Thuliso Dingwall

Reese, Carter and Fusco try to protect a teenager who wants to take revenge on a group of gangsters.

Valkech leaks details of the Braddock case to Carcetti, who contemplates how to best leak it to the press. The ensuing negative attention turns Royce against Burrell, who takes the heat, while Rawls comes to the rescue.

With a bounty on his head, Omar calls in a favour from Bunk. The election finally over, Royce and Carcetti make their peace, and contemplate their respective futures, and at school, Prez tricks his students into learning maths.

Burrell sends out a mandate, Kevin comes clean to Marlo, Bubbles gets revenge, and Chris takes care of a problem.

With election day approaching, the three mayoral candidates make last-minute appeals. Carcetti wrangles for votes as he responds to a potentially devastating smear, and Norris and Greggs get a lead on the Braddock case.

Carcetti maps out a damage-control scenario, McNulty asks Landsman to pull police off the homeless case, Haynes' concerns about Templeton fall on deaf ears, and Dukie seeks out an old mentor for a loan.