Unforgettable (TV Series)

Stray Bullet (2014)

Owiso Odera: Captain Melvin Stearns

Quotes 

• Captain Melvin Stearns : You know a guy named Oscar Payn?

  Al Burns : Sure. I collared him for intent to sell five years ago.

  Eliot Delson : [entering]  Stearns, what's going on here?

  Captain Melvin Stearns : You aware he's been out on parole the last six weeks?

  Al Burns : Good for him.

  Captain Melvin Stearns : Not so good. Someone put a bullet in his brain. And as of now, we have reason to believe that someone to be you. Lieutenant Burns, you are placed on modified assignment and relegated to desk duty 'til our investigation into the murder of Oscar Payn determines your guilt or innocence. May I have your gun and your shield, please?

• Eliot Delson : You know the rules, Melvin. Any action against my team, you notify me personally in advance.

  Captain Melvin Stearns : Don't blame me if you don't know what's going on with your team.

  Eliot Delson : What's that supposed to mean?

  Captain Melvin Stearns : Maybe the board should have installed an actual police officer to run Major Crimes instead of a... what are you, again?

  Eliot Delson : Oh, I know. I know, Melvin. You wanted this job. I know how hard you tried to get it. Sure, some may have felt that fixing parking tickets for the mayor's niece was, I don't know, pandering, but I, for one, applauded your initiative. Do not take our history out on members of my team, or I will see to it that you regret it.

• Eliot Delson : Lieutenant Burns is a decorated officer with a spotless record.

  Captain Melvin Stearns : We wouldn't have moved against Burns if we didn't have sufficient evidence. We have a positive ballistics match to Burns' service weapon and a case file of other evidence I have neither the need nor the interest in sharing with you.

  Eliot Delson : Ballistics match?

  Captain Melvin Stearns : Perhaps you haven't heard, Eliot, but every weapon fired has a distinctive signature.

  Eliot Delson : Yeah, yeah. So?

  Captain Melvin Stearns : So, Oscar Payn was killed by Burns' Sig Sauer service handgun to the exclusion of any other weapon. It is an absolute fact. This is a matter for Internal Affairs now. I get even a hint that your Major Crimes guys are sniffing around, I will terminate them from this department.