Law & Order (TV Series)

Vendetta (2004)

S. Epatha Merkerson: Lieutenant Anita Van Buren

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• Anita Van Buren : [Briscoe is reading the vic's hate mail]  What would you have done to him?

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : [innocently]  Who, me?

  Anita Van Buren : Oh, please. I remember how mad you were after that game. And I don't recall any tears from "Who, me?" when the tabloids published Donner's address and phone number.

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : Okay, maybe that was a little bit over the line, but the idiot did earn himself a little grief.

  Anita Van Buren : He tried to catch a ball.

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : Which was still in play! Any real New York fan would have kept his hands in his pockets.

• Ed Green : Hey, I got something. This is from two weeks ago.

  Ted Enwright : [Ed plays a voicemail message]  You think I don't know where you live, Donner? You better be watching your back, Donner, 'cause one day soon, I'm coming up behind you and bash your thick head until you're dead. Moron.

  Ed Green : The FBI traced that call to a Ted Enwright.

  Anita Van Buren : Sounds promising.

  Ed Green : And the genius called from his home phone.

• Ed Green : Walter Grimes, born Poughkeepsie, 1964. Arrested '83, convicted '84, second degree murder. Victim was Leanne Testa, fifteen. Stabbed to death.

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : Uh, a year ago, when Grimes finally got a court order to test the DNA, it turned out the blood that the cops found on the knife in his apartment wasn't Leanne Testa's.

  Anita Van Buren : Property still had the evidence?

  Ed Green : M.E.'s office. This is pre-DNA. They tested it for sirology. After the trial, it went to the medical examiner's and never made it back to the police lab.

  Anita Van Buren : It's lucky for Grimes. Police lab would've destroyed it after he got convicted. So Grimes didn't kill Testa. Good for him. Question is did he kill Brendan Donner?

  Ed Green : Grimes' prints are a twelve-point match to the ones on that liquor bottle. There are eight people in that bar who IDed him from a photo array. They all saw him bash Donner's skull in.

• Anita Van Buren : We have any idea where Mr. Grimes is now?

  Ed Green : Department of Corrections can't compel him to give an address because he was exonerated, not paroled.

  Anita Van Buren : Grimes a jailhouse lawyer or did he have some help?

  Ed Green : Rodney Fallon, the New York Exoneration Project.

  Anita Van Buren : Well, I'm sure Mr. Fallon keeps in touch with his success stories.

• Rodney Fallon : You asked me where Walter lived. I gave you his primary address.

  Ed Green : Hey, man, don't get smart with us!

  Rodney Fallon : Oh, I wouldn't dream of it. You couldn't keep up.

  Anita Van Buren : [entering]  All right, let's all just take it down a notch. Mr. Fallon, this is way past zealous representation here.

  Rodney Fallon : I can't tell you where he went. It's arguably privileged information.

  Anita Van Buren : Well, consider it negotiating a fugitive's peaceful surrender.

  Rodney Fallon : I'll get him to come in.

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : Not a chance.

  Rodney Fallon : I have no idea what he's capable of if he feels threatened. I... I can do this. He trusts me.

  Anita Van Buren : All right. You've got two hours. Either way, we're going to arrest him for murder or you for hindering prosecution.

• Detective Johnson : Julier Sayer was sixteen, pretty. On the front page of the Post for weeks. Bet your ass we tore the city apart.

  Anita Van Buren : Do you remember searching on 190th Street between Audubon and Amsterdam?

  Detective Johnson : Where it happened. We turned that neighborhood upside down.

  Anita Van Buren : Storm drains?

  Detective Johnson : We searched them all. From Washington Heights to Inwood.

  Anita Van Buren : Would you be willing to sign an affidavit?

  Detective Johnson : What, that we searched the storm drains?

  Anita Van Buren : Every one in the area.

  Detective Johnson : With a flashlight and a fine-tooth comb. And didn't find a thing.

• Anita Van Buren : Sketch artist came up with a composite of our suspect.

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : [glancing at the sketch]  Could be anybody.

  Anita Van Buren : How are you doing?

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : I'm reading Donner's hate mail. Ed's listening to it.

  Anita Van Buren : Anything interesting?

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : Ahh, they either want to dump him in the East River or throw him off a building or run him over with a car. Not much originality.

• Detective Lennie Briscoe : How'd you get his phone number?

  Ted Enwright : I read it in the papers.

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : No, his new number.

  Ted Enwright : On the 'net. Everything's on the 'net. Come on, it's all up that website. Www.getdonner.com.

  [cut to the precinct] 

  Anita Van Buren : You've got to be kidding me.

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : We don't have that much imagination.

  Ed Green : Six months after the fact, this website still gets 30,000 hits a day. I mean, most of this stuff is harmless; you know, "stupid Donner" jokes and whatnot, but check it out. They have a message board.

  Anita Van Buren : "Hey, fellow Donner haters. Think I just saw Donner shoving his stuff in the back of a moving van. Guess his old lady hates him as much as the rest of us."

  Ed Green : Now, this entry started a landslide. People started writing in whenever they saw Donner on the street or in the subway. They call it DonnerWatch.

  Anita Van Buren : Which is how they knew where to keep sending all the hate mail.

  Ed Green : I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but I'm actually starting to feel real sorry this dude.

  Detective Lennie Briscoe : Hey, we were *one out* away from the World Series.