He killed her to drive his partner back into his arms? That's almost juvenile.
It's primitive. Panic is a primitive emotion. That's how he felt without his partner.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
JJack
[To Neil] I told you, I didn't even know her name. She was just a gamer.
[To Neil] Just a gamer? Your partner let a gamer get between you two. If my partner was putting me through that -- abandoning me, leaving me vulnerable, impotent, for a nobody -- That's unforgivable.
[Goren's cell phone rings. He opens it and looks at the message. He looks relieved.]
Seven pounds, eight ounces.
[smiling] Excellent.
It's great. You-- You should call her. I'll handle the booking.
DDetective
[Describing the dead victim.] He had no ID, no cell phone, no watch. Punks used the whole buffalo.
[Regarding the dead P.I.] He taught social sciences at I.S. 44, 15 years ago.
In the Bronx. Should have been enough excitement for two lifetimes.
[Goren and Bishop speak to some street basketball players.]
GIGuy in wheelchair
Marv, check out her dibs. [To Bishop] What do you got on, P. Diddy drapes? What you all, fashion police? [All laugh.]
Obviously, they don't know we're the hoops police, 'cause-- [to Marv] --we ought to lock you up for wearin' those kicks. Where'd you find those? on a telephone line?
PPlayers
Wooo! [All laugh. The players throw the ball to Goren.]
You played?
Yeah. High school.
In the city? Maybe I saw you play.
No. I didn't stick with it.
Ah. Maybe with the right encouragement.
SStudent
I didn't actually see him selling weed. But everybody knows he was doin' it.
Well, then it must be true.
[To Bishop] Does he always beat around the bush?
I can be direct. You're divorced. You got no kids. And basketball is pretty much it for you, Coach. You haven't won a championship in the last seven years. You might be hungry for a big win to cap your career. Hungry enough to go into business with Curtis Romney?
I can be direct, too. I see a problem with authority figures. You defy them. You disrespect them. But the truth is, you're intimidated by them. It's the mark of a boy with an indifferent father. His absence took the joy out of playing basketball.
Convenience store. A gun's practically standard equipment.
[In the Coach's apartment, Goren and Bishop look over some of the Coach's play strategies.]
Picket-fence play. Four players in a row, fifth dribbles behind. It's old school.
Everything about Powell's old school. I think he stopped buying jackets when Wilt Chamberlain retired.
[Picks up a plant in a pot on the Coach's counter.] Cranberry seedling. With my dad, it was avocado pits in a glass of water.
[He looks over the kitchen sink counter and spots the television across the room.]
TV. He stood over the sink and he ate while he watched TV.
Something you do?
No. No, I found the same arrangement when I cleaned out my dad's apartment.
I know this guy. He's a lonely man with a shot at happiness. He's gonna fight for it.
[To Coach] Look, you shouldn't lose everything because you tried to help this kid. You know, when my father died, he had just enough money to, uh, cover his own funeral. That shouldn't happen to you.
You know how to pick 'em, Coach.
Now, you go ahead, Goren. You get it all out, all that defiance.
You see that? His understanding of what makes a young man tick -- it's like a gift.
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