Unforgettable (TV Series)

Trajectories (2011)

Greg Serano: Detective Ben Cortez

Quotes 

• Detective Ben Cortez : These are arrest photos of known members and associates of DKK, Dominican Killa Kings. That's the gang that Marisa ran with. They recruit mostly out of high schools. They're carving out their territory in northern Queens and now the Bronx.

  Nina Inara : What about that other gang, uh, QB-6?

  Detective Ben Cortez : Queens-Bronx Six. Let me put it this way: DKK traffics narcotics and occasionally shoots somebody. QB-6 traffics narcotics, guns, people. They do hits for hire, arson; and that's all on a good day.

• Carrie Wells : You used a seventeen year old girl as a confidential informant?

  Detective Ben Cortez : She was helping us build a case against DKK.

  Al Burns : She was informing on her own gang?

  Detective Ben Cortez : For about a month, yes.

  Carrie Wells : Well, no wonder you looked so shocked when you saw her on the ground. You got her killed.

• Carrie Wells : Tito's telling the truth; he wasn't armed and he didn't run.

  Al Burns : You sure about this?

  Carrie Wells : We didn't find the murder weapon at the scene. I saw that officer frisk him. At that point, he did not have a gun, which means he couldn't have shot Clayburn.

  Al Burns : So Clayburn was wrong.

  Carrie Wells : Either that or he's lying.

  Detective Ben Cortez : Okay, assuming you're remembering right and Tito didn't shoot Clayburn...

  Al Burns : She's remembering right.

• Detective Ben Cortez : I just wanted to set the record straight on Marisa. I told you that if I had to do it over again, I would've said no. But the fact is, I'm not so sure.

  Carrie Wells : You're not so sure.

  Detective Ben Cortez : This is a hellish job, trying to stop children from killing children. And I say god bless Jim Clayburn for everything he does, but unless those kids see things another way, it's never gonna stop. And you and I can't show that to them. Only the Marisas can do that.

  Carrie Wells : Not anymore she can't.

  Detective Ben Cortez : Don't be so sure. Anyway, I just wanted to be honest with you.