Kima learns about burners · Hamsterdam

S03E04 · SCENE 19/32 · 28:58

Kima learns about burners

Kima learns about disposable cell phones called burners.

28:58→29:03

in the episode · 0m 05s · S03E04

What happens

28:58–29:03

Kima and Bubbles discuss the drug corners. Bubbles mentions seeing kids throwing away phones, which Kima learns are disposable 'burners' used by dealers to avoid surveillance.

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DriverKima Greggs

Positionact2 · reveal

ThreadPolice Investigation

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28:59
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rapid back and forth

Beats

29:24Bubbles describes corner layout

29:56Kima learns about burners

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28:58–29:03

A · Politics and Ambition

B · Police Investigation

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C · Western District Reform

D · Barksdale Organization

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