Person of Interest (TV Series)

The Fix (2011)

Taraji P. Henson: Detective Jocelyn 'Joss' Carter

Quotes 

• Joss Carter : We got a rap sheet on this old gangster?

  Detective Raymond Terney : Reads like a phone book. Armed robbery, racketeering; He was charged with homicide in the mid '70s.

  Joss Carter : [Looks]  Marlene Elias? What was that?

  Detective Raymond Terney : Uh, 1973. The murder charge he skated on. Victim was Marlene Elias.

  Joss Carter : The evidence was stolen from lockup a couple weeks back.

  Detective Raymond Terney : Evidence was stolen from a 40-year-old cold case?

  Joss Carter : And the murder weapon.

• Bernie Sullivan : I managed to fill in some of the blanks on young Carl Elias.

  Joss Carter : Good work.

  Bernie Sullivan : The kid was like a professional runaway. From the age of eight, he couldn't stay anywhere more than a couple of months.

  Joss Carter : So no one really knew him.

  Bernie Sullivan : Nobody except some tough old bird named Gloria Recinto. Apparently, she, uh, she looked after him. He would send her a Christmas card and some money every year. You gotta read these things, Carter. I mean it's as if the guy was going to either be president or Attila the Hun.

• Joss Carter : I wanted to talk about that case you worked back in '73. Marlene Elias.

  Bernie Sullivan : How did that mess come up again?

  Joss Carter : A man I'm investigating broke into the evidence lockup a few weeks ago. He and his crew sold the contents of the evidence box. Your notes, murder weapon, Which turned out plunged into the chest of your lead suspect.

  Bernie Sullivan : Hmm. That would be divine retribution.

  Joss Carter : What can you tell me about Deluca?

  Bernie Sullivan : Piece of work. I had him dead to rights on murdering that woman. The dimwit left a partial on the knife.

  Joss Carter : The DA dropped the case?

  Bernie Sullivan : Bought and sold. Back then, the city was different.

• Bernie Sullivan : Marlene was a cocktail waitress. She worked in a club owned by Gianni Moretti. She has an affair with the don. She wants him to dump his wife. He gets tired of her complaints, and sends our friend here, the cutlery rack, to shut her up. He did. Permanently. The thing that stuck with me was the kid.

  Joss Carter : Kid? What kid?

  Bernie Sullivan : I dug these up. Marlene and the don had a kid. A son. He was out back playing when it happened. Came inside and he found her. Kid walked all the way to the station. I still got that image of him standing there with no shoes on.

  Joss Carter : What happened to him?

  Bernie Sullivan : Well, the Don didn't want to cop to the affair, so the kid went into the system. I don't have to tell you what happens to those kids.

  Joss Carter : You think he's the killer?

  Bernie Sullivan : Don't know who else would go to so much trouble.