- Detective Lionel Fusco: At first, I thought I was helping to clean up the streets. Who's gonna miss some drug money from a lowlife dealer? Then it became who's gonna miss the dealer.
- Brandon Boyd: You want a tip? Never get hitched without a prenup.
- John Reese: Here's a better one. Never get in a car with strangers.
- [Puts a bag over Boyd's head]
- Uniform: NYPD! Who called 911?
- Dr. Richard Nelson: Me. I called it in. I want to report a murder.
- Uniform: Murder? What are you talking about, buddy? Who was murdered?
- Dr. Richard Nelson: Me!
- Joss Carter: What are you doing about Fusco?
- John Reese: At the moment, nothing. I'm busy.
- Joss Carter: After all we've been through, I thought he was your friend.
- John Reese: I always thought he was your partner.
- Joss Carter: Not after what he just told me. Do you know what he's done? He deserves to be behind bars.
- John Reese: Listen, Carter, no one's ever looked at me as the moral benchmark. I guess you'll have to make that call yourself.
- Joss Carter: I'm a cop, okay? But it's Fusco. It's not as simple as that.
- John Reese: I always thought it was in your book.
- John Reese: Did you tell Brandon Boyd that a drug trial was about to fail?
- Dr. Richard Nelson: What? I don't know. Maybe at the club.
- John Reese: Well, he turned around and used that information to bet against Philia stock, made $500 million.
- Dr. Richard Nelson: Son of a bitch. $1/2 billion?
- John Reese: Off your tip. You're the leak, Doc.
- Dr. Richard Nelson: There's an investigation?
- John Reese: They don't know the insider yet. I'm guessing VAC Capital plans to keep it that way.
- Dr. Richard Nelson: Instead they killed me?
- John Reese: You're the liability. You had to go.
- Dr. Richard Nelson: I'm a doctor. People ask me things all the time, advice. You know, that drug and this diet and - Oh it's just an excuse. What I did was wrong, and now I'm a dead man. All because I couldn't keep my mouth shut.
- John Reese: You made a mistake. That doesn't mean that you have to die.
- Harold Finch: I'm sorry for your loss, Detective.
- Joss Carter: [Door closes] Finch, what do you need? I'm sorry for your loss, Detective. Yeah. Thanks. Just don't understand, with all the information you get, how we couldn't stop this in time.
- Harold Finch: It's a question that troubles me as well. I only wish I had an adequate answer. And I know this is not the best time, but...
- Joss Carter: You and John need some help. Are you kidding me? Cal is dead, and Fusco's being investigated by IAB!
- Harold Finch: I understand that you're upset, but we have a doctor in peril. I just need you to check on a few names.
- Joss Carter: No. No. This time, you're gonna do something for me.
- Harold Finch: Okay, Detective, what can I do for you?
- Joss Carter: You know that phone cloning thing you do? My turn.
- Joss Carter: Talk to me, Lionel. Why is IAB all of a sudden putting the screws to you?
- Detective Lionel Fusco: You know, I tried to come to you. In this very room. To tell you about past mistakes I've made. But you didn't want to hear it.
- Joss Carter: I'm listening now.
- Detective Lionel Fusco: Just chickens coming home to roost. Bad things happen to people around me, Carter, so you should get out of here.
- John Reese: I was supposed to save you, but I was too late. You've ingested polonium, Doctor. You're dying.
- Dr. Richard Nelson: This is insane. How do - who are you?
- John Reese: Nosebleeds, jaundice, hair falling out. It's radiation poisoning.
- Dr. Richard Nelson: I'm aware how radiation affects the body, but how do you know all this?
- John Reese: You were poisoned a few hours ago, which means, in less than 24 hours, you will be dead. I'm sorry, Doctor.
- Dr. Richard Nelson: I-I don't understand. How - Who would want me dead?
- John Reese: You would know better than I. Look, you can stay there and die in that bed, or you can get up and help me find the bastard who murdered you.
- Detective Lionel Fusco: I know you were behind Beecher's murder. You're not gonna get away with this.
- Officer Patrick Simmons: Tell me, Fusco, how is it everybody around you winds up getting killed? Starting to look suspicious.
- Detective Lionel Fusco: You're gonna pay for this. I'm gonna take you down.
- Officer Patrick Simmons: You got a bad habit of forgetting who your friends are. Of all your old pals who got locked up or went missing, and you're the only one who got to walk away? Did you honestly think that was because you were so smart?
- Detective Lionel Fusco: What are you talking about?
- Officer Patrick Simmons: Protection. The kind you don't have anymore. See, I hear things. IAB, they're looking at your old pal Azarello on at least a dozen old murder counts. That should be interesting. Past has a way of coming back to haunt you. And by the time I'm done with you, Lionel, you're gonna wish you were in the ground with Beecher.
- Detective James Stills: [At a bar] Easy there, big dog. That's enough for one night. Let's get you home.
- Detective Lionel Fusco: I can't go home. She threw me out.
- Detective James Stills: Ah, comes with the job. Cop's wife. She'll come around.
- Detective Lionel Fusco: Not this time. She had a lawyer drop papers on me.
- Detective James Stills: Serious? Sorry to hear about that.
- Detective Lionel Fusco: Yeah, Jimmy, she - she wants full custody of my son.
- Detective James Stills: Hmm. Come on, Lionel. You come home. You stay at my place tonight. The kids will love waking up tomorrow morning, jumping on your head. I'll have Vera cook up some hotcakes, banana-chocolate chip. Throw some Aspirin in the batter.
- Azarello: Well, well. Look what the cat dragged in. My favorite arresting officer. Looking good, Detective.
- Joss Carter: Skip it, Azarello. Look, you've been in jail for over a year. Why all of a sudden you talking to IAB about Fusco?
- Azarello: Maybe we got a code, Detective. Maybe Fusco violated it. Maybe the question should be why you're just now bringing up your partner's past? It's pretty colorful. I thought Fusco had some dirty pictures of you or something.
- Joss Carter: [Ignores this] Two dead cops. Two missing. Is this HR's idea of a comeback?
- Azarello: Secrets are hard to bury. And sometimes bodies have a way of showing up.
- Joss Carter: Tell you what. You help me out, I'll talk to the DA. Maybe he shaves some time off for good behavior, huh?
- Azarello: You got a nice smile, you know that? But you're a little late to the deal-making party, Detective. If you'll excuse me, I got a date with a sock.
- Detective Joseph Soriano: You know, at the end of the day, as a cop, you're the sum of two sides of the ledger. The people who want to see you go down, and the people who don't give a crap about you. Now, Fusco, I don't think anyone gives a crap about you.
- Detective Joseph Soriano: You made a call from Oyster Bay to your home the very night that Stills went missing. Any reason you were in Oyster Bay at 2:00 AM on a Thursday?
- Detective Lionel Fusco: Thinking about retiring out there. Wanted to look at some land.
- Detective Joseph Soriano: You take soil samples? Domain awareness, my friend. Satellites, they're changing the world. You pick a time and place, we send you a photo of the ass hairs on a frog, or in this case, disturbed plots of earth in Oyster Bay. Which of the four is it, Detective?
- [Fusco is silent]
- Detective Joseph Soriano: I got two dozen unis gathering shovels, a backhoe, and cadaver dogs. Come sunup, we're gonna go on a little treasure hunt. Make it easy on yourself. Just tell me where you buried Stills.
- [Fusco still is silent]
- Detective Joseph Soriano: I know you killed him, just like those lowlifes. You're a dirty cop, and come morning, I'm gonna dig up your sins.
- Dr. Richard Nelson: I've done some good things, some bad. I've managed to ruin my life, my reputation. But I don't deserve to die. And the SEC will bring your firm down.
- Vincent Cochran: Unfortunately, Doctor, the SEC investigation will die with you.
- Dr. Richard Nelson: Oh, yeah. I think you mean "us". Uh - your nose is bleeding. You have nine billion dollars, but you only have 24 hours to spend it. I hope you invest it wisely.