Cold Case, season 1

Scotty Valens: [about case files] They get jumbled up a lot? Lilly Rush: Things are getting better. People are learning the alphabet. Except Vera.

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Scotty Valens: 9-1-1 call in came in at 11:16 pm, a few minutes after Rosie and Toya hit the ground. Voice was a black male, never ID'd. Lilly Rush: Plus Rosie's landlady reported a black male running from the scene. John Stillman: Black man hauling ass through lily-white Port Richmond? Stands out like Vera in a bikini.

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Scotty Valens: People make mistakes. They clean up. Lilly Rush: Your mom ever forget to feed you 'cause she was too drunk or tired or out looking for a man? Scotty Valens: [pause] Nah. Lilly Rush: Toya's a dime a dozen. Unwanted kid. Mom runs out of food stamps, makes an excuse why there's no dinner tonight or, uh, no breakfast, either, so thank God for the free corn flakes at school, if you get there early, and maybe some kid'll give you scraps out of his lunch box later on. Scotty Valens: So your mom was going through bad times. Lilly Rush: Scotty, there was never a good time.

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Lilly Rush: You used your position to get in her home and check out her little girl. Knowing the power you had and Rosie wasn't the only one. You were like God to these women. You had the power to give, to take and you did. Josh Freely: Like anyone gives a damn. Trailer park trash. Welfare queens. Like you care what happens to them.

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You just wait for the knock on the door, Rosie. When you least expect it.

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You're playing your hand badly, Detective Rush. See, in poker, like in business, or warfare, the optimal strategy is not to have one. Or, rather, not to show it. You wear yours like a bad dye job.

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