S05E01 · SCENE 18/23 · 26:34
More with Less · Drug meeting room
Newsroom fire photo and US attorney call

Reporters fail to get a photo of a fire while the FBI and US attorney argue over the Clay Davis case.

26:34→29:48
in the episode · 3m 14s · S05E01

What happens

26:34–29:48

An editor and a city reporter debate art for the fire story. A federal prosecutor pressures the state's attorney over the Clay Davis case and bodies investigation. The state's attorney refuses to hand the case over.

WhereDrug meeting room
DriverBill Nerese
Positionact2 · escalation
ThreadStanfield surveillance and pay woes

Key lines

from this scene
28:28

WeII, Iet me doubIe down on that.

28:39

Good Iuck with your crime probIem.

29:23

You incIuded, maybe.

29:29

You, on the other hand, just sIammed the door on the feds, when we need aII the heIp we can get.

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Scene DNA

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negotiation2.0
rivalry1.0
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menacing1.0
argument

Beats

30:03Stanfield suggests a junior should open the county

Scene in the episode

26:34–29:48
A · Pookie murder interrogation
B · Stanfield surveillance and pay woes
C · Michael's corner and Bug
D · Newsroom and city politics

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