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S05E01 · SCENE 16/23 · 21:52

Officers and detectives drink at bar

After work, detectives drink at a bar where McNulty grumbles and joke about robbing a liquor store.

21:52→24:25

in the episode · 2m 33s · S05E01

What happens

21:52–24:25

Detectives gripe about lost pay and McNulty's vice story. Bunk arrives and joins the drink-up. Freamon jokes they could rob a store but McNulty would be the weak link.

WhereNewspaper bar

DriverJimmy McNulty

Positionact2 · complication

ThreadNewsroom and city politics

Key lines

from this scene

22:44
Jimmy. Come here, you viriIe beast.

23:22
I'II cover you. I got the door, no probIem.

23:26
Who's gonna be our wheeI man?

24:20
GentIemen Question mark.

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Scene DNA

weights 0–1

petty grievance1.0

rivalry1.0

cheerful1.0

deadpan1.0

rapid back and forth

Beats

23:53Layoffs and buyouts predicted

Scene in the episode

21:52–24:25

A · Pookie murder interrogation

2 22

B · Stanfield surveillance and pay woes

1 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 18 19 20

C · Michael's corner and Bug

D · Newsroom and city politics

16 17 21 23 24

callback → scene 14

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Who's in it

Jimmy McNulty38 episodes · drives 119 scenes

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Lester FreamonClarke Peters59 episodes · drives 80 scenes

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Kenneth DozermanRick Otto17 episodes · drives 1 scenes

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