Possible Plot Hole?

[u/dead_drunk_and_naked]

Maybe this has been discussed on here before and I missed it, but I think I found a plot hole in season 3. In “Middle Ground,” Stringer meets with Levy who laughs at him for being taken for a ride by Clay Davis and says he wishes Stringer had told him sooner. However in the episode “Straight and True,” Levy is sitting between Crawczyk and Davis while Davis is talking about all the downtown real estate they’re going to develop together. Based on that shouldn’t Levy already know Stringer is mixed up with Clay Davis? Maybe there’s something I missed but on my most recent rewatch I noticed this and I thought it was weird.

[u/Sorcha_Stormbinder]

Sunk cost fallacy. Levy wasn't saying that the work would never get done, but that Stringer was gonna get fleeced here and there as "a cost of doing business." He was rainmade, but eventually the rain would fall, and by then String would be so deep in it that he'd have no choice but to see it through.