Person of Interest (TV Series)

The Perfect Mark (2013)

Taraji P. Henson: Officer Jocelyn 'Joss' Carter

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Quotes 

• Joss Carter : So, what's your story?

  John Reese : You first.

  Joss Carter : I'm following an HR lead. They wanna whack a Swedish antique dealer for screwing up their money laundering.

  John Reese : That's funny. I'm on a con man therapist who happens to have a Swedish antique dealer as a patient.

  Joss Carter : I'll pretend that makes sense.

• Officer Mike Laskey : I stuck to the guy like glue. This is everyone Simmons met with.

  Joss Carter : Thanks, kid, you did all right. But you should know, it'll get harder out there. After these last few days, things are gonna heat up. So you need to be prepared.

  Officer Mike Laskey : When I got involved with HR, I thought it was about loyalty. I was wrong. It's about murder and greed.

  Detective Raymond Terney : [Interrupts]  Well, ain't that cozy. I should've known she'd turn you, rookie. The first time I saw you, I knew you were weak. So let me tell you how the world works now, kid. We kill her or they kill us.

  [Pulls his gun] 

  Joss Carter : That decision is gonna be your last, Terney.

  [She pulls her gun as well, a second too late - Terney shoots Laskey. Carter shoots him back] 

  Joss Carter : No! Laskey?

  [he's gone, Carter moves to Terney with the stack of photos] 

  Joss Carter : That much blood, and you'll be dead in a minute, maybe two. Make 'em count. Who do you and Simmons report to? Who calls the shots? Is the answer in these pictures, huh? Last chance, Terney! Be a cop!

  [Terney points to the photo of Alonzo Quinn] 

• Officer Mike Laskey : You were right, Carter. They would never let her go. Make it look good.

  Sameen Shaw : Remember, the aim shouldn't be to hurt him, just incapacitate him a little. Also, watch your knuckles. I've punched a lot of guys

  Joss Carter : [Punches out Laskey]  So have I.

• Carl Elias : You haven't touched your wine, Joss. You're off duty.

  Joss Carter : I'm always on duty.

• Carl Elias : The antique dealer cycles the dirty Russian money into his own accounts and waits for instructions. Then he heads to the auction house, where he's told to bid on a certain high-priced item, an item auctioned off by a seller representing HR. The Swede bids the highest, and all of that dirty money is deposited into HR's coffers, squeaky clean and laundered, and ready for digital distribution.

  Joss Carter : But I don't get it. They haven't laundered the money. They've just bought an overpriced baseball.

  Carl Elias : All the items HR auctions off may have been appraised for millions of dollars, but they're really just fugazis, fakes, worthless junk.

  Joss Carter : So HR gets Russian money for nothing?

  Carl Elias : It's a perfect system, till someone on the outside knows about it.

• Officer Mike Laskey : Carter, I've been thinking. That antique dealer, I can't just kill someone. When I got involved with HR, I didn't think...

  Joss Carter : No, you didn't think. You just looked the other way.

  Officer Mike Laskey : I can't do that anymore. And you're the only person I've got on my side right now.

  Joss Carter : I'm not on your side. But I'm also not letting a homicide happen under my watch. So, tomorrow, you're calling in sick.

  Officer Mike Laskey : I am?

  Joss Carter : Yeah, see you just got a new job. Tomorrow, you're Simmons's shadow. Wherever he goes, you go. Whoever he meets with, you get pictures of. See, we just tapped into their piggy bank. Now I wanna know who's running the bank.

• Joss Carter : How'd you even get into this mess?

  Sven Vanger : Seven months ago, I got in trouble with the customs here in New York. A cop named Simmons came and said he could make the charges go away if I helped them launder cash for a few Russian associates of theirs. At first, it was just a few hundred thousand each month. Then it became more and more - *millions*! I got rid of the last cash today.

  Joss Carter : On lot 426?

  Sven Vanger : How did you know about that?

  Joss Carter : Hayden played you. He switched out your emails, and made you bid on the wrong item today.

  Sven Vanger : Then what did I purchase?

  Joss Carter : A real ball, signed by the real 1927 Yankees, really worth 4. 4 million.

  Lionel Fusco : That was a hell of a season.

• Lionel Fusco : So we're faking crime scenes now? A long way from your days back at the Eighth.

  Joss Carter : You might want to spread it out. Arterial sprays are erratic.

  Lionel Fusco : You wanna let me work? I'm going for a kind of a hollow-point special kind of motif.

• Lionel Fusco : Just heard from my source in HR, Simmons knows they get ripped off. All this baseball stuff, you should've called me in sooner. I'm kind of a Mets fan, though.

  Joss Carter : Somewhere in the city, your soda kid's walking around with a zillion-dollar baseball in his pocket.

  Lionel Fusco : With HR looking for the ball.

  Joss Carter : And the young man has no idea.

  Lionel Fusco : Let's hope he don't play catch.