Unforgettable (TV Series)

Throwing Shade (2014)

Dallas Roberts: Eliot Delson

Quotes 

• Eliot Delson : I'd like you to meet Manhattan Borough President Robert Bright.

  Robert Bright : Well, it's an honor to have you. Your boss and I go way back. Yeah, we were once called "young punks" in the mayor's office, back in the day.

  Carrie Wells : Wow, "punk" is not a word I would associate with Eliot.

  Robert Bright : I have pictures.

• Eliot Delson : You get very far tracking O'Bannon?

  Jay Lee : I'm combing through closed circuit footage, trying to fill in the last month of his life; restaurants, clubs. Traced a credit card receipt last week to this place. Jeffrey's, over on 49th Street.

  Eliot Delson : Yeah, I know it.

  Jay Lee : Looks like we got nothing on O'Bannon going inside, but maybe he entered through the back. Now... that's the time from the receipt. I'm waiting to see if there's anybody who has ties to the skyscrapers or the trash contracts who might have been going in or out.

  Eliot Delson : [spotting something]  Can you...

  Jay Lee : So far, I got nothing.

  Eliot Delson : Can you widen out right there, at the curb?

  Jay Lee : The car?

  Eliot Delson : Yeah.

  Jay Lee : Yeah. Holy smokes, that's a classic. They stopped making 'em in '74. See? I told you, boss; disco killed everything.

• Robert Bright : Why are you doing this? Look, whatever it is you think you're looking for, it won't stick. You're just... you're burning a bridge here, a bridge that can still lead to our dream. Remember? Me in the mayor's office. You, police commissioner. We can still live that dream; we will. Think of the good we can do for this town.

  Eliot Delson : Yeah. What about what we can do for Amanda? You knew about the skyscraper deal, everything... that's why she's protecting you, right? So once you become mayor, you can repay the favor. It's enough, Bob. It's enough. Dave had nothing to do with it, did he?

  Robert Bright : [pulling him in close and whispering in his ear]  You know what's gonna happen, Eliot, don't you?

  Eliot Delson : Yeah, I know. I don't care.

• Carrie Wells : Eliot, what happened in 1998?

  Eliot Delson : I used to blame it on us being young. But now I'm thinking... that's just who we are. We were... interns - me, Bright, and Dave - for a, uh, senator. Doesn't matter who. He loved us. He gave us that atrocious nickname, the Three Amigos. Anyway, one night, uh, I get a call, 4:00 in the morning. He's in Hell's Kitchen and something's gone wrong. We go down and... find him in a room there with a, um... well, with a girl who had... been careless with her opiates. She fell asleep, never woke up. He didn't know what to do. We did. We made sure nobody knew he was there. And going forward, whenever we needed a favor... well, the senator was there for us.

  Al Burns : That was a long time ago.

  Eliot Delson : Doesn't seem that way to me.

• Declan Macauley : My family's had the hauling contract for Yankee Stadium going on 40 years. They gave us all a bunch of tickets to the first...

  Carrie Wells : Second.

  Declan Macauley : ...second game of the World Series. I invited Dave. He brought you along, as well.

  Eliot Delson : Yeah, but I-I never went.

  Declan Macauley : Sure, you did. There were fifteen of us. We stayed 'til the very last out. We went back to my place. Everybody remembers how excited you were.

  Carrie Wells : What else?

  Declan Macauley : It was such a special night... you kept your ticket stub.

  Eliot Delson : What a thoughtful gift.

  Al Burns : You got a pretty good memory.

  Declan Macauley : It's what I'm known for.

  Carrie Wells : That's funny. Me, too.

  Eliot Delson : Thank you.

  Declan Macauley : It's what Dave would have wanted.