S03E08 · SCENE 9/36 · 14:23
Moral Midgetry · BaBa Jani Food Mart
MCU finds lead at BaBa Jani

McNulty and Freamon get a receipt for phone purchases at a convenience store.

14:23→15:16
in the episode · 0m 53s · S03E08

What happens

14:23–15:16

McNulty and Freamon visit BaBa Jani Food Mart. The clerk remembers a black guy buying eight Trac phones every two weeks for $927.24. They get the receipt but no tape. They consider camping out or buying videotape.

WhereBaBa Jani Food Mart
DriverJimmy McNulty
Positionact1 · escalation
ThreadStringer business conflicts

Key lines

from this scene
14:42

-Ring Dings? -A joke.

14:49

You got some kind of transaction record?

15:09

-Can we have the tape for that day? -No tape. l rewind every day.

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Scene DNA

weights 0–1
investigation0.8
deadpan0.6
coincidence0.5
tense0.5
rapid back and forth

Beats

14:15Clerk remembers buyer
15:34McNulty considers options

Scene in the episode

14:23–15:16
A · Carcetti political maneuvering
B · Colvin Hamsterdam experiment
C · MCU phone tracking

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