Nick and Ziggy · Undertow

S02E05 · SCENE 12/35 · 17:04

Undertow · Delores' bar

Nick and Ziggy

Nick refuses to help

17:04→19:18

in the episode · 2m 14s · S02E05

What happens

17:04–19:18

Nick refuses to help Ziggy, telling him to sell more drugs to pay off his debt. Ziggy explains that he can't sell more drugs because the package hasn't turned around yet.

WhereDelores' bar

DriverNick

Positionact1 · complication

ThreadDock business

Key lines

from this scene

17:37
Serves you right, you stupid fuck.

18:18
And now they're telling me if l don't have the money by Friday, they're going to kill me.

18:35
You fucked up the package, didn't you, Zig?

19:04
l ain't got it for you, Zig.

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Scene DNA

weights 0–1

tense0.5

scheme0.4

misunderstanding0.3

sad0.3

argument

Beats

18:01Nick refuses to help

Scene in the episode

17:04–19:18

A · Jane Does case

B · McNulty investigation

C · Sobotka detail

2 39

D · Dock business

1 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 17 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38

E · Jane Does

F · Jane Doe case

G · Ziggy's troubles

H · McNulty's investigation

I · Sobotka's union

payoff → scene 12

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