GEORGE PELECANOS (WRITER/PRODUCER): It’s just funny about Hamsterdam because when I wrote that scene where the kid says that, that wasn’t discussed or anything in the writers’ room. It’s just I always try to figure out a way to get out of the scene and I thought, Well, some of these kids, they don’t know what Amsterdam is. They don’t know what it is and so they would mispronounce it. I just wrote it. “I ain’t going to no Hamsterdam,” and one of the kids that delivered it was a Baltimore kid. He wasn’t an actor, so he did it perfectly.
