Omar's Death Reported · Clarifications

S05E08 · SCENE 12/23 · 18:01

Omar's Death Reported

A detective learns Omar may be dead after a Korean store clerk says he was killed.

18:01→19:42

in the episode · 1m 41s · S05E08

What happens

18:01–19:42

A detective speaks with a store employee and learns Omar was killed by a short gunman. The clerk says the robbers took Omar's shotgun and pockets.

WherePolice station

DriverDetective Bunk

Positionact2 · complication

ThreadStanfield vs Omar

Key lines

from this scene

18:02
LowenthaI. Where the fuck is he?

18:07
There you go, Bunk.

19:22
I know what it is to teII a story. I've toId pIenty in my time.

19:28
But there's some things that happen, you don't ever fuck with them.

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Scene DNA

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confession0.3

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argument

Scene in the episode

18:01–19:42

A · Stanfield vs Omar

1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 24

B · Homicide serial killer hunt

C · Newsroom fabrication scandal

D · Political maneuvering and funding

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