Law & Order (TV Series)

Called Home (2008)

S. Epatha Merkerson: Lieutenant Anita Van Buren

Quotes 

• Ed Green : It fits. The bank said he borrowed against his business to pay off his mortgage.

  Anita Van Buren : He put his affairs in order. I'm so sorry, detective. All right, let's change the classification on the blue to suspected suicide.

  Cyrus Lupo : Lieutenant, if you do that, you know this goes to the bottom of a pile. Maybe my brother suicided, but he wouldn't know where to get these drugs. Somebody helped him. Maybe that woman.

  Ed Green : We'll look for her, but real, man. We got open murder cases here. And all due respect, your brother was...

  Cyrus Lupo : You don't know anything about my brother, all right? If... if this woman had tried to help him instead of handing him a loaded syringe...

  Ed Green : Look, I will give this the time it deserves, but maybe your brother had good reasons to take a shortcut to the exit. Maybe if you called him back and talked to him, you'd know why.

• Ed Green : [seeing Lupo outside Van Buren's office]  He's been wearing down the linoleum for the last couple hours.

  Anita Van Buren : [shutting the door]  Now, I talked to his boss at Intel; Lupo broke some big cases in some very unfriendly corners of the world, and he did it with no backup, no warrants, no weapon.

  Ed Green : You makin' a sales pitch?

  Anita Van Buren : We got a second assisted sucide with a victim he's not related to. It wouldn't be policy violation for him to work that case.