Law & Order (TV Series)
Bounty (2003)
Jerry Orbach: Detective Lennie Briscoe
Quotes
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Detective Ed Green : [holding blood-stained ashtray in hotel room] Looks like a couple of cracks to the skull with this did the trick.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : That's why I always get a non-smoking room.
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Detective Lennie Briscoe : A phone interview with a notorious fugitive's gotta add a couple of numbers to your paycheck. A follow-up interview might even move the decimal point.
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[to a reluctant witness]
Detective Lennie Briscoe : There's no such thing as hooker-client confidentiality.
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Serena Southerlyn : The courts used a balancing test, and the people's right to know came out on top.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : What about the people's right to watch a rapist-murderer rot?
Detective Ed Green : Uh-oh. Slippery slope time, Lennie.
Serena Southerlyn : Well, Albany stopped the slide for good with a statute that says we can't force a reporter to disclose anything a source tells him in confidence.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : So it's Take a Felon to Dinner Week all year long?
Detective Ed Green : Yeah, as long as you write about it afterwards.
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Detective Ed Green : This Mitch Maas is a piece of work. Ten million dollar trust fund and he's out date raping ski bunnies.
Anita Van Buren : You think he graduated to murder?
Detective Lennie Briscoe : Nah. Guys on the run don't make house calls.
Anita Van Buren : Tell me something. You come into a strange town, what's the first thing you do?
Detective Lennie Briscoe : Search the Yellow Pages for the best rib joint.
Anita Van Buren : You call home, the office; someone to let them know you made it okay. You said this guy Bobcat made only one call from his room to the call girl. I'm thinking even bounty hunters have families.
Detective Ed Green : So one of the personal items take from the hotel room might have been a cell phone.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : On which he called itch scratcher number two.
Anita Van Buren : You got the name, look up the number.
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Anita Van Buren : You run the piece?
Detective Ed Green : Not registered. We're checking where it began its life. Look, she already had him tied up. If all she wanted was what he had in the room, she didn't have to kill him.
Anita Van Buren : If she didn't want to be IDed, she did.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : Believe me. Guys who are into what this guy was into don't file too many complaints.
Anita Van Buren : Check with SVU anyway.
Detective Ed Green : We did. No similar M.O.s, and latents led nowhere.
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Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Last meal, chili dogs.
Detective Ed Green : Mustard and relish?
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Tabasco.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : In that neighborhood, that's fine dining.
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Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : No defensive wounds.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : That's odd.
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Yeah, the fun part for these guys is the struggle after they've been tied up.
[seeing Ed's expression]
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Or so I've heard.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : Guy checks into a sleazeball hotel on 10th Avenue, pays cash, has chili dogs for dinner... doesn't strike me as a guy who'd waste twenty bucks on a manicure. Elementary, my dear Rodgers.
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Detective Lennie Briscoe : The manager's a bust.
Detective Ed Green : Same with the neighbors. He's been dead two hours, tops. There's no clothes or luggage in the closet.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : Tell me we found a driver's license.
Detective Ed Green : Not that lucky.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : No business cards?
Detective Ed Green : Man, not even a toothbrush.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : I have a feeling whoever did this has strict rules against kissing on the mouth.
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Detective Lennie Briscoe : Forensics says the latents in Rovelli's hotel room aren't even close to Maas's.
Detective Ed Green : Tell you what: Kellogg can write. Listen to this. "I imagine Maas sitting wherever he was, in some coffee shop in Houston, some gas station in Tampa, the tic over his left eye starting to flutter uncontrollably as he started to bare his soul."
Detective Lennie Briscoe : So did he cop to raping the girls?
Detective Ed Green : Claims that they were after his money from the get-go.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : A rich rapist claiming frame. That's original.
Detective Ed Green : You know what bothers me?
Detective Lennie Briscoe : Besides the Mets?
Detective Ed Green : I read all of these articles, the police reports, the witness depositions. Not one of them mentions a tic fluttering over Maas's eye.
Detective Lennie Briscoe : Poetic license.
Detective Ed Green : Maybe. Or Kellogg met with him face to face.