- Roe Saunders: [after a sandwich shop owner called her the wrong name] No, I'm telling you, Carol, was it? Onions are good for you. I mean, for the antioxidant purposes alone.
- Carrie Wells: Not to mention you can kill flies with your breath.
- Roe Saunders: Which is useful.
- Carrie Wells: You, smart-ass guy. What kind of wrench is that?
- Ironworker: A spud wrench.
- Carrie Wells: Spud wrench. All you guys carry 'em?
- Ironworker: Yeah, but, uh, some of us got bigger tools than others.
- Carrie Wells: You know, some of you are bigger tools than others.
- Roe Saunders: You, uh, have any allergy medicine?
- Nina Inara: It's, like, 40 degrees outside. What can you possibly be allergic to all of a sudden?
- Roe Saunders: Do you have any or not?
- Nina Inara: Think so.
- Roe Saunders: It's just, I, uh, got this kitten at home. Turns out I'm allergic.
- Nina Inara: That would've been good to find out before you brought him home.
- Roe Saunders: Yeah, well, I really wasn't thinking about it when I... you know, I found him under a car.
- Nina Inara: You rescued a kitten?
- Roe Saunders: I did.
- Nina Inara: You have levels of unmined complexity, Roe.
- Roe Saunders: He's a kitten, okay? Let's not get too deep about it.
- Nina Inara: Did you name him?
- Roe Saunders: Stanley Aikins, DDS.
- [seeing her look]
- Roe Saunders: He reminds me of my dentist.
- Carrie Wells: Hard way to start the day?
- Roe Saunders: Uh, I was up late.
- Carrie Wells: You have a date?
- Roe Saunders: I, uh, found a kitten.
- Carrie Wells: Way too much information.
- Roe Saunders: No, I actually found a kitten. I was walking home from the subway. I heard a meow, I found this little kitten, like, this big under a car. Looked all over, couldn't find the mother.
- Carrie Wells: So you had to take it home.
- Roe Saunders: Hey, it was the decent thing to do. It's not like I'm gonna keep him.
- Carrie Wells: Have a name?
- Roe Saunders: Stanley.
- Carrie Wells: You named it.
- Mike Costello: It's a 20 year old ironworker, Christopher Feeney. Guys arriving for work found him. Looks like blunt force trauma to the head. There's no weapon yet.
- Carrie Wells: [seeing a hanging sign] This Barrett guy is everywhere, and all his buildings look the same. Architecture used to have some character.
- Roe Saunders: What do we got?
- [seeing the crime scene]
- Roe Saunders: Maybe an accident, a fall?
- Al Burns: [demonstrating] Our vic's got a dent in his head like that. It wasn't an accident.
- Ron Pappas: I'll be coordinating the Barrett Group's response. Either I or an attorney from our department will need to be present for any interview with one of our employees.
- Al Burns: That's not necessary.
- Ron Pappas: And despite what Mr. Spence may have told you, access to company records will be case by case. Thank you, Bud.
- Al Burns: Are you saying I need to go to a judge every time I want information?
- Ron Pappas: The point is, no fishing expeditions.
- Al Burns: What do you think we might catch?
- Nina Inara: [after Jay Barrett leaves] I sure hope this guy's guilty.
- Roe Saunders: You see that pile of bricks he threw up at Citi Plaza? We should arrest him for that.
- Mike Costello: What do you think, we dig around, establish a connection between Chris Feeney and Cioffi?
- Al Burns: We do and we hand this whole thing off to Organized Crime.
- Carrie Wells: Aw, that's no fun.
- Al Burns: It's procedure. And you don't wanna get in a shouting match with Organized Crime.
- Carrie Wells: But I'm really good in a shouting match.
- Roe Saunders: Hey, boss, Manny's rap sheet's long enough. Maybe Chris caught him at something, Manny didn't want to make it any longer.
- Al Burns: Yeah, but look at his priors. It's nickel-and-dime; joyriding, bad checks, fistfight over a parking space.
- Nina Inara: Yeah, you're gonna love this: fast food joint caught him on camera trying to put a roach in his food.
- Roe Saunders: Uh-huh, that's how it starts.
- Al Burns: I don't know, feels to me like a good time Charlie who can't get his act together more than a murderer. Where are we with finding him?
- Nina Inara: Well, we checked his apartment, pinged his phone, nothing. And he didn't show up for work at the concrete company.
- Roe Saunders: And which in my book, just saying, is a little suspicious.
- Al Burns: What about the girlfriend?
- Nina Inara: Oh, yeah. Shop foreman got us a name. Tori Guerrero. Lives out in Uniondale.
- Al Burns: Why don't you and Carrie head out there?
- Roe Saunders: Good luck. L.I.E. this time of day is like a parking lot.
- Al Burns: Can't be as bad as what I gotta do.
- Jay Barrett: I'm late for a board meeting, Burns. Why the charm offensive?
- Al Burns: The gate guard at your site checks workers in and out. I'd like to see those records.
- Jay Barrett: Talk to Ron Pappas.
- Al Burns: He'll say no. Then I'll have to go to a judge.
- Jay Barrett: I can't help you.
- Al Burns: On the other hand, I could go to a judge with a different kind of request. To keep the site closed for more evidence gathering.
- Jay Barrett: It wouldn't work. The judge would laugh you out of court.
- Al Burns: Maybe. But it would take a day to hear the motion. In the meantime, the interest on your $200 million construction loan would tick up, what? You tell me, you're the businessman. $85,00? 100? Mr. Barrett, I'm trying to solve a murder. Work with me, please.
- Jay Barrett: I'll tell Pappas.
- Al Burns: Enjoy your board meeting.
- Al Burns: How'd you get to this Manny?
- Carrie Wells: Union guy.
- Al Burns: And how did you get to this union guy?
- Nina Inara: Uh... I'm gonna just go keep looking over there.
- Carrie Wells: Well... as a matter of fact, I talked to Steve Cioffi.
- Al Burns: You talked to Stefano Cioffi?
- Carrie Wells: No. That's the dad. I made the same mistake. I talked to his son.
- Al Burns: Where'd you talk to him?
- Carrie Wells: At a restaurant. Locked me in a wine cellar, but then he let me out.
- Al Burns: You know, in the interest of protecting my own career, I'm not gonna ask you any more questions about that.
- Mike Costello: ESU pulled him out; it's definitely Manny. Still had his wallet. His phone, too.
- Al Burns: Send everything to the lab, dump the cell. Cause of death?
- Mike Costello: Right now, looks like a blow to the head.
- Al Burns: Just like Chris Feeney. Didn't we have uniforms out there last night?
- Mike Costello: There was a three-alarm out in Sunnyside at 2:30. They took off to help with traffic control.
- Al Burns: Can't catch a break.
- Steve Cioffi, Jr.: Sorry for the short notice. I, uh, didn't want to do this over the phone
- Carrie Wells: Go ahead.
- Steve Cioffi, Jr.: How about dinner?
- Carrie Wells: How about dinner, what?
- Steve Cioffi, Jr.: How about you and me have dinner?
- Carrie Wells: Really? Is that... is that why you asked me to meet you here? So you could ask me out?
- Steve Cioffi, Jr.: That's not the only reason. You'll consider it?
- Carrie Wells: Well, it depends on the other reason.
- Steve Cioffi, Jr.: I was thinking Saturday night.
- Carrie Wells: [turning to leave] Okay, screw it. I don't need the other reason. I'm done here.
- Nina Inara: Boss, Barrett's alibi is bogus.
- Al Burns: You said it was golden. Teterboro, GW, the office.
- Nina Inara: Yeah, I was wrong. "Times" did a piece on him. His first two wives took him to the cleaners 'cause he's a hound dog.
- Al Burns: They hired private eyes?
- Nina Inara: Yeah, P.I.s; key-logger on his e-mail, everything. So with number three, he wised up. So when he steps out, he always creates a false account of his whereabouts that can stand up in court.
- Al Burns: This was all in the "Times"?
- Nina Inara: No, I called the reporter. She couldn't get the paper to run the full story 'cause her sources weren't on the record, but she's sure.
- Al Burns: Nice. So where was Barrett?
- Nina Inara: I don't know, but the other night didn't go like he said. I got a guard in the lobby who says Barrett didn't step foot in his place.
- Al Burns: Okay, Barrett is tight with people downtown. I already got the D.A. on my rear not to screw up. We can't go after him with smoke.
- Al Burns: Here's what we've got, Mr. Barrett. We got a warehouse leased by one of your shell companies in Bayonne. Right now, it's full of construction materials stolen from your own construction site.
- Ron Pappas: You charging my client with anything?
- Al Burns: I'll get to that. And we found out your alibi is bogus. Based on this, we could build a case you killed Chris Feeney.
- Jay Barrett: Only I didn't, and you know it.
- Al Burns: Maybe. Here's what I think happened. You did have an alibi, but you couldn't use it because it involved a lady named Micheline at the St. Laurent. Now, I can't help you with the theft charge; that's for you and counsel to sort through. The matrimonial issue is another story.
- Jay Barrett: What are you proposing?
- Ron Pappas: Jay, let me handle this.
- Al Burns: It's very simple. I want full access to your records, everything. No more hiding behind process.
- Jay Barrett: And in return?
- Al Burns: And in return, I don't blow a big, gaping hole in your marriage.
- William 'Bud' Spence: What's going on, Detective? What are you doing with those cement bags?
- Carrie Wells: Not a whole hell of a lot I can do with them, except maybe get a good workout. They're, like, 80 pounds each. That's gotta be, what, 2,000 pounds?
- William 'Bud' Spence: I don't understand.
- Carrie Wells: Well, unless I'm mistaken, I'm standing on a floor made exclusively from concrete delivered by Manny Armondo's truck.
- William 'Bud' Spence: What's your point?
- Carrie Wells: Well, come on over here and I'll tell you.
- [he does so]
- Carrie Wells: Things haven't been going so well for you lately, have they, Bud? I mean, first you screwed up that Indian casino out west, had to delay their opening by nine months, and then there were all those safety violations on that college dorm in Hartford, and now...
- [jumping onto the floor]
- Carrie Wells: ...this!
- William 'Bud' Spence: Whoa! If you're suggesting this building isn't structurally sound, you're way off base.
- Carrie Wells: That is what I'm suggesting. In fact, I'm gonna do more than just suggest it. I'm gonna prove it.