The Closer · Season 2, Episode 2
“Mom Duty” · Season 2, Episode 2
In this episode: Brenda Leigh Johnson (10), Lt. Provenza (4), David Gabriel (2), Andy Flynn (2), Russell Taylor (2), Mike Tao (2), Willie Rae (2)
What are you doing?
Being nice.
You're not nice. And you're on duty.
Well, give me the afternoon off.
My mother is married. To my father.
Relax, Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh. I don't date women over 35. 40 if I'm drinking.
Alright, then. You can have her back by 7:00, because I have a dinner I cannot miss.
I brought this back from the funeral for you. Since you're off sweets. It's a...cake-like object made with some sort of...prune crap substitute for sugar.
[Tastes it, then throws it away] There is no substitute for sugar.
Congratulations, Chief. You got your mistrial.
It's not my mistrial; it's my arrest. You'd think people would be happy to put a genuine killer behind bars.
Aram Asourian is the leader of a mob family.
Well, maybe next time you can pair him up with a crime he's actually committed. Personally, I always feel better about the justice system when it matches up murder charges with the right person.
Then it's too bad Vahan didn't confess to killing the juror, too.
Well, maybe he didn't. But Bela Rose didn't die a natural death. And thanks to Lt. Flynn's determination, which I know you in the L.A.P.D. are desperate to acknowledge, I now can talk to the jurors who actually saw her die.
[Staking out Vahan's apartment] He's been in there all day.
If you had his girlfriend, you'd be in there all day, too.
Mr. Millbrook. Thank you so much for stopping by. How goes your motion for a mistrial?
It doesn't.
I expected better of you. All right then. I have been reviewing the transcripts of this trial and in presenting your client's defense, you never once brought up his son, Vahan. And it looks like he's the one who set the fire.
Asourian won't let me mention the boy. And Vahan's vanished. Nobody's seen him in years.
I keep wondering how wonderful it would be if Vahan were suddenly just to turn up. You'd get your mistrial and preserve your sterling reputation. More billable hours. All sorts of good things could happen.
Yes, well, Asourien won't let me mention the boy, though. He's very serious about that.
Well, maybe we'll get lucky and someone'll just turn up with an untraceable tip that'll lead us to Vahan. And this can all end.
How untraceable?
They'll find weapons of mass destruction in Baghdad first.
Mama, I'm so sorry, but I'm not gonna be able to take you to this funeral after all.
What?
I wish I could but I have this murder I have to investigate.
Oh for heaven's sake, there are murders every day of the week. And your Aunt Floetta will only have one funeral.
[To Fritz, regarding Brenda] I get that look, too, sometimes. That is not a good look.
What are you doing?
Being nice.
You're not nice. And you're on duty.
Well, give me the afternoon off.
My mother is married. To my father.
Relax, Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh. I don't date women over 35. 40 if I'm drinking.
Alright, then. You can have her back by 7:00, because I have a dinner I cannot miss.
I brought this back from the funeral for you. Since you're off sweets. It's a...cake-like object made with some sort of...prune crap substitute for sugar.
[Tastes it, then throws it away] There is no substitute for sugar.
Congratulations, Chief. You got your mistrial.
It's not my mistrial; it's my arrest. You'd think people would be happy to put a genuine killer behind bars.
Aram Asourian is the leader of a mob family.
Well, maybe next time you can pair him up with a crime he's actually committed. Personally, I always feel better about the justice system when it matches up murder charges with the right person.
Then it's too bad Vahan didn't confess to killing the juror, too.
Well, maybe he didn't. But Bela Rose didn't die a natural death. And thanks to Lt. Flynn's determination, which I know you in the L.A.P.D. are desperate to acknowledge, I now can talk to the jurors who actually saw her die.
[Staking out Vahan's apartment] He's been in there all day.
If you had his girlfriend, you'd be in there all day, too.
Mr. Millbrook. Thank you so much for stopping by. How goes your motion for a mistrial?
It doesn't.
I expected better of you. All right then. I have been reviewing the transcripts of this trial and in presenting your client's defense, you never once brought up his son, Vahan. And it looks like he's the one who set the fire.
Asourian won't let me mention the boy. And Vahan's vanished. Nobody's seen him in years.
I keep wondering how wonderful it would be if Vahan were suddenly just to turn up. You'd get your mistrial and preserve your sterling reputation. More billable hours. All sorts of good things could happen.
Yes, well, Asourien won't let me mention the boy, though. He's very serious about that.
Well, maybe we'll get lucky and someone'll just turn up with an untraceable tip that'll lead us to Vahan. And this can all end.
How untraceable?
They'll find weapons of mass destruction in Baghdad first.
Mama, I'm so sorry, but I'm not gonna be able to take you to this funeral after all.
What?
I wish I could but I have this murder I have to investigate.
Oh for heaven's sake, there are murders every day of the week. And your Aunt Floetta will only have one funeral.
[To Fritz, regarding Brenda] I get that look, too, sometimes. That is not a good look.
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