Without a Trace (TV Series)

Revelations (2003)

Poppy Montgomery: Samantha Spade

Quotes 

• Howard Schmidt : I didn't say there was anything wrong with the shooting.

  Samantha Spade : Then I guess I don't understand why I can't get back in the field.

  Howard Schmidt : You read my report.

  Samantha Spade : Uh... "While there is no evidence to suggest a breach of Bureau protocol, agent's fieldwork should be limited to allow time for continued rehabilitation." Mm-hmm. Um, what exactly am I rehabilitating, Agent Schmidt?

  Howard Schmidt : Any agent who's involved in a shooting needs time to process it, and you may need more time than others because...

  Samantha Spade : Because I got shot.

  Howard Schmidt : Yeah.

  Samantha Spade : Look, that was two months ago. One thing has nothing to do with the other. I am not trigger-happy, if that's what you're implying. I am not.

• Howard Schmidt : Agent Spade, the issue is not your injury or your conduct in the field. The issue is your frame of mind, which we are all concerned about.

  Samantha Spade : My frame of mind, Agent Schmidt, is-is-is... my frame of mind is right where it should be, given the circumstances.

  Howard Schmidt : And where is that?

  Samantha Spade : Well, thank you for seeing me, and I, uh, I should get back and watch my desk.

• Samantha Spade : Remind me to slam that OPR guy with a softball at the next spring picnic.

  Vivian Johnson : I'm not sure that's how you get on their good side.

• Vivian Johnson : Hey, have you got anything on Father Stevens?

  Samantha Spade : Uh, yeah. Let me, uh...

  [rummaging through papers on her desk] 

  Samantha Spade : Where is it? Okay. He got a call on the rectory phone from the 12th precinct at 11:40 the night he disappeared.

  Vivian Johnson : Okay, I'll call Martin and have him check that out.

  Samantha Spade : Other than that, nothing interesting pops up. Family is deceased, barely graduated high school, ended up in a series of dead-end, minimum wage and seasonal jobs.

  Vivian Johnson : All in the same area?

  Samantha Spade : Uh, southeast, mostly Florida. No arrests, two speeding tickets, entered the seminary at... 34.

  Vivian Johnson : Late bloomer.

  Samantha Spade : Yeah. And joining the church is when, from a background check perspective, his life gets really uninteresting, except for four charges for rental cars in Fresno over the last 13 months, the most recent, three weeks ago.

  Vivian Johnson : Which is interesting because...?

  Samantha Spade : There are no matching charges for plane tickets.

  Vivian Johnson : So how'd he get there?

  Samantha Spade : Well, that is the question. I'm working on it.

• Vivian Johnson : All right, this is Father Stevens' Bible and most recent sermons. There may be something in there that we can profile. Jack wants you to take a look at it.

  Samantha Spade : You gotta talk to him, Viv, get him to lean on OPR.

  Vivian Johnson : I am not getting into the middle of it.

  Samantha Spade : This is taking too long. I should be re-certified by now.

  Vivian Johnson : Samantha, you shot and killed two people.

  Samantha Spade : Wait, two armed suspects who had their guns trained on me.

  Vivian Johnson : No one's doubting your actions, but they cannot rush you back into the field.

  Samantha Spade : I am fine! Okay? I'm fine.

  Vivian Johnson : Restless is not the same as fine.

  Samantha Spade : You don't think I'm ready, do you?

  Vivian Johnson : No.

• Samantha Spade : Okay, so on each of the days, he used his credit card to rent a car. Stevens also bought a round-trip plane ticket to Fresno with cash.

  Martin Fitzgerald : Hmm. Well, he had to use a credit card, 'cause you can't rent a car without it.

  Samantha Spade : Now, all four rental cars were driven between 121 and 134 miles.

  Martin Fitzgerald : Hmm. He's headed to the same place.

  Samantha Spade : Or the same person, and it's no more than 65 miles from the airport.

  Martin Fitzgerald : Could he have been seeing another doctor out there?

  Samantha Spade : I found no record of any medical charges at all.

  Vivian Johnson : No one at St. Germaine's knew that Stevens was headed out to Fresno.

  Samantha Spade : So maybe he's really good at keeping secrets...

  [pointedly to Viv] 

  Samantha Spade : ...or he just doesn't trust his co-workers.

• Samantha Spade : Here's my theory. Back in the old days, before Stevens became a priest, he was running drugs, in Florida, with Doyle.

  Vivian Johnson : Let me see the file.

  Samantha Spade : [handing it over]  Doyle got out of prison two and a half weeks ago after serving a 20-year sentence for running a meth lab.

  Vivian Johnson : So, what, the meth in Stevens' room was twenty years old?

  Samantha Spade : Money you found was old and crinkly, right?

  Vivian Johnson : Yeah.

  Samantha Spade : I'll bet it was Doyle's take from their last big score. Stevens was holding the cash for Doyle, Doyle got mad when Stevens started to give the money away.

  Vivian Johnson : So why visit Doyle in prison?

  Samantha Spade : Maybe he was trying to rehabilitate him. Maybe that's why he brought him to New York.

  Vivian Johnson : Either way, Doyle has got to know where Stevens is.

• Jack Malone : What are you still doing here? Why don't you go home?

  Samantha Spade : Paperwork.

  Jack Malone : I talked to Schmidt in OPR. You can go back into the field, under one condition.

  Samantha Spade : What?

  Jack Malone : We want you to see the in-house counselor.

  Samantha Spade : We?

  Jack Malone : Okay, me.

  Samantha Spade : No.

  Jack Malone : Samantha, you may not think that I'm the best person qualified to talk to you about this. But this kind of event can have long-term fallout, and you've gotta deal with it.

  Samantha Spade : I just feel like you've lost faith in me.

  Jack Malone : [unsure whether to take her hand or not]  Nobody has lost faith in you. Least of all me. Come on, I'll walk you out.

• Vivian Johnson : Way to watch your desk!

  Samantha Spade : Thank you.