Blindspot (TV Series)

Heave Fiery Knot (2016)

Rob Brown: Edgar Reade

Quotes 

• [Agent Reade pays a visit to his old football friend Freddy] 

  Freddy : What are you, an accountant or something?

  Edgar Reade : FBI, actually.

  Freddy : [Freddy chuckles]  FBI? This is a friendly visit right?

  Edgar Reade : Yeah, it's friendly, it's friendly.

• [Agent Reade tells Assistant DA Gail Brown that his friend Freddy will testify against Coach Jones] 

  Edgar Reade : Do you have any idea how many children Jones could have hurt over the past two decades?

  Gail Brown : No! Because none of them will go on the record.

  Edgar Reade : Freddy will! He's sober. He's gainfully employed.

  Gail Brown : Freddy's sober now. He's employed now. He was neither of those things two months ago. What happens in another two months when he falls apart again and I need him on the stand?

  Edgar Reade : Which is exactly why we need to do this! Freddy is the very example of what Jones has done to these guys. Don't you understand that?

  Gail Brown : I know it's not justice, but neither is taking this guy to court and losing.

• [Agent Reade asks Agent Patterson where Valentine Barker is?] 

  Edgar Reade : Where's Valentine now?

  Patterson : DEA doesn't know where Valentine or the weapons are.

  Nas Kamal : She's at a bank in Queens trying to cash out her account.

  Patterson : For real? Why don't I have access to that?

• [Agent Reade asks the team if it feels wrong to them that Jane Doe is helping their investigation] 

  Edgar Reade : So, are we just not gonna talk about how messed up it is Jane's out here with us?

  Kurt Weller : Sandstorm are watching. It has to look like business as usual. Otherwise, it could blow her cover.

  Edgar Reade : It was one thing when we thought she was a pawn, but her mother's the leader, and her brother's a homicidal maniac. Sandstorm is in Jane's blood.

  Tasha Zapata : Just keep her in front of me. I don't want to wind up on the wrong end of a friendly fire report.

• [Agent Reade tells Agent Zapata about his friend Freddy] 

  Edgar Reade : [Reade sighs]  Saw an old friend this morning. We went to football camp together as kids. Coach Jones ran it.

  Tasha Zapata : Oh.

  Edgar Reade : Freddy's one of his victims. Guy's hanging on by a thread. I push him to open old wounds, promise him Jones will pay, and now the D.A.'s telling me there's no case.

  Tasha Zapata : Sorry.

  Edgar Reade : Jones failed him, the system failed him, and now I failed him. What the hell do I tell this guy?

  Tasha Zapata : The truth. What else is there?

• [Agent Weller suggests to the team that they evacuate East Side Manhattan] 

  Kurt Weller : We need to consider evacuating.

  Patterson : Evacuating what? The entire East Side of Manhattan?

  Edgar Reade : Yeah, what are we supposed to tell 'em? Go to the West Side?

• [Jane Doe and the FBI team stop the missiles from shooting down a plane] 

  Edgar Reade : Holy hell.

  Nas Kamal : [Naz sighs]  We actually did it.

  Patterson : We always do. I mean, you know, so far.

• [Agent Zapata asks Agent Reade if he's talked to his friend Freddy] 

  Tasha Zapata : You gonna talk to Freddy?

  Edgar Reade : Can't we just stop another missile attack or something?

  Tasha Zapata : You did your best. He'll know that.

  Edgar Reade : Thanks, Zapata.

• [Agent Reade tries to tell Freddy that his testimony wouldn't be credible against Coach Jones] 

  Edgar Reade : Freddy... in cases this old, credible testimony is the biggest weapon we have. We just couldn't find enough victims to come forward, and the ones who did...

  Freddy : Weren't credible.

  Edgar Reade : No, that's not what I was gonna say.

  Freddy : It's cool, man, I get it. That's the great thing about messing with kids. Your victims cover your tracks for you.

• [Freddy asks Agent Reade why he isn't testifying against Coach Jones] 

  Freddy : Why aren't you testifying?

  Edgar Reade : Testifying about what? I never saw anything.

  Freddy : Saw anything? You were there.

  Edgar Reade : Where? What the hell are you talking about?

  Freddy : You don't remember.

  Edgar Reade : Remember what, Freddy?

  Freddy : That's why you so together, why you not still down in the basement with the rest of us, watching our game tapes with him. You actually don't remember, do you, Edgar?

  [as Reade walks away]