Collateral Damage

"Collateral Damage" is the second episode of the second season of the HBO original series The Wire. The episode was written by David Simon from a story by Simon and Ed Burns and was directed by Ed Bianchi. It originally aired on June 8, 2003. Guest stars Seth Gilliam as Detective Ellis Carver Domenick Lombardozzi as Detective Thomas "Herc" Hauk Jim True-Frost as Detective Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski James Ransone as Ziggy Sobotka Pablo Schreiber as Nick Sobotka Michael Hyatt as Brianna Barksdale Bill Raymond as The Greek Al Brown as Major Stan Valchek Hassan Johnson as Roland "Wee-Bey" Brice Delaney Williams as Sergeant Jay Landsman Maria Broom as Marla Daniels Luray Cooper as Nat Coxson Erik Todd Dellums as Randall Frazier Charley Scalies as Thomas "Horseface" Pakusa Chris Ashworth as Sergei Malatov Gerard Ender as Sam Jeffrey Fugitt as Claude Diggins Brook Yeaton as "White" Mike McArdle Plot summary Beadie deals with various agencies trying to decide which will investigate the bodies she found in the shipping container. The coroner determines the women suffocated because of a crushed air pipe on the top of the container. The damage to the pipe is deemed accidental and the case is handed back to Beadie. Meanwhile, Bunk learns that McNulty spent three hours working out where his floater was dumped in order to establish that it fell under Rawls' jurisdiction. McNulty examines the container and meets Beadie. They establish that the floater that he found in the harbor is related, as there is an extra bedroll in the container. McNulty finds that the air pipe has been crushed deliberately. Beadie and McNulty meet with the coroner, who agrees that this is grounds to consider the deaths as homicides. Rawls meets with Ronnie, the commander of the Port Authority, and resists an attempt to hand off the Jane Doe cases. Meanwhile, McNulty convinces the coroner to estimate the time of death to see if it matches when the other girl was dumped. Rawls meets with the commanders of the other jurisdictions involved with the Jane Does, who all insist that the murders occurred in his jurisdiction. The cases are subsequently assigned to Homicide, initially to Ray Cole, but subsequently reassigned to Freamon and Bunk. The pair travel to the Port Authority and meet with Beadie, where they decide to travel to Philadelphia, as that's where the ship that carried the container is now docked. There, they interrogate the crew.