chris Paltrow and Snoop, hid the bodies in a row of houses in case they were found prematurely. The mysterious disappearance of many criminals puzzled Marlowe's major crimes unit and the murder investigation team that pursued the murder. Marlowe suggested that Bodie work for himself and tried to recruit Michael.

As a policeman, McNulty enjoys a comfortable life and lives with Biddy Russell. He also turned down the promotion of Cedric Daniels, the current West District Sheriff. As members of the major crimes unit, detectives Kema Gregos and Lester fremont began to investigate Iwan barksdale's political contributions, and summoned several important people for investigation. At the request of Mayor Clarence Royce, their action was stopped by Director Owen barrell. When they realized that their team was being watched more and more closely by the upper level, both of them left and transferred to the homicide investigation department.

At the same time, the mayoral election is coming to an end. Royce seemed a shoo-in, but when Caseti started talking about crime in the city, Royce's election took a turn for the worse. In the end, Caseti won the primary election and was easily elected as the new mayor of Baltimore. Caseti wanted to reduce crime, so he began to restrict Brill's authority, promoted Daniels, who was more capable, and planned to promote him as director in the future.

Other old faces also appeared in the school where prance taught. Howard Cowen joined a study group of potential criminals. Dennis wise still runs a boxing gym and helps schools catch truant students. Babes began to take care of a homeless child named Sherrod, hoping that he could go to school and not lack education like himself. They are often attacked and robbed by drug addicts.

Pranz didn't make much progress among the students, and some students began to skip classes. Inner Mongolia Germany was transferred to the research group, where he was gradually influenced by Cowen and began to respect Cowen. Randy told a murder case to the assistant principal in despair, and was questioned by the police, so he was regarded as an "informer" by his classmates. Michael is indifferent to the adults around him, including prance, Wise and Bodie. They all think that he has a bright future. When Michael thought he had to get rid of his stepfather to protect his brother, he called Chris, the only person he trusted. This brought him closer to Marlowe's gang and eventually joined it. Under the guidance of prats, Du Kui entered high school through social recommendation, but their friendship had to be interrupted.

Joe created a conflict between Omar and Marlowe, hoping to persuade Marlowe to join the New Day Cooperative. After being robbed by Omar, Carlo framed a murder case on Omar in an attempt to kill him in prison. But Omar was cleared with Bunker's help. Knowing that Marlowe framed himself, Omar plundered all the goods of the group to get back at Marlowe and Joe. At the same time, members of the team, including Marlowe, were dissatisfied with Joe because the goods were robbed. In order to meet Marlowe's request, Joe asked him to meet with Spiros Wanda. After learning that Joe was connected with the "Greeks", Marlowe began to investigate their role in the Baltimore drug trafficking network.

Lester fremont found the bodies hidden by Chris and Snoopy. Bodie agreed to cooperate with McNulty to testify against Marlowe and his gang, but was killed by O-Dog in the street. Babes prepared sodium cyanide, trying to poison the drug addicts who often bullied them, but it led to the unsuspecting Xia stealing food and dying. Babers surrendered himself to the police and was sent to a drug rehabilitation center after trying to hang himself. Michael joined Marlowe's killer and ran the street drug trade independently. Du Kui also left high school to work with him. Because of cooperation with the police, Randy's home was attacked by a classmate's incendiary bomb, which caused his mother to be injured and hospitalized, and Randy himself was also sent to a nursing home. Cowen discovered the excellent qualities of Neimengde and adopted him. Caseti promised the police that he would improve his treatment and create a new urban environment. Daniels reorganized most former police officers into major crimes unit and began to investigate Marlowe stanfield. On September 2, 2006, HBO announced that the fifth season was the last season of The Wire, 13, but it was later reduced to 10. This season focuses on news media and media consumption habits. . This season tells about the daily work of the Baltimore Sun. Some plots come from real events (such as The New York Times's scandal in Jayson Blair), and some characters are based on employees of The Sun. Simon said in an interview that the theme of this season is to pay attention to "which news will be reported, which news will not be mentioned at all, and why everything remains the same after the report." In the play, the newspaper pursues profits, the number of journalists decreases, and journalists are no longer enthusiastic about the quality of reporting. At the same time, it also involves the problem of no fixed address. Simon pointed out in the interview that there may not be enough topics to create the sixth season except the Hispanic immigration tide in Baltimore. He added that since no one in the screenwriter team can speak Spanish, especially the Latino population in the city, it will be tedious to sort out the material.

The story of the fifth season begins 15 months after the end of the fourth season. Mayor Caseti began to cut the police budget to make up for the deficit in education expenditure, which forced the investigation of Marlowe stanfield to stop. Cedric Daniels formed a task force to re-investigate the corruption of Senator Davis. McNulty returned to the homicide investigation team. In order to dispel his depression, he began to indulge in alcohol and pornography. In order to get financial support for the police station again, McNulty decided to forge evidence and fabricate a serial killer who murdered the homeless.

The Baltimore Sun also faces the problem of tight capital supply. The shortage of funds made it impossible for the editorial department to cover the whole city, so it missed a lot of important news. The ambitious journalist Scott templin began to secretly fabricate news plots. Brill, the director, continued to forge criminal data until Vachak, the deputy director, leaked the unmodified data to Mayor Caseti. Caseti fired Brill and promoted Daniels to succeed him. In the report, templin wrongly blamed Daniels for Brill's departure. In retaliation, Brill handed over the documents of Daniels' unknown assets to Nerys Campbell.

After getting rid of the investigation, Marlowe began to expand his strength. He learned from Joe about money laundering and ways to avoid investigation. At this time, Joe was useless to Marlowe and was finally killed. Marlowe replaced Joe as a "Greek" and usurped Joe's position in Nippon Group. Marlowe sent Chris and Snoopy to kill Omar's mentor Butch, and forced Omar Park Jung-soo to go out again. Although Michael Lee often openly questioned the orders of his superiors, he continued to act as stanfield's thug. Michael used the money he earned to provide housing for Du Kui and his brother Bug. Du Kui hopes to get rid of drug trafficking and change his life track.

Omar returned to Baltimore for revenge, but was ambushed and had to escape from the window. Despite his broken leg, Omar continued to hunt down stanfield gang members, stealing and destroying their money and drugs, threatening Marlowe with no courage to face him. He just started his revenge plan, but he was finally killed by stanfield's small drug dealer Kennard.

Templin claimed to have had contact with McNulty's fictional serial killer. Editor Augustus Hayes was skeptical, but his boss believed templin's lies. The report aroused widespread concern, forcing Caseti to include the concern for the homeless in his campaign for governor and to allocate more funds for the police station.

Babers lived in his sister's basement, and he gave up drug addiction. He got a job selling The Baltimore Sun and volunteered to serve a charity canteen. Babers found it difficult to fully recover from the loss of Harold, but with the help of Sun reporter Mike Fletcher, he opened his heart to the members of the drug exchange class. Fleche reported on Babes.

After Thomas Hawke was fired, he worked as an investigator under Stan Fils's lawyer Maurice Levi. He gave stanfield's telephone number to the police. Bunker is disgusted with McNulty's practice of forging a serial killer, and hopes Lester fremont can convince him. However, fremont helped mcnair tell a lie, and with the extra money he got, he began to illegally monitor stanfield. Bunker began to alienate them and began to investigate the murder of townhouses (see the fourth season). Bunker's efforts eventually led to the arrest of Chris Paltrow on suspicion of murdering Michael's stepfather.

Fremont and Linde Sidnor have enough evidence to arrest stanfield and most of his senior leaders, and seize a lot of drugs. Stanfield suspected that Michael was an informant, so he ordered Snoopy to kill him. Michael realized that he had been framed and killed Snoopy. In order to protect Du Kui and Bagh, he separated them for the time being. He lured an aunt to adopt Bagh with money and promised to give more money in the future. Without a backer, Du Kui can only live with drug addicts, and Michael becomes an armed robber.

McNulty was trapped in his elaborate lies, unable to share the joy of fremont's success. He felt guilty about forging the crime scene and wasting a lot of manpower to hunt down the nonexistent murderer, so he told Kima Gregos about his forgery to prevent her from wasting time on this case. Gregos revealed the truth of the scam to Daniels. But when Daniels and Rhonda Paalmann reported this to Mayor Caseti, Caseti asked the police to organize an arrest, because it was related to the success or failure of his election.

Davis was successfully acquitted, but fremont threatened federal prosecution and forced him to provide information. From his mouth, fremont learned that Levi was suspected of planting an insider in the court and got court documents from him so that he and other lawyers could defend their drug dealers, and told Paalmann about it. Levi was so scared that Heck found that the information listed on Marlowe's arrest warrant might come from illegal eavesdropping, which might ruin the investigation of the whole case. Levi made a showdown with Paalmann, and Paalmann threatened Levi's espionage, which finally forced Levi to agree to let his defense object accept a plea bargain. On the premise of ensuring Marlowe's conditional release, Levi severely punished his subordinates, but Paalmann insisted Marlowe must wash his hands of it. So Marlowe sold himself and the "Greek" drug trafficking pipeline back to Nippon Group, intending to do business with the profits he earned, but he still could not resist the temptation of street drug trafficking.

McNulty was surprised by the imitation of the criminals in the arrest. He tried his best to find and arrest the suspects. Paalmann told McNulty and fremont that they could no longer participate in the investigation, and once the scandal became public, they might face prosecution for dereliction of duty. The two men chose to retire, and homicide detectives also held a memorial meeting for McNulty. Hayes exposed templin Burton, but the editor-in-chief ignored templin Burton's forgery and would demote anyone who interfered or criticized their star reporter. Caseti pressured Daniels to falsify data to help him win the election. After Daniels refused, Campbell stepped in and threatened to expose Daniels' disgraceful past. Daniels decided to retire quietly and promoted Elis Carver to squadron leader before leaving his post.

McNulty's career prospects are worrying. He stared at the whole city, and the past and future scenes flashed before his eyes: fremont enjoyed retirement; Templin won the Pulitzer Prize; Caseti was elected governor; Hayes left and Fletcher took his place; Campbell appointed Vachaka as the director; Du Kui was infected with heroin; Michael became a highwayman; Paalmann became a judge, Daniels turned to be a defense lawyer; Babes got her sister's understanding and went upstairs to have dinner with her family. Chris and Wilbur were both sentenced to life imprisonment; The drug trade remains the same; People in Baltimore live the same life.