- Skate Punk #2: Whoa, nice bail. Totally nutted that.
- Skate Punk #1: I hit something.
- Skate Punk #2: Yeah, a pile of "you suck."
- Skate Punk #1: [noticing blood on his hand and pant leg] What the hell?
- Skate Punk #2: Must've schralped yourself good, dude.
- Skate Punk #1: No, it's... it's not me.
- Skate Punk #2: [finding the victim] We gotta get out of here.
- Al Burns: How long has this place been closed?
- Roe Saunders: It's a dozen years, at least. Yeah, there's some kind of investigation. The psychiatrist running the place was an actual lunatic. Doctor...
- Carrie Wells: Dr. Helen Mostow.
- Roe Saunders: Ah, you a fan of the creepy, too, huh?
- Carrie Wells: No. Her name's still on the directory out front.
- Nina Inara: Vic's name is Peter Suderman. According to his license, he was 42 and a partner at Spirit Trekkers, Inc.
- Al Burns: A ghost hunter?
- Nina Inara: Yeah, looks like it.
- Al Burns: Let's find out if the "Inc." means there are other people in the office.
- Nina Inara: Whoever did this wasn't interested in his equipment.
- Roe Saunders: This is what you call a thermal imaging camera. Standard tool of the ghost-hunting trade, as anybody who watches the Discovery Channel would know. Ghosts give off heat just like people. Probably didn't know that, did you?
- Carrie Wells: What do you got for us, Scooby?
- Roe Saunders: Looks like our vic was in the middle of recording something.
- Al Burns: [seeing a heat source] Guy heat-sensed his own murder.
- Tanya Sitkowsky: The camera essentially represents thermal energy by converting it to the color scale we know; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, whatever, with the red spectrum generally calibrated to be consistent with the heat emitted by a human body. Or in this case, a spectral entity, or a spirit.
- Nina Inara: Hey, Tanya, can you turn that into a person?
- Tanya Sitkowsky: Not a recognizable person. I would say a fairly distinct blob is what we could hope for.
- Tanya Sitkowsky: Your dead guy did have a digital recorder in his pocket. Voice-activated. He was really pushing the low end, so I did some basic E.Q. work.
- Mike Costello: And, uh...?
- Tanya Sitkowsky: I have audio. It's not synched to the video, but... well, listen for yourselves.
- Mike Costello: [hearing a distorted voice] Sounds like a sneeze.
- Roe Saunders: Can you do any better?
- Tanya Sitkowsky: I thought you'd never ask.
- Tanya Sitkowsky: It's really good to be back, guys.
- Mike Costello: Did you have fun with the feds?
- Tanya Sitkowsky: Totally. Oh, the digital evidence lab they have down there is ill.
- Roe Saunders: Well, we missed you.
- Tanya Sitkowsky: [sweetly] You did?
- [more professional]
- Tanya Sitkowsky: I mean, you did?
- Roe Saunders: Yeah. I mean, h-h-how are we supposed to tell a mega from a pixel without you, right?
- Roe Saunders: All right, so, who's Denny, huh? Is it a ghost of somebody who was killed in the hospital?
- Nina Inara: Or a living person named Denny who may have killed Peter Suderman.
- Mike Costello: What, you don't actually believe in ghosts?
- Roe Saunders: Well, you forget, my family's originally from New Orleans. That place was crawling with ghosts.
- Mike Costello: You ever see one?
- Roe Saunders: Are you kidding? One time, there was this guy got shot by someone breaking into his house, and now he's this ghost in his old apartment. He's living there and trying to talk to his wife, but...
- Mike Costello: But let me guess: there's just this one little boy who can see him.
- Roe Saunders: So you know the story, too?
- Mike Costello: I saw the movie, actually. "The Sixth Sense."
- Roe Saunders: [pause] Nah, it was nothing like that.
- Mike Costello: So far, it's not looking like one of his former clients.
- Al Burns: And you talked to everybody?
- Mike Costello: All except a doctor and his wife down in Richmond Hill. Wife's been sick. And then a couple of other clients are out of town.
- Al Burns: Let's see if they were out of town during the murder. How about the partner, Arthur Greene?
- Mike Costello: Uh, his alibi checks out. He had a meeting with his lawyers, then dinner until late.
- Carrie Wells: All right, so I got Gordon Kemp admitted up at QHC. He's still going on about Dr. Helen, but he's not being violent, he's got no history of violence. I don't think this is the guy.
- Al Burns: Okay. And Suderman's cell phone and financials?
- Mike Costello: Uh, nothing much. I got his credit card charges for the last two months.
- Carrie Wells: [taking a copy] Couple months? I spend more than this in two days.
- [seeing Al's look]
- Carrie Wells: But I pay my bill in full every month.
- Mike Costello: Dennis Moskin?
- Denny: Is it about the permits? Abby, did you file the permits?
- Mike Costello: Okay, everybody, let's take a break.
- Denny: I'm not budgeted for a break.
- Mike Costello: Are you budgeted for bail money?
- Denny: Take ten.
- Tanya Sitkowsky: It's a bone.
- Al Burns: What kind of bone?
- Tanya Sitkowsky: A human bone, if I'm not mistaken. Give me a moment. Or two.
- [looking in her microscope]
- Tanya Sitkowsky: Yes, a human finger would be more precise. I would say the fifth distal phalanx from the right extremity.
- [seeing Roe's look]
- Tanya Sitkowsky: Pinky finger. It's hard to determine much more without complete skeletal and subdural remains. As you might say, I need the dead guy.
- Al Burns: Suderman found the pinky. Where's the body?
- Roe Saunders: And who's the body?
- Al Burns: My guess, we find out, we find who killed him.
- Carrie Wells: I'm gonna head to the Barlows', see what I can find out.
- Al Burns: We should actually confirm that Suderman found the bone in their house before we do anything.
- Carrie Wells: You're absolutely right. You should try to confirm that.
- Al Burns: Carrie...
- Carrie Wells: I'm not gonna try to get into the house without a warrant. I'm not!
- Al Burns: [to Roe, as she leaves] You heard that.
- Carrie Wells: Hey, how we doing on that warrant?
- Al Burns: D.A. says we're close.
- Carrie Wells: Close? You know, Al? I think I'm hearing an argument going on inside.
- Al Burns: No, you're not.
- Carrie Wells: Oh, yeah. It's getting pretty heated in there.
- Al Burns: Carrie, don't even think about it.
- Carrie Wells: Oh, see, now I hear glass breaking.
- Al Burns: No, you don't!
- Carrie Wells: She sounds like she might be in trouble. I think we got exigent circumstances here.
- Al Burns: Carrie, you can't go in there.
- Carrie Wells: [finding an open window] Al? Al? I think I lost you.
- Al Burns: No, you didn't lose me! Listen to me!
- Carrie Wells: [hanging up] Damn reception.
- Al Burns: What the hell are you doing here?
- Carrie Wells: I'm okay. Turns out you don't use the back of your head for very much.
- Al Burns: Mike tells me that you went back in to save Barlow's life.
- Carrie Wells: No, I went back in to get my badge and my gun. Barlow just happened to be there.
- Al Burns: Get a little help over here?
- Carrie Wells: Just a...
- Nurse #1: [seeing her wound] You're gonna need stitches.
- Carrie Wells: Did I mention I hate needles?
- Al Burns: Ah, quit being a baby, will you?
- Carrie Wells: [an orderly brings over a wheelchair] I'm not getting in that thing.
- Al Burns: I got this.
- Carrie Wells: [he leads her away] Wheelchair?
- Al Burns: You could be a little more rude to him.
- Al Burns: After all these years since your sister died, you ever feel... I don't know, you ever get a feeling?
- Carrie Wells: Are you asking me if I believe in ghosts?
- Al Burns: Yeah, I guess I am.
- Carrie Wells: I want to believe... that there's... more after we die, you know. I want to believe that Rachel... is still here in some way. And sometimes I can feel her so close, like she's all around me. I can feel her, like I can just reach out an-and... touch her, almost. And I know she's there. I do. I just... I wish...
- Al Burns: What?
- Carrie Wells: I wish she'd say hello.