Nina Lisandrello credited as playing...
Tess Vargas
- Tess Vargas: Well, I don't know if you've noticed, which you probably haven't 'cause you've been mostly AWOL around here lately - not that I'm complaining.
- Catherine Chandler: I'm sorry.
- Tess Vargas: Well, the point is the workload's doubled ever since the D.A. overturned Joe's cases, and although I'm used to covering for you - again, not like I mind.
- Catherine Chandler: No, you should.
- Tess Vargas: It's just... look, I know how much you love the guy, but I think I have the right to know how much longer this is gonna go on.
- Catherine Chandler: Until I find him, Tess, okay?
- Tess Vargas: Right, but what if you can't?
- [Cathy walks away in a huff]
- Tess Vargas: Look, I'm sorry. I'm your friend. I'm allowed to be blunt; it's one of the perks. Look, I don't want to be the bad guy here. I don't. But you know as well as I do that the odds of finding a missing person after...
- Catherine Chandler: You sound like J.T. Are you guys ganging up on me? I'm not giving up until I find him, Tess.
- Tess Vargas: That's funny. That's exactly what Joe said about finding his brother's killer, "I'm not giving up." It was all he cared about, but it kept him from focusing on all the other cases, and that's what's caused this mess, and cost him his job, and me my boyfriend. Just make sure you know what it's costing you, Cat, okay? Make sure it's worth it.
- Catherine Chandler: I know what it's costing me, Tess. Believe me. Sometimes when I'm alone and it's late and it's quiet, I just... I just want to cry. For Vincent, for my dad. But I can't. I won't let myself, not until I find Vincent. I have to stay strong.
- Tess Vargas: It's a dangerous game putting yourself on hold like that. It's gonna catch up with you sooner or later.
- Catherine Chandler: I know.
- Gabe Lowen: You recognize this guy?
- Tess Vargas: No. Never seen him before.
- Gabe Lowen: That's the problem. He doesn't exist anywhere on any database. How does someone stay off the grid in this day and age?
- Tess Vargas: I don't know. Friends in high places, maybe? Is this a case we're working on?
- Gabe Lowen: No, it's a case Catherine's working on.
- Tess Vargas: And she asked you to help? What, she lose her mind?
- Gabe Lowen: No, she lost Vincent. And the last time she saw him, he was after whoever this guy is, which is what I'm trying to figure out.
- Tess Vargas: [dropping a file on his desk] Whatever. Let me know if I have enough for an arrest, okay? I'm going home.
- Gabe Lowen: So that's it? You don't care?
- Tess Vargas: About Cat? Always. About Vincent? Um... I don't know. I mean, personally I like him, at least I used to, but I'm just really tired of watching him ruin her life. Enough already.
- Tess Vargas: Hey. So we don't screw up any more cases, can you take a look at this?
- Gabe Lowen: Don't you ever knock?
- Tess Vargas: Sorry, old habit. I keep forgetting Joe's gone and you're in charge now. For some reason, my brain just can't process that. Go figure.