Unforgettable (TV Series)

You Are Here (2012)

Dylan Walsh: Al Burns

Quotes 

• Mike Costello : You know, just, the last time Spence got in trouble, he called you, so I just thought I'd ask.

  Al Burns : And you think just 'cause he changed his Facebook password, he's in some kind of trouble?

  Mike Costello : Well, it's just, I got a feeling, you know? He's just been acting really secretive lately.

  Al Burns : I thought you guys just had a breakthrough.

  Mike Costello : That was last week.

  Al Burns : Mike, I'm sure Spence is fine. Maybe he just got sick of his password.

• Jay Krause : Fire was pretty much contained to this lab. We think this is Audrey Cruz, research fellow. Been at the lab about a year. There's not much left to see.

  Carrie Wells : [uncovering the victim and covering her nose]  Ugh. How did you ID her?

  Jay Krause : Right now, just keycard entry, but we're gonna use dental records.

  Al Burns : Where's your point of origin?

  Jay Krause : Right here. Lab had gas cannisters, all kinds of flammable liquids.

  Al Burns : You thinking some sort of incendiary device?

  Jay Krause : Oh, it'd be premature to reach that conclusion.

  Carrie Wells : Well, there's a clear blast pattern, and there's residue.

  Jay Krause : We're gonna have it tested.

• Carrie Wells : Are you considering PETN? High brisance, burns hot, big shock wave, explains the windows.

  Jay Krause : Right, but at this point, that's all speculation.

  Al Burns : I'm sensing a reluctance on your part to use the "B" word.

  Jay Krause : You're sensing right, Lieutenant. If we even suggest there was a bomb involved - New York, post 9/11 - I'm gonna have 48 agencies, federal and state, all over my butt. 90% of the time, it's just somebody sneaking a smoke in the wrong place.

  Carrie Wells : Audrey smoke?

  Jay Krause : I'm telling you, absent some kind of positive proof of a bomb, like a-a chemical test or a detonator fragment, it's just a fire.

  Carrie Wells : [remembering arriving at the scene]  So, if I told you where to find a circuit board with a capacitor on it...

  Jay Krause : Yeah, but that's a pretty big "if".

  Carrie Wells : It's out in the hallway, blew right through the windows. This wasn't an accidental fire. We're dealing with a real-life bomber.

• Al Burns : Sinclair Labs. What do we know?

  Mike Costello : Uh, been around since the mid-'90s. They rent space to a dozen private and public clients. Universities, perfume manufacturers, even some defense contractors.

  Al Burns : Anyone pop?

  Mike Costello : Nothing so far.

  Al Burns : Anything yet on the bomb?

  Nina Inara : Webster's analyzing residue.

  Al Burns : How about our victim?

  Mike Costello : Audrey Cruz. She was a grad student at New York Institute of Technology. She had a grant to study the effects of water storage in plastics.

  Al Burns : Leeching?

  Mike Costello : Yeah, it's probably not about her work.

  Al Burns : Anything on the personal side?

  Roe Saunders : I can tell you that Audrey wasn't supposed to be in the lab last night.

  Al Burns : How's that?

  Roe Saunders : Well, after-hours access is only granted by special request. Security guard said she showed up, wanted to get in for just a minute, saying she forgot something.

  Mike Costello : We know what that was?

• Roe Saunders : Pulled this from the security cams in the parking lot. It's just after she got off work. It was a wide angle. We blew it up a little. Okay. She gets this note, she leaves. Three hours later, she comes back. Could be she suspected something was going down.

  Nina Inara : Or she's involved with what's going down.

  [seeing Mike's look] 

  Nina Inara : Well, I'm saying, she's in the lab after hours, right? We got to consider the possibility.

  Al Burns : Hang on. Someone must have left the note. They'd show up on the tape.

  Roe Saunders : Ah, I checked it out. A huge crowd went through around lunchtime. Lots of heads and bodies. Suddenly, there's the note.

  Mike Costello : I'll dump her cell, see who she called after she got it.

  Al Burns : All right, until we learn more, no statements to the press. It's a homicide, that's it.

• Mike Costello : I've gone through all of Audrey's phone records. She didn't call anybody after getting that note. N-Not the police, not S.P.I.

  Al Burns : And she went back to the lab despite the warning.

  Mike Costello : Yeah. Feels like there's a missing piece to this puzzle.

  Al Burns : I think I know who can fill us in. Our friends at S.P.I.

• Al Burns : I'm Lieutenant Burns. I'm running a murder investigation, and you're not cooperating.

  Thom Muso : What can I do for you?

  Al Burns : My victim, Audrey Cruz, got a threat the day she was killed. A threat related to S.P.I.

  Thom Muso : First I'm hearing of it.

  Nina Inara : We need to know what she was working on.

  Thom Muso : Look, our work - all of it - falls under national security guidelines, and until we complete a full...

  Al Burns : Spare the "cover your ass" speech.

  Thom Muso : Look, I want to help, I really do.

  Al Burns : If she was in danger, she deserved to know about it. Her family deserves to know what happened to her.

• Al Burns : How we doing for prints?

  Jay Krause : Not hopeful. These guys say it looks pretty clean.

  Carrie Wells : Was it linked to a radio or a cell phone?

  Jay Krause : No, it had a timer. A good bomber's part chemist, part electrician, and part toymaker. This guy Faraday, he's a triple threat. Definitely deadly.

• Joanne Webster : Persecution, retribution, delusions... all classic paranoid schizophrenic. Onset usually begins late teens, early 20s, when reality and fantasy become interchangeable, almost indistinguishable.

  Al Burns : So, what's his goal?

  Joanne Webster : Think the narrative he's constructing is that little chemical spill at Sinclair was targeted against him. And the routine medical treatment he received at the clinic was a cover-up.

  Al Burns : And Audrey Cruz just got caught in the middle.

  Joanne Webster : Well, I think that part of him that's still connected to reality was actually trying to save her.

  Al Burns : So the bombings are his way of fighting back against imagined enemies, and Faraday is, what, projection, alter ego gone wild?

  Joanne Webster : Very good.

  Al Burns : Date a shrink for a year, something rubs off.

• Al Burns : So... about me and Elaine. It didn't end neat. Fact is... it ended messy.

  Carrie Wells : Yeah, well, the whole "dumping your stuff in a box" thing kind of said 'messy' to me.

  Al Burns : She kicked me out.

  Carrie Wells : Oh.

  Al Burns : The box was her way of saying "don't come back."