Unforgettable (TV Series)

The Following Sea (2012)

Michael Gaston: Mike Costello

Quotes 

• Nina Inara : You really don't think there's a case without her testimony?

  Al Burns : The problem's always been we can't be sure what happened on that boat.

  Mike Costello : And the only other person on board, Hagan's pal Clancy Watts, is gonna back up Hagan's version of the events.

  Al Burns : Which is exactly why Kate Jordan is so critical. Her testimony is that three days before the murder, she witnessed Hagan hit his wife and specifically threaten to throw her into the river.

  Nina Inara : Yeah, yeah yeah...

  Al Burns : That's violence and an actual death threat.

  Nina Inara : Yeah, lots of guys say they're gonna kill their wives, but how are you guys gonna prove that he actually went through with it?

  Roe Saunders : Currents.

  Nina Inara : Excuse me?

  Roe Saunders : Well, more precisely, current patterns. Here. D.A.'s office prepared this for the trial. It's a 3-D representation of what we think happened the night of the murder. "Avatar" it's not, but I think it gives "Tintin" a run for the money.

• Al Burns : Hagan says he invited Nora out for a romantic cruise. Clancy Watts comes along to crew. Watts says at 9:30, Nora went topside to get some fresh air after too much champagne. Watts and Hagan start up a poker game down in the cabin. Hagan says he checked on Nora every fifteen minutes. Watts will testify he could hear Hagan talking to her until 10:15, when Hagan went to check and then came running back down to tell him Nora was gone. They called the Coast Guard. They start searching.

  Mike Costello : The only problem is, we know that she went over thirty minutes before Hagan said.

  Nina Inara : How do you figure?

  Roe Saunders : Like I said.

  Mike Costello : Current patterns. If she'd gone over when they claimed, she'd have drifted up into the Sound. Instead, she washed up on the lovely shores of Queens.

  Roe Saunders : Plus, there's the matter of the deck railing. Nora Hagan was 5'2". The railing on the deck came up to four inches below her chin. There's no way you go over that by accident.

  Mike Costello : But with a little help...

  Nina Inara : Okay, so then why didn't you guys just show this to the jury?

  Mike Costello : Judge ruled it inadmissible. She said that it was too prejudicial.

  Al Burns : Which is why we need Kate Jordan.

• Mike Costello : You get anything?

  Roe Saunders : [checking his notes]  Yeah, let's see. Ten of Hagan's employees refused to talk to me. Eight threw profanity in my general direction. Oh, and a kindly elderly woman told me Joe Hagan is a saint, and I should burn in hell for suggesting otherwise.

  Mike Costello : Yeah. You got that kind of face.

• Mike Costello : We've been over every inch of this place. There's no sign of Kate or her car. Either Tanya got the data wrong, or...

  Al Burns : [indicating something in the water]  What's that right there?

  Mike Costello : Is that what I think it is?

  Al Burns : Get a crane and some divers.

• Roe Saunders : Okay, so here's my theory. Kate Jordan comes into town, Hagan gets his buddy Clancy to be the bait, he gets her out of her hotel room, they take a drive, end of Kate Jordan.

  Nina Inara : Well, I took another run at Gwen, the ex-roommate. She admitted Kate and Clancy had a pretty heavy affair before Nora Hagan was murdered. She said they broke up 'cause Clancy wasn't happy that Kate was gonna be a witness against Hagan.

  Mike Costello : Well, of course Gwen never mentioned any of this to Al.

  Nina Inara : Yeah, well, for what it's worth, she says she kept quiet 'cause she still thinks that Clancy's a good guy, that he would never hurt Kate.

  Al Burns : He's not a good guy; he's a scumbag. We got two murdered women. Clancy Watts is dead center both times. He was on that boat, he lied to save Hagan's ass, and now he's killed for him.

• Roe Saunders : What'd you hear from the D.A.'s office about the trial?

  Al Burns : Nothing good, unless we got something real to tie Hagan with Kate Jordan's death.

  Mike Costello : Even if the judge lets 'em go forward with the trial, there's no jury's gonna convict with what we got left.

  Al Burns : Doesn't matter. I want Hagan and Watts for Kate Jordan's murder. She was brave enough to stand up to him. We can't let him win.

• Al Burns : Did you see that?

  Carrie Wells : Yeah. I don't think he knew she was dead.

  Al Burns : I don't agree. If he killed her, he was expecting the trap.

  Carrie Wells : No, I'm telling you, Al, he is for real.

  Al Burns : What do you think?

  Mike Costello : Eh, it's really tough to tell. If he's sick enough to kill his old girlfriend like that, then we're talking about some kind of sociopath.

  Carrie Wells : Guys, I think he's genuine, I do.

  Al Burns : We already know he lied for Hagan.

  Carrie Wells : Not necessarily. I read Clancy's testimony. Now, he didn't give Hagan a full alibi. All he said is he heard Hagan talking to his wife on the deck. He could be duped by Hagan, too.

  Al Burns : This is one of Hagan's best friends. You think he's in the clear, then prove it to me.

• Joanne Webster : I ran some fancy new tests on Nora Hagan's bloodwork. My predecessor indicate scopolamine, put it up to seasickness medications, but there was something else there. A highly potent, semi-synthetic opioid. Which makes for a nasty combination. Loss of motor control, blackouts, grand mal seizures. Nora Hagan drowned because she couldn't move.

  Mike Costello : Well, I don't know if you heard, but the-the Nora Hagan case is... is kind of over.

  Al Burns : Yeah, maybe if you had something on... Kate Jordan.

  Joanne Webster : I believe I do. And I'll excuse that shared look of dismay between the two of you as you're trying to figure out how to let the old gal and her tired old forensics down easy as some sort of critical male bonding. Let me present to you that your dead witness, Kate Jordan, had the same drugs in her system. And... in the same concentration. We have found Joe Hagan's murderous cocktail of choice.

  [handing the report to Mike] 

  Joanne Webster : Go get him.

  Mike Costello : [watching her leave]  Where did she come from?