NCIS: New Orleans (TV Series)

Pound of Flesh (2018)

Vanessa Ferlito: Tammy Gregorio

Quotes 

• Hannah Khoury : I think our best bet is Vodun.

  Tammy Gregorio : What?

  Hannah Khoury : Voodoo.

  Tammy Gregorio : Ugh. It really is Halloween, isn't it?

  Hannah Khoury : Vodun is considerably more peaceful than pop culture would have us believe.

  Tammy Gregorio : There's nothing peaceful about human sacrifice.

  Hannah Khoury : Yeah, well, if that's what happened here. We need to consult a local practitioner. Either of you know any?

• Tammy Gregorio : Thirteen years after Katrina, and there are still thousands of blighted houses across the city. Most of these communities look like ghost towns. How are we supposed to find one particular abandoned house without any description?

  Christopher LaSalle : Police picked Ginny up deep in New Orleans East. Even if she ran full stride for an hour, there's no way she'd travel that far.

  Tammy Gregorio : I mean, maybe six to eight miles. Cut that in half, there are still 200 abandoned houses she could have escaped from.

  Christopher LaSalle : Gonna take us days to check 'em all. Perp'll be long gone by then.

• Sebastian Lund : So, the handcuffs that Ginny was wearing were standard issue, just available at any Army-Navy surplus store. But I found blood traces on the chain link, not Ginny's.

  Tammy Gregorio : Tell me you got a hit, Sebastian.

  Sebastian Lund : Yeah. This is Edward Lightell, drug dealer and professional scumbag. He's currently on parole for two counts of second-degree sexual battery.

  Christopher LaSalle : Ginny wasn't sexually assaulted.

  Tammy Gregorio : Yeah, well, look a this creep. It was just a matter of time.

• Tammy Gregorio : This is why I hate Halloween. It's when all the freakiest stuff happens around here.

  Sebastian Lund : I can't stop thinking about how lucky Ginny was.

  Tammy Gregorio : Yeah, well, if she hadn't escaped, she might've ended up gutted, too.

• Hannah Khoury : Wade thinks Lightell's been dead for at least 48 hours.

  Sebastian Lund : All right, well, that clears him of the kidnapping. He was a victim, too, at least in this case.

  Tammy Gregorio : Puts us back to square one on finding a suspect and a motive; doesn't seem like sexual assault anymore.

• Hannah Khoury : Ritualistic mutilation really changes our profile.

  Sebastian Lund : You thinking serial killer?

  Tammy Gregorio : Maybe, but there's no obvious pattern. Ginny Young and Ed Lightell couldn't be more different.

  Hannah Khoury : So if we find a connection, we may be able to anticipate the next target.

  Sebastian Lund : Yeah, might have something to do with these markings that were painted on the, uh, crime scene walls.

  Tammy Gregorio : What are they?

  Hannah Khoury : They're definitely West African in origin, but there's at least a dozen ancient religions with symbols like that.

  Sebastian Lund : How do you know that?

  Hannah Khoury : I studied anthropology in college for a hot minute.

• Christopher LaSalle : I checked the perimeter. No sign of movement.

  Sebastian Lund : Yeah, Entergy says the power's been cut off to the whole building.

  Tammy Gregorio : Hmm? Wait, you're telling me I have to go into Dracula's castle in the dark?

  Sebastian Lund : You want me to hold your little hand?

  Tammy Gregorio : You touch me, Sebastian, I'll shoot you.

• Christopher LaSalle : You all right?

  Tammy Gregorio : No! We're in the creepiest building in the world searching for a freak who likes to cut people up. Do I look all right?

• Tammy Gregorio : Spoke to a santero from a local Santeria house where Marquez was a member. Got banned for being too extreme.

  Christopher LaSalle : Extreme how?

  Tammy Gregorio : Organizing animal sacrifice. He wanted to be a part of this blood ritual, showed up with a gallon of human blood to the service, was forcibly removed.

  Sebastian Lund : Man, that's creepy, even for New Orleans.

• Tammy Gregorio : This guy is flush with cash. Where'd he get it?

  Christopher LaSalle : Well, not from praciticing medicine. Works nights as a janitor.

  Hannah Khoury : For a company that specializes in disposing of medical waste.

  Christopher LaSalle : Well, that gives him access to hospitals, research labs, universities.

  Tammy Gregorio : And transplant facilities. Big business in black market organs.

  Christopher LaSalle : Yeah, but transplants are regulated by UNOS.

  Hannah Khoury : But tissue recovery for medical research is not. If the organs are no longer viable, they can be legally donated or sold.

  Sebastian Lund : Well, that could explain how Marquez is making his money. Research labs will pay big bucks for human parts.

  Tammy Gregorio : Am I the only one completely disturbed by that statement?

  Christopher LaSalle : Well, it's not about religion for Marquez, it's about greed.

  Hannah Khoury : Okay, I'm happy to moderate this debate, but after we catch him.

• Tammy Gregorio : Nurse says Marquez picks up the medical waste two nights a week. No contact with staff.

  Hannah Khoury : Well, someone here has to know him.

• Doctor Vincent Welles : The nurses told me you have some questions.

  Tammy Gregorio : We do.

  Doctor Vincent Welles : Unfortunately, I can't answer them, as I'm sure you're aware of HIPPA laws.

  Hannah Khoury : Nobody's asking you to violate confidentiality, Doctor.

  Tammy Gregorio : Why don't you at least hear the questions before you stonewall us?

• Hannah Khoury : Ignacio Marquez might be trying to sell donor livers to one of your patients.

  Doctor Vincent Welles : That's absurd. The allocation and distribution of human organs is the most regulated area of healthcare.

  Tammy Gregorio : And yet people are still paying up to 150 grand for a single black-market liver.

  Doctor Vincent Welles : Even if one of our patients did secure a liver illegally, I would never allow it to be transplanted in my clinic.

  Hannah Khoury : I respect your conviction, Doctor, but there's a dangerous man on the loose, and something in your records may help us find him.

  Doctor Vincent Welles : The only way you're seeing those records is with a court order.

  Hannah Khoury : [taking a piece of paper out of her jacket]  Oh, well, good thing I stopped on the way, to get one.

• Tammy Gregorio : I've gone through 500 patient's files, and only one of them was incomplete: Skylar Samms.

  Sebastian Lund : Well, what's missing?

  Tammy Gregorio : We got an address, phone number, fake Social, but no photo, medical history, or insurance records.

  Sebastian Lund : You run the address?

  Tammy Gregorio : Defunct auto parts store in Lakeview. I even checked with the DMV. There's no records of her at all.

  Sebastian Lund : Huh. Well, it sounds like Skylar Samms is an alias.

  Tammy Gregorio : I do have a surgeon's reference: Vincent Welles. He ordered a full battery of pre-op diagnostics a week ago.

• Sebastian Lund : I don't get it. Why would the chief of surgery want to conceal his patient's identity?

  Tammy Gregorio : Because he doesn't want anybody to know he's implanting a black market liver.

  Sebastian Lund : We want to find Ginny Young, we need to identify Skylar Samms.

  Tammy Gregorio : I'm open to suggestions.

  Sebastian Lund : [getting an idea]  What was the date and time of her last pre-op test?

  Tammy Gregorio : Tuesday, 4:30 a.m. When nobody else was around.

  Sebastian Lund : Yeah, except the all-seeing eye in the sky.

  [running and then stopping the security footage] 

  Sebastian Lund : There she is. Say hello to Skylar Samms.

  Tammy Gregorio : I know that girl.

• Sebastian Lund : Hannah, will you tell her that she's got to put the ears on, please?

  Hannah Khoury : [laughing as she sees them in their costumes]  Wow. I thought you hated Halloween.

  Sebastian Lund : She's had a bit of a change of heart.

  Tammy Gregorio : I did not. I still hate it.

  Sebastian Lund : Well, why are you going out with me, then?

  Tammy Gregorio : Because I owe you, for scaring the living crap out of me at that abandoned lab, and because payback's a bitch, right?