S05E03 · SCENE 16/22 · 41:40
Not for Attribution · office_workplace
Newspaperman's Memory

A character recalls why he wanted to be a newspaperman.

41:40→48:05
in the episode · 6m 25s · S05E03

What happens

41:40–48:05

A character remembers watching his father read the newspaper and a man on a bus folding his broadsheet, inspiring him to become a newspaperman.

Whereoffice_workplace
DriverCharacter
Positionact1 · escalation
ThreadMcNulty's Scheme

Key lines

from this scene
41:58

Now where my cheese at, man?

42:55

Let's go home, man. I'II deaI with this buIIshit Iater.

46:29

This is good news. How is this not good news?

47:21

Cut a bIind man some sIack, hear?

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44:01Sun and police interact

Scene in the episode

41:40–48:05
B · Homicide Unit Dynamics
C · Media and Budget Cuts

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