S01E05 · SCENE 7/22 · 08:32
The Pager · county care facility
Detectives Decipher Pager Code
Freamon and McNulty discuss the coded pager messages and realize the numbers are not working exchanges.
08:32→09:49
in the episode · 1m 17s · S01E05
What happens
08:32–09:49Freamon finds that each pager message consists of a seven-digit phone number and a two-digit identifying tag. The phone numbers used do not work, so Freamon postulates that they are using a code to mask the numbers.
Key lines
from this scene08:49McNulty, line one.
08:57-That's fucked up. -All right, later.
09:09-That's pretty damn sophisticated. -What is?
09:41Yeah, they got to be. These numbers don't make no fuckin' sense.
Scene DNA
weights 0–1Beats
07:51Avon visits his brother
09:59Avon reflects on his life
Scene in the episode
08:32–09:49Clips from this episode
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Who's in it
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Lester FreamonClarke Peters59 episodes · drives 80 scenes
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