Nick Vera quotes from Cold Case

Vera

Saying that maybe I'm not 100% totally washed up in the dating world.

Jeffries

Because a crack ho called you?

Vera

Why do you have to say it like that?

They say if it's deeper than a grave, a sandhog dug it.

Det. Vera

Looks like this poor schmuck might have dug his own.

Teenage boppers always did love "The Hawk".

Vera

Sounds like he did some loving back.

Kat

The kind that gets you arrested.

Vera

Or shot in the head with a .38.

This is a member's only establishment.

Vera

So's police headquarters, how about we check down there instead.

Lilly

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

Vera

Yeah, Lilly. Impossible.

Scotty

We got a name on that kid that was the ringleader of this fight club, it's Cole Palmer, senior, aka Ares.

Vera

Ares was the Greek god of War. Rawfodog spelt backwards, god of war.

Scotty

So the same kid posted the video?

Vera

Not bad, huh?

Scotty

Yeah dude. You really need a girlfriend.

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

Your thing?

My preference was blond-haired boys, ages eight to twelve, slight build, introverted. I was always very specific.

Vera

Gee, I guess we're way out of line here.

Vera

Just made the Varsity cheerleading squad, popular, pretty, lots of friends. Who'd want to kill someone like that?

Kat

I would.

Nick Vera

You're reaching, Lilly.

Kat Miller

And you're reaching for my kung-pow chicken.

Nick Vera

It's family style, so what?

Kat Miller

Do I look like your family?

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.

It's a farm supply store down the road from my home. They'll find me.

Vera

How? Smoke signals?

Kinda out of the realm of possibility that you'll find some 50-year old bullet.

Vera

Could've gotten lodged in a wall or a floorboard.

So what? You think you're digging up my floors or walls?

Vera

It's not out of the realm of possibility.

Scotty

Wait, so mom just steals her dead son's social?

Vera

Probably figured he wasn't using it.

Scotty

With parents like that, who needs enemies?

Stillman

Yeah, who do you want to be with when the world ends?

Vera

I want to be with the guy who knows it's a hoax.