Quotes from The Fallen Woman
Alright, here we go again, with quotes from episode 5 of the first season, The Fallen Woman :
(At a crime scene where a woman wearing fake angel wings has fallen from a building and landed on a car.)
Crews: It’s a dead angel.
Reese: It’s a dead woman with a pair of fake wings.
Crews: How do you know ?
Reese: Well, I know the wings are fake because I can see the harness right there.
Crews: Maybe she’s a real angel with fake wings.
Reese: Why would a real angel ha… *stops herself* No! No, I’m not doing this with you.
(…)
Crews: (Looking up at the sky:) She must have hit that car pretty hard. You think she came from…
Reese: (Cutting him off!) That window! (Pointing an open window.) I think she came from that window.
Crews: Just because the wings were fake doesn’t mean she wasn’t a real angel.
Reese: Isn’t there an “off” button ?
Crews: I know she wasn’t an “angel on a cloud with a harp” angel, but… maybe she was an angel in the way we all might be angels.
Reese: We all might be angels ? Crews, let me tell you something. You know, there might be a few things that I don’t know about myself, but… I’m sure I’m not an angel.
Crews: See? That is exactly the kind of humble thing an angel might say.
(He looks at her, and we see her smiling at that thought.)
(In the car, Reese driving. Crews places a small angel figure on the dashboard. She grabs it and tosses it aside.)
Crews: That was very hostile.
Reese: (Softly.) That wasn’t close to hostile.
(After a couple of guys threw a mannequin with angel wings out a a window and Reese & Crews got called in, as this was reported to be another victim.)
Crews: So what do you say, Reese ? Write ‘em up and send ‘em home ? We all did things like this when we were young. You know, pranks. (To the guys:) I tried. Good luck.
Reese: You know what I was doing before I got the call to investigate this ? I was investigating a homicide. What you have done is waste my time. Throwing that off a roof was a crime, but wasting my time is what you both are gonna pay for. (To an officer near-by:) Take ‘em in!
Reese: (To Crews:) That, was hostile.
(She walks away.)
Crews: Maybe she isn’t an angel after all.
(Crews gives a bill to Ron, behind his cash register.)
Ron: I don’t think I can break that !
Crews: No, I don’t want change, Ron, I want you to have it.
Row: How do you know my name ?
Crews: Oh I know a lot about you. I know you spend 3 years up in Lompoc.
Ron: Wait, you’re a cop ?
Crews: Not just now, I’m not.
Ron: So what do you want ?
Crews: I’m looking for your pal, Cudahy. And don’t tell me you don’t know him, let’s not do that, okay Ron? You served with him for 14 months up in Lompoc, and then after you had a little business together. It was something about girls, right? (Gives him another bill as they shake hands.)
Ron: I don’t know where he is.
(Crews snaps his hand.)
Ron: You broke my finger !
Crews: Dislocated, let’s not exaggerate. What do you think about thoughts ?
Ron: I, I don’t understand you…
Crews: Thoughts Ron, often gets in the way of truth. (Holds his hand stronger.) Pain, Ron, clears the mind of thoughts. Of all thoughts, free your mind! Let the truth make itself know.
Ron: Look, I don’t know where Cudahy is. (Crews holds even stronger.) I can make some calls! (Crews seems to like that idea.) Let me make some calls!
Crews: Is that the truth ?
Ron: (In pain.) Yeah!
Crews: (Puts Ron’s finger back.) There, good as new. Better than new, because now you have had this experience.
Crews: It’s like she fell outta the sky.
Reese: She fell out of a window.
Crews: It’s like she’s no one.
Reese: No one is no one.
Crews: Now you sound like me.
Reese: (Looks up at Crews, sounding almost insulted.) Take that back!
Crews: (Taking offense.) Would it be so bad ?
(A guy, Willens, is waiting in line. He keeps letting people get in front of him.)
Crews: I know it’s all about the journey, but uh, sooner or later you’re just gonna have to get to the front of the line.
Willens: I know… I kn, I know…
Crews: Detective Crews, Detective Reese. Your name is ?
Willens: Jasper, Jasper Willens.
Reese: How come you’ve been giving your space away, Jasper Willens ?
Willens: Cause I’m afraid.
Reese: Afraid of what ?
Crews: Afraid of the answer ?
Willens: That’s right.
Crews: There’s an answer at the front of the line, if you never get there you don’t ever have to know.
Willens: That’s right.
Crews: (Starts slowly walking back.) You think it’s gonna be bad news, if you find out the truth ?
Willens: (Instinctively walking up to Crews.) I’m that guy,
Reese: Which guy is that ?
Willens: The guy that gets the bad news.
Crews: But you came down here, Jasper. So you did want to know, didn’t you? (Willens slowly shakes his head yes.) And now you know where you are ? (Shakes his head no, Crews smiles:) You’re at the front of the line !
(Interrogating Willens about his wife, Lena, the “fallen angel”, Crews and Reese learned he sells industrial glue, using “it’s what holds us together” as their slogan. Later, both get in the car where a Angel figure is back on the dashboard. As soon as she sees it, Reese tries to take it away, but can’t.)
Crews: Industrial glue. It’s what holds us together.
(As an exasperated Reese starts the car, Crews smiles.)
(Earlier Crews learned about “Natashas”, the name given to Russian women who marries American men in exchange for payment as a part of a con.)
Crews: (Thoughtfully.) A “Natasha”…
Reese: That’s one word for it. She was a prostitute, Crews, not an angel.
Crews: You can’t be both ?
Reese: Uh, I’m pretty sure that there’s a rule that says you can’t be a prostie and an angel.
Crews: I knew a prostitute at Pelican Bay whose name was Angel.
Reese: They had women at Pelican Bay ?
Crews: Well, she wasn’t a “woman” woman. And, just to make it clear, I didn’t “know” her… him. Didn’t know her/him. But she did make a nice carrot cake.
(Reese looks confused.)
(Outside of Roman’s nightclub, Ritual, to check it out. As Reese is about to get out of the car, Crews stops her.)
Crews: Maybe I should go in first.
(Reese looks surprised.)
Crews: You know, it’s some kind of… upscale pick-up joint. You know, I’ll go in and I’ll…
Reese: And you’ll… ?
Crews: I’ll get… picked up.
Crews: (Out of the car, through the passenger window.) I’ll be ten minutes! (He winks at her.)
Constance: I saw the news. So she wasn’t an angel after all, she was just a… what?
Crews: Just a lost girl. Hey, you didn’t file a report about Cudahy, what happened ?
Constance: Err, I’m done with it. You’re done with it. Right Charlie, you’re done with it ?
Crews: Do you want to talk about these boxes ?
Constance: Do you like ‘em ?
Crews: Do you want to talk about why you’re packing books into these boxes, cause it’s what people do when they’re moving, pack books into boxes.
Constance: I’m going to need them, with me in New-York. I’m going to New-York.
Constance: I need to go, Charlie. I need to go away. My husband is… I’m here with him but I’m away from him. And you, I’m here with you but I’m not here with you. I need to go.
Reese: Not one charge in here that sticks.
Crews: You can’t hold on to him. You reach out for Roman but he’s not there. That’s what Julia said.
Lt Davis: Well I want you two to reach out, and bring back up, to make sure you hold on to him.
Reese: What are you thinking ?
Crews: We started out looking for an angel, and now we’re starring at the Devil.
Crews: How you doing ?
Roman: Splendid. I like this room.
Crews: You do ?
Roman: Twelve years in prison, and you’re still walking upright. Just between us, you killed that family, didn’t you?
Reese: (Showing a picture of the victim.) That belonged to you ?
Roman: Do you mean did I own her ?
Crews: We have a witness that pins you to human trafficking. Do you know what kind of time that carries ?
Roman: He won’t testify.
Crews: Why not ?
Roman: (To Reese.) How’s that rehab working for you ? (Reese looks shocked.) Down time is the hardest. You have nothing to do. Your muscles get all twitchy. (Reese’s face goes from smiling to annoyed.) You can taste it in the back of your throat.
Reese: (Quietly:) Shut up.
Roman: All the way down there in the back of your throat.
Reese: Shut your mouth!
Roman: Got hooked working undercover.
Reese: (Louder) Shut your mouth!
Roman: Took a junkie lover too. Whatever happened to him ?
(Crews slams his hand down on the table, getting Roman to be shut up.)
Crews: (To Roman) You look at me when you talk !
(As Roman leaves, Crews hurries up to him.)
Crews: It was a pleasure meeting you.
Roman: And you, Detective. (They shake hands.) What if it was one of them *pointing the LAPD staff* that set you up ?
Lt. Davis: So where are we ?
Reese: We’re, uh, we’re back at the beginning.
Crews: Okay, so let’s go back to the beginning!
Reese: The hotel room where she was thrown.
Crews: When Roman said those things, did you want to shoot him ?
Reese: Yes.
Crews: (Smiling:) Me too. (More seriously:) Did you see yourself shooting him ?
Reese: Yes.
(He looks at her, obviously concerned and caring.)
Crews: (Seriously:) Me too. You lost your faith because of the guy, not the drugs.
Reese: My faith has been gone for so long, I can’t remember when it was that I lost it. *pauses* Or if I ever even had it.
Crews: Stan, your employers here aware that you were fired from your last three jobs for stealing ?
Stan: Nothin’s missing. I didn’t steal nothing.
Crews: Well you can’t steal nothing. Nothing does not exist. To steal something that doesn’t exist - wait! Wait! If it doesn’t exist, then how can it be something ? Ah, I hate that! Don’t you hate that? It’s a brain fart, right?
Reese: Crews!
Female employee: You want a tattoo ?
Crews: Oh, I have some.
(Reese looks surprised.)
Female employee: Come on! When would someone like you get tattoos ?
Crews: It’s complicated.
(Later.)
Reese: Do you really have any tattoos ?
Crews: You want to see ‘em ?
Reese: (Thinks for a bit.) Absolutely not!
Crews: This kid is nowhere.
Reese: No one is nowhere.
Crews: Now you’re sounding like me again.
Reese: Am I?
Julia: Where is Officer New Money?
Crews: (Enters the room.) Detective New Money, actually.
Reese: Those Russians are tough.
Crews: (Repeating what Reese said earlier to Lt Davis) Sounds like you admire them. (They exchange a look.)
(Crews finds Cudahy in a bar and gets him into the bathroom, where he punches him down.)
Crews: (As he is putting his gun and badge on the side.) I’m trying to forgive out for what you did to Constance.
Cudahy: I just wanted what you got.
(They start fighting.)
Cudahy: They paid you that money just to shut up, why shouldn’t they pay me too ?
(Keep fighting. Cudahy on the floor again.)
Crews: I know I’d be a better person if I did forgive you.
Cudahy: I just wanted what you got.
Employee: (Opens the door.) I called the police.
Crews: (Picks up his gun and badge back, stares at his reflection in the mirror.) I am the police.
As always, feel free to add/correct anything I missed!