- Cherie Rollins-Murray: You know, I still don't get how you wait three weeks to report your kid missing.
- Jay Lee: Oh, come on, Murray. Sam's in college. When I was in school, I'd go a month without talking to my parents.
- Cherie Rollins-Murray: I can't imagine not knowing where Maia is for that long.
- Jay Lee: Your daughter's nine years old. Let's re-visit this in ten years.
- Sean: [playing chess in the park] I'm taking you down this time, Carrie.
- Carrie Wells: A boy can dream, Sean.
- Barry: Remember, you promised if I beat you this time, I get a kiss.
- Carrie Wells: Today, Barry, you get a kiss anyway.
- Quinton: What about me? Do I get a kiss, too?
- Carrie Wells: You know, Quinton, a rain check. About ten years, okay?
- Carrie Wells: All right, what's it gonna be, boys?
- Quinton: Bishop to D3.
- Carrie Wells: Uh-huh.
- Sean: Knight to F6.
- Carrie Wells: Okay.
- Barry: Even with your incredible memory, there's a lot of boards with a lot of moves. You can't win. Pawn to G5.
- Carrie Wells: [laughing] My memory is more than incredible, Barry. It's perfect, which is why I remember the same Budapest Gambit October 14 of last year. Are you ready?
- [as she lists off her moves, each player sees they've been checkmated]
- Carrie Wells: Quinton. Rook to C1. Sean... Queen to F7. Barry... Queen to H5. Surrender and keep dreaming.
- [the onlookers applaud]
- Carrie Wells: Oh, thank you very much! Don't look so sad.
- Joanne Webster: Male, early 20s. Looks like a single gunshot wound to the back of the head. Been in the water maybe eight to ten hours, according to rigor. I'm estimating the time of death to be around midnight, but I'll know more when I get back to the lab.
- Carrie Wells: [recognizing the victim] I've seen him before. On a flyer. His name is Sam Miller. He was reported missing last week.
- Al Burns: Looks like we found him.
- Eliot Delson: I just got off this endless conference call with the Tourist Board. Good Lord, those people can chat.
- Al Burns: I assume they want this wrapped up quickly?
- Eliot Delson: They want this wrapped up yesterday. What we do know so far?
- Shelley Miller: It's gotten really scary. These union people, they put dead rats at our door.
- Carrie Wells: They broke into your building?
- Shelley Miller: Yeah. A little over a month ago.
- Carrie Wells: That's right around the time Sam left, right? And you hadn't spoken to him since?
- Shelley Miller: No. You don't think they hurt my son, do you?
- Carrie Wells: I don't know. But I'm gonna find out.
- Joanne Webster: Here's what I've got. I pulled a .38-caliber round from his frontal lobe. The point of entry was at the base of the skull, passed through the basal ganglia. He died instantly.
- Cherie Rollins-Murray: So, Sam was shot and then tossed in the river. I'm betting whoever killed Sam was hoping his body would get swept out into the ocean.
- Joanne Webster: Makes sense.
- Cherie Rollins-Murray: Hmm.
- Joanne Webster: This tox screen came back clean, except for his OCD meds. His T-cells were up; he probably had a cold.
- Cherie Rollins-Murray: He looks like a sweet kid.
- Joanne Webster: Ah, it's such a shame.
- Jay Lee: Okay, these three islands are directly in the current path upriver from where we found Sam's body. I don't recognize any of them.
- Al Burns: Wards Island had the first bridge crossing into Manhattan. South Brother Island, the little one there, that's where Jacob Ruppert, early owner of the Yankees, had a summer house.
- Jay Lee: I guess I'll take Bizarre Trivia for 500, Alex.
- Al Burns: And North Brother Island is where Typhoid Mary was quarantined for thirty years.
- Carrie Wells: [approaching] Typhoid Mary?
- [remembering Sam's bedroom]
- Carrie Wells: Sam was reading up on Typhoid Mary. Tell me more about North Brother Island.
- Al Burns: It's deserted now. Nobody's lived there since the '60s. Now it's a bird sanctuary for herons.
- Jay Lee: It sounds like the perfect place to grow weed without being noticed.
- Carrie Wells: And the perfect place...
- Al Burns: To get away with murder.
- Al Burns: For a badass cop, you seem a little jumpy.
- Carrie Wells: I am so not jumpy.
- [hearing a twig snap and a bird screech]
- Carrie Wells: What was that?
- [seeing a gull squawk as it flies through the air]
- Carrie Wells: Oh.
- Al Burns: Sometimes a bird sanctuary is just a bird sanctuary.
- Eliot Delson: You left them squatting on North Brother Island?
- Al Burns: Think of it as camping. Or what you've read about camping.
- Eliot Delson: I'll have you know I hiked the entire Inca Trail to the top of Machu Picchu.
- Al Burns: That's walking, not camping.
- Cherie Rollins-Murray: You two are seriously debating this right now?
- Carrie Wells: How are you feeling?
- Louisa: A little sore, I guess. But okay.
- Carrie Wells: Good.
- Louisa: Is everyone else...
- Carrie Wells: Everyone's gonna be okay. It's gonna work out fine. You know, you were really brave back there.
- Louisa: You kept your word. You saved us.
- Carrie Wells: I like to think Sam saved you. If he hadn't left the island and tried to figure out what was going on, we would never have found you, you know?
- Louisa: Yeah.
- Carrie Wells: Sam's watching out for you.
- Louisa: He always did.
- Al Burns: I was just thinking... if I were heading to a deserted island, I'd take you.
- Carrie Wells: That's sweet.
- Al Burns: Well, 'cause you'd be able to remember all the stuff I'd need to survive. You're like a walking Swiss army knife.
- Carrie Wells: Well, that's not... so sweet. But you know, if I... was headed to a deserted island, I'd take something warm.
- Al Burns: Yeah?
- Carrie Wells: 'Cause at night time, it can get cold, and I would need to... heat up.
- Al Burns: Yeah.
- Carrie Wells: I'd take matches. To make a fire. You know?
- Al Burns: Yeah. Matches.