Person of Interest (TV Series)

Proteus (2013)

Taraji P. Henson: Detective Jocelyn 'Joss' Carter

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• Detective Joss Carter : [Joss just shot the man who was about to kill Finch]  You all right, Harold?

  Harold Finch : Detective? You have impeccable timing. How did you get here?

  Detective Joss Carter : I hitched a ride with the Coast Guard. And some very unpleasant people inside said they thought they saw you come this way. So is that him, our identity killer?

  Harold Finch : He was pretending to be an FBI agent. He was really rather good at it. He had a badge and a gun and...

  Detective Joss Carter : And what?

  Harold Finch : Body armor.

  [Fahey stands up only to be shot by Cal Beecher] 

• Harold Finch : Mr. Reese is out on an island, looking for a man violent enough to pull out another man's teeth. And now I can't warn him. I have to get there myself.

  Detective Joss Carter : I'm pretty sure all the roads are closed now. How do you think you're going to get out there?

  Harold Finch : I think I'll use my pilot's license.

• Detective Joss Carter : Agent Moss? I've been doing this job a long time. Heh, probably too long. All that business about Cal Beecher; what do you know?

  SAIC Brian Moss : Been doing my job for a long time too. And not having those IAB files, I can only surmise, but the kind of red flags they put up, Beecher is bad news. Steer clear, Carter.

• Detective Joss Carter : Someone tried to destroy these teeth. But the flame wasn't hot enough to burn enamel. It could take some time, but if the vic's dentals are on file, we could get an ID.

  Harold Finch : No, we can't wait that long. Assuming that the teeth belong to Jack Rollins, he was likely dead when they were removed. One would hope so, anyway.

• Detective Joss Carter : Whoever did this knows how to get rid of a body. They didn't just want to kill Rollins, they wanted him to disappear.

  Harold Finch : We may be looking at more than a string of missing persons. We may be looking at a string of murders. Six victims. If our killer can assume these identities, then he would be a composite of all these missing persons in more ways than one.

  Detective Joss Carter : We're looking at a serial killer.

• Detective Joss Carter : This is a building-owned security camera in Chicago six months ago. A missing persons I'm working. Guy named Rollins. This is him leaving his shop, and him coming back the next day. Oh, he moved to New York soon after. What do you notice?

  Detective Cal Beecher : That the same guy both times?

  Detective Joss Carter : Why do you ask?

  Detective Cal Beecher : That's a close match. But the guy locking up is left-handed, and the guy unlocking is a righty. He's also a couple inches taller.

  Detective Joss Carter : Exactly.

  Detective Cal Beecher : What are you looking at here? Some kind of elaborate robbery?

  Detective Joss Carter : Something much worse.

• Detective Cal Beecher : So do you think we can cross the entire state before you say a word to me?

  Detective Joss Carter : What do you want to talk about? I can think of some things. Like how an NYPD detective got aced out of the FBI because she keeps bad company, how about that?

  Detective Cal Beecher : What are you talking about, the FBI?

  Detective Joss Carter : Not a friend of Internal Affairs, huh, Cal?

  Detective Cal Beecher : Joss, I'm in Narcotics. We get pulled in by IAB half-a-dozen times a year. My neck of the woods don't mean a thing.

  Detective Joss Carter : It does to me. Makes me wonder about the man I trusted.

• Detective Joss Carter : [Cal is going through the desk drawers]  What are you doing?

  Detective Cal Beecher : [Pulls out a bottle of alcohol]  It's a police station. There's bound to be one of these around here somewhere. Hey, listen I don't know what happened last night between us, but, uh, I'm wondering what happens today.

  Detective Joss Carter : I don't know what happens. But I'm glad you were here.