Unforgettable (TV Series)

Reunion (2014)

Dylan Walsh: Al Burns

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• Joanne Webster : Well, cause of death isn't a mystery. Crushed parietal bone and avulsion of the cranium. Somebody bashed his head in. Any of your classmates arrive with a lead pipe?

  Carrie Wells : Maybe my history teacher, Professor Plum.

  Al Burns : Candlestick might also work.

• Carrie Wells : I'm not coming out.

  Al Burns : Carrie, it was twenty years ago. You're gonna be fine.

  Carrie Wells : These are mean people, Al. They locked me in a closet with Joey Falks.

  Al Burns : You've disarmed terrorists, faced down assassins.

  Carrie Wells : This is high school, and no terrorist or assassin ever voted me "most likely to be single forever."

  Al Burns : Really? That's what you got?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah.

  Al Burns : Look, I won't let 'em pick on you.

  Carrie Wells : Promise?

  Al Burns : I promise. Now, come on, it'll be an adventure.

• Carrie Wells : Oh, my god. It's Hank Bronski.

  Al Burns : Hank who?

  Carrie Wells : Hank Bronski, prom king, quarterback.

  Al Burns : Are you blushing?

  Carrie Wells : Now he's coming over. Let go. Let go.

• Hank Bronski : Al Burns? Hank Bronski. You partnered with my uncle in the Syracuse PD. Dave Corwin?

  Al Burns : Dave Corwin. Son of a bitch. How's he doing?

  Hank Bronski : Great. He used to tell the story about the time that you climbed... Hank Bronski. It's very nice to meet you, Mrs. Burns.

  Carrie Wells : No, I'm... you actually went to school with me. Carrie Wells.

  Hank Bronski : Carrie Wells. Wait, Scary Carrie?

  Al Burns : Scary Carrie?

  Carrie Wells : Oh. No-no one calls me that anymore.

  Hank Bronski : You were my number one will-be.

  Al Burns : Not sure I like the sound of that.

  Hank Bronski : It means "will be hot."

  Carrie Wells : Aw.

  Hank Bronski : I guess I was dead-on.

• Al Burns : So, Carrie mentioned you played quarterback. What kind of team you have?

  Hank Bronski : Oh, pretty good. We went to state finals against Troy.

  Carrie Wells : Yeah, he threw for 387 yards and three touchdowns.

  Hank Bronski : I'm honored that...

  Al Burns : Easy there, Namath. She remembers everything.

• Al Burns : Who are the screamers?

  Hank Bronski : Ah. Bella Krebs. She's the one on the left. She was my girlfriend sophomore year. The other is Melanie Latham. They were kind of best friends/rivals.

  Carrie Wells : More rivals than friends.

  Hank Bronski : Well, Melanie was also my...

  Carrie Wells : Your girlfriend sophomore year, yeah.

  Al Burns : Sounds like a good year. Who didn't you go out with?

• Al Burns : Nice chatting with you, Hank. How'd you let him get away?

  Carrie Wells : Do I detect a note of jealousy?

  Al Burns : Hardly. But for the record, I threw four touchdowns and 457 yards in the state finals.

  Carrie Wells : Oh, that's impressive.

• Al Burns : What's up with that?

  Carrie Wells : Oh, you know that band Locked and Upright?

  Al Burns : Gets a little fuzzy for me after Springsteen.

  Carrie Wells : The lead singer, Lance Burke, he was in our class.

  Al Burns : Ah. So, you and, uh...?

  Carrie Wells : No. Ew.

  Al Burns : Yeah.

  Carrie Wells : No, no, no, no, no. He was a stoner and he never bathed.

• Al Burns : Okay, so we got the, uh, stoners, the jocks, the queen bees. Where'd you fit in?

  Carrie Wells : News flash. I didn't.

• Carrie Wells : Melanie, right?

  Melanie Lambert : Scary Carrie.

  Carrie Wells : No one calls me that anymore.

  Melanie Lambert : I'm Melanie Lambert. I'm sure you weren't in our class.

  Al Burns : No, I went to Central.

  Carrie Wells : Al Burns. You better be careful, Al. Melanie likes quarterbacks a lot.

  Melanie Lambert : Wait. Not *the* Al Burns. Undefeated All-State Champs Al Burns?

  Carrie Wells : Whose reunion is this?

• Carrie Wells : Joey was my only friend in school. This is Al.

  Joey Falk : I heard you were a cop.

  Carrie Wells : Yes.

  Joey Falk : It was on the alumni website. Actually, I run the site.

  Carrie Wells : Well, Joey was, um, president of the A/V Club.

  Joey Falk : And the Carrie Wells fan club.

  Carrie Wells : You know, Al's my-my partner. I was just telling him about you, actually.

  Joey Falk : Not the closet story?

  Al Burns : The closet story?

• CSU Worker : Okay, I got his belongings. 30 bucks still there, keys. Couple of lotto tickets.

  Al Burns : Where's his phone?

  Joanne Webster : He probably left it inside.

  Carrie Wells : No, he was pretty attached to that phone. I mean, he kept showing everyone pictures that were on it.

  Al Burns : I want to lock down the hotel. We need to cover every inch of this place, including everyone at the reunion. Nobody leaves. You think they'll mind?

  Carrie Wells : You think I care? I got this.

• Carrie Wells : So, Bella, did you stay in touch with Tommy after high school?

  Bella Florence : Oh, hardly. I ran into his ex, Tina something, at the new mall in Hampshire a while back. She was complaining he was a deadbeat. That's it.

  Carrie Wells : A-A deadbeat how?

  Bella Florence : Ah, guess he owed her back alimony, bounced a couple of checks. Didn't sound pretty.

  Al Burns : Did she mention anyone else he may have owed money to?

  Bella Florence : Sorry. So sad.

  Carrie Wells : Yeah.

  Bella Florence : This is how we'll remember our 20th reunion.

  Al Burns : No one seems too upset about this guy.

  Carrie Wells : I think Tommy was mostly friends with Hank, and Hank's friends just kind of tolerated Tommy.

• Carrie Wells : Those photos Tommy showed us. I gotta make a phone call.

  Al Burns : Where-where-where you going?

  Carrie Wells : No...

  Al Burns : We got about fifty people to interview.

  Carrie Wells : All right, you-you just take the next one. I'll be back. They're not going anywhere.

• Hank Bronski : You're not thinking I had anything to do with this?

  Carrie Wells : We don't really know what to think at this point, Hank. I mean, it does sound like Tommy was jealous of you.

  Hank Bronski : Mmm.

  Al Burns : How did you get all the girls?

  Carrie Wells : Did he mention anything else? Was that it?

  Hank Bronski : Actually, he talked about tonight, the reunion. I don't know. It was weird. He kept talking about Vicky Lannister, the girl who died in tenth grade. You remember her?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah, yeah, I do. Wh-what was he saying about her?

  Hank Bronski : I don't remember, honestly. It was all part of a rant. He said something would happen tonight that would turn his life around.

  Al Burns : Probably not what he meant. So, how did all this turn into punches being thrown?

  Hank Bronski : I, uh, had to get him out of there, so I guess I pushed him, and he took a swing at me. He gave me no choice. Ask the people at the bar.

  Al Burns : Oh, we will.

• Al Burns : So, who's this Vicky Lannister?

  Carrie Wells : Well, she was... an outsider. Kind of like me.

  Al Burns : So you were friends?

  Carrie Wells : No, not really.

  [flashback sequence] 

  Al Burns : How'd she die?

  Carrie Wells : Hit and run. After Hank's tenth grade graduation party, actually. She was walking along a curvy stretch of road, and...

  Al Burns : She was alone?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah. We had a vigil for her. I remember that at school. Everybody cried. And then life went on.

  Al Burns : You were 16.

  Carrie Wells : Still...

• Al Burns : Okay, so far, nothing in Tommy's e-mail or messages. Lots of back and forth with his loan officer. He was definitely cash-strapped.

  Carrie Wells : He has, like, four trillion photos.

  [scrolling through] 

  Carrie Wells : Wait a second.

  Al Burns : What?

  Carrie Wells : There's a picture missing. A jacket.

  Al Burns : Okay, so the guy had a picture of a jacket.

  Carrie Wells : I've seen the jacket before.

  [remembering a high school party she attended] 

  Carrie Wells : Vicky was wearing the jacket the night she died.

  Al Burns : The same kind of jacket?

  Carrie Wells : The exact jacket.

  Al Burns : Tonight, a picture of that jacket is deleted from Tommy's phone.

  Carrie Wells : What if there was more to Vicky's death than just a hit and run? Tommy knew about it, and it got him killed?

  Al Burns : Told you tonight would be an adventure.

• Eliot Delson : Problems with the monitor, Jay?

  Al Burns : Eliot, it's the murder at the St. Dimas. Carrie knew all those people.

  Eliot Delson : Al, please. We're called Major Crimes for a reason. It's major to you guys, it's major to me.

  Al Burns : That's nice.

  Eliot Delson : Of course, we host 1,200 reunions a year, which brings in millions of dollars worth of revenue.

  Al Burns : Okay, a little less nice.

  Eliot Delson : And it's hard enough to face down your tortured adolescence without getting your brains bashed in.

  Joanne Webster : [entering]  Ooh, and bashed they were. I've confirmed the murder weapon to be a standard issue claw hammer. Lacerations to the middle meningeal artery and perforating injury to the brain.

  Jay Lee : Not the most efficient way to kill somebody.

• Joanne Webster : Do you realize that more people were killed with hammers last year than with rifles?

  Al Burns : Not to mention all those smashed thumbs.

  Eliot Delson : So we're thinking blackmail. Maybe. Guy knows something about the girl's death, he comes to the reunion to squeeze whoever's responsible.

  [seeing Jo's look] 

  Eliot Delson : What?

  Joanne Webster : I'm surprised. You came up with a theory.

  Al Burns : And not a bad one, actually. Explains the hammer. Weapon of convenience.

  Joanne Webster : We also found steel shavings under the cranium, so you find me the hammer, and we can trace it to the body.

  Al Burns : I'll check with the hotel, see if any employees have lighter tool kits than ususal.

• Cherie Rollins-Murray : We're getting stuff in from Syracuse. That's the Vicky Lannister crime scene from twenty years ago.

  Carrie Wells : Wait a second. Where's the jacket? She was wearing that jacket when she left the party, I'm sure of it.

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : Well, that's all they've got. There's definitely no jacket.

  Al Burns : Well, someone must've taken it after they hit her.

  Carrie Wells : Then 22 years later, Tommy Garland shows up at the reunion with a picture of it on his phone. I think he was involved in Vicky's death, or he knew who was.

• Carrie Wells : Al, I remember every minute of high school like it happened yesterday. You know, every loaded word, every sideways glance, but... but I don't think I really understood it.

  Al Burns : I bet you understood enough.

  Carrie Wells : I was such an outsider that I think I spent a lot of my time imagining what other people's lives were like. You were never on the outside in high school.

  Al Burns : I got cut from varsity in ninth grade. That counts.

• Carrie Wells : Do you think, if you and I had gone to high school together, you would have... you would have gone out with me?

  Al Burns : Yeah.

  Carrie Wells : You're lying. You wouldn't have even noticed me, would you?

  Al Burns : I'd have noticed you.

  Carrie Wells : But I was... I was a dork, and-and you were a football star.

  Al Burns : I have a hard time believing you were a dork.

  Carrie Wells : Well, I am glad we did not meet in high school. I think you would have broken my heart.

  Al Burns : Instead, we met as adults and you broke mine.

• Jay Lee : Okay, so Vicky's high school life is proving a little tough to reassemble. She didn't leave much of a footprint. But I followed up on that poetry thing. The school has all their yearbooks online. Turns out, she started a Victorian poetry club, but it only had three other members.

  Al Burns : [sarcastic]  That's a shocker. You get a list of the members?

  Jay Lee : You know I did. Meet Eleanor Yellen, 4.5 GPA. Went on to be an English major at Vassar. And we got Christine Ellis, cellist in the orchestra. But then there's... Greg Zoller. Definitely not a poetry club type. His school record reads like a rap sheet.

  Al Burns : Detentions, suspensions, mostly for fighting. Only class he got higher than a "C" in was auto shop. Yeah, this could be our guy. You got a real rap sheet?

  Jay Lee : Still waiting...

  Eliot Delson : Got it. Figured in for a penny, in for a pound, am I right? Behold. An expedited rap sheet on Greg Zoller. A couple of DUIs, burglary. Then, last year, he steps it up. Convicted for assault with a deadly weapon.

  Al Burns : What kind of deadly weapon?

  Eliot Delson : Working at Fast N' Lube outside Albany. Some guy gets on his nerves. Zoller goes after him with the first thing he can find: a claw hammer.

• Carrie Wells : Remember me? Carrie Wells. We were in algebra together 'till you flunked out.

  Greg Zoller : Scary Carrie.

  Al Burns : No one calls her that anymore.

• Carrie Wells : Remember what I said about seeing but not understanding?

  Al Burns : Yeah.

  Carrie Wells : I was sure I saw Vicky in the kitchen wearing this jacket, but it was Bella. What if somebody else made the same mistake?

  Al Burns : Then who wanted to kill Bella?

  Carrie Wells : Someone who was deadly jealous of her... and that. Melanie Lambert.

• Cherie Rollins-Murray : So, the police reports had something about blue paint transfer from the car to Vicky's clothing, right?

  Al Burns : Yeah, we checked with DMV. Neither Tommy nor Melanie had a blue car.

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : But Melanie's Aunt Laura did. A blue '85 Cutlass. It seems Aunt Laura's on a cruise. We're trying to get a hold of her. But the morning after Vicky died, an insurance claim was filed for that Cutlass for front end damage.