Law & Order (TV Series)

Payback (2004)

Jerry Orbach: Detective Lennie Briscoe

Quotes 

• Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Your cop at the scene wasn't that far off. Based on core temperature and rigor, I estimate time of death to be around midnight.

  Lennie Briscoe : I don't suppose you got a couple of small caliber slugs floating around in there?

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : [handing him an evidence baggie]  Pair of .380s. Hallmark execution. First shot was close contact. Second, inches away. Both seared his scalp.

  Ed Green : Damn, he was right about that, too.

  Lennie Briscoe : Now we'll never hear the end of it.

• Ed Green : Double tap, point blank to the back of the head.

  Lennie Briscoe : .380, nothing at the scene. Shooter must have picked up his brass.

  Ed Green : This victim's a mobbed-up ex-con.

  Lennie Briscoe : This was a hit.

  Ed Green : Has all the earmarks.

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Yeah. Speaking of marks, see that one? On his neck behind the right ear?

  Lennie Briscoe : Crescent moon. Looks like a burn.

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : It's a brand.

  Ed Green : Somebody branded him, like with a hot piece of metal?

  Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Mm-hmm. Postmortem.

  Ed Green : If he is a pro, maybe that's how he signs his work. Like a calling card or something.

  Lennie Briscoe : Have gun, will travel.

• Lennie Briscoe : We're checking open homicides to see if this crescent moon thing crops up.

  Anita Van Buren : His daughter's got a point. Who'd hire a hit for a part time carriage driver?

  Ed Green : Hey, Ident section faxed over Tortino's rap sheet.

  Lennie Briscoe : Yeah, his boss said he'd been away.

  Ed Green : He didn't tell us he did two of a possible ten at Ossining.

  Anita Van Buren : For bookmaking?

  Ed Green : Huh. Burglarly, grand larceny one, possession of stolen goods, assault.

  Lennie Briscoe : It's important to diversify.

• Peter Righetti : Ah, another tough day at the office, huh?

  Peter Righetti : We're on an espresso break. And who are you? O.C. task force?

  Lennie Briscoe : Homicide.

  Peter Righetti : Homicide? You're in the wrong place, Homicide. Steps around the corner are Rizzoni's funeral home.

  Lennie Briscoe : [to Ed]  Ah, this is why they call them "wiseguys".

• Lennie Briscoe : So, this broker...

  Ed Green : Cary Stillman.

  Lennie Briscoe : Just happens to know Tortino and the guy who had him whacked? Small world.

  Ed Green : Hey, man, that may mean nothing.

  Lennie Briscoe : Or it does and we just don't know what yet.