Unforgettable (TV Series)
Flesh and Blood (2014)
Dylan Walsh: Al Burns
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Quotes
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Carrie Wells : Why would Jackie risk coming back into the country to kill a high school science teacher?
Al Burns : I wanted to kill my high school science teacher. He gave me a "D" in tenth grade. I had to go to summer school.
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Carrie Wells : Jay, what do we got on our victim?
Jay Lee : Theodore Muscat. Lived in Mamaroneck. Been teaching at Lakeside High for the past three years. Before that, at a high school in Ohio for twelve years. Not married, no record, nothing unusual.
Carrie Wells : There has got to be some connection here.
Al Burns : Did you cross him with what we know of past Alpha Five operations?
Jay Lee : [typing] There's nothing. Now, we know that Alpha Five was created by KGB officers to be an elite paramilitary group and that they secretly train in the Caucausus. So far, I see nothing that links Muscat to any past Alpha Five terrorist activity.
Al Burns : Jackie kills anyone who gets in her way. Maybe Muscat's death was collateral damage on her way to something else.
Carrie Wells : The question is, on her way to what?
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Carrie Wells : Back in his hospital room, Ted Muscat had a USB cap that was missing its flash drive. In his room, there was a poster of a valley below Mount El'brus. That is where the Alpha Five training camp is.
Al Burns : An Alpha Five agent was working as a public schoolteacher in Mameroneck?
Carrie Wells : I know, I know it sounds crazy, but maybe, just maybe, he's more than a science teacher.
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Jay Lee : Carrie was right. Ted Muscat, AKA Yevgeny Vayzer, Alpha Five through and through. Suspected in at least seven bombings throughout Europe from 1995 to 2009, including the Deutschland Bank attack, which killed 170 people. I'd hate to have detention in his class.
Al Burns : The whole world must be looking for this guy.
Jay Lee : They were, until he died three years ago. Vayzer was on a G4 that went down off the coast of Majorca in 2010. No survivors. Turns out, the three other passengers were all top Alpha Five operatives. All of them reported dead. Petra Kekilli, Sergei Kirsakov, and some guy I can only identify right now as Victor. I'm looking into all of them.
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Al Burns : 2010. That corresponds with the start of Muscat's teaching career in Mamaroneck.
Cherie Rollins-Murray : I may have had some luck with our schoolteacher's phones. I traced four calls in two days from his school office to the Upper West Side townhouse of this guy: Jimmy Cerrano. Guy's a hedge fund manager worth a couple hundred million. Looks like the feds have been sniffing around him for a decade. Suspected money laundering for illegal arms deals.
Al Burns : If Alpha Five is up to something, they'll need financing from someone who knows how to move money around quietly.
Jay Lee : You know, the feds might already have an existing search warrant on Cerrano's place. I'll see if maybe we can go piggyback.
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Al Burns : Let me guess. He's worried your personal stake in catching Jackie is gonna compromise your professional judgment.
Carrie Wells : Why does everyone keep using the word "personal" here? I am a cop. We catch bad guys. That is what we do. That is what I'm doing.
Al Burns : I beat you at tennis a long time ago. You still can't let it go.
Carrie Wells : August 2001. You said that ball was out when it was in. And what the hell does that have to do with anything?
Al Burns : Jackie kills six people and then outsmarts you and disappears right under your nose. She won, you lost, it's personal.
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Carrie Wells : Listen, I said I was gonna take her Russian ass down, okay, when she-she got away from me the last time, and that is what I intend to do.
Al Burns : You know, she got away from me, too, which is why we're gonna take her down together.
Carrie Wells : Okay. I like the sound of that.
Al Burns : [leaving] Ball was out.
Carrie Wells : [to herself] It was in.
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Al Burns : [finding Petra dead] She was their nanny for three years. She must've been using Cerrano's accounts for Alpha Five.
Carrie Wells : Three years after she supposedly dies in a plane crash, just like Vayzer. We're dealing with a sleeper cell, Al. There were two more operatives on that plane. We have to find them.
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Jay Lee : I found these behind the dresser in the nanny's room.
Carrie Wells : What are we looking at?
Jay Lee : After September 11, we got special training to spot this kind of thing. It's a high-capacity semiconductor 70VR.
Al Burns : Which means?
Jay Lee : It's a type of electronic fuse. Really sophisticated. Our high school science teacher knew what he was doing.
Al Burns : A fuse for what?
Jay Lee : Well, this goes way above my pay grade, so I can't be sure, but I recognize some of the components. The nuetron reflectors give it away.
Carrie Wells : A bomb. A nuclear bomb.
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Jay Lee : So, these are Jackie's numbers. I've run cryptanalysis, block cypher, Shor's quantum factoring. All I got is a partial match on the birthdates of the Fearsome Foursome.
Al Burns : L.A. Rams defensive front back in the '60s? Rosey Grier, Deacon Jones, Merlin...?
Jay Lee : Merlin who?
Al Burns : Olsen! I know who they are. What do they have to do with this?
Jay Lee : That's the problem. Nothing.
Al Burns : Well, that leaves us nowhere.
Cherie Rollins-Murray : [approaching] Well, I wouldn't say nowhere. And I didn't even need an algorithm.
Al Burns : What do you got?
Cherie Rollins-Murray : When I first moved to Manhattan, I got a post office box at the James A. Farley Post Office, the big one right near Penn Station. I knew there was something about those numbers.
Al Burns : P.O. box.
Cherie Rollins-Murray : Mm-hmm. The first number, I bet you that's the combination. The second one's the box number.
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Agent Thorne : Agent Stone's contacted some people about moving Jackie to a location where she can be interrogated vigorously.
Al Burns : She's Alpha Five, Thorne. She's not gonna talk, whatever you do to her, and if she does, it's not gonna be the truth.
Agent Thorne : I'll take my chances.
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Jay Lee : So, what'd she say while the cameras were...
Al Burns : Overloaded? Yeah, I overheard.
Jay Lee : That was the best I could come up with. That Thorne guy scares me.
Carrie Wells : With good reason. According to Jackie, Thorne and Stone might be working with Victor.
Al Burns : What?
Carrie Wells : Yeah. We got to find out if she's right, and we've got to find out now.
Jay Lee : Hold on. We can't just go poking around the ICA. Those guys are real super-spooks.
Carrie Wells : She gave me a code word: CALAMUS. Find me something, Jay. Anything.
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Jay Lee : Okay, so back when we took out bin Laden, turns out there was a ton of stuff on hard drives in that compound that showed evidence of a joint operation between the U.S. government and al-Qaeda. Now, that operation was called Calamus, and was supposedly the brainchild of a rogue group of agents working for the ICA.
Al Burns : Okay, but ICA is a big agency.
Jay Lee : Right, so then I checked with a buddy of mine in Washington about our pals Thorne and Stone. Turns out, they weren't assigned to come down here and help us like they said. They insisted on it.
Al Burns : So Jackie's right. They're working with Victor and Alpha Five.
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Al Burns : Americans planning an attack on their own people. But why?
Jay Lee : There were some references to Iran on the Calamus reports. My guess is... they're trying to make it look like Iran's behind this.
Al Burns : Which would get us into a war with Iran, tear apart the Middle East, who knows what else. What's on the stick?
Jay Lee : Thought you'd never ask.
[opening his laptop]
Jay Lee : Okay. Now, these look like regular seventh grade homework assignments. Most of them freakin' terrible. But like the commercial says, there's more. Cryptography didn't work with Jackie's clues. But here's why they need the stick. The enabling code for the bomb. With it, they can arm the bomb. Without it, they'll never be able to detonate it.
Al Burns : That's the price for Jackie's son. A dead city and world war. Can you reprogram it?
Jay Lee : Yeah. To do what?
Al Burns : Kill the bomb, permanently.
[Jay nods uncertainly]
Al Burns : Okay, new plan.
Jay Lee : What do you got in mind?
Al Burns : If we get caught, we all go to prison for the rest of our lives.
[dialing his phone]
Al Burns : Carrie...
