Unforgettable (TV Series)

Trajectories (2011)

Dylan Walsh: Al Burns

Quotes 

• Carrie Wells : Good morning.

  Al Burns : Morning. Where are you?

  Carrie Wells : At my desk.

  Al Burns : Where are you really?

  Carrie Wells : I'm actually at my desk.

  Al Burns : Hey, look, pigs are flying.

  Carrie Wells : Very funny. I got a new alarm clock, you know. It brews coffee and picks out my outfit.

• Al Burns : Hundreds of people around, nobody will admit to seeing it go down. Rec center was sponsporing a tournament for all the borough's youth league teams. First game had just started when the shooting happened.

  Carrie Wells : Which was when?

  Al Burns : Uh, twenty, twenty-five minutes ago.

  Roe Saunders : We got the perimeter locked down?

  Al Burns : Security on the scene did the best they could. I'm sure they lost some people after the shooting.

  Carrie Wells : [looking around]  Let me guess. That camera's not working.

  Al Burns : Yeah, apparently the neighborhood kids use it for target practice.

• Carrie Wells : [after a shooting at the scene of a shooting]  Do we know who this is?

  Al Burns : No, but he's wearing QB-6 gang colors.

  Roe Saunders : Yeah, we got guns dumped all over the place. Seven so far. Looks like some were fired, some weren't.

  Carrie Wells : Smart. Don't want to get caught carrying here.

  Al Burns : Ballistics will be working overtime tonight. This is officially a nightmare.

• Al Burns : Clayburn works with gang kids. We got at least one gang shooting. Maybe we can cross "accidental victim" off our list.

• Al Burns : So, according to her mother, Marisa Perez knew Jim Clayburn. He helped her get into college. When she got into CUNY, she told her mom she was quitting the gang for good.

  Nina Inara : Leaving a gang's hard if those were her friends and if it's all she knew.

  Al Burns : But if she was one of his victories, Clayburn might not have given up so easy. Could be he was going after whoever shot her.

  Mike Costello : Clayburn's out of surgery. They think he's gonna make it.

  Al Burns : Good. What do we have on the two guys we grabbed at the scene?

  Mike Costello : Well, one guy's gun hasn't been fired, and the other one had a .45, and none of the rounds removed from the vics are a match.

  Al Burns : What about the other body, the guy from QB-6?

  Nina Inara : Fingerprints peg him as Oskar Mendoza. Not the kind of boy you want to bring home to mother.

  Al Burns : [looking at his file]  Wow. Guy was dedicated to his chosen career.

  Mike Costello : Which is what, general dickishness?

• Al Burns : If QB-6 killed Marisa and DKK killed Mendoza in retaliation, QB-6 is not gonna let it go. This whole thing could spin out of control.

  Mike Costello : So what are you thinking?

  Al Burns : Time to call in the cavalry.

• 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.

• Al Burns : I just got a call from a lieutentant in the 3-8. Why were your fingerprints lifted after a raid on an illegal poker game in some Chinese restaurant?

  Carrie Wells : They have good dim sum.

  Al Burns : You're a cop!

  Carrie Wells : Yes, whose annual salary doesn't even begin to cover my mother's care.

  Al Burns : That's your excuse? You needed the money for Alice?

  Carrie Wells : Oh, come on, Al. It was a harmless card game.

  Al Burns : It's illegal!

  Carrie Wells : Yes, and I'm sure they arrested a lot of very bad people.

  Al Burns : And you're lucky one of them wasn't you. You'd lose your badge and you'd go to jail. How would your mom be then?

  Carrie Wells : What do you want me to say?

• 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.

• Roe Saunders : When we brought Tito in, he took his phone call. Another perp overheard him ordering a hit on the amigo who got him locked up.

  Al Burns : What amigo?

  Roe Saunders : Tito didn't mention a name.

  Carrie Wells : If Tito handed off his gun to someone else, that someone can tie him to Marisa's murder.

  Al Burns : We better figure out who it is and find 'em before Tito's people do.

• Al Burns : So, uh, about this harmless little card game.

  Carrie Wells : Do we have to talk about that?

  Al Burns : I get the money part, your mom; not saying it's right, but I get it. And since nobody was injured, I'll square things with the 3-8, tell them you were undercover on a case.

  Carrie Wells : Thank you.

  Al Burns : But you and I both know this stuff you do, it's not really for the money.

  Carrie Wells : Maybe not.

  Al Burns : See, I think you get a little bored sometimes. You like to push it a little.

  Carrie Wells : Maybe more than a little.

  Al Burns : Except there's this whole badge thing, you know, what we do here.

  Carrie Wells : Right. I know. I'm gonna work on that.

  Al Burns : Just say you'll be careful.

  Carrie Wells : [with a sigh]  Hmm.

  Al Burns : That a promise?

  Carrie Wells : That's a "hmm."

• Al Burns : [seeing Carrie and Cortez wave goodbye]  Oh. So you're on a waving basis now?

  Carrie Wells : [laughing]  Yeah, it would appear that way.

  Al Burns : He's not your type.

  Carrie Wells : Really?

  Al Burns : Absolutely.

  Carrie Wells : How can you be so sure?

  Al Burns : Because I don't like him.