Unforgettable (TV Series)

Golden Bird (2011)

Dylan Walsh: Al Burns

Quotes 

• Al Burns : Where are you, exactly?

  Carrie Wells : I'm outside a club in Midtown. I'm sort of here to try and see my Aunt Edie.

  Al Burns : Aunt Edie? What's she been up to?

  Carrie Wells : I don't know. I, uh... I just saw that she was in town for a few days. I thought I'd show her the sketch of Jonathan, see if she recognized him.

  Al Burns : Okay, but if you two end up in the penthouse of the Four Seasons playing Battleship with B.B. King and Mick Jagger, you gotta call me.

  Carrie Wells : How do you even remember that? And it was Keith Richards, by the way.

• Al Burns : Majestic? Yeah, I guess I can see that.

  Carrie Wells : You're kind.

  Al Burns : Sounds like Aunt Edie hasn't changed much.

  Carrie Wells : She was totally manic, and-and when I brought up going to see Alice, it was like suggesting root canal, and she loves my mom.

  Al Burns : So I guess no sketch, huh?

  Carrie Wells : You kidding me? I should have sent you.

  Al Burns : She did always like me.

  Carrie Wells : No, what she liked... was your butt.

• Mike Costello : Neighbors have her as Amy O'Malley. Lived up in 3B. Folks were away. She's a junior at St. Bennet's. Everything I hear, she's a good kid.

  Al Burns : She come off the roof?

  Mike Costello : 3B doesn't get you something like this.

  Al Burns : Suicide?

  Mike Costello : Maybe. Looks like the fall is what killed her. And there's no other signs of major trauma, but...

  Carrie Wells : [noticing something]  What about these?

  Mike Costello : Yeah, exactly.

  Carrie Wells : They wrap all the way around. These aren't from impact.

  Al Burns : Pretty consistent with defensive wounds. Let's bag the hands.

• Nina Inara : Okay, parents are on en route.

  Al Burns : We got any witnesses?

  Nina Inara : Next case, Al, I promise.

  Al Burns : You promised last time.

  Nina Inara : Well, we got the woman who owns the car, but, uh, she didn't see anything.

  Al Burns : Where's Roe?

  Mike Costello : He's on the roof.

• Al Burns : What do you got?

  Roe Saunders : Some sort of scuff marks. I'm guessing they're from our girl. Her back's to the edge, she's trying to get a footing, her heel, uh, scraping against the wall right about here.

  Al Burns : Let's play match game with the vic's shoes.

  Roe Saunders : Got her initials carved into the wall over there: "A.O.", "Amy O." Also got what looks like a "K.S." And the neighbors say it was some kind of teen hangout up here.

• Al Burns : You okay?

  Mike Costello : Yeah, I just... you know, the vic is the same age as my boy. I couldn't tell you where Spence is right now.

  Al Burns : So make a call.

  Mike Costello : Well, he prefers I text.

• Carrie Wells : Front-row seats.

  Al Burns : Let's get a canvass going. If no one saw what happened, they saw Amy up here other days. Maybe they put her with someone. Let's take a look at the sex crimes in the area, see if there's a pattern.

  Roe Saunders : Hey, guys? Parents are here.

  Mike Costello : I'll get on the neighbors.

• Carrie Wells : So, when does Amy usually get home?

  Erin O'Malley : Today is... Wednesday?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah.

  Erin O'Malley : Um, Amy would have left school at a quarter after 1:00. Wednesdays are half-days. She walks home.

  Al Burns : Alone? With a friend?

  Erin O'Malley : Alone. She goes to St. Bennet's. It's just a few blocks. But usually, she would do her homework first thing.

  Al Burns : Sorry to ask you this, but when did you last speak with your daughter?

  Sean O'Malley : Uh, breakfast. We all ate together.

• Al Burns : How did she seem this morning? Last few days?

  Sean O'Malley : Same as ever. She was always a pretty even-keeled kid. She didn't do this to herself, I know that. Then I-I... I can't think of anybody who would ever... want to hurt her.

  Al Burns : Does your daughter have a cell phone?

  Sean O'Malley : Yeah. I saw it in the kitchen. I'll grab it for you.

• Carrie Wells : [on a roof adjacent to the crime scene]  Someone was working here.

  Al Burns : Talk about front-row seats. Looks like we got an eyewitness out there somewhere.

  Carrie Wells : Or a killer.

• Nina Inara : Okay, tech has the roofer's prints going all the way to here. Only a couple of steps further than we were able to detect.

  Al Burns : And still well short of where Amy went over the edge.

  Nina Inara : Well, they say it's possible he could have kept going and footprints just weren't generated.

  Al Burns : How about fingerprints?

  Roe Saunders : Yeah, we got a good set off the radio and the lunch box, but no hits in the database. I'm heading over to see the site manager who hired the guys for the job.

  Nina Inara : Yeah, we're still trying identify the other kids who might've been on the roof regularly. I mean, right? Someone's got to belong to these other initials, K.S.

  Al Burns : Mike and Carrie are over at the school right now. What about this journal Amy kept?

  Nina Inara : If her mother's right, she had it with her on the roof.

  Al Burns : Strong chance our killer took it. Could mean he's worried about what's in it.

  Nina Inara : Someone Amy knows, then.

• Al Burns : We dump her cell?

  Roe Saunders : It's happening now. Strange thing about that, before I signed it over, I noticed she made hardly any texts. That's pretty weird for a kid her age, no?

  Nina Inara : Yeah, unless she deleted them 'cause she was hiding something.

  Al Burns : Stay on those phone records. Nina, the M.E. I wanna know what was in Amy's system; drugs, alcohol.

  Nina Inara : Yeah, he says we're in line and he loves us.

  Al Burns : Is it Mishkin?

  [she nods] 

  Al Burns : Send him a dozen crullers; maple-glazed. Let him love us more.

• Mike Costello : All right, just got off with a lady who owns a salon next to the O'Malleys' music shop. She says the parents, Erin and Sean, had a "wicked bad blowout" the other night and that Amy was the topic.

  Nina Inara : [apporaching]  Guys, I got a hit off of Amy's cell phone records. Sorry, Mike.

  Mike Costello : Go.

  Nina Inara : A couple of weeks ago, she was making calls to Planned Parenthood.

  Mike Costello : You think she was pregnant?

  Nina Inara : Could be.

  Roe Saunders : Ain't exactly a lot of Catholic girls volunteering over there.

  Mike Costello : Would certainly explain the blowout.

  Al Burns : Get with the Planned Parenthood office.

  Nina Inara : Okay. I'm also gonna call the M.E., find out if she was pregnant or recently terminated.

• Al Burns : Got a tip on our roofer, Ruben. Works part-time delivering for a florist on the Upper East Side.

  Nina Inara : There's gotta be, like, a hundred florists on the Upper East Side.

  Al Burns : Start looking.

• Al Burns : She says she was two months along. Let's see if we can't dig up who she was seeing two months back. Get with Katie's friends...

  Carrie Wells : Two months ago.

  [remembering a photograph at the school] 

  Carrie Wells : Biology trip was two months ago. They were camping by the lake. "Hair wet with stars." Adam Collier was the chaperone. "Forget who he was to her... a secret burden... the gift of the cicada and its irrepressible rhythm, clickety-click-click. Clickety-click click." It's Collier. He's the father.

• Nina Inara : School receptionist says Collier just left.

  Mike Costello : [on the phone]  Yeah. Thanks.

  [hanging up] 

  Mike Costello : Phone company just got a ping from Collier's cell phone, 14th and Euclid, couple of minutes ago.

  Carrie Wells : He's on his way to the O'Malleys'.

  Nina Inara : Back to the crime scene? What's he gonna do there?

  Carrie Wells : He's going to get the journal. It's the only evidence of their relationship.

  Al Burns : But there's nothing about Collier in the journal. Sean O'Malley read it; he would have told us.

  Carrie Wells : Yeah, but Collier doesn't know that. He thinks the journal led us to Katie. He probably thinks it implicates him.

  Nina Inara : You think it's still there?

  Carrie Wells : Amy goes off the roof, Collier's not gonna stop to read the journal. He can't get caught with it, so he stashes it before he leaves the building.

  Roe Saunders : But why's he getting it now, out of the blue? He doesn't know we're onto him.

  Carrie Wells : Maybe he does.

  [remembering Katie leaving, she notices a reflection in a mirror] 

  Carrie Wells : She texted him. She told him we were onto him. He doesn't know if we have the journal or not.

  Al Burns : Let's go.