FBI Profile and Political Call · Clarifications

S05E08 · SCENE 17/23 · 22:53

Clarifications · Street corner

FBI Profile and Political Call

Detectives receive the FBI profile and a politician makes a call.

22:53→23:20

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What happens

22:53–23:20

Detectives receive the FBI profile and discuss it. A politician calls a congressman to discuss the primary challenge.

WhereStreet corner

DriverPolitician

Positionact3 · escalation

ThreadStanfield vs Omar

Key lines

from this scene

22:54
The boy robbed him?

22:59
Took his shotty and his semiauto too. Ran aII through his pockets.

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Scene DNA

weights 0–1

pursuit0.5

tense0.5

eavesdropping0.4

phone call

Scene in the episode

22:53–23:20

A · Stanfield vs Omar

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B · Homicide serial killer hunt

C · Newsroom fabrication scandal

D · Political maneuvering and funding

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