 Although McNulty was honest enough to give Pearlman no hint of a future together, he would occasionally show up drunk on her doorstep.This ended when Pearlman's relationship with Daniels began.Pearlman was the ASA heading the Narcotics cases in Season 1, assisting Lieutenant Cedric Daniels' detail in prosecuting the Barksdale Organization, a violent drug crew whom Detective Jimmy McNulty suspected of beating the Baltimore Homicide Unit out of 10 murders.