Unforgettable (TV Series)

Stray Bullet (2014)

Dylan Walsh: Al Burns

Quotes 

• 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.

• Captain Melvin Stearns : You know a guy named Oscar Payn?

  Al Burns : Sure. I collared him for intent to sell five years ago.

  Eliot Delson : [entering]  Stearns, what's going on here?

  Captain Melvin Stearns : You aware he's been out on parole the last six weeks?

  Al Burns : Good for him.

  Captain Melvin Stearns : Not so good. Someone put a bullet in his brain. And as of now, we have reason to believe that someone to be you. Lieutenant Burns, you are placed on modified assignment and relegated to desk duty 'til our investigation into the murder of Oscar Payn determines your guilt or innocence. May I have your gun and your shield, please?

• 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 : 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.