Unforgettable (TV Series)

Past Tense (2013)

Dallas Roberts: Eliot Delson

Quotes 

• 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 : The passenger's fluency in Pashto probably means the assailant or assailants come from either of these regions in Afghanistan or Pakistan. Which matches the ethnic background of our two terrorism suspects.

  Eliot Delson : Okay. Where's all this coming from, Burns?

  Al Burns : Sorry?

  Eliot Delson : It's just, I can't imagine the 117th in Queens required any kind of geopolitical expertise.

  Al Burns : Oh, you'd be surprised. You want to know the capital of Azerbaijan?

• Eliot Delson : Okay, the problem is, according to the task force's surveillance reports, we can't definitely place their terrorist suspects at our murder scene.

  Al Burns : But nothing says they weren't there. The task force lost track of them for three hours that afternoon.

  Eliot Delson : That's not enough.

  Al Burns : And you already have motive. Sajadi was helping to set these guys up.

  Eliot Delson : Al, I understand you want to go get these guys. I j... I don't think we're there.

  Al Burns : Okay, you don't think so or your task force buddies don't think so?

  Eliot Delson : I don't think I like what you're implying.

  Al Burns : Then I won't imply it; I'll just say it straight up. JTF wants to keep these guys on the street so they can make their weapons sting.

  Eliot Delson : Which makes sense. They've been building it for six months.

  Al Burns : And my guess is they don't give two cents about a dead cabbie. Even one who may have died trying to help them.

  Eliot Delson : Oh, please, it is not that simple.

  Al Burns : What is simple is I got a murder investigation, and I got two suspects I want to talk to.

  Eliot Delson : Fine. I'll see what I can do.

  Al Burns : Not good enough.

  Eliot Delson : Excuse me?

  Al Burns : When you hired me, the deal was I make the tactical calls and you back me up. I'm making this call. Now it's your turn.

• 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.

• 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.