Detectives Wait for Omar · The Pager

S01E05 · SCENE 8/22 · 09:49

Detectives Wait for Omar

McNulty and Greggs wait for Omar to show up, while discussing the pager code.

09:49→11:02

in the episode · 1m 13s · S01E05

What happens

09:49–11:02

McNulty and Greggs sit on Omar's van, waiting for Omar to show up. They discuss the coded pager messages and the difficulty of breaking the code.

Wherearcade

DriverMcNulty

Positionescalation · [object Object]

ThreadStreet Operations and Conflicts

Key lines

from this scene

10:12
Eight hits so far, most of them in some kind of code.

10:26
How complex a code can it be if these knuckleheads are using it?

10:53
That's what l be asking.

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Scene DNA

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absurd0.4

Beats

10:03Poot and Wallace spot Brandon

10:44D'Angelo is paged

Scene in the episode

09:49–11:02

A · Police Wiretap and Surveillance

B · Street Operations and Conflicts

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

C · Personal and Family Struggles

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