Unforgettable (TV Series)

The Following Sea (2012)

Kevin Rankin: Roe Saunders

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.

• Tanya Sitkowsky : Hey, I was just looking for you.

  Roe Saunders : Well, finding me at my desk does make it a bit less of an achievement, huh?

• Tanya Sitkowsky : So, I've been using your girl Kate's cell phone data to pinpoint her movements last night. I can track her from the airport to the hotel. Late afternoon, she went somewhere in Queens; I'm still working on figuring out where. Then it looks like she returned to the hotel for a few hours. And then, she moved north through a tower here, here, and here.

  Roe Saunders : Looks like she's driving along the Belt Parkway.

  Tanya Sitkowsky : Yeah, that's what I was thinking, but then her cell phone went offline around midnight.

  Roe Saunders : Poof.

  Tanya Sitkowsky : Wow. Exactly. That was... that was my "poof" gesture.

  [awkward silence] 

  Tanya Sitkowsky : There's a tower here. She either took the battery out of her cell phone before she got within a mile of the tower, or she never got within a mile of it.

  Roe Saunders : All right, so she could be between here and here.

  Tanya Sitkowsky : Exactly.

  Roe Saunders : Nice job, T.

• 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.

• Roe Saunders : All right, I think I know Kate Jordan how planned to change her testimony. Yeah, Tanya dried out the GPS from her rental car. Tracks back to a lawyer on Gunhill Road named Ari Lowenstein. She went to see him the minute she got off the plane. Apparently she was worried her new testimony could land her in jail.

  Al Burns : What was the testimony?

  Roe Saunders : Ready for this? Hagan had her falsifying accounting documents.

  Al Burns : Oh, fantastic.

  Roe Saunders : Yeah, Mr. Beloved was Mr. Crook. Big man had big money problems. He was stealing from his employees' pension fund.

  Al Burns : That's what Kate was afraid to tell us in her deposition. She didn't want to get in trouble. She mention Nora Hagan knowing anything about this?

  Roe Saunders : Yeah, she did. Apparently the wife knew all about it, and that's why she was threatening to divorce Hagan.

  Al Burns : So she wasn't just gonna leave him. She was gonna expose him for stealing.

  Roe Saunders : Best part? Kate gave Lowenstein copies of the documents to hold. He gave me a set.

  Al Burns : All right, I need you to get 'em to the courthouse ASAP.

  Roe Saunders : On my way.