Episode Quotes
Ray: I was teaching at WLVU when Coach Miller won his second conference title. Everybody loved him, treated him like a god.
Catherine: Even gods have enemies...
Al: CoD is exsanguination due to both sharp force and blunt force trauma. Coach was struck at least a dozen times.
Nick: Lotta rage here.
Al: Agreed. Multiple impacts crushed his skull, and drove bone fragments into the brain, causing catastrophic hemorrhaging... It's like when you push your finger into a hard-boiled egg, the shell cracks but the pieces stay in place.
Nick: Thanks for ruining another breakfast for me.
Al: It's what I do.
Ray: (looking around) Where's Archie?
Hodges: He's at a technical conference in Sioux City, Iowa... How can I help you?
Ray: I'm interested in any e-mails between Coach M and Calvin Crook.
Hodges: Coach had two separate e-mail accounts, one was an "edu" through the university, the other was personal. Now I found an e-mail trail between the two of them back in April.
Ray: April?
Hodges: Yeah, it got as little heated.
Ray: That's around the time of the NFL Draft.
Hodges: Rumor had it that Calvin was gonna skip out on his senior year, and enter The Draft early. Money, money, money.
Ray: But he stayed.
Hodges: Yeah. And he lost some of his magic. He wasn't being played as often and he was playing for free. Most of their back-and-forth was on the university account, the majority of which was between the coach and Calvin's reps, but... check these out.
Ray: (reading from e-mail) "Coach, agents are blowing up my cell saying enter now and sign for three years, five mil, Calvin".
Hodges: Now comes the tough love.
Ray: (reading from another e-mail) The Mustangs are family, Calvin, and that has more value than money. money waits for talent. Finish your education, not just for the team but for yourself, so you'll have a career after football. Coach M".
Hodges: Five minutes later the coach sends Calvin a link to this Las Vegas Globe article: "22 year old restaurant worker found in the lake, single gunshot wound. Andrew Jimenez" -- Calvin never mentions The Draft again.
Ray: Because of this article?
Hodges: Mmmm. Something made him walk away from five million.
Nick: Hey, Ray! You got a second?
Ray: Yeah.
Nick: Did you ever play football?
Ray: (laughs) Yes, ummm. The real football. (mimes dribbling with his feet) With your feet?
Nick: Soccer.
Ray: Well, I never called it that. I was born in Seoul, South Korea, and my dad was career military man. I grew up on bases all over the world, and we just always called it football. What about you?
Nick: I'm from Austin, I grew up playing football, you know... I feel like I understand football players, but....I don't know about this Calvin Crook kid. At first I thought he was lying to us, but, he really came clean with me, man, and now I'm not so sure.
Ray: Well, what is the evidence telling you?
Nick: Well there's no physical evidence connecting him to Coach Miller's murder or to the drowning.
(Catherine walks up)
Catherine: So, where does that leave us?
Nick: If Calvin is telling the truith, which I think he is, then Paige Hammer was still alive after Calvin and the rest of the team left Pal's party.
Ray: Well Pal didn't leave the party, it was Pal's house, his car. He had to be one of the last people to see her alive.
Nick: Maybe the last.
Ray: If he was the driver, Coach Miller knew about it, that would be motive enough for murder.
Catherine: Can we put him in the car with Paige?
Nick: I'll check with Mandy but the gun is the only evidence outstanding. (Ray moves to leave) Well, wait a minute...
Ray: If we want to catch Coach Miller's killer, we gotta find the murder weapon, right boss?
