Law & Order (TV Series)

Floater (2003)

Jesse L. Martin: Detective Ed Green

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• Ed Green : Damn, I hate floaters. They creep me out.

  Lennie Briscoe : Oh, at least we're outdoors. Could be worse. Locked room, week-old body, middle of July, no AC.

  Ed Green : All right, all right. It could be worse.

• Anita Van Buren : The office. Isn't that where most men screw around?

  Ed Green : Why are you looking at us?

  Lennie Briscoe : Hey, Ed, as far as women are concerned, all men are guilty until proven innocent.

  Ed Green : That sounds like gender profiling.

  Anita Van Buren : Uh-uh. Fact of life.Men are dogs. So why don't you all go sniffing around his office and see who's in heat?

• Ed Green : Hey, what you got?

  CSU Technician : Female. Other than that...

  Ed Green : Age? Race?

  CSU Technician : I'm barely sure it's human, Detective, body's so decomp. Add in your fish and your crabs...

  Lennie Briscoe : Is it young, old?

  CSU Technician : Like I said. See for yourself.

  [she opens a body bag and Ed groans in disgust] 

  Ed Green : Ugh... how long has she been in the water?

  CSU Technician : A while.

  Lennie Briscoe : You care to narrow that down a little?

  CSU Technician : I would if I could, but...

  Lennie Briscoe : Anything obvious? Uh, bullet holes, stab wounds?

  CSU Technician : Did I mention the eels?

  Ed Green : All right, all right. We get it. Thank you.

  [as the tech leaves] 

  Ed Green : We'll be lucky if we get an ID.

  Lennie Briscoe : If we were lucky, we wouldn't have caught this case.

• Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Look, I'm not ruling anything out yet. I still need to do more x-rays, a tox screen. But don't hold your breath.

  Ed Green : That's all I've been doing.

  Lennie Briscoe : So how long was she in the water?

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : More than a month, less than two. I'm sorry I can't be more definitive. However, you see this?

  [showing them an x-ray] 

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : It's a hairline fracture. Right cheekbone and eye socket.

  Ed Green : Somebody punched her in the face.

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Yeah, probably broke her nose. At the very least, a hell of a shiner the next day.

  Lennie Briscoe : Tough to swim with a broken nose. No wonder she drowned.

  Ed Green : You sure she didn't get that taking a header into the Hudson?

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : No, this is a blow, not a fall. And a recent one. It hadn't started to heal.

  Lennie Briscoe : Well, until we hear different, we're gonna think of this as a homicide.

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Can't hurt.

• Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : White female, 5'7", early thirties.

  Ed Green : Any prints?

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : If she had fingertips.

  Ed Green : You got anything?

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Yeah, water in her lungs. She was alive when she went in.

  Lennie Briscoe : We were hoping for something more definitive, like maybe a bullet?

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Sorry.

  Ed Green : What are we talking about here? Homicide, suicide, accident? What?

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Look, what can I tell you? It's your classic CUPPI. Case unde...

  Lennie Briscoe : Case undetermined pending police investigation, right.