S03E05 · SCENE 16/42 · 22:57
Straight and True · CID Narcotics Unit
Colvin finds slim records

Colvin gets disappointing rap sheets from Narcotics.

22:57→23:32
in the episode · 0m 35s · S03E05

What happens

22:57–23:32

Colvin goes to Major George Smith at CID Narcotics Unit and finds only a slim collection of rap sheets. Smith tells him no one is looking at high-end drug cases because Rawls directs efforts to street work.

WhereCID Narcotics Unit
DriverColvin
Positionact1 · complication
ThreadStringer and Avon

Key lines

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22:58

That's all we got on the Westside dealers.

23:25

With all the street work, ain't nobody left doing the high-end drug stuff.

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Scene DNA

weights 0–1
investigation0.8
tense0.6
deadpan0.4
interrogation0.2
argument

Beats

23:10Colvin finds only rap sheets at Narcotics

Scene in the episode

22:57–23:32
A · Bubbles and Johnny
B · Carcetti's political gambit
C · Colvin's tolerant zone

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