| "Passion" | ||
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| ← | CI, Episode 8.12 | → |
| Production number: First aired: 12 July 2009 | ||
| Written By Michael S. Chernuchin Directed By Jonathan Herron | ||
Plot[]
When funding for his poetry journal is threatened to be cut, an egocentric poet asks his lover to try to change the mind of the foundation's president; when the lover winds up dead, Nichols and Wheeler discover the deadly passion behind the arts.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Jeff Goldblum as Detective Zach Nichols
- Julianne Nicholson as Detective Megan Wheeler
- Eric Bogosian as Captain Danny Ross
Recurring cast[]
- Leslie Hendrix as Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers
- Joseph Vincent Gay as Detective Randolph Sachs
- Iris Delgado as Detective Boyle
Guest cast[]
- Will Chase as Jacob Garrety
- Sarah Rafferty as Sandra Dunbar (née O'Bannon)
- Stephen Kunken as Don McCallum
- Christina Brucato as Lauren Collins
- Amy Rutberg as Emma Cohen
- Rufus Collins as John Dunbar
- Yvonne Perry as Natalie Beck
- Damian Young as Mr. Wetherly
- S.P. Landess as Poet
- Anne Lockhart as Unknown
- Mark J. Parker as Poetry Club Member (uncredited)
- Unknown actress as Mrs. McCallum
References[]
- McCallum-Ward Foundation
- Paul McCartney
- Queens College
- Queens Poetic Guild
- Village Quarterly
- F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald
Quotes[]
- Jacob Gerrety: A thriving weed behind a dog-proof fence
A writhing dog behind a screen of weeds
The street needs people less and less
Their brave pursuits, their wretched deeds
They think the street is there for them
To bear their feet, to bear them on
"But bear with me," the pavement says
"I'm here at night; I'm here at dawn."
"When you are here and when you're gone."
- [on Jacob Gerrety]
- Megan Wheeler: No record, but only because pompous isn't a crime.
- Sandra Dunbar: The words, in the right order, read by the right man... it'll move your soul.
- [Nichols and Wheeler find Jacob Gerrety dead in his office]
- Zach Nichols: We can ask him, but I don't think he's gonna answer.
- John Dunbar: Thank god for pre-nups. She's taking out of this marriage what she brought in - a nice rack and a hundred bucks.
- Megan Wheeler: If my kid ever tells me she wants to be a poet, I'll tell her to join the mafia instead - friendlier people.
- Zach Nichols: I wanted to be a pianist. Now look at me. I'm a cop who can bang out a tune or two at a party. I should have listened to my wife. I didn't need the paycheck that badly.
- Sandra Dunbar: (sadly) Jacob would've starved before he gave up his poetry for a paycheck.
- [on Jacob Gerrety and Sandra Dunbar - Beck has compared them to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald]
- Zach Nichols: Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald... I remember that they had a rocky relationship. Does that mean Jacob and Sandra...?
- Natalie Beck: "Rocky" doesn't do it justice... is "bouldery" a word?
Background information and notes[]
- The original title for this episode was "Poet".
- This is the second episode of the season to feature a poet. The first was "Folie à Deux".
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