Person of Interest (TV Series)

Flesh and Blood (2012)

Enrico Colantoni: Carl Elias

Quotes 

• Detective Joss Carter : You know I can't hand these guys over to you. I might as well kill them myself.

  Carl Elias : If you're up to it, that would be extremely helpful.

• Carl Elias : You're good at your job, Detective. I'm good at mine. I was hoping we could avoid further bloodshed.

  Detective Joss Carter : This is where it ends. Right here, right now.

  [Hear sirens] 

  Detective Lionel Fusco : I called for backup. You gotta trust somebody, Carter. This guy doesn't own every cop.

  [Elias concedes defeat, he gestures to his guys to drop their weapons] 

  Detective Lionel Fusco : Get down, get down!

  Detective Joss Carter : Carl Elias, you are under arrest. I'll have to check my notes for the list of charges, but murder and kidnapping are at the top.

  Carl Elias : You can't stop the inevitable, Detective. Change will happen whether you embrace it or not.

• Gianni Moretti Jr. : It's good to have you back, pop.

  Gianni Moretti : It's good to be back. Let's go home, son.

  [Phone rings] 

  Gianni Moretti : Hello?

  Carl Elias : Hi, dad.

  Gianni Moretti : What, is this somehow supposed to intimidate me?

  Carl Elias : I just wanted to say good-bye. And that I wish I could have been there.

  [Moretti's car explodes] 

• Gianni Moretti : Why don't you just kill me already?

  Carl Elias : I would hate for you to miss the show. I'm gonna do what you never had the stones to. I'm gonna unite the families, and take control.

  Gianni Moretti : Oh, that's some plan for a nobody. And you think my associates are gonna go along with this farce?

  Carl Elias : They won't have a choice.

• John Reese : Elias, end this before anyone else gets hurt.

  Carl Elias : I'm only doing what I think is best for the city.

  John Reese : So you're gonna kill everyone who gets in the way?

  Carl Elias : We're more alike than you'd like to admit. Both killers in our own right. But now you save innocent people like Charlie Burton, not old gangsters. Just leave those men to me.

  John Reese : You know I can't do that.

  Carl Elias : I can't say I'm surprised. See you on the other side.

• Detective Joss Carter : Why do you need the bosses dead, Elias? You've already shown how powerful you are.

  Carl Elias : You don't understand the evil you're protecting, do you? Let me tell you something about Zambrano. He earns his living by selling heroin to schoolchildren. Grifoni sells guns to the highest bidder. My esteemed half-brother, a man who not only imports drugs, but young girls. These are the men that you are protecting.

  Detective Joss Carter : Things would be much better under your watch, huh?

  Carl Elias : I run an efficient enterprise. There's no infighting, there's no conflict over territory. I am the evolution of organized crime.

  Detective Joss Carter : You're a force of corruption and weakness. My answer is no.