Unforgettable (TV Series)

Past Tense (2013)

Poppy Montgomery: Carrie Wells

Quotes 

• Marshall Lebowitz : Detective Wells, your testimony is that, while acting as an undercover police officer, you allegedly purchased illegal narcotics from my client. Is that right?

  Carrie Wells : Yes.

  Marshall Lebowitz : And you've recalled those conversations here today in rather astonishing detail. Haven't you?

  Carrie Wells : Word for word.

  Marshall Lebowitz : Word for word?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah.

  Marshall Lebowitz : Conversations that occurred over a year ago.

  Carrie Wells : October 22, 2011. It was a Saturday. Between 2:44 and 3:16 at Suriyo Thai in Kew Gardens. And then again two days later, in your client's hotel room, between 6:46 and 7:17, when he tried to sell me the drugs.

  Marshall Lebowitz : What, exactly, did you use to refresh your recollection of those conversations?

  Carrie Wells : My recollections don't need refreshing.

  Marshall Lebowitz : So... what, you just... remember them?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah. I remember everything.

  Marshall Lebowitz : Everything?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah. Everything.

• Peter Kingston : Detective, where were you at 2:47 last Friday afternoon?

  Carrie Wells : Walking across the plaza out front of the courthouse here.

  Peter Kingston : Did you, at that time, recognize anyone who is presently in this courtroom?

  Carrie Wells : Yes. Mr. Lebowitz over there and juror number seven, front row, second from the end.

  Peter Kingston : Do you recall what they were doing?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah, Mr. Lebowitz was ordering souvlaki; no peppers, extra onions, and coconut milk, with pulp. And juror number seven was talking to a very pretty young blonde woman.

  Marshall Lebowitz : Your Honor, you can't allow...

  Judge : Easy, Lebowitz. Did you have souvlaki last Friday or not?

  Marshall Lebowitz : I-I don't really...

  Judge : Remember?

  Peter Kingston : What was juror seven wearing at that time, Detective Wells?

  Carrie Wells : Brown pantsuit, cream blouse, Tory Birch flats and a biege silk scarf. You looked very nice.

  Peter Kingston : And the young woman she was with?

  Carrie Wells : Navy blue cardigan, six button down the front, white slacks, black flats, a Prada purse, black Tessuto; a knockoff. I'm sorry, you can tell by the clasp.

  Juror #7 : Oh, my daughter... I told her it was a fake.

  Judge : Anything else, Mr. Lebowitz?

• Al Burns : How'd it go?

  Carrie Wells : Oh, walk in the park. I'm starting to feel bad for these defense attorneys.

  Al Burns : Not the rest of us?

• Al Burns : Bashir Sajadi, 42, cab driver. Took a bullet in the back. These two gentlemen are the ones who found him.

  Carrie Wells : [seeing Eliot]  What's he doing here?

  Al Burns : Commissioner's Office has eyes on this one.

  Eliot Delson : Carrie. Al.

  Carrie Wells : How'd you get all the way to Brooklyn, Eliot? And please tell me it wasn't in that cab.

  Eliot Delson : I came with the commissioner's Joint Task Force. Turns out our victim was one of their informants.

  Al Burns : Sajadi was cooperating in an investigation of a radical mosque.

  Carrie Wells : A terrorist investigation.

  Eliot Delson : Now that they have a high-profile homicide on their hands, they called in Major Crimes.

  Al Burns : Theory is that the two targets of the investigation somehow made Sajadi as a rat and took him out.

  Carrie Wells : So where are the targets now?

  Al Burns : JTF's trying to get eyes on them as we speak.

  Carrie Wells : Trying to get eyes on them?

  Eliot Delson : Easy, Sparky. This is one of over a dozen active terrorist investigations they're running. You can't expect them to have 24/7 surveillance on all of them.

  Carrie Wells : Yeah, well, tell that to Bashir Sajadi.

• Al Burns : Trunk was open, but nothing's missing. Wallet, cell phone; all here. No blood in the cab, either. Looks like they just pulled him out and executed him. Not a place I'd choose to whack someone. Anybody could have made him.

  Carrie Wells : Well, whatever they were planning... it was worth the risk.

• Al Burns : According to Sajadi's ride log, his last fare was a pickup here on Broadway, between 73rd and 74th. No traffic cams. We'll look for other video.

  Carrie Wells : All right. Let's say it was the two terrorists; what are they doing up here? I mean, think about it, there's no obvious targets, landmarks, symbols of New York, nothing.

  Al Burns : Are you kidding? There's a Mango Dog on 71st. Mango Dog *is* New York.

  Carrie Wells : They should use that.

  Al Burns : Busy subway station at 72nd. You could a lot of damage with a couple of assault rifles.

• Carrie Wells : 555-1246, that's your cell phone number?

  Moshin Aziz : Yes. Why are you asking me this?

  Carrie Wells : You called Bashir the afternoon he was murdered.

  Moshin Aziz : Yes, I called him.

  Al Burns : The thing is, we tried to find the records for that phone, only the number wasn't traceable. There a reason for that?

  Moshin Aziz : Untraceable? No. No, I just don't want to pay for an expensive cell phone plan. I pay in cash.

  [handing his phone over] 

  Moshin Aziz : Look, here's my phone. I have nothing to hide.

  Carrie Wells : Why did you call him?

  Moshin Aziz : To see if he wanted to watch a football game with me.

  Al Burns : Football? There's no football in the summertime, Mr. Aziz.

  Moshin Aziz : I mean soccer. There was a game in Prospect Park. It's not a crime to like soccer, is it?

  Carrie Wells : [ribbing Al]  Well, that depends on who you're talking to.

  Al Burns : I got nothing against soccer; I just prefer football.

• Jay Lee : Live feed incoming. They got them up in the Bronx.

  Carrie Wells : How did you get Eliot to agree to this?

  Al Burns : I believe you've experienced my powers of persuasion.

  Carrie Wells : Oh, so you plowed him with mai tais?

  Al Burns : What? That's not how I...

• Carrie Wells : I see you're settling in.

  Joanne Webster : Seems like I never left these burial grounds. Well, you're glowing. Looks like Manhattan agrees with you.

  Carrie Wells : Oh, yeah, well, it's a whole different world, you know?

  Joanne Webster : Oh, it is indeed. The Manhattan dead are a much better class of cadaver. I just autopsied a hedge fund manager, and his arteries still reeked of porterhouse.

• Joanne Webster : The bullet was from a nine-millimeter. The projectile entered and hit the spinal column and fragmented. I noted a slight downward trajectory. There were no defensive wounds, uh, which means he either knew his killer and exited the cab voluntarily, or he was taken out at gunpoint.

  Carrie Wells : If there was no struggle, why the bruise on the forehead?

  Joanne Webster : Now, that was odd, because it's not blunt-force trauma in the strictest sense of the word.

  Carrie Wells : Well, what... what do you mean?

  Joanne Webster : The injury was uniform, so it wasn't from the butt of a gun or pipe or anything like that.

  Carrie Wells : [remembering the crime scene and the arrest of the two suspects]  Could he have hit his head on the side of the cab?

  Joanne Webster : You mean a face-plant?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah. Let's say Sajadi is on his knees, hands behind his head. They shoot him, it propels him forward, he hits his head on the cab.

  Joanne Webster : That could cause the injuries, yeah.

  Carrie Wells : If I'm right, the position he was in is part of an American military detention protocol. Why would terrorists waste time detaining him? They would've just shot him right in the cab.

  Joanne Webster : So you're saying the killer had some sort of military training?

  Carrie Wells : I'm saying whoever it is knew enough to have Sajadi lift his shirt so they could check him for explosives. I think our guy's a soldier.

• Eliot Delson : God, I don't know which is worse, having a terrorist on the loose or accusing one of our own. I don't know. Guys, this seems pretty thin.

  Carrie Wells : It's the best theory we've got right now.

  Eliot Delson : Yeah. If I remember, yesterday's best theory was that our two terrorism suspects were the shooters, who - we now know from questioning - both had alibis.

  Al Burns : Which we never would've known...

  Eliot Delson : When the feds went in after the arrests, they found a weapons stash and, like, a zillion connections to other al-Qaeda operatives, so... I kind of look like a genius.

  Al Burns : [sarcastic]  Oh, you're welcome.

• Eliot Delson : So you're saying our shooter's possible U.S. military?

  Carrie Wells : Yes.

  Eliot Delson : We run with this, there's gonna be pushback.

  Carrie Wells : Well, pushback is my middle name.

  Al Burns : Actually, it's not. Your midde name is...

  Carrie Wells : Okay, don't say it.

  Al Burns : Well, it's a lovely name.

  Carrie Wells : Don't say it.

  Al Burns : Her middle name...

  Carrie Wells : June 5, 1999.

  Al Burns : Oh, you wouldn't.

  Carrie Wells : I have two words for you: Murphy bed.

  Al Burns : Wow.

  Eliot Delson : Guys...

  Carrie Wells : Murphy bed. Oh, yeah.

  Eliot Delson : Guys. Guys, if this is some weird thing you're doing to make me so uncomfortable that I go along with you just to get you out of my office, it is working.

• Major Perkins : So this is about one of our patients?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah. I need you to help me identify someone, a soldier. He's a person of interest in a homicide investigation.

  Major Perkins : Well, who was the victim?

  Carrie Wells : A cab driver. Bashir Sajadi. He left behind a wife, two small children.

  Major Perkins : I'm sorry. And all you know is this soldier served in Afghanistan? Without other parameters, I'm not sure I can help you.

  Carrie Wells : Dr. Perkins, how many soldiers come back from Afghanistan speaking fluent Pashto?

  Major Perkins : Well, it generally takes several tours to build up language proficiency.

  Carrie Wells : There's another parameter. I mean, how many people in your session yesterday did several tours in Afghanistan? Dr. Perkins, I need your help. I'm running out of time here. Please.

• Major Perkins : John suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Actually, I'm not sure calling it a disorder is really accurate. In fact, I think there'd be something wrong if our troops came home and were not profoundly affected by their experience. And in John's case, a particularly devastating experience.

  Carrie Wells : What happened?

  Major Perkins : In his last deployment, he lost his best friend to a suicide bomber. I don't know all the details. I do know that that same blast led to John's traumatic brain injury. He was in a coma for almost a month.

  Carrie Wells : You say you don't know all the details. Why?

  Major Perkins : He says he can't remember.

  Carrie Wells : Can't or won't?

  Major Perkins : John blames himself for his friend's death. That guilt is like a barrier preventing his recovery. His amnesia, delusion even, about the events of that day, willful or not, acts like a kind of... of armor protecting him from the truth. John forgets in order to survive. But only by remembering can he begin to heal.

• Carrie Wells : Where the hell did you get this?

  Jay Lee : Oh, it wasn't that hard, actually. I mean, assuming your ex-girlfriend is an imaging expert at the Pentagon and you give her a GPS location with the exact time and date of what you're looking for.

  Carrie Wells : Oh, you have a girlfriend at the Pentagon?

  Jay Lee : Ex. Yvette. She was a cheerleader when I knew her.

  Carrie Wells : You dated a cheerleader. Nice.

  Jay Lee : Six months, eleven days, and four... you know what? Forget it.

  Carrie Wells : Now you sound like me.

• Al Burns : What's this?

  Carrie Wells : Video surveillance from a drone the day of Curtis' suicide bomber. Jay got it from a cheerleader at the Pentagon.

  Al Burns : There are cheerleaders at the Pentagon?

  Jay Lee : It's a long story.

• Al Burns : You can't go in there.

  Carrie Wells : Curtis thinks he's got the guy who killed his friend. If he doesn't get an answer, he's gonna kill him. I can help him find that answer, Al. You know I can. Here.

  [handing over her gun and seeing his look] 

  Carrie Wells : He's got an M-16 and half a pound of C-4. If he wants to kill me, this isn't gonna stop him.

• Eliot Delson : You okay?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah, I'm fine.

  Eliot Delson : Interesting decision, going in against a guy with a bomb and a gun, unarmed.

  Carrie Wells : A big... big gun.

  Eliot Delson : Yeah, so I heard.

  Carrie Wells : Probably should have called or something, huh?

• Eliot Delson : Thought you should know, I'm putting you up for a blue bar, Medal of Valor.

  Carrie Wells : That... that is... not necessary.

  Eliot Delson : That decision is above your pay grade, Detective.

  Carrie Wells : Okay. Well, it's good for fundraising, huh?

  Eliot Delson : Look, I'm trying to build something special here, something we can all be proud of, and tonight, I could not be more proud.

• Cherie Rollins-Murray : Medal of valor, huh? I saw the memo.

  Carrie Wells : Yeah.

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : It's impressive.

  Carrie Wells : But it wasn't my idea.

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : Mm-hmm.

  Carrie Wells : It was Eliot's idea.

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : You realize what you did was way outside the rulebook.

  Carrie Wells : Yeah, I do.

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : I'm beginning to realize, you sort of got your own rulebook, don't you?

  Carrie Wells : I do,

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : I asked my guy at the FBI if he could pull some strings to get Mrs. Sajadi and her kids their green cards.

  Carrie Wells : Well, I have a feeling that's way outside the rulebook.

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : Yep.

• Al Burns : June 5, 1999.

  Carrie Wells : Really?

  Al Burns : A Saturday night, as I recall.

  Carrie Wells : Just... you should just let this one go.

  Al Burns : That Murphy bed was actually pretty comfortable.

  Carrie Wells : Yeah. It was really comfortable until you flipped it up into the wall with us inside of it. Ouch.

  Al Burns : That's not what you said at the time.

  Carrie Wells : That is what I said. Are you actually challenging my memory?

  Al Burns : I'm challenging your memory.

  Carrie Wells : I said "ouch", and then...?

  Al Burns : Distinctly recall...

  Carrie Wells : I recall something, too.

  Al Burns : A kind of yell.