Lilly Rush quotes from Cold Case

Lilly

You think it's impossible he could've been interested because of how she looks.

Vera

Yeah, Lilly. Impossible.

Det. Lilly Rush

You need a reason to open a job.

Det. Kat Miller

No one left to speak for Skill, for Madison. Except us. Maybe that's reason enough.

Lilly

Could be someone was keeping it secret.

Who?

Lilly

Someone with a secret of their own.

Vera

Looked up your record Carlos, you got a long history for using your fists freely.

Lilly

They got a word for that, sweetheart.

Passionate.

Lilly

Homicidal.

Scotty

Environmental group found it, testing the bottom of the lake.

Lilly

For what?

Scotty

The stuff... they test for.

Lilly

Bound? You're saying the guy was pushed?

Stillman

He was a registered sex offender.

Scotty

(sarcastically) Oh, that's a darn shame.

Lilly

Mom, the doctor said if you drink anymore, you're going to die. It's that simple.

Doctor has it backwards. I die if I don't.

The older kid, the daughter, survived a bullet to the head.

Lilly

I can't decide if that's lucky or not.

Kat

It's a purity ring, Carrie's ring.

Lilly

Purity, like...?

Kat

Like, till I'm married, this finger belongs to God. And so does my virginity. Veronica's babysitter has one. Doesn't stop her from getting busy on my couch, though.

Nick

Why don't you come downtown and take us down memory lane.

Wait, I, uh... She attended a handful of Hearts Wait Club meetings but I didn't... I didn't really know her.

Lilly

But just a coincidence you left the school a month after Carrie was murdered?

No, actually. It was rattling. It... made me really search for answers.

Nick

Us too. Come on, let's go.

Lilly

Family's probably still hoping for a safe return.

Stillman

Don't they always?

Lilly Rush

There's no water in her lungs. Not likely she drowned.

Nick Vera

Saying she was dead when she hit the water? No one caught it back then?

Lilly Rush

Wasn't going for a midnight swim in this red dress.

Nick Vera

So somebody dumped her?

Lilly Rush

Tough to kill yourself if you're already dead.

Lilly Rush

You had quite a rap sheet the tender age of sixteen. Breaking and entering, trespassing...

Yeah, skipped school, too, want to write that down?

Lilly Rush

[looking at the stained glass artwork at Dom's place] It's the same image, over and over. Every piece, that... one figure, alone against the world.

Kat Miller

Kind of like Sam.

Nick Vera

Sayin' we got a serial rapist?

Lilly Rush

Saying we got a new pool of targets.

Kat Miller

And any one of them could have killed him.