Law & Order (TV Series)
Floater (2003)
Jerry Orbach: Detective Lennie Briscoe
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Quotes
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Ed Green : Damn, I hate floaters. They creep me out.
Lennie Briscoe : Oh, at least we're outdoors. Could be worse. Locked room, week-old body, middle of July, no AC.
Ed Green : All right, all right. It could be worse.
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Anita Van Buren : The office. Isn't that where most men screw around?
Ed Green : Why are you looking at us?
Lennie Briscoe : Hey, Ed, as far as women are concerned, all men are guilty until proven innocent.
Ed Green : That sounds like gender profiling.
Anita Van Buren : Uh-uh. Fact of life.Men are dogs. So why don't you all go sniffing around his office and see who's in heat?
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Ed Green : Hey, what you got?
CSU Technician : Female. Other than that...
Ed Green : Age? Race?
CSU Technician : I'm barely sure it's human, Detective, body's so decomp. Add in your fish and your crabs...
Lennie Briscoe : Is it young, old?
CSU Technician : Like I said. See for yourself.
[she opens a body bag and Ed groans in disgust]
Ed Green : Ugh... how long has she been in the water?
CSU Technician : A while.
Lennie Briscoe : You care to narrow that down a little?
CSU Technician : I would if I could, but...
Lennie Briscoe : Anything obvious? Uh, bullet holes, stab wounds?
CSU Technician : Did I mention the eels?
Ed Green : All right, all right. We get it. Thank you.
[as the tech leaves]
Ed Green : We'll be lucky if we get an ID.
Lennie Briscoe : If we were lucky, we wouldn't have caught this case.
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Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Look, I'm not ruling anything out yet. I still need to do more x-rays, a tox screen. But don't hold your breath.
Ed Green : That's all I've been doing.
Lennie Briscoe : So how long was she in the water?
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : More than a month, less than two. I'm sorry I can't be more definitive. However, you see this?
[showing them an x-ray]
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : It's a hairline fracture. Right cheekbone and eye socket.
Ed Green : Somebody punched her in the face.
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Yeah, probably broke her nose. At the very least, a hell of a shiner the next day.
Lennie Briscoe : Tough to swim with a broken nose. No wonder she drowned.
Ed Green : You sure she didn't get that taking a header into the Hudson?
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : No, this is a blow, not a fall. And a recent one. It hadn't started to heal.
Lennie Briscoe : Well, until we hear different, we're gonna think of this as a homicide.
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Can't hurt.
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Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : White female, 5'7", early thirties.
Ed Green : Any prints?
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : If she had fingertips.
Ed Green : You got anything?
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Yeah, water in her lungs. She was alive when she went in.
Lennie Briscoe : We were hoping for something more definitive, like maybe a bullet?
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Sorry.
Ed Green : What are we talking about here? Homicide, suicide, accident? What?
Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : Look, what can I tell you? It's your classic CUPPI. Case unde...
Lennie Briscoe : Case undetermined pending police investigation, right.