- Joanne Webster: Well, cause of death isn't a mystery. Crushed parietal bone and avulsion of the cranium. Somebody bashed his head in. Any of your classmates arrive with a lead pipe?
- Carrie Wells: Maybe my history teacher, Professor Plum.
- Al Burns: Candlestick might also work.
- Teen Joey Falk: Hey, Carrie. So, what up? Girl, you're looking fly.
- Young Carrie Wells: If you're gonna walk with me, you can't talk like that.
- Teen Joey Falk: Fine. Hey, did you call me last night?
- Young Carrie Wells: No.
- Teen Joey Falk: Okay, uh, 'cause I was out watching "Terminator 2". I thought maybe...
- Young Carrie Wells: T2? Again?
- Teen Joey Falk: I've only seen it twice.
- Young Carrie Wells: Seven times. We saw it at the Syracuse Seven two Fridays ago, when you kept trying to kiss me, and you saw it by yourself at the Regency in...
- Teen Joey Falk: Stop, okay? You're my most annoying friend.
- Young Carrie Wells: I'm your only friend.
- Mean Girl 1: Hey, Joey. You're looking so hot today.
- Jock: Yo, and Mr. Potato Head called. He wants his complexion back.
- Young Carrie Wells: Aren't you late for class, guys?
- Mean Girl 1: Oh, hey, it's Scary Carrie. Yeah, we're not too worried.
- Young Carrie Wells: You should be, Danielle. You have six tardies in physics, four of them absences, and Jason, if you're gonna cut English again like you did period three last Tuesday, you probably shouldn't go brag about it in the cafeteria 37 minutes later.
- Mean Girl 1: How does it feel to be a freak?
- Young Carrie Wells: I don't know. How does it feel to be too dumb to remember you asked me that last month?
- Carrie Wells: I'm not coming out.
- Al Burns: Carrie, it was twenty years ago. You're gonna be fine.
- Carrie Wells: These are mean people, Al. They locked me in a closet with Joey Falks.
- Al Burns: You've disarmed terrorists, faced down assassins.
- Carrie Wells: This is high school, and no terrorist or assassin ever voted me "most likely to be single forever."
- Al Burns: Really? That's what you got?
- Carrie Wells: Yeah.
- Al Burns: Look, I won't let 'em pick on you.
- Carrie Wells: Promise?
- Al Burns: I promise. Now, come on, it'll be an adventure.
- Carrie Wells: Oh, my god. It's Hank Bronski.
- Al Burns: Hank who?
- Carrie Wells: Hank Bronski, prom king, quarterback.
- Al Burns: Are you blushing?
- Carrie Wells: Now he's coming over. Let go. Let go.
- Hank Bronski: Al Burns? Hank Bronski. You partnered with my uncle in the Syracuse PD. Dave Corwin?
- Al Burns: Dave Corwin. Son of a bitch. How's he doing?
- Hank Bronski: Great. He used to tell the story about the time that you climbed... Hank Bronski. It's very nice to meet you, Mrs. Burns.
- Carrie Wells: No, I'm... you actually went to school with me. Carrie Wells.
- Hank Bronski: Carrie Wells. Wait, Scary Carrie?
- Al Burns: Scary Carrie?
- Carrie Wells: Oh. No-no one calls me that anymore.
- Hank Bronski: You were my number one will-be.
- Al Burns: Not sure I like the sound of that.
- Hank Bronski: It means "will be hot."
- Carrie Wells: Aw.
- Hank Bronski: I guess I was dead-on.
- Al Burns: So, Carrie mentioned you played quarterback. What kind of team you have?
- Hank Bronski: Oh, pretty good. We went to state finals against Troy.
- Carrie Wells: Yeah, he threw for 387 yards and three touchdowns.
- Hank Bronski: I'm honored that...
- Al Burns: Easy there, Namath. She remembers everything.
- Al Burns: Who are the screamers?
- Hank Bronski: Ah. Bella Krebs. She's the one on the left. She was my girlfriend sophomore year. The other is Melanie Latham. They were kind of best friends/rivals.
- Carrie Wells: More rivals than friends.
- Hank Bronski: Well, Melanie was also my...
- Carrie Wells: Your girlfriend sophomore year, yeah.
- Al Burns: Sounds like a good year. Who didn't you go out with?
- Al Burns: Nice chatting with you, Hank. How'd you let him get away?
- Carrie Wells: Do I detect a note of jealousy?
- Al Burns: Hardly. But for the record, I threw four touchdowns and 457 yards in the state finals.
- Carrie Wells: Oh, that's impressive.
- Al Burns: What's up with that?
- Carrie Wells: Oh, you know that band Locked and Upright?
- Al Burns: Gets a little fuzzy for me after Springsteen.
- Carrie Wells: The lead singer, Lance Burke, he was in our class.
- Al Burns: Ah. So, you and, uh...?
- Carrie Wells: No. Ew.
- Al Burns: Yeah.
- Carrie Wells: No, no, no, no, no. He was a stoner and he never bathed.
- Al Burns: Okay, so we got the, uh, stoners, the jocks, the queen bees. Where'd you fit in?
- Carrie Wells: News flash. I didn't.
- Carrie Wells: Melanie, right?
- Melanie Lambert: Scary Carrie.
- Carrie Wells: No one calls me that anymore.
- Melanie Lambert: I'm Melanie Lambert. I'm sure you weren't in our class.
- Al Burns: No, I went to Central.
- Carrie Wells: Al Burns. You better be careful, Al. Melanie likes quarterbacks a lot.
- Melanie Lambert: Wait. Not *the* Al Burns. Undefeated All-State Champs Al Burns?
- Carrie Wells: Whose reunion is this?
- Carrie Wells: Joey was my only friend in school. This is Al.
- Joey Falk: I heard you were a cop.
- Carrie Wells: Yes.
- Joey Falk: It was on the alumni website. Actually, I run the site.
- Carrie Wells: Well, Joey was, um, president of the A/V Club.
- Joey Falk: And the Carrie Wells fan club.
- Carrie Wells: You know, Al's my-my partner. I was just telling him about you, actually.
- Joey Falk: Not the closet story?
- Al Burns: The closet story?
- Tommy Garland: There he is!
- Joey Falk: Oh.
- Tommy Garland: Good news. I'm giving out noogies at half price.
- Carrie Wells: Half price. That's right. Always original, Tommy.
- Tommy Garland: Scary Carrie!
- Carrie Wells: No one calls me... never mind.
- CSU Worker: Okay, I got his belongings. 30 bucks still there, keys. Couple of lotto tickets.
- Al Burns: Where's his phone?
- Joanne Webster: He probably left it inside.
- Carrie Wells: No, he was pretty attached to that phone. I mean, he kept showing everyone pictures that were on it.
- Al Burns: I want to lock down the hotel. We need to cover every inch of this place, including everyone at the reunion. Nobody leaves. You think they'll mind?
- Carrie Wells: You think I care? I got this.
- Jay Lee: Wow. Is that Carrie in high school? Where'd you get that?
- Cherie Rollins-Murray: Carrie hooked us into the reunion web site. I got a list of all the folks who showed up. Maybe someone pops.
- Jay Lee: [snickering] Carrie with the one-strap "Fresh Prince" overalls. Nice.
- [seeing her look]
- Jay Lee: I have an older sister. You know, she... the...
- Cherie Rollins-Murray: Uh-huh.
- Carrie Wells: So, Bella, did you stay in touch with Tommy after high school?
- Bella Florence: Oh, hardly. I ran into his ex, Tina something, at the new mall in Hampshire a while back. She was complaining he was a deadbeat. That's it.
- Carrie Wells: A-A deadbeat how?
- Bella Florence: Ah, guess he owed her back alimony, bounced a couple of checks. Didn't sound pretty.
- Al Burns: Did she mention anyone else he may have owed money to?
- Bella Florence: Sorry. So sad.
- Carrie Wells: Yeah.
- Bella Florence: This is how we'll remember our 20th reunion.
- Al Burns: No one seems too upset about this guy.
- Carrie Wells: I think Tommy was mostly friends with Hank, and Hank's friends just kind of tolerated Tommy.
- Carrie Wells: Those photos Tommy showed us. I gotta make a phone call.
- Al Burns: Where-where-where you going?
- Carrie Wells: No...
- Al Burns: We got about fifty people to interview.
- Carrie Wells: All right, you-you just take the next one. I'll be back. They're not going anywhere.
- Cherie Rollins-Murray: We ran everything we could find on Tommy, then and now. You're right. Sounds like he was in a lot of trouble. Money, mostly, after his wife left him. Foreclosures, tax liens.
- Carrie Wells: You know, he showed us a picture of a boat that he said was his. A very big, expensive boat.
- Cherie Rollins-Murray: I'm sure the banks are enjoying it, but it gets worse. Last month, Tommy got into a bar fight in Syracuse. No arrests, but we're tracking down witnesses, see what that was all about.
- Jay Lee: Hey, Carrie, we got some information coming in off of Tommy's cloud. Looks like he had his phone backed up.
- Carrie Wells: Well, what do you got?
- Jay Lee: You said Tommy's body was discovered at 10:47, right? We got activity on his phone at 10:54. GPS puts it in the hotel after he was dead.
- Carrie Wells: What kind of activity?
- Jay Lee: Working on it. But you locked down the room at 10:50.
- Carrie Wells: That means whoever killed Tommy is still in the room right now.
- Hank Bronski: You're not thinking I had anything to do with this?
- Carrie Wells: We don't really know what to think at this point, Hank. I mean, it does sound like Tommy was jealous of you.
- Hank Bronski: Mmm.
- Al Burns: How did you get all the girls?
- Carrie Wells: Did he mention anything else? Was that it?
- Hank Bronski: Actually, he talked about tonight, the reunion. I don't know. It was weird. He kept talking about Vicky Lannister, the girl who died in tenth grade. You remember her?
- Carrie Wells: Yeah, yeah, I do. Wh-what was he saying about her?
- Hank Bronski: I don't remember, honestly. It was all part of a rant. He said something would happen tonight that would turn his life around.
- Al Burns: Probably not what he meant. So, how did all this turn into punches being thrown?
- Hank Bronski: I, uh, had to get him out of there, so I guess I pushed him, and he took a swing at me. He gave me no choice. Ask the people at the bar.
- Al Burns: Oh, we will.
- Al Burns: So, who's this Vicky Lannister?
- Carrie Wells: Well, she was... an outsider. Kind of like me.
- Al Burns: So you were friends?
- Carrie Wells: No, not really.
- [flashback sequence]
- Al Burns: How'd she die?
- Carrie Wells: Hit and run. After Hank's tenth grade graduation party, actually. She was walking along a curvy stretch of road, and...
- Al Burns: She was alone?
- Carrie Wells: Yeah. We had a vigil for her. I remember that at school. Everybody cried. And then life went on.
- Al Burns: You were 16.
- Carrie Wells: Still...
- Al Burns: Okay, so far, nothing in Tommy's e-mail or messages. Lots of back and forth with his loan officer. He was definitely cash-strapped.
- Carrie Wells: He has, like, four trillion photos.
- [scrolling through]
- Carrie Wells: Wait a second.
- Al Burns: What?
- Carrie Wells: There's a picture missing. A jacket.
- Al Burns: Okay, so the guy had a picture of a jacket.
- Carrie Wells: I've seen the jacket before.
- [remembering a high school party she attended]
- Carrie Wells: Vicky was wearing the jacket the night she died.
- Al Burns: The same kind of jacket?
- Carrie Wells: The exact jacket.
- Al Burns: Tonight, a picture of that jacket is deleted from Tommy's phone.
- Carrie Wells: What if there was more to Vicky's death than just a hit and run? Tommy knew about it, and it got him killed?
- Al Burns: Told you tonight would be an adventure.
- Eliot Delson: Problems with the monitor, Jay?
- Al Burns: Eliot, it's the murder at the St. Dimas. Carrie knew all those people.
- Eliot Delson: Al, please. We're called Major Crimes for a reason. It's major to you guys, it's major to me.
- Al Burns: That's nice.
- Eliot Delson: Of course, we host 1,200 reunions a year, which brings in millions of dollars worth of revenue.
- Al Burns: Okay, a little less nice.
- Eliot Delson: And it's hard enough to face down your tortured adolescence without getting your brains bashed in.
- Joanne Webster: [entering] Ooh, and bashed they were. I've confirmed the murder weapon to be a standard issue claw hammer. Lacerations to the middle meningeal artery and perforating injury to the brain.
- Jay Lee: Not the most efficient way to kill somebody.
- Joanne Webster: Do you realize that more people were killed with hammers last year than with rifles?
- Al Burns: Not to mention all those smashed thumbs.
- Eliot Delson: So we're thinking blackmail. Maybe. Guy knows something about the girl's death, he comes to the reunion to squeeze whoever's responsible.
- [seeing Jo's look]
- Eliot Delson: What?
- Joanne Webster: I'm surprised. You came up with a theory.
- Al Burns: And not a bad one, actually. Explains the hammer. Weapon of convenience.
- Joanne Webster: We also found steel shavings under the cranium, so you find me the hammer, and we can trace it to the body.
- Al Burns: I'll check with the hotel, see if any employees have lighter tool kits than ususal.
- Cherie Rollins-Murray: We're getting stuff in from Syracuse. That's the Vicky Lannister crime scene from twenty years ago.
- Carrie Wells: Wait a second. Where's the jacket? She was wearing that jacket when she left the party, I'm sure of it.
- Cherie Rollins-Murray: Well, that's all they've got. There's definitely no jacket.
- Al Burns: Well, someone must've taken it after they hit her.
- Carrie Wells: Then 22 years later, Tommy Garland shows up at the reunion with a picture of it on his phone. I think he was involved in Vicky's death, or he knew who was.
- Carrie Wells: I saw Vicky's yearbook. "While I am I and you are you, so long as the world contains us both. Always yours, C.B."
- Carl Benson: I am an English teacher, and that is a quote from Robert Browning.
- Carrie Wells: That is a very romantic quote from Robert Browning. And I want to know why you wrote it in the yearbook of a sixteen year old girl.
- Carl Benson: If you are suggesting that anything happened between me and Vicky Lannister...
- Carrie Wells: And that you murdered her 22 years ago? Yeah, that is exactly what I'm suggesting.
- Carrie Wells: Al, I remember every minute of high school like it happened yesterday. You know, every loaded word, every sideways glance, but... but I don't think I really understood it.
- Al Burns: I bet you understood enough.
- Carrie Wells: I was such an outsider that I think I spent a lot of my time imagining what other people's lives were like. You were never on the outside in high school.
- Al Burns: I got cut from varsity in ninth grade. That counts.
- Carrie Wells: Do you think, if you and I had gone to high school together, you would have... you would have gone out with me?
- Al Burns: Yeah.
- Carrie Wells: You're lying. You wouldn't have even noticed me, would you?
- Al Burns: I'd have noticed you.
- Carrie Wells: But I was... I was a dork, and-and you were a football star.
- Al Burns: I have a hard time believing you were a dork.
- Carrie Wells: Well, I am glad we did not meet in high school. I think you would have broken my heart.
- Al Burns: Instead, we met as adults and you broke mine.
- Jay Lee: Okay, so Vicky's high school life is proving a little tough to reassemble. She didn't leave much of a footprint. But I followed up on that poetry thing. The school has all their yearbooks online. Turns out, she started a Victorian poetry club, but it only had three other members.
- Al Burns: [sarcastic] That's a shocker. You get a list of the members?
- Jay Lee: You know I did. Meet Eleanor Yellen, 4.5 GPA. Went on to be an English major at Vassar. And we got Christine Ellis, cellist in the orchestra. But then there's... Greg Zoller. Definitely not a poetry club type. His school record reads like a rap sheet.
- Al Burns: Detentions, suspensions, mostly for fighting. Only class he got higher than a "C" in was auto shop. Yeah, this could be our guy. You got a real rap sheet?
- Jay Lee: Still waiting...
- Eliot Delson: Got it. Figured in for a penny, in for a pound, am I right? Behold. An expedited rap sheet on Greg Zoller. A couple of DUIs, burglary. Then, last year, he steps it up. Convicted for assault with a deadly weapon.
- Al Burns: What kind of deadly weapon?
- Eliot Delson: Working at Fast N' Lube outside Albany. Some guy gets on his nerves. Zoller goes after him with the first thing he can find: a claw hammer.
- Carrie Wells: Remember me? Carrie Wells. We were in algebra together 'till you flunked out.
- Greg Zoller: Scary Carrie.
- Al Burns: No one calls her that anymore.
- Carrie Wells: You stay in touch with Tommy Garland?
- Greg Zoller: Haven't seen him since high school.
- Carrie Wells: What about Vicky Lannister? You remember Vicky Lannister?
- Greg Zoller: Yeah. I remember Vicky.
- Carrie Wells: You remember Hank's party the night she died?
- Greg Zoller: I remember there was a party. I wasn't invited.
- Carrie Wells: Here's the problem with lying to me: basically, I remember everything. I was at the party. So were you. Let's start over.
- Carrie Wells: Remember what I said about seeing but not understanding?
- Al Burns: Yeah.
- Carrie Wells: I was sure I saw Vicky in the kitchen wearing this jacket, but it was Bella. What if somebody else made the same mistake?
- Al Burns: Then who wanted to kill Bella?
- Carrie Wells: Someone who was deadly jealous of her... and that. Melanie Lambert.
- Cherie Rollins-Murray: So, the police reports had something about blue paint transfer from the car to Vicky's clothing, right?
- Al Burns: Yeah, we checked with DMV. Neither Tommy nor Melanie had a blue car.
- Cherie Rollins-Murray: But Melanie's Aunt Laura did. A blue '85 Cutlass. It seems Aunt Laura's on a cruise. We're trying to get a hold of her. But the morning after Vicky died, an insurance claim was filed for that Cutlass for front end damage.