- Roe Saunders: All right, what do you got?
- Tanya Sitkowsky: I don't know. Where do I start?
- Roe Saunders: Um, I'm gonna say the beginning.
- Carrie Wells: Hey, Roe.
- Roe Saunders: Hey. Afraid work's starting early this morning.
- Carrie Wells: Oh, yeah? What'd we catch?
- Roe Saunders: Well, we got a fresh one out at an abandoned warehouse on 516 Borden Ave.
- Man Dressed as Morgan: [she remembers a phone call] 516 Borden, 9:00. Come alone.
- Carrie Wells: Um, what kind... what kind of body?
- Roe Saunders: It's a dead one, I think. Don't quote me.
- Carrie Wells: I-I mean male or... female?
- Roe Saunders: Yeah, it's a male. Middle-aged. Kind of hard to tell with most of his head missing.
- Carrie Wells: I'm on my way.
- Roe Saunders: Oh, hey, you got a minute? Maybe pick up a bagel from that place on 23rd? I haven't eaten breakfast yet. Hello?
- [realizing she's hung up]
- Roe Saunders: Ah, it's the most important meal of the day.
- Carrie Wells: What's going on?
- Al Burns: Walter Morgan's in there with half his head blown off.
- Carrie Wells: Well, hallelujah, I guess.
- Al Burns: That's what I thought. Who killed him?
- Carrie Wells: Do we have to find out?
- Al Burns: What do you think?
- Carrie Wells: Shouldn't be too hard. Guy like that had a lot of enemies.
- Al Burns: He had a lot of friends. Big Manhattan lawyer getting shotgunned in the ass end of Queens? This case will get a lot of attention.
- Roe Saunders: What, not even a bialy?
- Al Burns: You got an appetite after all this?
- Roe Saunders: Hey, eating's a natural function. It's a part of life. What do they say? "In the midst of life I am in death"? So, in the midst of death, how about a little cream cheese?
- Joanne Webster: She thinks Morgan is trying to frame her for his own death.
- Al Burns: So he got himself murdered just to, what, to punish her?
- Joanne Webster: Or it wasn't him, and whoever killed him knew that Carrie was an easy target for a frame job.
- Al Burns: You do a GSR test?
- Joanne Webster: At her request. It came back negative. Of course, she's smart enough to know that you can get the same results just by washing your hands.
- Al Burns: Why'd she come to you, Jo? Way I figure it, I got maybe two hours before I have to call the captain and tell him what's going on, or we're getting bounced and sent to monitor evidence rooms all over this town.
- Joanne Webster: She's been investigating Morgan pretty aggressively.
- Al Burns: What? When?
- Joanne Webster: I'd say ongoing.
- Al Burns: Even after we came up empty and I pulled the plug?
- Joanne Webster: Yeah.
- Al Burns: What do you mean by "aggressively"? She meet with him?
- Joanne Webster: Twice. Once for dinner and last night.
- Al Burns: Last night? He was shot last night! How could such a smart woman be so stupid?
- Carrie Wells: Uh, question: were you here last night?
- Pizza Guy: 4:00 to midnight.
- Carrie Wells: Okay, I'm looking for one of your customers who used the pay phone around 8:00.
- Pizza Guy: I get tons of customers in here at night. You want me to remember somebody who made a telephone call?
- Carrie Wells: How many of your customers still use a pay phone?
- Carrie Wells: I don't think you know anything about what happened to my sister.
- Walter Morgan: I wish you'd trust me.
- Carrie Wells: Now, why would I do that?
- Walter Morgan: Because we're alike. We live in a bright world. Clear, exposed, vivid. They, on the other hand, sleep through a night of half-truths, of shadows, unknowns. We don't belong with them. You don't belong. What do I want? I want you to realize that.
- Mike Costello: We got eleven ADAs a-a-and four TV stations and three papers and a gazillion bloggers all wondering what's up with the Walter Morgan investigation, and right now, I don't know the answer!
- Roe Saunders: All right, all right, look. Enough, okay? She's in there talking to Al. We'll figure it out.
- Nina Inara: Yeah, you're right. You're right. Look, Al will know what to do, okay?
- [cut to Al's office]
- Al Burns: I don't know what to do.
- Tanya Sitkowsky: So you know that strange thing in Salt Lake, where the cops thought they'd recovered Walter Morgan's fingerprints five years ago at the site of a sexual assault?
- Roe Saunders: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Morgan had an alibi; he was here in New York.
- Tanya Sitkowsky: Right. So I snooped around a little. It turns out the only other lead the police had in the case was the name of a guy the victim met at a bar named John Fox. But since they only had a name and someone else's prints, it was a dead end. Right?
- Roe Saunders: Wrong?
- Tanya Sitkowsky: Well, I took the name John Fox, and just for the fun of it, I ran it through a multi-linked recursion sorting program with all the other information we put together on Walter Morgan. Known associates, past clients, schoolteachers, et cetera. And it turns out... are you ready for this?
- Roe Saunders: Oh, you had me at "recursion program".
- Walter Morgan: There are pleasures in life it would be a crime to refuse. Wine is one. Another is friendship. When it's offered. Hard to find a friend, an equal to discuss matters.
- Carrie Wells: Is that why I'm here, Walter? You looking for a friend?
- Walter Morgan: [with a laugh] Sorry, I didn't mean to show all my cards at once. Not much of a hand at poker, I'm afraid. I prefer pool; all about playing the angles.
- Carrie Wells: You a hustler, Walter?
- Walter Morgan: Oh, no. Unlike you, I never gamble.
- Carrie Wells: You're gambling now, having me here in your house.
- Walter Morgan: I have nothing to hide. Charming dinner companion for a little information. Pretty safe bet, I'd say.
- Carrie Wells: What do you know about my sister's murder?
- Walter Morgan: Patience.
- Carrie Wells: It's not a virtue of mine.
- Walter Morgan: That's okay. It's one of mine.
- Carrie Wells: What's your game, really, Walter? What do you want?
- Walter Morgan: You said it yourself. I want you to need me. As a friend. Shall we begin?
- Roe Saunders: We got a shotgun at close range. Got, uh, one shell casing. Security guard found him. Had the good enough sense to get outside before he hurled.
- Al Burns: $400 shoes. What the hell was he doing here?
- Roe Saunders: We were lucky security even noticed an open door, 'cause nobody's used this place in months.
- Joanne Webster: How you doing?
- Carrie Wells: I don't know. I just can't believe it.
- Joanne Webster: Did you tell Al?
- Carrie Wells: That I kept investigating Walter Morgan after he told me we were done? After I told him I was done? Uh...
- Joanne Webster: I'll take that as a "no."
- Carrie Wells: Yeah. Do you mind if we just take a look at this together?
- Joanne Webster: You're still not convinced, huh?
- Carrie Wells: Walter Morgan's whole life was about games, impersonation, deception. No, I'm not convinced.
- Al Burns: You should've come to me.
- Carrie Wells: With what? You made me promise to stay away from him.
- Al Burns: If you'd told me about Rachel, I would have understood a little bit.
- Carrie Wells: No, you would have insisted that I stay away even more.
- Al Burns: For good reason, it turns out! You actually had dinner with the guy?
- Carrie Wells: I know how bad this looks.
- Al Burns: Do you? 'Cause I've never seen anything look quite this bad.
- Carrie Wells: I know that if I was anyone else, you would have arrested me by now, so thank you.
- Al Burns: That's right. But we're not anyone else, are we?
- Al Burns: What have we got? I mean, claiming Morgan killed himself to frame you for his own murder is not exactly a winning defense.
- Carrie Wells: Al, I don't know how he's done it. But this is his game, this is how he plays.
- Al Burns: What's the point of a game if you're not around to know you've won?
- Carrie Wells: [remembering their dinner] Unless... he is.
- Walter Morgan: [flashback] Perhaps it's better that you don't remember what happened on that day in those woods.
- Carrie Wells: You haven't told me anything I don't already know, Walter. You haven't told me anything that's not in the police report.
- Walter Morgan: To live with that terror every day, every minute...
- Carrie Wells: What else do you know, Walter?
- Walter Morgan: Have you read Robert Frost? "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening". "And miles to go before I sleep." He was a little like you. No time to dawdle, and "a little in love with death."
- Carrie Wells: That's like you.
- [returning to the present]
- Carrie Wells: There was a poem. I wasn't getting it at the time. "And miles to go before I sleep." He's not done. Not by a long shot. He wants to see if I can beat this.
- Al Burns: Did he leave any clues as to how a dead guy isn't actually dead?