"Transitions" is the fourth episode of the fifth season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by Ed Burns from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Dan Attias, who won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Drama Series for the episode. It first aired on January 27, 2008.

The title refers to the several transitions seen during the episode, mostly Ervin Burrell and Cedric Daniels at the Baltimore Police Department, Roger Twigg and Scott Templeton at the Baltimore Sun, and finally Proposition Joe and Marlo Stanfield.

Though Scott Templeton is lamenting the dwindling job market in journalism, there is also a noticeable resonance regarding the local drug trade.

Oscar Requer also says, "It's a buyer's market," when talking to Jimmy McNulty and Lester Freamon. Requer is joking about selling McNulty a condominium, but the comment also carries an implication about the availability of bodies in unsolved homicides for McNulty and Freamon to work into their investigation.

Title 18 of the U.S. Code, chap. 47, section 10-14, "Loan and credit applications": whoever knowingly makes false statements to obtain a property loan is liable to a fine of no more than $1,000,000 or 30 years in jail, or both. This section is used against Clay Davis, for borrowing from his mother the downpayment on a property, but not declaring it.

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