Reporter Meets Veteran · Clarifications

S05E08 · SCENE 8/23 · 13:29

Clarifications · Street corner and vacant house

Reporter Meets Veteran

A reporter meets a veteran who accuses him of lying about a war story.

13:29→14:39

in the episode · 1m 10s · S05E08

What happens

13:29–14:39

A reporter introduces himself to a veteran who accuses him of being a liar. The veteran confronts the reporter about invented details in a story.

WhereStreet corner and vacant house

DriverVeteran

Positionact2 · escalation

ThreadStanfield vs Omar

Key lines

from this scene

13:30
Omar. It's Omar, yo!

14:17
Gotta giddy up an' go, dawg.

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Scene DNA

weights 0–1

menacing0.6

threat0.5

violence0.4

comeuppance0.3

triumphant0.3

Beats

14:04Omar throws stash down the drain

Scene in the episode

13:29–14:39

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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