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The epigraph is a quote from the episode that appears at the end of the opening credits sequence.
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| Season | Episode | Epigraph | Attributed to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Target" | …when it’s not your turn. | McNulty |
| "The Detail" | You cannot lose if you do not play. | Marla Daniels | |
| "The Buys" | The king stay the king. | D'Angelo | |
| "Old Cases" | It's a thin line 'tween heaven and here | Bubbles | |
| "The Pager" | …a little slow, a little late. | Avon Barksdale | |
| "The Wire" | …and all the pieces matter. | Freamon | |
| "Lessons" | A man must have a code. | Bunk | |
| "One Arrest" | Come at the king, you best not miss. | Omar | |
| "Game Day" | Maybe we won. | Herc | |
| "The Cost" | And then he dropped the bracelets… | Greggs | |
| "The Hunt" | Dope on the damn table. | Daniels | |
| "Cleaning Up" | This is me, yo, right here. | Wallace | |
| "Sentencing" | All in the game... | Traditional West Baltimore | |
| 2 | "Ebb Tide" | Ain't never gonna be what it was. | Little Big Roy |
| "Collateral Damage" | They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you out. | McNulty | |
| "Hot Shots" | What they need is a union. | Russell | |
| "Hard Cases" | If I hear music, I’m gonna dance. | Greggs | |
| "Undertow" | They used to make steel there, no? | Vondas | |
| "All Prologue" | It don’t matter that some fool say he different… | D'Angelo | |
| "Backwash" | Don’t worry kid. You’re still on the clock. | Horseface | |
| "Duck and Cover" | How come they don’t fly away? | Ziggy | |
| "Stray Rounds" | The world is a smaller place now. | The Greek | |
| "Storm Warnings" | It pays to go with the union card every time. | Ziggy | |
| "Bad Dreams" | I need to get clean. | Sobotka | |
| "Port in a Storm" | Business. Always business. | The Greek | |
| 3 | "Time After Time" | Don't matter how many times you get burnt, you just keep doin' the same. | Bodie |
| "All Due Respect" | There's never been a paper bag. | Colvin | |
| "Dead Soldiers" | The Gods will not save you. | Burrell | |
| "Amsterdam" | Why you gotta go and fuck with the program? | Fruit | |
| "Straight and True" | I had such fucking hopes for us. | McNulty | |
| "Homecoming" | Just a gangster, I suppose. | Avon Barksdale | |
| "Back Burners" | Conscience do cost. | Butchie | |
| "Moral Midgetry" | Crawl, walk, and then run. | Clay Davis | |
| "Slapstick" | …while you’re waiting for moments that never come. | Freamon | |
| "Reformation" | Call it a crisis of leadership. | Proposition Joe | |
| "Middle Ground" | We ain't gotta dream no more, man. | Stringer Bell | |
| "Mission Accomplished" | We fight on that lie. | Slim Charles | |
| 4 | "Boys of Summer" | Lambs to the slaughter here. | Marcia Donnelly |
| "Soft Eyes" | I still wake up white in a city that ain't. | Carcetti | |
| "Home Rooms" | I love the first day, man. Everybody all friendly an' shit | Namond Brice | |
| "Refugees" | No one wins. One side just loses more slowly. | Prez | |
| "Alliances" | If you with us, you with us. | Chris Partlow | |
| "Margin of Error" | Don't try this shit at home. | Norman Wilson | |
| "Unto Others" | Aw yeah. That golden rule. | Bunk | |
| "Corner Boys" | We got our thing, but it’s just part of the big thing. | Zenobia | |
| "Know Your Place" | Might as well dump 'em, get another. | Proposition Joe | |
| "Misgivings" | World goin' one way, people another. | Poot | |
| "A New Day" | You play in dirt, you get dirty | McNulty | |
| "That's Got His Own" | That all there is to it? | Bubbles | |
| "Final Grades" | If animal trapped call 410-844-6286 | Baltimore, traditional | |
| 5 | "More with Less" | The bigger the lie, the more they believe. | Bunk |
| "Unconfirmed Reports" | This ain't Aruba, bitch. | Bunk | |
| "Not for Attribution" | They're dead where it doesn't count. | Fletcher | |
| "Transitions" | Buyer's market out there. | Templeton | |
| "React Quotes" | Just 'cause they’re in the street doesn't mean that they lack opinions. | Haynes | |
| "The Dickensian Aspect" | If you have a problem with this, I understand completely. | Freamon | |
| "Took" | They don't teach it in law school. | Pearlman | |
| "Clarifications" | A lie ain't a side of the story, it's just a lie. | Terry Hanning | |
| "Late Editions" | Deserve got nuthin' to do with it. | Snoop | |
| "–30–" | The Life of Kings | H. L. Mencken |
CharactersEdit
| Character | Number | Epigraph | Episode |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jimmy McNulty | 4 | ...when it's not your turn. | 1.01 "The Target" |
| They can chew you up, but they gotta spit you out. | 2.02 "Collateral Damage" | ||
| I had such fucking hopes for us. | 3.05 "Straight and True" | ||
| You play in dirt, you get dirty | 4.11 "A New Day" | ||
| Bunk Moreland | 4 | A man must have a code. | 1.07 "Lessons" |
| Aw yeah. That golden rule. | 4.07 "Unto Others" | ||
| The bigger the lie, the more they believe. | 5.1 "More with Less" | ||
| This ain't Aruba, bitch. | 5.2 "Unconfirmed Reports" | ||
| Lester Freamon | 3 | …and all the pieces matter. | 1.06 "The Wire" |
| …while you're waiting for moments that never come. | 3.09 "Slapstick" | ||
| If you have a problem with this, I understand completely. | 5.6 "The Dickensian Aspect" | ||
| D'Angelo Barksdale | 2 | The king stay the king. | 1.03 "The Buys" |
| It don't matter that some fool say he different… | 2.06 "All Prologue" | ||
| Bubbles | 2 | It's a thin line 'tween heaven and here | 1.04 "Old Cases" |
| That all there is to it? | 4.12 "That's Got His Own" | ||
| Avon Barksdale | 2 | ...a little slow, a little late. | 1.05 "The Pager" |
| Just a gangster, I suppose. | 3.06 "Homecoming" | ||
| Kima Greggs | 2 | And then he dropped the bracelets… | 1.10 "The Cost" |
| If I hear music, I’m gonna dance. | 2.04 "Hard Cases" | ||
| Ziggy Sobotka | 2 | How come they don’t fly away? | 2.08 "Duck and Cover" |
| It pays to go with the union card every time. | 2.10 "Storm Warnings" | ||
| The Greek | 2 | The world is a smaller place now. | 2.09 "Stray Rounds" |
| Business. Always business. | 2.12 "Port in a Storm" | ||
| Proposition Joe | 2 | Call it a crisis of leadership. | 3.10 "Reformation" |
| Might as well dump 'em, get another. | 4.09 "Know Your Place" | ||
| Marla Daniels | 1 | You cannot lose if you do not play. | 1.02 "The Detail" |
| Omar Little | 1 | Come at the king, you best not miss. | 1.08 "One Arrest" |
| Thomas "Herc" Hauk | 1 | Maybe we won. | 1.09 "Game Day" |
| Cedric Daniels | 1 | Dope on the damn table. | 1.11 "The Hunt" |
| Wallace | 1 | This is me, yo, right here. | 1.12 "Cleaning Up" |
| Little Big Roy | 1 | Ain't never gonna be what it was. | 2.01 "Ebb Tide" |
| Beadie Russell | 1 | What they need is a union. | 2.03 "Hot Shots" |
| Spiros Vondas | 1 | They used to make steel there, no? | 2.05 "Undertow" |
| Thomas "Horseface" Pakusa | 1 | Don't worry kid. You're still on the clock. | 2.07 "Backwash" |
| Frank Sobotka | 1 | I need to get clean. | 2.11 "Bad Dreams" |
| Bodie Broadus | 1 | Don't matter how many times you get burnt, you just keep doin' the same. | 3.01 "Time After Time" |
| Howard "Bunny" Colvin | 1 | There's never been a paper bag. | 3.02 "All Due Respect" |
| Ervin Burrell | 1 | The Gods will not save you. | 3.03 "Dead Soldiers" |
| Fruit | 1 | Why you gotta go and fuck with the program? | 3.04 "Amsterdam" |
| Butchie | 1 | Conscience do cost. | 3.07 "Back Burners" |
| Clay Davis | 1 | Crawl, walk, and then run. | 3.08 "Moral Midgetry" |
| Stringer Bell | 1 | We ain't gotta dream no more, man. | 3.11 "Middle Ground" |
| Slim Charles | 1 | We fight on that lie. | 3.12 "Mission Accomplished" |
| Marcia Donnelly | 1 | Lambs to the slaughter here. | 4.01 "Boys of Summer" |
| Tommy Carcetti | 1 | I still wake up white in a city that ain't. | 4.02 "Soft Eyes" |
| Namond Brice | 1 | I love the first day, man. Everybody all friendly an' shit | 4.03 "Home Rooms" |
| Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski | 1 | No one wins. One side just loses more slowly. | 4.04 "Refugees" |
| Chris Partlow | 1 | If you with us, you with us. | 4.05 "Alliances" |
| Norman Wilson | 1 | Don't try this shit at home. | 4.06 "Margin of Error" |
| Zenobia | 1 | We got our thing, but it’s just part of the big thing. | 4.08 "Corner Boys" |
| Poot | 1 | World goin' one way, people another. | 4.10 "Misgivings" |
| Mike Fletcher | 1 | They're dead where it doesn't count. | 5.3 "Not for Attribution" |
| Scott Templeton | 1 | Buyer's market out there. | 5.4 "Transitions" |
| Gus Haynes | 1 | Just 'cause they’re in the street doesn't mean that they lack opinions. | 5.5 "React Quotes" |
| Rhonda Pearlman | 1 | They don't teach it in law school. | 5.7 "Took" |
| Terry Hanning | 1 | A lie ain't a side of the story, it's just a lie. | 5.8 "Clarifications" |
| Snoop | 1 | Deserve got nuthin' to do with it. | 5.9 "Late Editions" |
