Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

• Dominic West
• Lance Reddick
• Sonja Sohn
• Wendell Pierce
• Michael Kenneth Williams
• Deirdre Lovejoy
• J.D. Williams
• Jamie Hector