Unforgettable (TV Series)

The Following Sea (2012)

Daya Vaidya: Nina Inara

Quotes 

• Nina Inara : Guys, Jordan's rental car left the garage at 11:44. But this is interesting. Manager says an emergency door to the garage from the street was tripped last night around fifteen minutes before.

  Al Burns : They know if it was coming or going?

  Nina Inara : No.

  Al Burns : So, she checks in, runs a shower, then disappears.

  Nina Inara : Yeah, so she got spooked or she got grabbed.

  Carrie Wells : Or both.

• Nina Inara : You really don't think there's a case without her testimony?

  Al Burns : The problem's always been we can't be sure what happened on that boat.

  Mike Costello : And the only other person on board, Hagan's pal Clancy Watts, is gonna back up Hagan's version of the events.

  Al Burns : Which is exactly why Kate Jordan is so critical. Her testimony is that three days before the murder, she witnessed Hagan hit his wife and specifically threaten to throw her into the river.

  Nina Inara : Yeah, yeah yeah...

  Al Burns : That's violence and an actual death threat.

  Nina Inara : Yeah, lots of guys say they're gonna kill their wives, but how are you guys gonna prove that he actually went through with it?

  Roe Saunders : Currents.

  Nina Inara : Excuse me?

  Roe Saunders : Well, more precisely, current patterns. Here. D.A.'s office prepared this for the trial. It's a 3-D representation of what we think happened the night of the murder. "Avatar" it's not, but I think it gives "Tintin" a run for the money.

• Al Burns : Hagan says he invited Nora out for a romantic cruise. Clancy Watts comes along to crew. Watts says at 9:30, Nora went topside to get some fresh air after too much champagne. Watts and Hagan start up a poker game down in the cabin. Hagan says he checked on Nora every fifteen minutes. Watts will testify he could hear Hagan talking to her until 10:15, when Hagan went to check and then came running back down to tell him Nora was gone. They called the Coast Guard. They start searching.

  Mike Costello : The only problem is, we know that she went over thirty minutes before Hagan said.

  Nina Inara : How do you figure?

  Roe Saunders : Like I said.

  Mike Costello : Current patterns. If she'd gone over when they claimed, she'd have drifted up into the Sound. Instead, she washed up on the lovely shores of Queens.

  Roe Saunders : Plus, there's the matter of the deck railing. Nora Hagan was 5'2". The railing on the deck came up to four inches below her chin. There's no way you go over that by accident.

  Mike Costello : But with a little help...

  Nina Inara : Okay, so then why didn't you guys just show this to the jury?

  Mike Costello : Judge ruled it inadmissible. She said that it was too prejudicial.

  Al Burns : Which is why we need Kate Jordan.

• Nina Inara : Got the rundown on the hotel phone. Kate did call Clancy Watts yesterday afternoon around 3:00.

  Al Burns : Nice of him to mention that to Mike and Roe.

  Nina Inara : Yeah. Perhaps more importantly, she got a call herself later, only seven minutes before the emergency door got tripped at the hotel garage.

  Al Burns : We know from who?

  Nina Inara : Burner cell. Trying to track it.

  Al Burns : Nice work.

• Nina Inara : You called?

  Joanne Webster : Where's Wells?

  Nina Inara : Um, she's working undercover, so she asked me to see if I could help.

  Joanne Webster : And you are?

  Nina Inara : The one who hates it when people don't remember her name.

• Joanne Webster : Do you swim, Detective?

  Nina Inara : Never learned.

  Joanne Webster : The Talmud says a parent's most important job is to teach their children to swim.

  Nina Inara : Literally or figuratively?

  Joanne Webster : I'm a good swimmer. In a pool, two miles. Open water, a little over a mile. Nora Hagan was from a fishing dynasty on City Island, so, undoubtedly, she could swim. And according to the autopsy, she was much more fit than I. So, with summer waters and favorable currents, she never made it to the shore. How come?

  Nina Inara : There another Talmud story coming?

  Joanne Webster : [amused laugh]  The gas chromatography tox results are in. She did have tropane alkaloids in her system. The old M.E. who, not to cast aspersions, was a moron, indicated scopolamine. Seasickness meds. Common stuff.

  Nina Inara : Yeah, that does seem a little strange for a woman who spends her whole life on the water.

  Joanne Webster : Indeed. So, I want you to sign this request giving me the opportunity to run a very different and very expensive test.

  Nina Inara : I should probably ask the lieutenant.

  Joanne Webster : [offering a pen]  Or you could swim.

• Roe Saunders : Okay, so here's my theory. Kate Jordan comes into town, Hagan gets his buddy Clancy to be the bait, he gets her out of her hotel room, they take a drive, end of Kate Jordan.

  Nina Inara : Well, I took another run at Gwen, the ex-roommate. She admitted Kate and Clancy had a pretty heavy affair before Nora Hagan was murdered. She said they broke up 'cause Clancy wasn't happy that Kate was gonna be a witness against Hagan.

  Mike Costello : Well, of course Gwen never mentioned any of this to Al.

  Nina Inara : Yeah, well, for what it's worth, she says she kept quiet 'cause she still thinks that Clancy's a good guy, that he would never hurt Kate.

  Al Burns : He's not a good guy; he's a scumbag. We got two murdered women. Clancy Watts is dead center both times. He was on that boat, he lied to save Hagan's ass, and now he's killed for him.