James Hiroyuki Liao: Jay Lee

Quotes 

• Jay Lee : You need something else to weaponize it.

  Al Burns : What?

  Jay Lee : Copolymer transethermite.

  Eddie Martin : Well, you're gonna have to help me out. I failed science.

  Carrie Wells : Failed history and PE, too.

  Al Burns : Who fails PE?

• Al Burns : Jay, we just missed him. They knew we were coming.

  Jay Lee : How's that possible?

  Eddie Martin : Who else knew?

  Carrie Wells : Well, Eliot was keeping Narcotics looped in.

  [remembering interactions with Lt. Sartain] 

  Carrie Wells : Wait a second. Jay, check the ballistics on Vlad's gun. How many bullets were left in the clip?

  Jay Lee : [checking]  Got it. Four, Carrie.

  Carrie Wells : Vlad's gun was out of bullets when he was shot. I heard it. Sartain switched the guns.

  Eddie Martin : Sartain? From Narcotics?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah.

  Eddie Martin : He killed the DeMars brothers?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah, but why?

  Jay Lee : Hey, Carrie, I'm on with Brooklyn South. Sartain took off two hours ago and never came back. He's gone.

  Carrie Wells : And so is the missile.

• Denny Padilla : We got security footage from around the plastics company. A black van was headed away from Real Plastics seven minutes before you guys got there. None of the other factories claim it as their own. Boom. We got a BOLO out.

  Al Burns : Good. Homeland intercept any communications about shipping weapons out of New York? Anything like that?

  Denny Padilla : Yeah, they're thinking it's probably a local target. They're checking domestic chatter.

  Al Burns : There's some peace summit. Midtown. I saw it on the news. Jay, check it out.

  Denny Padilla : [Jay runs a search]  Whoa, guys, we're talking about the South Asian Cooperation Summit. The prime ministers of India and Pakistan are meeting at the Omni Hotel.

  Al Burns : Tell Homeland to go to the Omni on 47th.

  Jay Lee : Oh, hey, hey, guys, guys. Hold on, I got a hit on Sartain's personal car. He just blew by a traffic cam coming off the Hutch, near Westchester Airport. There's a second male in the car. Looks like he's traveling with his war buddy Lushing.

  Al Burns : Skipping town before the fireworks.

  [to Denny] 

  Al Burns : Go with Homeland, find that van, I'll get Carrie and Eddie, go to the airport, grab Sartain.

  Denny Padilla : Roger that.

• Al Burns : DeMars brothers weren't carrying methylamine. It was something else.

  Eddie Martin : But meth was all those boys knew.

  Al Burns : They may have *thought* they were carrying it.

  Carrie Wells : Delina said there were burns on the lungs of both Angus and Malcolm DeMars.

  Eddie Martin : Methylamine wouldn't do that. What would?

  Jay Lee : Well, there are four possible chemicals. Calcium hydroxide, sodium hypochlorite, coactive resinase, and dimethyl sulphate, and all of them are pretty nasty. Some of them can burn through flesh, metal. One can even burn through glass.

  Carrie Wells : [remembering the DeMars crime scene]  You know, I saw a-a glass bottle at the warehouse. It was melted. Which one of those burns through glass?

  Jay Lee : Uh... that would be coactive resinase. It's a kind of synthetic enforcer used in the production of...

  [pulling up pictures of military missiles] 

  Jay Lee : Holy crap.

• Jay Lee : Okay, so, copolymer's all around us. Shower curtains, toilet seats. So these guys have no problem getting their hands on some.

  Al Burns : But they need a large amount to mix with all that coactive resinase, which is why Jay was looking for any unusually large shipments.

  Jay Lee : So, I pulled up the security footage from the four stores in the surrounding area, all reporting large sales of copolymer. Our guys are analyzing all the buyers. We're trying to match with facial recognition.

  Carrie Wells : [recognizing a face]  Wait a second. I saw that guy driving by the motel. And I saw him somewhere else, too.

  [thinking back] 

  Carrie Wells : Outside the pizza place. He's been tailing us.

  Jay Lee : Got a hit on the time and date when he left the plastic store. Here we go. His name is David Lushing. Runs a place over in Bushwick called Real Plastics. Huh. Normal order for this guy is a couple kilos a month. Last week, 40 kilos.

  Eddie Martin : How big a missile are we talking about?

  Al Burns : Big enough to give the Manhattan skyline a facelift. Let's get over to Bushwick.

• Jay Lee : Apparently, the Army's been all over this stuff. Early tests show it can create plastic strong enough to form the casings for missiles.

  Carrie Wells : And a plastic missile would be undetecable by radar.

  Jay Lee : And apparently, a bunch of resinase went missing a couple weeks ago from this plant in Silver Springs, Florida, which is...

  Eddie Martin : Twenty miles outside of Daytona.

  Al Burns : So whoever hired the DeMars brothers used them as mules because they knew how to navigate the back roads and avoid cops. Must have told them they were carrying methylamine, sent 'em to New York.

  Eddie Martin : And when they got here, they killed them.

  Jay Lee : Hey, guys, check this. It's an Army video of a plastic missile produced with coactive resinase. The other two, encased with metal. They get shot down by antiaircraft. Plastic missile goes on to hit its target.

  Al Burns : Whoever killed the DeMars brothers is trying to make a missile and is still in New York.

  Carrie Wells : And all we've gotta do is find them in a city of nine million people.

• Al Burns : What's going on?

  Jay Lee : Uh... been trying to find a connection between the DeMars brothers and Vlad and his people. So far, no cell records, no wire transfers, nothing.

  Al Burns : I gotta go talk to somebody. I could use some backup.

  Jay Lee : I'll go with you.

  Al Burns : No, you keep looking into Vlad and his people.

  Jay Lee : Sure.

  Al Burns : [to Denny]  You, Mr. Threesome. Come with me.

• Jay Lee : All right, so these are guys who would all have an interest in outsiders bringing meth into New York.

  Al Burns : Paulie Fitzgerald? I put that guy away a couple years back.

  Jay Lee : Prison overcrowding. He's out, Al.

  Al Burns : I don't see him as an execution-style killer.

  Eddie Martin : Yeah, so who's our prom king over there?

  Denny Padilla : [Jay pulls up a rap sheet]  Oh, yeah, that's Vlad Nostrov. Hey, I've had the pleasure. Jay-bone.

  Jay Lee : Uh, it's... it's just Jay, man.

• Denny Padilla : Listen, about Carrie. And that hot new M.E. running around here, what, Delina? Right? Right?

  Jay Lee : Okay, you do realize there's no actual thought there, right?

  Denny Padilla : Yeah.

  Jay Lee : Okay.

  Denny Padilla : I'm just saying, the both of them. Hot. Hot stuff.

  Jay Lee : Agreed. Dibs on Delina.

  Denny Padilla : Dibs? What are we, twelve? Come on, hot detective, hot new M.E., you know? Come on, you never thought about a threesome with that-that technical head of yours?

  Jay Lee : [seeing Al]  No, dude, come on.

  Denny Padilla : What, is it too much? Come on.

  Al Burns : Yeah, definitely too much.

• Al Burns : Ex-cons with that much methylamine, why didn't you arrest them?

  Eddie Martin : I needed to connect them with the buyers to get 'em off the streets for good. They left Daytona on Thursday, so I followed them.

  Al Burns : Until you get to the part where you lost them.

  Jay Lee : You got a profile where they might be staying?

  Eddie Martin : Yeah, based on the motels they favored on the way up, they like places that offer ground-floor units, have minimal surveillance, and don't ask a lot of questions.

  Jay Lee : Anything else you can give us?

  Eddie Martin : Yeah, they like quick access to their vehicle. They always stayed near the highways. Occasionally, they'd call in for female company, and, uh... and Angus... Angus loves Highway Hoagie. So they always stayed near one of them.

  Carrie Wells : [remembering an article in the Post]  Hookers and hoagies. Al, that article that I was reading to you today.

  Al Burns : Haven't we moved on from your moment of glory?

  Carrie Wells : No, no Listen, not that one. The one about the councilman and the hookers. There was a picture of him coming out of a Metro Motor Lodge. In the background was a Highway Hoagie. Jay, look it up for me. Check for Metro Motor Lodges nearby and Highway Hoagies that are close to 'em.

  Eddie Martin : Wow. It's kind of amazing seeing your memory at work.

  Carrie Wells : Amazing enough that you're glad you married me?

  Eddie Martin : Nothing's that amazing.

• Jay Lee : Hey, guys, we gotta talk.

  Carrie Wells : Oh. What kind of "welcome back" is that?

  Al Burns : Especially for the most eligible bachelorette in New York.

  Jay Lee : Yeah, yeah, I read that article.

  Eliot Delson : Don't say another word, Jay. You'll ruin the surprise.

  Carrie Wells : [suspiciously]  What surprise?

• Al Burns : There's no way that Sartain could connect with the DeMars brothers on his own.

  Jay Lee : You're absolutely right. They're being bankrolled big-time. Several hundred thousand dollars were deposited eletronically into his bank account from a fronting bank in Dubai.

  Al Burns : What do we have on Lushing, the guy who was trailing Eddie and Carrie and bought the copolymer?

  Jay Lee : Well, David Lushing served in the Army Rangers. Guess who was in his battalion. Lieutenant Greg Sartain. They took down one of Saddam's palaces together.

  Al Burns : How do you go from war hero to terrorist?

  Jay Lee : Well, Sartain and Lushing were suspected of trying to make off with some of Saddam's gold reserves. Lushing took the bullet, got a dishonorable discharge. Sartain became a cop. Now, according to Homeland, Lushing got picked up two years ago for smuggling a bunch of weapons to a bunch of Pakistani warlords. Did six months in a prison in Islamabad.

• Eddie Martin : Angus and Malcolm DeMars. They're brothers. Seriously bad guys. A handful of unsolved murders linked to them. Mom left. Rumor was they killed their father in a drug dispute. Rumor was the dispute was with Angus and Malcolm.

  Al Burns : They killed their father over a meth deal?

  Eddie Martin : Yeah, with a crowbar.

  Jay Lee : [sarcastic]  Nice family.