S03E08 · SCENE 4/36 · 07:48
Moral Midgetry · Mondo Mart
MCU hits dead end at Mondo Mart

McNulty and Freamon find no usable security footage at the store.

07:48→09:10
in the episode · 1m 22s · S03E08

What happens

07:48–09:10

McNulty and Freamon visit Mondo Mart to find the phone buyer. The clerk says tapes are reused weekly. They get a lead from a call about Briana Barksdale. Freamon finds another store, BaBa Jani Food Mart, in Dumfries.

WhereMondo Mart
DriverJimmy McNulty
Positionact1 · complication
ThreadStringer business conflicts

Key lines

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08:21

-You get her number? -You got a pen?

08:25

4 10-7 18-9433. Got it?

08:50

Do you really wanna go home early and disappoint Lester Freamon?

09:07

Waste of her time as it was mine.

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Scene DNA

weights 0–1
investigation0.7
deadpan0.6
absurd0.5
coincidence0.4
rapid back and forth

Beats

07:42McNulty asks about phone buyer
08:55Freamon finds new lead

Scene in the episode

07:48–09:10
A · Carcetti political maneuvering
B · Colvin Hamsterdam experiment
C · MCU phone tracking

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Jimmy McNulty38 episodes · drives 119 scenes
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Lester FreamonClarke Peters59 episodes · drives 80 scenes

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