Cold Case

Cold Case (2003-2010) is an American CBS police procedural television series. The series revolves around a fictionalized Philadelphia Police Department division that specializes in investigating cold cases.

Season 1

Look Again [1.1]

Nick Vera: Rush, your boyfriend's downstairs.

Lilly Rush: I'm single. You sure it's not your boyfriend?

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Todd Whitley: What is the point of all of this, after so many years?

Lilly Rush: People shouldn't be forgotten. They matter.

Todd Whitley: You're a crusader.

Lilly Rush: I guess I am.

Gleen [1.2]

Lily Rush: From 1983

Nick Vera: An '83 case can wait. Come on, Lily.

Lily Rush: No, it can't. It waited long enough.

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Albert: Compulsive Sexual Behavior. It's a psychological condition, it shouldn't be criminalized.

Chris Lassing: You walked naked through a girls' middle school, Albert, and that shouldn't be criminalized?

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Lilly Rush: [about catching the bad guys] We don't always get that...

Gwen Deemer: I know.

Lilly Rush: ... the first time around

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Jhon Stillman: Why do women always have high hopes for men that want to kill them?

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Gwen Deemer: Why should I trust you, huh? I don't even know you!

Lily Rush: No, you don't, because if you did, you'd know I was just getting started.

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Rob Deemer: I didn't know there were girls on the line.

Lilly Rush: [smirk] There's one.

Our Boy Is Back [1.3]

Carl: I wish we could have met under different circumstances...

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Lilly Rush: Did we get any prints?

Nick Vera: Uhh... this guy doesn't leave prints.

Churchgoing People [1.4]

Det. Sherman: It was a typical job during the crack era. Guy comes around looking for some company, ends up robbed and killed by the girl.

Lilly Rush: Why'd you think it was a hooker?

Det. Sherman: Ever been to Kensington Avenue darling? It's hookerland.

Lilly Rush: Yeah? I grew up in Kensington.

Det. Sherman: So what was he doing there? Seeing the sights?

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Caroline: Mitch didn't use drugs or prostitutes. We are churchgoing people.

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Tina: Nice families don't talk about these things.

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Ryan: And you know what, I want you to drop my dad's case.

Lilly Rush: When I'm so close to the truth? Not a chance.

The Runner [1.5]

Lilly Rush: Garbage dump?

Nick Vera: You don't mind a little dirt, do you, Rush?

Lilly Rush: I hang around you, don't I?

Love Conquers All [1.6]

Lilly Rush: We're here to talk to you about Bennett Cahill.

Jane: Did something happen to him?

Scotty Valens: No. Alive and kicking.

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Al:' [about Paige] I loved her. She ran wild on me, so it hurt. Jealousy ain't against the law.

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Scotty Valens: [regarding cold cases] So, what, I work a few of these and then go on the line?

Lilly Rush: You act like this is the B list, Scotty.

Scotty Valens: Ain't it?

Lilly Rush: Not to me.

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Scotty Valens: Who's that charmer?

Lilly Rush: A.D.A Kite, he's above cops.

Scotty Valens: Ain't above checking you out.

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Jane: I don't think you're hearing me. He loved me so much, he committed murder.

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Jane: He got a gun, took her to a field, and got her out of our lives.

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Lilly Rush: Blood, blood, and more blood.

A Time To Hate [1.7]

Scotty Valens: [to Deborah] Did you kill him? Because that would solve our case.

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Deborah: Danny wasn't cruel. The world was.

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Daniel: I love you. Nothing has to change.

Deborah: What do you mean?

Daniel: I mean I do love you. I love you.

Deborah: But not the way you're supposed to.

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Anthony [the bartender]: Are you sure you're gay?

Daniel: Are you sure you're Italian?

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Scotty Valens: [about case files] They get jumbled up a lot?

Lily Rush: Things are getting better. People are learning the alphabet. Except Vera.

Fly Away [1.8]

Scotty Valens: 9-1-1 call in came in at 11:16 pm, a few minutes after Rosie and Toya hit the ground. Voice was a black male, never ID'd.

Lilly Rush: Plus Rosie's landlady reported a black male running from the scene.

John Stillman: Black man hauling ass through a Lilly-white Port Richmond? Stands out like Vera in a bikini.

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Mr. Freely: You just wait for the knock on the door, Rosie. When you least expect it.

Sherry Darlin [1.9]

Lilly Rush: She didn't love you, James. And I'm your girl now.

The Hitchhiker [1.10]

Lilly Rush: So you want to do me, huh?

Henry Floyd: Not sure. Twirl around once.

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Scotty Valens: We can't get a car for another hour.

Lilly Rush: OK.

Scotty Valens: Pretty pathetic, the department don't get enough cars to go around.

Lilly Rush: You're just now noticing our crap resources?

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Henry Floyd: What are you looking at?

Lilly Rush: [whispers] A dead man. And get those feet off my table.

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Henry Floyd: [to Lilly] Oh, you've seen Janice? So you know what an upgrade you'd be.

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Scotty Valens: I could win ten grand over there, I still ain't paying a cabbie 300 bucks to drive me home.

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Lilly Rush: You waste your money on the daily numbers?

Scotty Valens: Every morning.

Lilly Rush: Five bucks down the drain.

Scotty Valens: I can afford it.

Lilly Rush: So what do you do if you win? You going to retire?

Scotty Valens: Nah, I'd keep doing what I do. I'd just dress sharper if that's possible. And brag a lot more.

Lilly Rush: If that's possible.

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Matt: What do you say, Dorothy, should I double down?

Dorothy: You're showing a four. Book says no, but hey, you're hot.

Matt: Me? Or the cards?

Dorothy: Both [winks].

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Ivan: [to Matt] Die! Just die! A boy like you, no one will miss!

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Matt: It's been nice playing with you, Dorothy.

Dorothy: You should never quit after a win!

Matt: I have the feeling my luck's run out.

Hubris [1.11]

Barry: Maybe you could love me...

Holly: No. I'll never love you either.

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Scotty Valens: So you stalked her?

Barry Tepler: I pursued her... with too much enthusiasm.

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Monique: [to Holly, about Prof. Minard] ...But there's a new girl every year... and yours is almost over.

Glued [1.12]

Lilly Rush: Is there any reason why you're looking back on it now? Today?

John Stillman: [chuckles] What am I, one of your suspects?

Lilly Rush: Well, you're avoiding my questions like one. Alright, I can take a hint -- be mysterious.

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Scotty Valens: Did you ever actually see him or his pals hit the boy?

Sean Murphy: If I would've seen something, I would've intervened. I'd have kicked those... African-American young gentlemen's asses.

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Prostitute: We gotta make a living same as you!

Will Jeffries: That's what we're counting on.

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Nicole Barnes: I prayed with all my heart and soul.

Lily Rush: For what?

Nicole Barnes: For God to take away all my burdens. And he did. He took away Timmy.

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Lily Rush: I thought you liked cats.

Kite: Cats... not mutants.

The Letter [1.13]

John Stillman: You find Blanche, maybe we find out the reason why Sadie was going to New York.

Nick Vera: Like the geezer's going to remember.

John Stillman: [to Jeffries] You and Mr. Sensitivity track down all the milk companies that delivered to the boarding house, Rush and Valens will be on geezer patrol.

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Will Jeffries: [scanning through the records using the microform] This thing's making me seasick.

Nick Vera: At least I got my roll on, you couldn't even do yours.

The Boy In The Box [1.14]

Sister Vivian: Sister Grace... She wasn't a good nun.

Scotty Valens: No kidding.

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Sister Vivian: There are no cows in the woods.

Arnold: That's what you think!

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Fred Banks: Sister Vivian was pretty cruel... but murder?

Disco Inferno [1.15]

John Stillman: So, we're talking about a bullet fired 26 years ago for a gun we don't even know exists anymore.

Will Jeffries: Registered to a man we can't find.

Scotty Valens: Yeah?

John Stillman: The word longshot comes to mind.

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Nick Vera: Maybe this Benny guy started the fire.

John Stillman: Yeah, right after he got shot in the face.

Nick Vera: Good point.

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Sonya: [to Benny] I should kill you for making a slut outta me!

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Doreen: Why you gotta be so selfish? You already got Benny in the sack. Why can't I have him on the dance floor?

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Ken: I was gonna deal that to Chaney for thousands!

Doreen: You shoulda thought of that before you snorted up all his merchandise.

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Mr. Rosen: You better stop talking young man.

Ken: Or?

Mr. Rosen: You don't wanna know 'or'.

Volunteers [1.16]

Scotty Valens: Do not give out addresses except in emergencies.

Lilly Rush: I'd call a double homicide an emergency.

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John Stillman: We got the FBI file on Jane.

Scotty Valens: They had a file?

Lilly Rush: And they gave it up?

John Stillman: Public record now.

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Elisa: [to Lilly] You're a detective? But you're so beautiful.

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Lionel: The way I see it, the white man's got your mind, and the white woman's got your johnson.

Gerard: She's a friend.

Lionel: Our friends don't come in that color.

The Lost Soul of Herman Lester [1.17]

Billy Berkenpass Sr.: So I made a call. Get off my property.

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Billy Berkenpass Jr.: No telling what the round ball will make a grown man do.

Resolutions [1.18]

Scotty Valens: Should have brought a coat.

Lilly Rush: Yup. Want mine? Wouldn't make you any less of a man.

Scotty: I'd rather freeze now.

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John: Maybe when I'm done here I could buy you a steak.

Lilly Rush: I'm vegetarian.

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Scotty Valens: We'll protect you, Russel.

Russel: I read crime novels. You guys can't do nothing.

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John Stillman: Nice or not, no one gets a free murder.

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Russell Brinkley: Ah crap, I didn't see anything!

Late Returns [1.19]

Scotty Valens: He [David Lake] ain't wearing his glasses.

Nick Vera: So?

Scotty Valens: So... where'd they go?

John Stillman: I lose mine three times a day.

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Will Jeffries: You know a guy named Darren Cleeman?

Marvin: No.

Nick Vera: Really? He called you last week.

Marvin: Well, maybe he got a wrong number.

Will Jeffries: You talk to wrong numbers for six minutes?

Marvin: Well, maybe I got lonely.

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Nick Vera: Never found her killer.

Lily Rush: Never say never.

Greed [1.20]

Randy Price: [to Lilly] You're a homicide detective? I've got to start committing some real crimes.

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Lilly Rush: You're in the market, boss?

John Stillman: Half of America is, Lil.

Will Jeffries: Not my half.

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Randy Price: [about the tip] I told you it was good.

Lilly Rush: So why didn't you let the cops know about it back then?

Randy Price: I wouldn't have profited from that. I was saving it for a rainy day.

Lilly Rush: And now it's pouring.

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John Stillman: Well, it could have ended up worse, you could have ended up like Danville.

Roger Collins: Broke?

John Stillman: Dead.

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Scotty Valens: You got plans?

Nick Vera: Are you kidding? I'm married. I'll take any excuse not to go home.

Maternal Instincts [2.21]

Lilly Rush: [about Rebecca/Linda] She miscarried in September of '85 and gave birth in October of '86. She had to have gotten pregnant again fast.

Nick Vera: According to the way Silver described her, that would have taken all of an hour.

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Scotty Valens: There she is, best and brightest physician in all of Philadelphia.

Frannie: Shut up, Vaylens.

Scotty Valens: It's Valens. V-A-L-E-N-S.

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Rebecca: [to Kyle Silver] Don't you want to put your tongue in my mouth?

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Sean: Why should I believe you?

Lilly Rush: Look at me. Am I lying?

The Plan [1.22]

The Military Academy's slogan: "From the child comes forth the soldier."

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Pvt. Kasher: [talking about Sgt. Creighton] Gung-ho jarhead...

Lilly Rush: We're here about Nash Cavanaugh.

Pvt. Kasher: Gung-ho jarhead number 2.

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Dominic: You're playing your hand badly, detective Rush. See in poker, like in business, or warfare; the optimal strategy is not to have one. Or, rather, not to show it. You wear yours like a bad dye job.

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Sgt. James Creighton: The six P's. Prior Preparation Prevents Piss-Poor Performance! Grandma's slow but she's old!

Season 2

The Badlands [2.1]

Nora Lincoln: Mom, leave her alone.

Della Lincoln: The girl needs help.

Nora Lincoln: Daddy?

Derek Lincoln: Don't look at me. I got a daughter who majors in business, a wife who majors in other people's business. Me, I'm just a restaurant owner.

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Nick Vera: A triple murder gets you a date with the needle real quick.

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J.T. Simms: I got a problem with you. See like, 50, problems.

Derek: I ain't giving you no money.

J.T. Simms: You pay the tax, or come roll with my crew.

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Lilly Rush: That's a bad case of death.

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Della Lincoln: I want you outta here!

J.T. Simms: This ain't your business.

Della Lincoln: You disrespect yourself, that's your business. You mess with this block, it's mine.

J.T. Simms: You think this is your block?

Della Lincoln: Oh that's right, and unless you want your friends to see you get smacked by an old woman, you best move!

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Scotty Valens: J.T. Simms?

J.T. Simms: What did I do?

Scotty Valens: You tell us about the murders at that chicken ribs place last year.

J.T. Simms: Don't remember nothing about it.

Nick Vera: You sure? Cuz if my boys saw me almost getting bitchslapped by an old woman, I know I'd remember.

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J.T. Simms: Check out homicide Barbie!

Factory Girls [2.2]

Will Jeffries: Who's Fanny?

Lilly Rush: One of the factory girls.

Nick Vera: Do you think she shot her husband?

Lilly Rush: We better find out...

Will Jeffries: I'm going with you. I'd LOVE to meet an 80-year-old who shot a guy...

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Dottie: Once again, Mr. Walker and Alice were not friendly!

Scotty Valens: What was the problem?

Dottie: A secretary doesn't tell secrets.

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Will Jeffries: How does a woman in 1943 make that kind of money?

Scotty Valens: Like I said, naughty.

Lily Rush: Your mind goes right to the gutter.

Scotty Valens: Who wants to bet me??

Will Jeffries: I do. 20 bucks.

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Lily Rush: Could your memory be mistaken?

Martha: You get old, you start forgetting things. You don't start making them up.

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Dottie: You have a good man overseas and he deserves better!

Alice: Someone like you, you mean?

Dottie: Maybe so.

Alice: I know you'd love that.

Dottie: Well listen to the 5 cent tramp.

Alice: Says the fussy old maid.

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Buddy: A single woman was considered to be a real flop.

Daniela [2.3]

Chris: New York's only a few hours away, so if you're not busy, maybe sometime, I mean only if you want to, we can... go see the Eiffel Tower or something.

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Lily Rush: Hey, Jeffries. Looks like this job might have died on us.

Will Jeffries: That's not all that died. We just luminoled the scene. It's a bloodbath.

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Daniela: Get some bread for this ring, get that jive turkey landlord off my back!

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John: We wouldn't be here if that screaming bitch didn't run out on us.

Chris: Cuz you're a pervert, man. Cassie didn't want to be your damn porn star.

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Chris: The Empire State Building.

Daniela: What?

Chris: It's on your wall and the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of whatchacallit.

Daniela: Pisa.

The House [2.4]

Lily Rush: Hank would never cry "Uncle". You got to admire that, guy had heart.

John Stillman: You're supposed to be on the side of the law, Lil.

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Lily Rush: The guy was doing 20 years... for stealing a pair of shoes?

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Lily Rush: So this guy died twice?

Scotty Valens: Told you this place is haunted.

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Inmate: How's it feel way up there on that wall, huh, Hank boy?

Hank: Lonely!

Who's Your Daddy? [2.5]

Brad Atwater: [to Mei] You wanna translate here, cuz I don't think Miss Saigon understands me.

Channary: I am from Cambodia. Saigon is in Vietnam and I understand completely.

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Mark: I knew this would come back to haunt me.

Scotty Valens: Yeah, well. Boo.

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Booker: See you ain't wearin' no wedding ring.

Lily Rush: Well, you know I just can't find the right ex-con drug-dealing smack addict to settle down with.

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Scotty Valens: Hey, what was on her mouth that you wiped off?

Booker: Piece of dirt.

Scotty Valens: As a complete stranger, but you felt compelled to clean her up?

Booker: Woman had a beautiful face. It bothered me.

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Channary: Beauty is an illusion.

Sen: A nice one.

The Sleepover [2.6]

Scotty Valens: People know this ain't the best place for swimming laps?

Lily Rush: Name like "Devil's Pool" kind of says it all.

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Ariel: [about Tiffany and Brandi] I was JV and those two were Varsity bitches.

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Tiffany: [to Brandi] Guess what, bitch! Time to buy a diary cause I'm not keeping your secrets any more.

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Kelly: Hey, there's Ariel.

Rita: Mom, we're not friends anymore.

Kelly: Why not?

Rita: She's friends with Brandi now. Brandi doesn't like me.

Kelly: Well, then Brandi's an idiot.

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Mr. Beaudry: She was capable of things that no parent wants to think about.

Will Jeffries: Like killing Rita?

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Ariel: I didn't know.

Lilly: Didn't know what?

Ariel: I didn't know you lived through it.

It's Raining Men [2.7]

Will Jeffries: So, who were these gay men?

Carlo: You want me to out them?

Nick Vera: For a homicide investigation, you bet.

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Artie: The gift I want is justice.

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Carlo: I'm ugly now, I make money cleaning birdcages. But look at me there. I was gorgeous.

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Lily Rush: [about Carlo] Now how's a guy like him make it when so many others don't?

Artie: If God was punishing people for their sins, he had a badly researched list.

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Finch: Things don't get done when you rant, and rave, and threaten. Things get done quietly.

Jeff: We'll be dead. That's quiet.

Red Glare [2.8]

Lily Rush: It wasn't just Elliot that died that day. A whole family died too. You wanna be a man of action? This is your last chance.

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Reina Kraus: [about Elliot] He was true to her, which made me love him even more.

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Scotty Valens: But when Elliot was killed, you didn't report this Ribble guy to the police?

Mr. Sealey: That would have been pointless. Wade Ribble was the police.

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Mr. Sealey: First rule of the witch hunt, don't limit yourself to the witches!

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Scotty Valens: Those statues ain't going nowhere.

Mrs. Lang: Neither is Elliot.

MindHunters [2.9]

Lily Rush: Gimme a Vodka Orange... hold the vodka.

Discretion [2.10]

Scotty Valens: Maybe I'll look at this job, Sinclair Thomas.

John Stillman: You got any direction?

Scotty Valens: I just like his name.

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John Stillman: It's got to be personal – you don't stab someone twelve times just to rob them and then leave the car and money behind.

Blank Generation [2.11]

Nick Vera: What's wrong with your cats?

Lily Rush: [glares] Nothing!

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Nick Vera: Every cult you ever read about, the leader's doin' all the ladies.

Will Jeffries: [shrugs] It's good to be king.

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Matthew: I came back to save you!

Alison: And I'm saving you.

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Scotty Valens: [about Elisa's letter] She wrote about this birthday party. Her friend turning 14 and how we're both there sneaking looks and talking about how the river smells, and in her head, she's waiting for the light to fade so I can hold her hand in the dark and no one would see. Don't tell me that note is the end. It's the beginning.

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Stewart: Matthew, what do you want from me?

Matthew: I want to forget you.

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Maurice: Suicide's for cowards.

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Lily Rush: Maybe you shouldn't be here right now?

Scotty Valens: Then you tell me... where I should be.

Yo, Adrian [2.12]

Nick Vera: Two years in the lockup for putting steppops in a coma?

Mad Mo: Those records are supposed to be sealed.

Nick Vera: Don't worry, we taped them back up.

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Mad Mo: Killing somebody has a way of throwing a man off track.

Will Jeffries: Not for Tommy Sugar. He's been Philly's top boxing promoter for the last 25 years.

Mad Mo: Well that's some truth, and here's some more: the night Jerry Stone died, Tommy Sugar was born.

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Lily Rush: Gina, just so you know, your dad was genuinely sorry about Jerry.

Gina: Yeah. Too bad he didn't feel that way before he let Mad Mo kill him.

Time To Crime [2.13]

Will Jeffries: So, the baby was born, left the hospital and never made it home.

Lilly Rush: Maybe it went to another store?

John Stillman: Or maybe someone kidnapped it.

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John Stillman: You know the mayor's gun recovery program?

Lilly Rush: Turn in a gun, get a pair of sneakers?

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'Uncle Sam' Larson: Hey, I saved their lives!

Scotty Valens: And made 89 bucks to boot.

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John Stillman: Cell phones were science fiction in '87, Scotty.

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Rodney: Looks awfully young to be one of my customers.

Nick Vera: Come on, Rodney, you'd sell to a toddler if they had the cash.

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Will Jeffries: That Mac-10 wasn't delivered to any gun store in Philadelphia.

Nick Vera: Yeah, and I got the paper cuts to prove it.

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Scotty Valens: I'm not interested in your sister, Lil.

Lilly Rush: Good, cause she's a train wreck.

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Rodney Johnson: The statute of limitations for theftery is up, right?

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Eric Morrison: Hey, if you see Truly again, would you apologize to her for me? You know, for being such a demented kid?

Scotty Valens: Tell her yourself. Ain't like she lives in Antarctica.

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Jessie Odoms: I was such a fool. Thought my heart was actually breaking. Crazy, right? Considering what God was about to teach me about real heartbreak.

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Eric Morrison: Then I'll just get another gun and hunt you down with it.

Truly Sinclair: You can try, Eric. Just remember you ain't the only one gonna be armed.

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Boy #2: [about the gun] Give it back!

'Uncle Sam' Larson: You lucky to be alive, you that? Now git! Before I really bust a cap in your scrawny asses!

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Lilly Rush: How much you pay for this, back in 2000?

Jason James Sr.: 89 bucks.

Scotty Valens: That's cheap.

Lilly Rush: Well, it was used.

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Truly: I seen those drawings you make, that list of people with skulls by their names.

Eric: Ever hear of the word 'privacy'?

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Truly: I was here in '99. Hell, I was here in '89. Feel like I been here since '09.

Revolution [2.14]

Brian: I was clean when I did it... I could see right to tomorrow... all the way down the line.

Season 4

Rampage [4.1]

Tina: Hey, guys. You wanna make a porn film? Bow chicka-bow-wow!

Cameron Coutler: Girlfriend's seriously tweaked.

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Neil: All right, let's get outta here. [Neil starts to leave; Cameron holds up a hand]

Cameron Coutler: How about I kill you first?

Tina: Then who's gonna make you famous, big boy?

Cameron Coutler: Girl's got a point.

Neil: So what's the plan? Cameron?

Tina: Kill 'em all. Kill everybody! [Cameron grins]

Cameron Coutler: Get the camera.

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Cameron Coutler: [Aiming a shotgun] Smile for the camera, dumbass. [Fires, hitting Lewis in the waist]

Barry Lewis: [Pleading] Hey! Hey! Heyyyy!

Neil: Let 'im bleed. [Cameron pauses, then turns and leaves.]

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Mr. Coutler: What are you gonna do? Demonize us, like everybody else did? The thing everybody forgot- that day, we lost a son too.

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Davey: I kinda lost my trust in people after that. I guess that's how I ended up here. [Davey works at a horse stable].

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Tina: They were little kids, they were moms and dads... and they never hurt anybody!

Lily Rush: It didn't matter to Cameron and Neil. They were human time bombs, just waiting to go off.

Tina: And I lit the fuse.

Season 5

Thrill Kill [5.1]

Scotty Valens: "You're breaking me up here, homes."

Criminal: "Stay a little longer, I'll break you in for real."

Scotty Valens: "You promise?"

Spiders [5.13]

Nazi: "I am better than the worst thing I ever did."

Cast

• Kathryn Morris - Senior Homicide Detective Lily Rush (2003-2010)
• Danny Pino - Senior Homicide Detective Scotty Valens (2003-2010)
• John Finn - Lieutenant Homicide Commander John Stillman (2003-2010)
• Jeremy Ratchford - Senior Homicide Detective Nick Vera (2003-2010)
• Thom Barry - Senior Homicide Detective Will Jeffries (2003-2010)
• Tracie Thoms - Senior Homicide Detective Kat Miller (2005-2010)
• Justin Chambers - Junior Homicide Detective Chris Lassing (2003)
• Sarah Brown - Junior Homicide Detective Josie Sutton (2005)

External Links

• Official site
• Cold Case quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Cold Case at TV.com