Unforgettable (TV Series)
Omega Hour (2014)
Dylan Walsh: Al Burns
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Quotes
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Al Burns : How's life at Chez Skinner?
Carrie Wells : There's still hope for some excitement.
Al Burns : Eliot okay with Webster taking my place?
Carrie Wells : Yeah! You know how Jo and Eliot love each other.
Al Burns : You know, if I bail now, I could be there in fifteen minutes.
Carrie Wells : No, you can't. You're the groomsman, Al. I know you want to rub elbows with the mayor, but your loyalty is with Peter and Lacey today.
Al Burns : Going solo to this wedding was a big mistake. I'd make you dance with me if you were here.
Carrie Wells : Aw. But I don't dance.
Al Burns : Okay. I guess I'll just have to dance with Lacey's sister Andrea. She's had a little crush on me for a while, if you recall. You remember her? Of course you remember her, she's beautiful. Even I remember her.
[the phone line beeps]
Al Burns : Carrie?
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Al Burns : ESU estimates there are ten people in the penthouse.
Jay Lee : I don't get it; he's got the mayor of New York in the elevator. Why does he need all the hostages?
Al Burns : Collateral, in case we upset him. You find anything?
Jay Lee : Talked to the contractor. He said Skinner's paranoia led him to build the most secure residential building in New York. You can't see inside the windows from outside, and get this, they're protected against thermal body imagery, which means even snipers can't even inside the damn thing.
Al Burns : Bet he's rethinking that decision.
Jay Lee : And apparently he's such a safety nut, he's got cameras looking at every inch outside the building.
Al Burns : It's a virtual fortress, but there's got to be a way in.
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Carrie Wells : Listen to me, I don't have much time. There's gunmen; they may have taken over the building. I'm on the roof with Jo. They haven't found us yet, but they have ten hostages that I've seen, and they've already shot one.
Al Burns : Eliot, Skinner, and the mayor are trapped in an elevator. The man claiming responsibility says he's gonna drop the elevator if he isn't paid $100 million within the hour.
Carrie Wells : What? Al, who's doing this?
Al Burns : We don't know, but he's seeing everything going on outside. Don't... please, don't be a hero. You're outmanned and outgunned. Stay hidden until we find a way into the building.
Carrie Wells : No, listen to me, Al. If-If you try to breach the building, you'll get us all killed, I guarantee it.
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Al Burns : We're running low on time and options.
Carrie Wells : You have one option. You have me.
Al Burns : You think you saw the guy in charge?
Carrie Wells : Maybe, maybe, I-I don't know.
Al Burns : Think. Just... just think, Carrie.
Carrie Wells : [remembering the party] Two of the gunmen, they were at the party. They were talking to a guy, Caucasian, early 40s, maybe six foot, bald, he was wearing blue-tinted glasses.
Al Burns : I'll see if we can get a hit off that; you lay low.
Carrie Wells : Al, I got ten hostages, four terrorists, and three people trapped in an elevator. I gotta get 'em out. I can't lay low.
Al Burns : They'll drop the elevator before you get near 'em.
Carrie Wells : Wait, wait, wait. What happens if we cut the power?
Al Burns : Right, maybe we activate the elevator's emergency brake. All right. I'll get on that. Listen to me, these guys aren't messing around. Do what you have to, but I need you to walk out of that building, for me.
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Al Burns : Jay found out who we're dealing with. Former banker named Jonathan Brody. He's a nut, and his stunts have gotten more and more violent. If he's threatening hostages, I'd take him seriously.
Carrie Wells : All right. Well, it's time to get everybody out, then.
Al Burns : I was afraid you were gonna say that. You got a plan?
Carrie Wells : Oh, you know, my usual. I'll improvise.
Al Burns : I was afraid you were gonna say that, too.
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Al Burns : We're gonna have to breach the building if Skinner doesn't come up with the money.
Cherie Rollins-Murray : With all those cameras, Omega will know we're coming.
Al Burns : We had to override them.
Jay Lee : We tried cutting the power to the building; Omega was ready.
Al Burns : Okay, but let's say we kill the downtown power grid.
Cherie Rollins-Murray : Like downtown Manhattan?
Al Burns : Wouldn't have any power to draw from.
Cherie Rollins-Murray : Well, I mean, you're gonna tick off a lot of people, but yeah, that would probably work.
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Al Burns : I needed you to walk out of that building, and you did.
Carrie Wells : Well, sometimes I obey your orders.
Al Burns : Sometimes.
Carrie Wells : Yeah. You should've taken me to that wedding.
Al Burns : Yeah, you're telling me.
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Jay Lee : We looked into some of Skinner's finances. So, get this; there's a good reason why Skinner couldn't come up with the money. He doesn't have anything close to $100 million. Not even $10 million.
Tanya Sitkowsky : Skinner Plaza's way over-budget, and Skinner's overleveraged himself. He's pretty much cash-broke.
Al Burns : Dangerous game he was playing bluffing.
Carrie Wells : Yeah, but if we can get into Skinner's finances, then so can Omega. Which means he knew Skinner didn't have any money.
Al Burns : Why hijack a building and try to extort a fortune from a man who doesn't have one?
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Carrie Wells : What could Brody do to temporarily shut down the security systems en masse, and then turn them on again all at once?
Tanya Sitkowsky : Well, when the systems switch back on, they'd be vulnerable while the passwords and protocols reboot.
Jay Lee : Yeah, but why would he break into something he's already in?
Al Burns : If Brody just wanted the power off, why not let us kill it when we tried earlier?
Carrie Wells : Because Skinner Plaza was never his goal. His aim is to get the city to shut off the entire downtown power grid. I mean, look at us, look! We're surrounded by the world's biggest banks, right?
Jay Lee : I told you, it's "Die Hard"!
Carrie Wells : Not quite. He needs the power to come back on so he can put his computer virus into the system. He's not trying to steal money. He's trying to reset the whole financial system by knocking it out altogether.
Al Burns : Then we have to keep the power off 'till we find him.
Tanya Sitkowsky : No, that's impossible. It's not like a lightbulb. The grid's got too much power. You can't stop it from turning on once it's started.
Carrie Wells : All right, what would Brody need to do to get his virus into the system?
Jay Lee : It's just software. All he needs is a laptop and a cell signal, right? He could be anywhere.
Al Burns : There must be some clue somewhere.
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Jonathan 'Alpha Omega' Brody : A simple press of a button, and I change the world.
Al Burns : A simple click of the trigger, and your day gets even worse.
Jonathan 'Alpha Omega' Brody : The ancients believed that fame is immortality. And I'm about to become very, very famous.
Carrie Wells : You like your Greek myths, don't you? You know the story about the Gordian knot?
Jonathan 'Alpha Omega' Brody : Of course. A knot so intricate, no one could untie it.
Carrie Wells : Until Alexander the Great came and cut it in half with a single stroke.
[she shoots his computer, and Al shoots him in the shoulder as he moves for his gun]
Carrie Wells : Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.
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Jonathan 'Alpha Omega' Brody : Lieutenant Burns, my congratulations. You've been chosen by the mayor to be my liaison.
Al Burns : Must be my lucky day.
Jonathan 'Alpha Omega' Brody : Forgive me for rushing through this part. I can see everything outside the building, thanks to her own cameras and the NYPD's vast surveillance network. Come within fifty yards of Skinner Plaza, and the elevator drops. Try to breach the building, the elevator drops. If I see a helicopter, sniper, anything untoward...
Al Burns : The elevator drops.
Jonathan 'Alpha Omega' Brody : Very good. Failure to follow my orders, and all the hostages die. You have 47 minutes to get me my $100 million, Burns. Hail Eris.
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Jonathan 'Alpha Omega' Brody : Cutting the power? Yawn. Is your strategy to bore me to death?
Al Burns : Just wanted to see if you were paying attention.
Jonathan 'Alpha Omega' Brody : You got my attention for the next 34 minutes.
[going into the room where the hostages are and recording the scene on his phone]
Jonathan 'Alpha Omega' Brody : Disobey me again, and I kill hostages. Now, give me my money.
