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In season 2 this HBO drama shifts focus from the Baltimore projects and drug dealing to the city port, where McNulty happens to have been reassigned at the end of season 1 as a part of the marine unit patrolling the bay. McNulty is not happy with his superiors who reassigned him to the marine unit, and when fourteen young unidentified women show up dead in the port area, he makes it his crusade to prove that they were murdered in his commander's jurisdiction. The women were found suffocated inside a container and they might be part of a smuggling operation.

With Avon in jail, Stringer Bell is in charge of the Barksdale operations and has to make a few delicate choices to keep things running. He gives away territory to Proposition Joe in exchange for access to more and better drugs, under Avon's nose, and he also stages D'Angelo's death in prison, staging it as a suicide to get him out of the way. Avon mourns the loss of his son, but doesn't know Stringer Bell had a finger in the death.

The season also has another sub-plot regarding a union leader, Sobotka, who wants to reinvigorate the port and turns to smuggling to raise the funds. Cooperating with a Greek crime organization, they bring all kinds of things into Baltimor through the docks. Daniels eventually ends up with a new detail to dig up dirt on Sobotka, and this quickly turns out to be linked to the 14 dead women. As the investigation goes they eventually get the FBI involved.

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