Unforgettable (TV Series)

Throwing Shade (2014)

Dylan Walsh: Al Burns

Quotes 

• Al Burns : Too cool for a name tag?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah. I'm too cool for a name tag. Name tags are designed to make other people feel comfortable so they can come up and talk to you. I want everyone to feel really *un*comfortable, so that they don't talk to me at all.

  Al Burns : Nice dress.

• Carrie Wells : Stop playing with your collar.

  Al Burns : This new shirt is too tight. I can't breathe.

  Carrie Wells : Can you fit your finger in there?

  Al Burns : Yeah.

  Carrie Wells : Well, then it's not too tight.

  Al Burns : What, did you memorize some "Esquire" article?

  Carrie Wells : No. Six months, assistant manager at Tuxedo World, Albuquerque, 2007.

  Al Burns : No way, come on.

  Carrie Wells : View your tuxedo as an investment, that will guide you through formal events for years to come. Shall I go on?

• Al Burns : You know, you act like you don't like these charity things Eliot invites us to, but I think secretly, you love them.

  Carrie Wells : You know what I love? Ooh...

  [a waiter passes by with a tray] 

  Carrie Wells : ...are these little sandwichy things.

• Al Burns : See? All done and plenty of daylight left.

  Carrie Wells : [fist-pumping]  Yes!

  Al Burns : What do you want to do?

  Carrie Wells : I don't know. How about we go get some real food?

  Al Burns : Pretzel dog from Monte's?

  Carrie Wells : A pret... really? Have you seen the way I'm dressed?

• Joanne Webster : Okay, so, I found three wounds, two of them superficial: one to the left hand, one to the wrist, probably defending himself. The one on his neck slashed his carotid artery; probably would have bled out in minutes.

  Al Burns : Time of death?

  Joanne Webster : It's preliminary, but the temperature would indicate maybe an hour ago.

  Al Burns : That would place the murder around 3:00 p.m.

  Joanne Webster : I'll know more when I get back to the lab.

  [glancing at Eliot on the phone] 

  Joanne Webster : How's he doing?

  Al Burns : Mostly on the phone with Dave's wife; arrangements and stuff.

  Joanne Webster : The Three Amigos. Dave, Eliot, and Bright, that's what we called them back in the '90s. If you wanted anything from City Hall, you had to go through them. It was not fun.

• Carrie Wells : Al, take a look at this Sterno. Something was burned in here. We should have CSU bag it.

  Al Burns : No sign of his keys, but his wallet is right here. This wasn't about money.

  Carrie Wells : Well, it was about something. There were a lot of people at the fundraiser.

  Al Burns : A lot of powerful people.

  Carrie Wells : And those powerful people are now our suspects.

• Carrie Wells : That woman.

  [remembering a waitress at the party] 

  Carrie Wells : Pam Lisotta. I know her.

  Al Burns : That's a pretty obscure blog.

  Carrie Wells : No, she was at the fundraiser. She was waitressing.

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : Well, maybe it's a second job. I mean, how much money can you make working for a political blog?

  Carrie Wells : No, I read the staff list that Bright gave us. There was no Pam Lisotta on that list. She must've come in under a different name.

  Al Burns : The question is, why?

• Al Burns : What's the matter?

  Jay Lee : Look, I totally get why Eliot's really invested in this particular case, but I just found out he logged into my computer through a back-door program and downloaded all the files related to the O'Bannon case. I know he's our boss, but... seems kind of weird, right?

  Al Burns : Yeah, it does.

  Jay Lee : And there's a couple other things, you know, questions he's been asking me... is there something going on I should know about?

  Al Burns : I sure hope not.

• Carrie Wells : Eliot, what happened in 1998?

  Eliot Delson : I used to blame it on us being young. But now I'm thinking... that's just who we are. We were... interns - me, Bright, and Dave - for a, uh, senator. Doesn't matter who. He loved us. He gave us that atrocious nickname, the Three Amigos. Anyway, one night, uh, I get a call, 4:00 in the morning. He's in Hell's Kitchen and something's gone wrong. We go down and... find him in a room there with a, um... well, with a girl who had... been careless with her opiates. She fell asleep, never woke up. He didn't know what to do. We did. We made sure nobody knew he was there. And going forward, whenever we needed a favor... well, the senator was there for us.

  Al Burns : That was a long time ago.

  Eliot Delson : Doesn't seem that way to me.

• Declan Macauley : My family's had the hauling contract for Yankee Stadium going on 40 years. They gave us all a bunch of tickets to the first...

  Carrie Wells : Second.

  Declan Macauley : ...second game of the World Series. I invited Dave. He brought you along, as well.

  Eliot Delson : Yeah, but I-I never went.

  Declan Macauley : Sure, you did. There were fifteen of us. We stayed 'til the very last out. We went back to my place. Everybody remembers how excited you were.

  Carrie Wells : What else?

  Declan Macauley : It was such a special night... you kept your ticket stub.

  Eliot Delson : What a thoughtful gift.

  Al Burns : You got a pretty good memory.

  Declan Macauley : It's what I'm known for.

  Carrie Wells : That's funny. Me, too.

  Eliot Delson : Thank you.

  Declan Macauley : It's what Dave would have wanted.