Unforgettable (TV Series)

Carrie's Caller (2012)

Jane Curtin: Joanne Webster

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Quotes 

• Al Burns : Lieutenant Al Burns, this is Detective Roe Saunders. Apologize for the misunderstanding.

  Joanne Webster : Oh, please, Detective. A vigorous defense of a crime scene needs no apology. And in all honesty, this is my second day on the job, so my badgy thingy is in process. Apparently lamination and winning baseball has yet to hit this borough.

• Carrie Wells : Hey, ma'am, excuse me. You can't be in here. I'm gonna have to ask you to leave.

  Joanne Webster : What is it? Going to ask, you have to ask, or you're asking?

  Al Burns : Carrie.

  Carrie Wells : This is a crime scene.

  Joanne Webster : What tipped you off? Was it the gaping wound in the parietal section of his skull? 'Cause that's what clued me in.

  Al Burns : Carrie.

  Carrie Wells : Unless you're with the medical examiner's office, you are not...

  Al Burns : She *is* the medical examiner.

• Joanne Webster : My initial assessment was probably - don't write this down - that we have a half-inch entrance wound in the squama frontalis and a fairly large exit wound, about three and a half inches below the posterior midline. Trauma consistent with a... a high-velocity round.

  Carrie Wells : A sniper.

  Joanne Webster : Yes.

  Roe Saunders : Oh. Makes sense. Our running partner didn't see anyone, said he just collapsed.

  Al Burns : You think you can estimate the entry angle of the bullet?

  Joanne Webster : Can Jeter turn two?

  Al Burns : Not as fast as he used to.

• Joanne Webster : So assuming our guy was coming this way across the plaza - he's about 5'7" - the bullet enters from this angle at about 120 degrees. I'd say your shot came from over there.

  Carrie Wells : [remembering the scene before the shooting]  Fourth floor, third window from the right. It was open before the shooting, now it's closed.

  Joanne Webster : How do you know?

  Carrie Wells : I have a really good memory.

  Al Burns : Let's go.

  Joanne Webster : [to Roe as they leave]  Come on, she really knows which window?

  Roe Saunders : Can Jeter turn two?

• Carrie Wells : [hanging up on "Fred"]  What? You told me to call the shots.

  Al Burns : What happened to the whole "keep him talking, trace the call"?

  Carrie Wells : What can I say? He pissed me off.

  [seeing their looks] 

  Carrie Wells : Oh, come on, he's way too smart to get trapped by some phone trace.

  Joanne Webster : If I may? He's also arrogant and domineering, loves a challenge; it's the basic sniper DNA.

  Carrie Wells : Thank you very much. And right now, I am his challenge.

  Nina Inara : Not anymore. You hung up.

  Carrie Wells : He'll call back.

  Joanne Webster : And when he does, he will want to re-assert his dominance.

  Carrie Wells : Which is maybe, hopefully, when he makes a mistake.

  Roe Saunders : Or he's pissed you hung up on him, kills six more people, and calls back to give you the bird.

• Joanne Webster : I looked into your case; your sister's case. We should talk about it sometime.

  Carrie Wells : After 28 years, I only have... one lead, which leads... nowhere. So, not much to talk about.

  Joanne Webster : But you've never given up.

  Carrie Wells : Sometimes I wish I could.

  Joanne Webster : There was a serial case on Long Island. The guy took his first victim July 4, 1976. Teenage girl. He left a partial palm print from his right hand on her "Welcome Back, Kotter" backpack. 22 years and sixteen, or... God knows how many victims later, everybody else had given up. But every year, like clockwork, on July 4, I would run those prints in the system.

  Carrie Wells : Any luck?

  Joanne Webster : No. Until July 5, 1998, I got a match.

  Carrie Wells : No.

  Joanne Webster : Sixth-grade teacher, lived there all his life. His prints were in the system because he argued a speeding ticket.

  Carrie Wells : Wow.

  Joanne Webster : You can never give up in this business, never. But it does make for some long nights.

• Al Burns : Nice work, people. Nice work. Drinks are on me tonight.

  Carrie Wells : All right, I know this is gonna sound weird, but I can't help feeling a little disappointed.

  Al Burns : Why? That he didn't have anything to say for himself at the end?

  Carrie Wells : Because I'll never know why he picked me.

  Joanne Webster : Well, you know, Carrie, the great sociopaths are also great egotists. And like it or not, you've made a name for yourself. And they like to go head to head with the best. I... don't want to sound immodest, but back in that awful summer of '77, David Berkowitz, Son of Sam, sent me a box of chocolate truffles. They were delicious.

• Roe Saunders : I just heard back from those local cops in New London. You know, we asked them to find Richard Simons, the camp guy? Guy you talked to in the hardware store.

  Al Burns : Yeah, so, you find him?

  Roe Saunders : Uh, yeah, they found him. Stuffed into a drainage culvert off I-95. M.E. says he's been dead for three days.

  Mike Costello : Three days? That's not possible. We-we talked to him yesterday.

  Roe Saunders : [showing him a photo]  Yeah? Talk to this guy?

  Mike Costello : No, that's not Simons.

  Roe Saunders : Oh, yeah it is. We got positive ID. Prints confirm it.

  Mike Costello : [to Nina]  Well... then who did we talk to?

  Carrie Wells : [realizing]  Sparky.

  Mike Costello : Nah, I saw Collins when we brought in his body. He didn't look anything like that guy.

  Roe Saunders : Want one more wrinkle? It's from Simons' autopsy.

  [he shows them a photo with a phone number carved in the vic's back] 

  Roe Saunders : Those numbers.

  Joanne Webster : That's a phone number.