Law & Order (TV Series)

Tango (2008)

Jesse L. Martin: Detective Ed Green

Quotes 

• Sugar : Quit calling me Melinda. My name is Sugar.

  Ed Green : No, your name is Melinda. Yeah, you called your parents to ask for money, but you also called them to let them know that you're still alive, 'cause you know they give a damn. And somewhere in your little black heart, you give a damn, too.

• Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers : There's evidence of both anal and vaginal penetration. We got fluids to run for DNA. Cause of death was ligature strangulation; could be an electrical cord. There's also blunt-force trauma to the head, which bled profusely. He's not a very nice guy, whoever he is.

  Cyrus Lupo : And all we have to do is get his girlfriend to give him up.

  Ed Green : [ending a phone call]  That's easier said than done. Looks like Melinda's parents gave up on that whole tough love thing. They sprang for a lawyer.

• Michael Cutter : You didn't think telling her he was gonna shoot her would come back to bite us in the ass?

  Cyrus Lupo : We needed to find the guy. That was item one on the agenda.

  Michael Cutter : Well, item two is gonna be watching him walk out of jail.

  Ed Green : We still have the surveillance video of him hauling the victim into the hotel.

  Michael Cutter : You can't see his face.

  Cyrus Lupo : But you can see his clothes, and we found those clothes at another one of his cribs.

  Connie Rubirosa : We still have the victim's blood in the room Tito was in.

  Michael Cutter : Melinda's room, and he claims Melinda killed her. Could raise reasonable doubt.

  Ed Green : Melinda didn't rape and sodomize that girl.

  Michael Cutter : Look, I'm not saying the guy didn't do it. I just want enough evidence to nail him six times over. If he walks, I'm gonna feel like an accomplice the next time he does this.