Marlo kills Proposition Joe · Transitions

S05E04 · SCENE 46/44 · 55:48

Transitions · Joe's house

Marlo kills Proposition Joe

Marlo kills Proposition Joe after a tense conversation about betrayal.

55:48→58:33

in the episode · 2m 45s · S05E04

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What happens

55:48–58:33

Marlo confronts Joe about his nephew and the Greek connection. Joe offers to disappear, but Marlo says Joe wouldn't change. Marlo tells Joe to close his eyes and kills him.

WhereJoe's house

DriverMarlo Stanfield

Positionact3 · payoff

ThreadOmar's revenge

Key lines

from this scene

56:01
You ain't come to see me off.

56:24
The Greeks, they cooI with it.

56:55
It won't hurt none.

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Scene DNA

weights 0–1

menacing0.9

betrayal0.8

violence0.2

tense0.1

monologue

Beats

56:22Marlo says Joe treated him like a son

56:55Marlo says it won't hurt none

58:31Marlo kills Joe

Scene in the episode

55:48–58:33

A · Western District fallout

B · Davis investigation

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C · Political shakeup

D · Omar's revenge

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