Unforgettable (TV Series)

Past Tense (2013)

James Hiroyuki Liao: Jay Lee

Quotes 

• Jay Lee : Man on the left is Farhan Hazara. One on the right is Babur Rashad. Hazara is an Afghan national; Rashad is strictly homegrown, born in New Jersey.

  Al Burns : If the guy's a suspected terrorist, how'd he get a work visa?

  Jay Lee : It's all about who you know, right? Rashad worked with Coalition forces as a civilian interpreter. He's currently assigned to the UN.

  Al Burns : What exactly were they being investigated for?

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : I reached out to an FBI agent who's on the terrorism task force; he says both were suspects in a potential weapons purchase. The idea was to set up a buy, and then flip the two targets and move higher up the food chain.

  Al Burns : How does our cab driver fit in?

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : Rashad and Hazara both attend mosque in Brooklyn. The task force believes the mosque was a source of money for the weapons buy.

  Jay Lee : Our cab driver was flagged as a potential asset when he applied for his green card. Basically, he was told his application would be fast-tracked if he agreed to infiltrate the mosque.

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : The problem is, we got nothing to link either of them to this.

  Al Burns : How about a dead cabbie who just happened to be informing against them? There's your link.

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : It's motive, yes. We're gonna need more.

  Al Burns : So let's get more. The task force has eyes on both of these guys now; they're not going anywhere. In the meantime, we work the case through forensics and witnesses just like any other, right? Guy offers to help his new country, takes a bullet for it.

• Cherie Rollins-Murray : Mrs. Sajadi, we know your husband was doing nothing wrong. In fact, he was working with the police to prevent a terrorist attack.

  Mrs. Sajadi : Bashir was working for the police?

  Jay Lee : He was helping in an investigation.

  Mrs. Sajadi : Is that why he was killed?

  Jay Lee : We're not sure. Ma'am, do you recognize either of these men?

  Mrs. Sajadi : No. I've never seen them. I don't understand. Why would Bashir get involved with this?

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : Because he was promised a green card. He did it so that you and your kids could have a chance.

• 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...

• Al Burns : A soldier?

  Jay Lee : Well, according to Carrie's theory, whoever killed Bashir Sajadi put him on his knees with his hands on his head, which is why, when he was shot...

  [playing a computer simulation] 

  Jay Lee : ...he couldn't reflexively brace his fall.

  Al Burns : Interesting theory, but at this point, it's just a cartoon.

  Jay Lee : Whoa, whoa, whoa. A cartoon? No, a cartoon is a series of drawings, my friend. This is a computer-generated, digital-sequenced animation. You really can't compare the two.

  Al Burns : Like comparing "Pinocchio" to, say, "X-Men".

  Jay Lee : Exactly. All right, can I proceed?

  Al Burns : Please.

• Jay Lee : So, I talked to an Army attaché and described the arrest protocol. He said the American military trains its personnel out in the field to place a captive on their knees, with their hands clasped on their head. And to have prisoners lift their shirts to see if they're wearing a suicide vest.

  Al Burns : All right, but anybody could've learned that protocol.

  Jay Lee : I thought so, too, so we checked the bullet. I got Ballistics to trace the firing pin markings on the back of the brass shell, and guess what. The pin most likely came from a Beretta M9.

  Al Burns : Standard issue for the U.S. Army.

• 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.