S05E01 · SCENE 2/23 · 01:41
More with Less · Interview room
Copy machine lie detector confession
The detectives fool Fredericks into confessing by passing him off as a polygraph test run on a copy machine.
01:41→03:07
in the episode · 1m 26s · S05E01
What happens
01:41–03:07Norris and Landsman join to stage a fake lie detector. Fredericks is told the machine reads his heartbeat and that Monell confessed. He denies shooting Pookie, the machine flags him, and he admits he should have shot Pookie himself.
Key lines
from this scene02:14If MarneII say I had the gun, he Iying.
02:20Are we ready, Professor?
02:26Is your name, in fact, Dashawn Fredericks?
Scene DNA
weights 0–1rapid back and forth
Beats
03:08Fredericks is caught in a lie by the fake machine
Scene in the episode
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