Cold Case Season 3 quotes

Vera

Look, you give a damn, makes you a great cop in most situations.

Can I help you?

I have information on a murder. The boy who died. His name was Steve Jablonski.

Jablonski. Sounds familiar.

He was buried alive 26 years ago.

Right. That was horrible.

Yes, it was.

You got some information?

[placing a shovel on a table] I buried him with this.

Will Jeffries

Why'd you make him write his own will?

People should have the chance to put their affairs in order. To make sense of their lives. To say good-bye.

Will Jeffries

Now, that's real standup.

Scotty Valens

It was raining when you picked him up tonight. It was cold out?

Yes, it was very cold.

Scotty Valens

But your car is warm. It's dry. Justin gets in, he's shivering. Maybe he's grateful for the warmth, maybe not, all that matters is he's this close. You can smell his skin, his hair, his breath. Anything can happen.

You're way off base.

Scotty Valens

You like teenage boys.

That's not why I picked him--

Scotty Valens

When he begged for his life, what'd you make Justin do?

That's not why I picked him!

Scotty Valens

Then why pick 17-year-olds?

Because the little bastards think they'll live forever! But they won't.

Scotty Valens

No. You make sure of that.

In the end, they give up, too.

They get into cars with strangers and believe they'll live forever.

You think that's a crime?

It is because they won't. They should know that and not be disappointed later.

Like you once were.

I've been dying for 26 years. I never believed.

Didn't you? And I'd give anything to never have walked into that attic. Never looked down the barrel of his gun. So I could still believe that I'd live forever. Remember?

No.

It's the most beautiful thing we'll ever do. Believing that.

I don't remember.

I do. Wintertime alone on the street learning to ride my bike. It's almost dark. I remember the wind in my face, and closing my eyes, and suddenly I'm flying. You don't hate them because they believe they'll live forever. You hate them because we once did, too.

I'm screwed, that's my problem. I never should have agreed to this thing. It doesn't help me if I win, I'm supposed to win, you're a girl.

Thanks a lot.

And if I lose, I'm over.

So win.

Vera

You think Susan could have harmed her?

She was radical, believed in making change by any means necessary.

Vera

I ain't doing that interview.

Have you ever been dragged through the mud so many times by a guy that you lash out in an inappropriate way?

Lilly

You consider poisoning someone inappropriate?

Vera

And a small thing like a guy coming home late turns into a three hour referendum on all the cheap things Nick Vera has ever done.

[after hearing Della Gardner and Nick Vera sing a lyric from Cabaret under their breaths] I hate musicals.

Nick Vera

Well, you wouldn't if you'd seen me as Danny Zuko in my eighth-grade production of Grease. Brought the house down.

I didn't want Clinton to say anything because my career is really about to take off.

Scotty Valens

And getting convicted for murder might get in the way?

Kat Miller

[while confronting Dennis Hofferman's murderer] You killed him and thought the curtain would still go up?

I was just gonna hit him in the leg, send him to the hospital. It isn't fair they canceled the show! Whatever happened to "the show must go on"?

I swear, 1929 is going to be the most splendid year of my life, I'm going to see the world.

And I swear to meet a wealthy man who's also handsome.

Kat

Could've sworn I saw Muriel through the curtains.

Vera

She must leave the house sometimes, lie in wait whilst she gets the morning paper.

Do you ever miss being part of the human race with the rest of us, or do you like life up on your mountain?