Law & Order (TV Series)
Darwinian (2004)
Jesse L. Martin: Detective Ed Green
Quotes
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Lennie Briscoe : There's no way he's been lying here a week without somebody noticing.
Ed Green : He was on ice somewhere.
Lennie Briscoe : So that means the body was dumped here either late last night or early this morning.
Ed Green : Damn, he took a beating.
Assistant ME Erika Malchiodi : Of the vehicular variety. Safety glass, like from a windshield. And paint flakes. And he's got tib-fib breaks in both legs.
Ed Green : Bumper fractures.
Lennie Briscoe : And you thought you were feeling run down.
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CSU Julian Beck : Uh, the paint's a shade of green. Uh, Pentland green, specifically. But I couldn't match it to an assembly line model.
Lennie Briscoe : Must be a custom job.
Ed Green : How about the glass?
CSU Julian Beck : Uh, garden variety automotive. Non-unique to manufacture.
Lennie Briscoe : Oh, thanks for bringing us all the way down here. It was a lovely trip.
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CSU Julian Beck : Now, the high-end auto makers user lasers to microscopically etch the VIN number on the windshield.
Ed Green : [watching the computer simulation] How cool is that?
CSU Julian Beck : Yeah. Now, this is just a partial, but it's enough for the DMV to ID the car that it came from as an Aston Martin V12 Vanquish.
Lennie Briscoe : An Aston Martin who?
Ed Green : Vanquish, man. James Bond's car. You know, in the last one, "Die Another Day"?
Lennie Briscoe : Sorry. I haven't seen a Bond movie since Sean Connery hung up his rug.
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Lennie Briscoe : What, are you burning the midnight oil?
Ed Green : Man, I was catching up on my DD5s. I didn't get home 'till almost two in the morning. Plus, I think I'm coming down with whatever's going around.
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Lennie Briscoe : Miss Malchiodi, to what do we owe the pleasure?
Assistant ME Erika Malchiodi : Facial contusions, broken bones, two days' worth of decomp. Factor in the cold weather, I say he's been dead a week.
Ed Green : How do you get a week?
Assistant ME Erika Malchiodi : Bugs don't lie. Don't know how.
[opening the victim's mouth]
Assistant ME Erika Malchiodi : Check it out. Maggots, pupa, beetles. Who's on the buffet line when gives you approximate time of death. Plus fluid seepage...
Lennie Briscoe : Yeah, yeah, we get the picture.
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Ed Green : It's definitely a hit and run. CSU confirmed that the glass and the paint are from a car.
Lennie Briscoe : Beck's working on both. I've never seen him happier.
Anita Van Buren : You know what would make me happy? A name to go with our victim.
Lennie Briscoe : What, "John Doe" doesn't do it for you?
Anita Van Buren : You ran his prints through VCI?
Lennie Briscoe : First thing we did. No soap.
Anita Van Buren : So no ID on the vic, no lead on the car, no witnesses.
Lennie Briscoe : Well, they can't all be gimmes.
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Lennie Briscoe : Dead man walking. Just when you thought you'd seen everything.
Anita Van Buren : We still have a victim in search of a suspect.
Lennie Briscoe : Well, Salter's expert give us anything new to go on?
Anita Van Buren : He says someone beat Fisher up about seven hours before Salter struck him with her car.
Ed Green : So, two a.m.
Lennie Briscoe : Which would mean he took a beating round seven o'clock the night before.
Ed Green : Well, beyond that, we still got a grand total of zero leads.
Anita Van Buren : So we start with square one.
Lennie Briscoe : Yeah, Tompkins Square.