Cold Case, Season 6

Lilly Rush:
(about the case file being water-damaged) Leaky pipes. Nothing but the best upkeeping for the cold ones.

Scotty Valens:
Yeah, this will look great in court.

Eddie Saccardo:
(running into Lilly and Nick in the hallway) Hi.

Lilly Rush:
Hey.

Eddie Saccardo:
Good to see you.

Lilly Rush:
Yeah. I mean...

Eddie Saccardo:
Right.

Lilly Rush:
Well...

Eddie Saccardo:
Well. Scuse me. (walks off with a suspect)

Nick Vera:
Speak English much?

Lilly Rush:
What!?

Al:
(to Will) I know you only played defense but try and keep up

Vera:
Rita was on the cover of almost 30 pin-up magazines.

Kat:
(motioning towards the magazines that Vera just brought in) Those from here?

Vera:
(looking around at everyone) Research.

[Scotty Valens and Lilly Rush are being shown the floor of Echo Company's barracks at the Pennsylvania Military Institute, where Kate Butler stayed in her time there.]

Scotty Valens:
[Reading a plaque on the wall] 'A cadet shall not lie, cheat, or steal, nor shall he tolerate those who do'.

Lilly Rush:
Honor Code; notice they got one in every building.

Lawrence Gardner:
Single-sanction policy, ma'am; one violation gets you drummed out.

Scotty Valens:
Pretty strict code for most mortals.

[The three have reached the former room of PMI's first two female cadets. Cadet Gardner turns around before unlocking the door; he holds up the gold class ring on his right hand and speaks as if quoting scripture.]

Lawrence Gardner:
And on the Eighth Day, God created PMI.

[Colonel Murillo, Commandant of the Pennsylvania Military Institute, has been called to the Philadelphia PD's offices for questioning.]

Lilly Rush:
Thank you for coming in, Mr. Murillo.

COL Murillo:
It's Colonel Murillo. I think I've earned that.

John Stillman:
You can have a seat.

Lilly Rush:
You have a problem with Cadet Butler enrolling at PMI?

COL Murillo:
What's this all about? [Looks at Stillman] Lieutenant?

John Stillman:
I believe the detective asked you a question.

COL Murillo:
What I think is irrelevant in view of what the courts have decided, now isn't it?

Lilly Rush:
It isn't if you allow a student to be assaulted on campus.

COL Murillo:
That's a bit presumptuous. Am I on the stand here?

Lilly Rush:
You knew Kate was attacked; you should have stopped it from going further.

COL Murillo:
What Cadet Keith Henderson told me was hearsay: I chose to go directly to the horse's mouth.

[A flashback scene occurs with Kate Butler reporting to COL Murillo's office; when asked if she was assaulted by an upperclassman in the barracks the previous night, she denies it, despite Murillo reminding her of the Honor Code, which forbids a cadet from lying.]

Lilly Rush:
So that's it? You just let her go?

COL Murillo:
What the hell would you have me do? The Honor Code is the backbone of the Institute. If she says it didn't happen, it didn't.

Lilly Rush:
She was trying to suck it up. To fit in with the male cadets.

COL Murillo:
Well, then. She made her choice, didn't she?

[Major Moe Kitchener, Operations Officer at PMI, is being questioned by Valens and Rush.]

MAJ Kitchener:
What happened between Cadets Stewart and Butler was tragic and shameful. But if you're looking to spread the blame, I suggest you start with the courts.

Lilly Rush:
The courts... killed Kate Butler.

MAJ Kitchener:
Do you know how many Congressmen have graduated from PMI? Twelve. Six Senators; eight four-star generals. Those courts ordered us to change the way we do things here! [Smiles ironically] Now here we are.

Scotty Valens:
Stuck installing women's latrines and tampon dispensers.

MAJ Kitchener:
There are over sixty women's colleges in this country. Do you see any men banging down the doors, trying to get in? The value of a separate education, is that it is SEPARATE!

Lilly Rush:
You sound bitter, Moe.

MAJ Kitchener:
Because of this catastrophic experiment, an army of lawyers stand ready to shut down the institution I love. The one thing I share in common with my father, and his before him. Excuse me, if I forgot to shed a tear for Hank Butler's daughter!

[Lilly Rush is questioning Moe Kitchener in a soundproofed room again.]

Lilly Rush:
Gotcha, Moe.

MAJ Kitchener:
[Casually] That so?

Lilly Rush:
Sent Ryan for that footlocker, made Cadet Butler's body disappear, and you framed Lawrence for the job.

MAJ Kitchener:
What? Now you're gonna tell me that kid is really dead?

Lilly Rush:
I just... I just know he didn't do it. That's all that matters.

MAJ Kitchener:
Stories. You're just telling yourself stories.

Lilly Rush:
You even tried to take out a cop.

MAJ Kitchener:
You?

Lilly Rush:
You're busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking competition, Moe!

MAJ Kitchener:
[Sighs] You can only keep the flood back for so long, Detective.

Lilly Rush:
The flood?

MAJ Kitchener:
Pretty soon it's gonna pull you down. For good.

Lilly Rush:
[Slamming her hands on the table right in front of Kitchener] You put that girl in a BOX!

MAJ Kitchener:
I put you there too, sweetheart.

[Cracks appear in the walls, and water begins to flood in from under the door.]

Lilly Rush:
No... No, I got out! I got you!

MAJ Kitchener:
You're not from where I'm sitting.

[The flood of water increases and Kitchener vanishes when Rush looks away; it is revealed she has been dreaming, unconscious after MAJ Kitchener rammed her car while she was driving across a bridge, attempting to murder her a second time.]

Vera:
Hey, how you doing Carla? I got a cold one, needs running through IVIS ASAP.

Carla:
Two weeks.

Vera:
It's kinda important.

Carla:
Aren't they all?

Vera:
Ha-ha, yeah, I hear you. I'm talking special circumstances, uh, the victim was a teacher, you know what I mean? Remember your favorite teacher? Imagine if she got killed.

Carla:
I hated my teachers.

Valens:
Even back at Reeves High, stealing from the teacher's lounge.

Ramos:
That wasn't me.

Stillman:
Prison, parole, prison again. Maybe crime isn't your thing.

Vera:
Ballistics report on .22 that killed Laura McKinney. [Lilly goes to take it] Ah, this cost me big. Two tickets to Wicked and dinner. I need you to appreciate that.

Lilly:
You're my hero.

Kat:
You meet Will's girlfriend yet?

Stillman:
No, but I heard her all the way down the hall.

Kat:
Delightful woman.

Stillman:
You get anything from her?

Kat:
Hope so, or he's about to pitch an old lady out the window.

Vera:
Well, it had to be one of ya. Just didn't get up and walk away.

Lilly:
What's missing now?

Kat:
His cinnamon roll. [Vera shoots her a glance] Don't look at me, I don't eat breakfast.

Vera:
You ate my coffee cake.

Kat:
Two years ago!

Lilly:
Least someone's eaten it. Gotta be food in there older than our cold jobs.

Kat:
Uh-uh, no way! Last time you hooked me up with a guy, he wore flip flops and forgot his wallet.

Stillman:
I love the smell of toxic waste in the morning...

[Vera notices Will's tie hanging over some paper. He grabs a stapler and staples it to the paper.]

Will:
My tie!

Vera:
That's for aiding and abetting in a decapitation of my best tie last week!

Will:
What makes you think that I had anything to do with that... incident?

Vera:
I hate cars salesman.

Will:
You could use a new ride.

Vera:
What's wrong with my car?

Will:
Nothing... if you like being single.

Valens:
What? Like that junkie you busted open back in '68.

Dick:
Freak pulled a knife on me. What am I supposed to do, bleed on him?

Will:
My tax dollars paying for this circus. I can hardly hear myself think.

Kat:
In my school we were lucky to get a field trip to the dump.

Valens:
So after tap class, Chelsea Cutler tended her bees...

Kat:
I'm working on it, okay? Don't hate. And why do you keep saying "she", could have been a guy, you know?

Valens:
Come on. You know how the ladies love to poison.

Kat:
Better watch what you drink.

Monty:
See, the thing about a good photo... is you can stare at it over and over and still find a new meaning in it.

Dexter:
Um... I, um... I assure you, I um, plan to take better care of our district than I do my apartment.

Vera:
Croatia for a vacation, huh?

Will:
It's a beautiful country.

Vera:
What, Beirut was booked?

Vera:
Looked for Republican Hotel employees. The maid who cleaned the room the next, all dead.

Will:
Found another T. C. Bromley off Google. One-hit-wonder Arthur... from 1882.

Vera:
That makes our doer what, 130?

Kat:
Saw the latest jackpot, just went up to 33 million.

Will:
Nick sucked you in on that pool?

Kat:
Well, 33 will pay for a lot of old Blue Note vinyl. What about you boss?

Stillman:
Got a better chance of winning American Idol.

Valens:
They say causal Friday, what are you trying out for the team mascot, Nick?

Vera:
Pretty girl. Looked great in a leotard. Did you see that special she did on aerobics?

Lilly:
You in to aerobics, Nick?

Vera:
What's it to ya?

Stillman:
Don't let me catch you in a leotard.

[Lilly walks into the ladies' room and sees Vera there shaving]

Lilly:
Whoa, whoa.

Vera:
A little privacy!

Will:
It's a specialized system. Not some push and play you get at the mall!

Vera:
You're not going to let this go are ya?

Will:
Lil, explain to Nick when you're a guest in someone's home, you treat it like a castle.

Lilly:
Trouble in paradise?

Vera:
I accidentally put a beer down on one of King Arthur's speakers here, for which I've apologized, multiple times!

Will:
First of all, it's a tube amp, not a speaker. And you not only used it as a coaster, you moved it!

Vera:
Maybe two inches.

Will:
Yeah, sent the acoustics straight to hell and warped my Benny Carter vinyl.

Lilly:
Two words for you guys: couple's counselling.

Leigh:
Can I at least call my mother? Do you know what she must be going through? We've disappeared into thin air.

Ben:
It's safer for her, for all of us, if no one knows where we are, Leigh.

Leigh:
You'll do anything to avoid my mother, won't you?

Curtis:
Well, law school teaches you three things: delay, deflect, derail and deny.

Kat:
That's four.

Libby:
Two things I know, sweetheart, hair and guys who like to hit women. Only one of them I can fix.

Burke:
And I don't appreciate you ambushing my clinic time.

Vera:
How about I pretend I'm your proctologist and shove my foot up your ass?

Vera:
Yeah, and it's freaking depressing. Somebody crying about losing their girl, their house. I don't need to hear it, I'm living it.

Will:
You got no culture.

Vera:
If I admit it, will you turn it off?

Beatrice:
Look, I want you out of my apartment! I got my rights!

Kat:
I'll give you a right, and a couple lefts too if you don't start talking straight.

Vera':
Richard Keesel, consecutive lives for starting two fatal fires. Remind me not to invite you to a barbecue.

Paul:
Making tracks? The girl was a prude. My dog Snowflake had a better sex life than I did when I was going with her.

Will:
[To Scotty over his Cuban heritage.] Oh, Cuban Pete's all over this one.

Kat:
Sounds good, sign me up.

Vera:
Can you catch?

Kat:
Hell yeah, I can catch.

Vera:
You throw like a girl?

Kat:
You guess like a white guy?

Vera:
Oz into recycling?

Kat:
Nope. But an old CI of mine is. Goes by Clifford.

Vera:
As in big red dog?

Kat:
As in white boy with dreads.

Scotty:
It was broad daylight. No one sees nothing?

Will:
Well, half hour after Kennedy was shot. Everyone's glued to their TVs. Three gunshots, the sixties were young. I was... playing touch football at recess.

Scotty:
Recess? Thought you were like 45 when it happened.

Lilly:
No, you're thinking of when Lincoln was shot.

Scotty:
Got any names?

Monkey:
Yeah. Jackass 1 and Jackass 2. Hoping they're both dead by now.

Will:
Baltimore Red. Wimpy Lassiter. The Rifle. Ridiculous.

Kat:
Every banger I tracked had some kind of nickname too. This one: Snoopy. Searched every doghouse, outhouse, guess where I found him.

Will:
Online dating?

Kat:
Dude was pumping gas next to me, big old Snoopy medallion round his neck.

Lilly:
Pennsylvania Military Institute, all male for 162 years.

Will:
Well, mid-90s Justice Department forced almost every state military academy to admit qualified female applicants. Even Valley Forge and The Citadel are coed now.

Vera:
PMI was only of the last holdouts till 4 years ago. Can't believe this is still an issue.

Lilly:
Male institutions dragging their feet to admit women? Yeah, glad that's behind us.

Vera:
Next thing you know, they'll start letting them be detectives.