Unforgettable (TV Series)

Stray Bullet (2014)

Poppy Montgomery: Carrie Wells

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• Al Burns : Twelve years I've lived in the city, I'd never been to Belmont. Now I see why you love the horses. That was incredible.

  Carrie Wells : And Eliot thinks I'm the gambling addict?

  Al Burns : Oh, very funny. So, you free Tuesday?

  Carrie Wells : To go back to Belmont?

  Al Burns : Yeah. I just need help remembering all the tips we got. Like that woman I was talking to. She gave me a tip on a trifecta, but I forgot the three horses I'm supposed to box.

  Carrie Wells : To box? You know, they have these support groups for gambling addicts, and you...

  Al Burns : All right, what? You're the only one who can enjoy an adrenaline rush?

  Carrie Wells : No, it's just that my adrenaline rush is based on winning money on the horses. Yours is more connected to, um, the blonde who gave you tips.

• Al Burns : Are you gonna give me the names of the horses or not? Because I know you remember 'em.

  Carrie Wells : I remember all twelve horses in the race, and the three you were supposed to box. I also remember five reasons why you can't remember. Blonde hair, pouty lips, short skirt, six-inch stilettos, and a giant...

  Al Burns : Your point is?

  Carrie Wells : I'm not going back to Belmont with you on Tuesday.

  Al Burns : Oh, come on. Why not?

  Carrie Wells : Because it violates my first rule of gambling.

  Al Burns : Never accept a tip from a blonde in six-inch heels?

  Carrie Wells : No, that's my second. My first is: only go to the track when the horses are actually there. Belmont is closed on Tuesdays.

• Carrie Wells : Al, what you doing?

  Al Burns : Just getting my coffee. Jay's got this nice Sumatra with chocolate notes or something.

  Carrie Wells : Wow, you are extraordinarily calm.

  Al Burns : Considering I want to put my fist through that guy's face? That I just went through the most humiliating moment of my career, maybe my life?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah, considering that.

• Carrie Wells : Who is Oscar Payn?

  Al Burns : A scumbag. Payn was running an operation out of Corona, the Tumbling Sixes. The 117 picked up intel that Payn was taking in a major heroin shipment. I got together a team to take him down. Turned out, there was an eight year old girl inside there; hostage. And we got her out, but we lost someone in the firefight. A young officer.

  Carrie Wells : And what about Payn?

  Al Burns : He beat the murder charge on a technicality. Was still put away for possession with intent, but he and his partner rolled on a couple of their own guys and got reduced sentences.

  Carrie Wells : Payn's guys hated Payn, and they hate you. You're being framed. We were at the races the day Payn got murdered. Where were you that night? Midnight?

  Al Burns : Midnight, I was asleep.

  Carrie Wells : All right, what about your gun?

  Al Burns : On my night table. Not the world's best alibi.

  Carrie Wells : No.

  Al Burns : Listen, you stay out of this. These IAB guys are nightmares. They'll get you jammed up or fired. Trust me, the ballistics test will clear me.

  Carrie Wells : I'm gonna clear you, because I'm gonna find out who killed Oscar Payn.

• Carrie Wells : Eliot, what is this?

  Eliot Delson : Melvin Stearns' attempt to humiliate me. Son of a bitch wants to show me up in front of my own people. Look, I know you've kept it in between the lines so far. And both of us know Stearns is waiting for us to over...

  Carrie Wells : Are you gonna tell me to stop?

  Eliot Delson : God, no. I'm asking you to be careful.

• Carrie Wells : Murray's got a lead. Payn's old pal, Hector Griego. Looks like he was sleeping with Payn's wife while he was in jail. Murray's heading out there.

  Al Burns : Carrie, thanks, but you guys got to remember this is Internal Affairs.

  Carrie Wells : If you're gonna tell me to be careful, I'm gonna tell you to shut it.

• Carrie Wells : How's he doing?

  Beth Bronson : As well as can be expected. I updated him on everything, but the D.A.'s office has thrown in a monkey wrench.

  Carrie Wells : A plea deal.

  Beth Bronson : 25 years. If Al turns us down, we go to trial and he's looking at life. He's got 48 hours to decide.

  Carrie Wells : Al's not gonna plead out.

  Beth Bronson : The D.A. says she has Al threatening Payn's life. Is that true?

  Carrie Wells : [covering]  Doesn't sound like Al.

  Beth Bronson : Well, it may not sound like him, but with ballistics, Al's history with Payn, and this new information, I do not have a lot to work with.

• Al Burns : My gun, where are we with that?

  Carrie Wells : It must've been out of your possession at some point.

  Al Burns : It's with me at all times. I told you that.

  Carrie Wells : Well, not at night. You don't sleep with it. This I know. Although there was that one time.

  Al Burns : It's on my night table at home. It's in my locker when I go to the gym. The only two times it's not on me.

  Carrie Wells : Could you have had a tech check it or had it cleaned?

  Al Burns : I do all that myself. Breakdown, cleaning.

  Carrie Wells : [recalling a memory]  When was the last time you qualified at the gun range?

  Al Burns : Like, a week ago.

  Carrie Wells : And did you check your personal weapon, too?

  Al Burns : Yeah, I leave my service piece with the range officer. But the range, the locker room, that's all cops.

  Carrie Wells : If someone switched out the weapon and replaced it in your locker, you would never know. Why couldn't it be a cop?

  Al Burns : What cop would do that?

  Carrie Wells : One that has a grudge against you and Oscar Payn.

• Al Burns : The officer who was killed when we took down Payn, her name was Melissa Quinn.

  Carrie Wells : As in Captain Vincent Quinn?

  Al Burns : That's her father. She also had a grandfather who won two medals for valor. Not to mention her brother Brendan, another hero currently on the job. But framing people and murdering, that is not the Quinn way.

  Carrie Wells : They are cops. They know their way around that gun range. They have access to the locker room; motive, means, opportunity. Did they blame you for Melissa's death?

  Al Burns : I tried to contact them. They wouldn't talk to me. They were mourning the loss of their daughter. But they're a cop family. They know the rules of the job.

  Carrie Wells : This is about a father and his little girl. What happened that night?

• Al Burns : Melissa was a real... go-getter. Was always trying to prove she was one of the family. The mighty Quinns. We were waiting on ESU. I gave the order to hold. She went in anyway. That little girl...

  Carrie Wells : Did you tell them that she disobeyed a direct order and that's what got her killed?

  Al Burns : I wanted to protect her memory. She comes from cop royalty. They needed to remember her as a hero.

  Carrie Wells : I'm going to talk to Vincent Quinn.

  Al Burns : You shouldn't do that. You don't know how connected those people are.

  Carrie Wells : They don't scare me.

  Al Burns : They should.

• Vincent Quinn : Do you have children, Detective?

  Carrie Wells : No.

  Vincent Quinn : Then you can't understand what that loss is like. Bad as it was, it wouldn't lead us to do what you think.

  Carrie Wells : What would you do if you were me?

  Vincent Quinn : I'd make sure I knew my partner as well as I thought I did.

  Carrie Wells : I know Al.

  Vincent Quinn : And I know my family. You're chasing the wrong lead.

  Carrie Wells : So you won't mind me talking to them, then?

  Vincent Quinn : I would ask that you respect the fact that we've been through enough. We don't talk about Melissa. We don't speak your partner's name. And we certainly don't discuss the criminal who murdered her.

  Carrie Wells : I understand. And I do respect what you've been through, but as strongly as you feel about your family, I feel about my partner. And I know he did not murder Oscar Payn. I know it.

• Carrie Wells : What do you have on Rudy Vernon?

  Jay Lee : Not much. He's got a pretty standard record on the force. Now, according to his bank records, he's about three months behind on his mortgage.

  Carrie Wells : Well, maybe if I make it sweet enough for him, he'll flip on his friend Brendan.

  Jay Lee : Good idea. You need an address?

  Carrie Wells : How is 428 Brickenhoff?

  Jay Lee : Damn, you're good. I bet you you're there already, ain't you?

  Carrie Wells : No way. In fact, I'm on the other side of town.

  [seeing a garage door open and blood on the ground] 

  Carrie Wells : I gotta go.

• Carrie Wells : I'm not letting you go away for something you didn't do. There is no me without you. We're a team.

  Al Burns : So what are we gonna do? There's a solid wall of blue.

  Carrie Wells : [remembering her talk with Captain Quinn]  There is one Quinn, a sister; she's not a cop.

  Al Burns : Yeah, Melissa's sister Kathleen.

  Carrie Wells : Kathleen is who Brendan said he was with the night Oscar Payn was murdered. Maybe she's our way over the wall.

• Carrie Wells : That was quite the performance.

  Eliot Delson : Oh, you should've seen my Willy Loman. Roslyn High School.

  Carrie Wells : Hmm.

  Eliot Delson : Great fun, except for the bald cap. I still can't stand the smell of spirit gum. Listen, we're running out of time. Al was almost shanked last night. One of the Tumbling Sixes.

  Carrie Wells : I knew this was gonna happen. We have got to get him out of there before they kill him.

  Eliot Delson : We will. I am going to keep IAB as contained as I can. You? You go suspend yourself. Get to work.

  Carrie Wells : Yes, sir.

• Eliot Delson : Only you could get me Astoria.

  Carrie Wells : Technically, it's Long Island City.

  Eliot Delson : It's still Queens, which is technical enough for me.

• Al Burns : Took you long enough to get me out of jail.

  Carrie Wells : Well, I had to make a little stop along the way.

  Al Burns : Yeah?

  Carrie Wells : That trifecta you couldn't remember?

  [taking out an envelope] 

  Carrie Wells : It paid off. Give me twenty minutes with this at the blackjack table and I will triple it.

  Al Burns : Triple?

  Carrie Wells : Quadruple.

  Al Burns : I think we already beat the odds today.

  Carrie Wells : Yeah.

  Al Burns : How about I take you out to dinner? Cristoffe's?

  Carrie Wells : Ooh. Last time we were there, I had the Moroccan chicken. It was raw...

  Al Burns : We haven't been there in, like, two years.

  Carrie Wells : Two years, two months, one day. Trust me.

  Al Burns : Always do.

• Carrie Wells : I have a question for you. How could you not know Melissa Quinn was in love with you?

  Al Burns : Because at the time, I was in love with someone else. Marjorie Binstock.

  Carrie Wells : [a little insulted]  What?

  Al Burns : Little blonde, worked down in evidence. Always smelled like oranges.

  Carrie Wells : Oh.

  Al Burns : Think it was her conditioner.

  Carrie Wells : You know what I think? I think we should go to Cristoffe's. You deserve raw Moroccan chicken and food poisoning.