[s2e7] Backwash ✔

Reviewers from sites like Doux Reviews and Sepinwall’s blog highlight the following:

: Frank confronts his lobbyist, Bruce DiBiago, demanding harder work on the canal dredging while delivering a box of cash to secure the union’s survival. [S2E7] Backwash

is the seventh episode of the second season of HBO's The Wire , originally aired on July 13, 2003. It serves as a pivotal bridge between the season's slow-burn build and its final descent into chaos. Reviewers from sites like Doux Reviews and Sepinwall’s

: Frank Sobotka attends a seminar on robotic dock technology and is appalled by the threat it poses to his union's future. : Frank Sobotka attends a seminar on robotic

: A dockworker named New Charles loses his leg in a severe industrial accident. Frank provides the family with cash, refusing to explain its origin to union leader Nat Coxson. The Barksdale Empire

: Stringer Bell manages the fallout of D'Angelo's "suicide." Bodie Broadus buys an floral arrangement shaped like the Franklin Terrace high-rises, ironically paying homage to the very life D'Angelo wanted to escape.

: Kima Greggs and Prez follow leads on a circuit of Russian prostitutes. They discover that while human trafficking doesn't allow for a wiretap, a drug connection might.