Unforgettable (TV Series)

Til Death (2014)

James Hiroyuki Liao: Jay Lee

Quotes 

• Cherie Rollins-Murray : Killing couples is a pretty rare serial killer profile. I mean, you got the Zodiac Killer out in California. He killed couples. The Son of Sam shot at several couples parked in their cars.

  Jay Lee : Yeah, but all those victims were teenagers, early 20s at most.

  Al Burns : The affluence and age of these couples doesn't fit any pattern we can find.

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : Mm-hmm.

  Al Burns : Murray, if you could get on the ballistics. I'm guessing .40 caliber. With some luck, we should be able to match them.

• Jay Lee : So, we're talking about Eileen and Howard Brenner. Married fifteen years. They live up in Scarsdale. Turns out, they have two daughters. One who rode with Annie Truman, and the older daughter, who rode with Talia Grant back in 2010.

  Al Burns : Okay, so they took riding lessons together. Great. You got more?

  Jay Lee : Don't I always, Al? For starters, I got a series of cell phone calls in 2010 from Donald Grant to Eileen Brenner.

  Al Burns : So? Their kids are in the same class. They're making carpool plans.

  Jay Lee : Yeah, but how do you explain calls from the two other dead husbands, Truman and Reid, to Mrs. Brenner, as well? And the fact that the number they used to call her isn't the same one her own husband used to call her. Now, that's some pretty secret carpool plans.

• Jay Lee : So, after I found those calls, I took all the data you worked up from the first two homicides. Cell phone records, bank statements, duplicated with the Brenners and our last victims, the Trumans.

  Al Burns : Lot of data.

  Jay Lee : Which is why I ran it through an NSA data mining search engine, and...

  [typing] 

  Jay Lee : ...found that.

  Al Burns : What is that?

  Jay Lee : Those empty spaces represent three-hour time blocks of no cell phone use. Which means none of the husbands made any calls, used any cards, or checked any e-mail accounts within those three hours.

• Al Burns : I know those dates. August 8, August 17. The Reid and Grant murders.

  Jay Lee : Exactly. Those couples were killed within twelve hours of the husband going dark. Same goes true for Glen Truman and his wife Ianna yesterday.

  Al Burns : So, the question is, what were they doing in those three hours?

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : I might have an answer. Turns out our Eileen Brenner wasn't always Eileen Brenner. Meet the former Eileen Hanson. Complete with a criminal history.

  Al Burns : A prostitution charge.

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : Oh, several. Out of Florida 17 years ago. After graduating college, she and a couple of sorority sisters apparently started a little call girl ring. Our squeaky clean Scarsdale soccer mom was once a hooker.

• Jay Lee : So, Brenner only knows her girls through their cell phones, right?

  Al Burns : Yeah, and they were all burner cells, so, dead end.

  Jay Lee : Maybe not. I tracked down the serial numbers on the phones, and check this out.

  [showing Al his tablet] 

  Jay Lee : Most of the phones were purchased at a campus bookstore at Hudson University.

  Al Burns : A college? Oh, come on. She's recruiting students?

  Jay Lee : Maybe. Me and Murray are gonna head over there right now.

• Adrian Proctor : You'll have to forgive Harvey. The bookstore's sort of his domain. He actually attended Hudson, uh, dropped out sophomore year, and he's been at that bookstore ever since.

  Jay Lee : I get it. My cousin Chrissy, she's been a junior over at Bennington for five years now, so...

• Jay Lee : You destroyed records of criminal activity to spare the school some embarrassment?

  Adrian Proctor : It wasn't only the school that was spared embarrassment. Our investigation uncovered the identity of many of these girls' clients. I assure you, if you had seen that list, you would've appreciated our discretion.

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : People are being killed, Dean Proctor. If you or your university has obstructed our investigation in any way, your endowment will be the least of your concerns.

• Carrie Wells : Hey.

  Jay Lee : Surveillance camera picked up our first one.

  Carrie Wells : Already?

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : She should be in class. Use your head, girl.

  Jay Lee : Showtime.

  Carrie Wells : Am I alone in feeling like I don't want to watch this?

• Al Burns : Jay, you get anything off the videos?

  Jay Lee : I think our doorman shouldn't quit his day job. His shot selection is awful, and with the films taken together, forget it, this man displays a certain narrative monotony, you know what I'm saying?

  Al Burns : All right, you think he's our guy or not?

  Jay Lee : I doubt it. His alibi for the Truman killings checks out. He did record all three of our victims, but each with a different woman. I sent the pictures of the girls to that dean over at Hudson University to see if he can help ID 'em.

  Al Burns : All right, so the question is, if the link isn't one escort, does anything tie these victims together other than their profiles?

  Jay Lee : Well, our killer chooses his victims, right? So if it's not the doorman, where does he see 'em?

  Al Burns : You know, usually these high-end operations, the girls like to check out the johns first. Some public place; restaurant, nightclub.

  Jay Lee : Only problem is, because of the number system, we can't ask Brenner; she wouldn't know.

  Al Burns : Yeah. It's not like we can ask the victims.

  Jay Lee : You know what? Maybe there is someone we can ask. With what Brenner charges these guys, you figure they got to be heavy hitters, right? I think I even recognize a couple of them. If we can get 'em to talk to us, maybe we're in business.

  Al Burns : [glancing at Eliot in his office]  They don't have to talk to us.

• Jay Lee : Hey, Al, just got back background on Proctor. Turns out he was an only kid. One of Dad's regular hookers turned out to be a federal agent. Dad was sent up the river, Mom had a nervous breakdown, and poor little Adrian ended up in foster care.

  Al Burns : And Harvey Reynolds?

  Cherie Rollins-Murray : Proctor killed him. Looks like they met when Proctor was investigating the call girl scandal at Hudson five years ago. I think he sensed Harvey's own damage, figured he might find a future use for him, which he did.

• Jay Lee : Pretty slick move turning on the camera.

  Carrie Wells : Well, you know me, Jay. I'm slick. Although I will say, it's a little disturbing that you could have watched us any time you wanted.

  Jay Lee : Why? Uh, what would I have seen?

  Al Burns : Well, I'm a little embarrassed to tell you, Jay. But you'd have seen two people in an absolute frenzy, ravenously devouring... raw fish.