S03E10 · SCENE 12/39 · 16:50
Reformation · Police office
Wiretap code deciphering

Detectives decipher drug code from wiretap calls.

16:50→17:42
in the episode · 0m 52s · S03E10

What happens

16:50–17:42

Detectives listen to wiretap calls and decipher code words like 'Apollo' and 'Hamsterdam'. They plan to catch a meet with Tweety Bird.

WherePolice office
DriverDetective
Positionact1 · escalation
ThreadPolice Wiretap Struggle

Key lines

from this scene
17:02

-Oh, yeah, right. So I holler at you? -Yeah. All right.

17:21

Well, l'm gonna hook up with Kima, catch the Tweety Bird meet.

17:28

Another week of calls like this and we'll have their network fleshed out and plenty more phones to go up on.

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Scene DNA

weights 0–1
investigation0.9
deadpan0.7
tense0.3
coincidence0.1

Beats

17:15The only new code so far is Hamsterdam.

Scene in the episode

16:50–17:42
A · Stanfield vs Barksdale War
B · Colvin's Hamsterdam Falls
D · Omar's Hunt & Politics

Clips from this episode

fan uploads · YouTube · matched by frame
The Wire - Lester does business with Bernard · Larry The Killer Clown
The Wire - Lester Freamon crypts numbers like an old-school hustler · vidiia
HBO's "The Wire" (Season 3) - Comstat: Legalised Drugs · hesketh7085
The Wire - This drug thing, this ain't police work. · ConcernedCitizen9

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