Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (TV Series)

Manhunt (2001)

Ice-T: Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola

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• Officer Cheryl Baxter : We computerized the county records a few years ago. If either Kern or Cokely owns land here, it'll show up in the tax rolls.

  Odafin Tutuola : Damn. How come we don't have this kind of software?

  Officer Cheryl Baxter : You could always head down to the basement and go through the big books if that'd make you feel more at home.

• John Munch : [to Fin]  Eight months of the cold shoulder, now I can't shut you up. So why'd you leave Narcotics?

  Fin Tutuola : My partner took a bullet that was meant for me. Sort of took all the fun out of it. Why'd you leave Homicide?

  John Munch : I came back from Baltimore after my last marriage broke up. The only opening in my bracket was SVU. Seen enough dead bodies, figured the change would do me good. Little did I know, it's the living victims that rip your guts out.

• Fin Tutuola : [at a fish market to question a suspect]  How desperate does somebody gotta be to take a gig in a place like this?

  John Munch : Worked here when I was a kid. Made good money, too.

  Fin Tutuola : What'd you do with all your money? You can't tell me women wanted to get with you after a day in a flower shop like this.

  John Munch : Two words: Aqua Velva.

  Fin Tutuola : Come again?

  John Munch : Fishmonger's best friend. After a hot shower, slather some of that on. Smell like Vic Damone.

  Fin Tutuola : More like a mackerel and some cheap aftershave.

• Odafin Tutuola : [arriving in Walden Falls]  Where's Opie?

  John Munch : Probably gone fishing.

  Odafin Tutuola : Speaking of which, you look a little green around the gills.

  John Munch : Well, maybe it's because riding with you is like taking a four-hour spin on the Tilt-O-Whirl.

  Odafin Tutuola : I told you to take the Dramamine.

  John Munch : I hate pills.

  Odafin Tutuola : So you'd rather puke.

  John Munch : I'm not going to puke, but you could use a road course on driving in hazardous conditions.

  Odafin Tutuola : I kept it on the road.

  John Munch : Barely.

• John Munch : How could we be so stupid?

  Odafin Tutuola : We weren't the only ones. Even Aunt Mary thinks he's a hero.

  John Munch : Yeah, well, Aunt Mary's a few tea bags shy of a full pot.

• Odafin Tutuola : I still don't see why the city couldn't spring for two rooms.

  John Munch : 'Cause they're cheap. D.A. wants to redecorate her office with antiques and Berber rugs, and we got to beg for table scraps.

  Odafin Tutuola : In Narcotics, we always got our own rooms; sometimes entire apartments.

  John Munch : How's that?

  Odafin Tutuola : Undercover. Got to create entirely new identities. You know, apartments, bank accounts, the whole works. One time I was under for seven weeks. Had a nice little duplex in the Village. After we bust the dope ring, I gotta move back to my little cracker box one-bedroom in Brooklyn. First week home, I kept bumping into my own furniture.

  John Munch : This place must make you feel right at home.

  Odafin Tutuola : Not exactly. I got a nice entertainment system, surround sound, and widescreen TV.

• Fin Tutuola : The Bowery Stalker.

  John Munch : One and the same.

  Fin Tutuola : I haven't heard about this guy in a long time.

  John Munch : Not long enough.

• Fin Tutuola : How long you think the Stalker will keep her alive?

  John Munch : Until he's finished with her.

• John Munch : That's a hell of a tattoo you got there, Frankie.

  Frank Taggart : It's an original.

  Odafin Tutuola : Your design?

  Frank Taggart : Elmo's Tats on 8th. What the hell do you care?

  John Munch : Where were you last night between 11:00 and midnight?

  Frank Taggart : Rusty's Bar in the Alphabet.

  Odafin Tutuola : Can you prove it?

  Frank Taggart : The barstool near the door has a permanent imprint of my ass. Feel free to check it out.

• John Munch : I was sure we had him. What the hell are we missing?

  Odafin Tutuola : I was just thinking: Taggart said his tattoo was an original.

  John Munch : Right. Elmo's Tats on 8th.

  Odafin Tutuola : I wonder how many Elmo originals are walking around Manhattan.

• John Munch : Kern's E-Z pass statements show periodic travel along the same route dating back to last June. From Manhattan, he goes across the Triborough Bridge onto the Thruway, across the Tappen Zee, north to Utica where he exits onto Route 12 north.

  Odafin Tutuola : Credit cards show him gassing up his '92 Pathfinder along Routes 12 and 11 all the way up to Walden Falls, a pit stop of a town twenty miles northeast of Watertown.

  John Munch : Two days later, he takes the same route back to the city.

  Odafin Tutuola : Seven women went missing within a day of each of these trips.

  Elliot Stabler : You got a lot of unspoiled wilderness up there.

  Donald Cragen : Well, there's only one way to find him. Munch, Fin, pack your bags. You're going on a road trip.

• Frank Taggart : Am I being charged with something here or are we just shooting the breeze?

  Odafin Tutuola : We got witnesses that place you and your original tattoo outside a diner on Canal Street grabbing a girl and pistol-whipping her friend.

  Frank Taggart : I was nowhere near the place.

  John Munch : Just like you were nowhere near your girlfriend's place the night you beat the crap out of her?

  Frank Taggart : That was a misunderstanding.

  John Munch : You put your fist right through her teeth.

  Frank Taggart : And I did my time, and I ain't been near the bitch since.

• John Munch : Bartender at Rusty's said Taggart ducked out around 11:00 the night of the abduction.

  Odafin Tutuola : Gets him to the diner with time to spare.

  Donald Cragen : Well, what about the 4x4?

  John Munch : Nothing registered to him.

  Odafin Tutuola : Doesn't mean he didn't steal one.

  Donald Cragen : Well, get all the witnesses down here for a lineup, including Sarah Kimmel.

  John Munch : It's been almost a year.

  Donald Cragen : He held her in that warehouse for two days. I doubt she's gonna forget his face.

• Alexandra Cabot : [as Canadian authorities transfer custody of Darryl Kern to U.S. authorities]  Detectives, take custody of the prisoner.

  Fin Tutuola : Darryl Kern, you're under arrest for the murders of Ernest Dillman, Arnold and Amanda Cokely, and Annie Tassler.

  John Munch : [Coming face to face with the prisoner, Detective Munch smiles]  Welcome home, Darryl.

  [the prisoner is then led away] 

  John Munch : [Speaking now to A.D.A. Cabot]  Thanks.

  [A.D.A. Cabot smiles and nods her head "Yes"]