S03E08 · SCENE 47/36 · 52:54
Moral Midgetry · hospital room
Stringer and Avon argue about D'Angelo

Stringer admits he killed D'Angelo to protect the organization.

52:54→56:12
in the episode · 3m 18s · S03E08

What happens

52:54–56:12

Stringer confronts Avon about the war, saying they're past this bullshit. Avon accuses Stringer of bleeding green. Stringer admits he killed D'Angelo because he would have flipped. Avon is shocked and demands to be let up.

Wherehospital room
DriverStringer Bell
Positionact3 · reveal
ThreadStringer business conflicts

Key lines

from this scene
54:21

What life you snatch, huh?

54:43

Man ain't wrong about that.

55:03

But there go a life that had to be snatched, Avon.

55:46

He was fucking everything and everybody!

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Scene DNA

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confession1.0
betrayal1.0
secret exposed1.0
angry1.0
tense1.0
argument

Beats

53:21Stringer argues about war
55:55Avon demands to be let up

Scene in the episode

52:54–56:12
A · Carcetti political maneuvering
B · Colvin Hamsterdam experiment
C · MCU phone tracking

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