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Gil Grissom quotes from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Played by William Petersen · 446 quotes · page 28 of 30

Gil Grissom

Most-quoted character in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: in 446 of its 1,147 quotes
Most scenes with: Catherine Willows (102), Sara Sidle (89), Nick Stokes (57)

Scenes with Gil Grissom 407

Regal Sanitation was owned by Anthony Pezzulo. I'm studying mob history for a book I'm writing.

Pezzulo? Wasn't he the mob boss who, uh, owned the Starfly?

They called Pezzulo "Whacko," not so much for his wacky personality as for his love for whacking guys.

Grissom

Until he himself got whacked at the Wisconsin Dells in 1983. Every mob-owned business in Vegas shut down when Pezzulo died.

These scumbags like roaches. Just when you think they're gone, they pop back up again.

S8 E9 Cockroaches
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(about Warrick) You should have put him in your car and driven him home!

Grissom

I have to trust the people I work with, Jim.

Look, Warrick's a loose cannon. We both know that. He was in Gedda's strip club ...

Grissom

He was off the clock.

... conducting his own police investigation.

Grissom

He's very passionate about this case.

Yeah, passionate enough to sleep with the vic who ended up dead in his car. Look, I know Warrick didn't have anything to do with it, but he needs to back off. Guys like Lou Gedda, they don't skip on murder and extortion by being lucky.

Grissom

What does that mean? You think Gedda's got friends inside the department?

Well, unlike Warrick, I don't make accusations until I have proof.

Grissom

Guy was living the American dream. Every kid wants to grow up to be a cowboy.

Not a dead cowboy.

(after Grissom read Cody's poem) It's not Shakespeare.

Grissom

I'm actually a fan of cowboy poetry.

Are you really?

Grissom

Yeah, it's just a way of organizing your thoughts and feelings so that you can make sense of them.

Sounds like Cody was trying to make sense of his girl leaving him.

Grissom

(returning the poetry letter to Nick) Yeah well, poetry can help you with that, too.

(about Cody) Well it's part of the tradition, you know. Solitary man out there trying to find himself.

Yeah, but no man is an island. I mean, obviously, he had feelings for Nancy or he wouldn't have written her that poem.

Nancy? I don't know about that. Tiffany's the one that broke his heart.

Grissom

I don't think it's about either girl. (reading the poem) "I can't help now but wonder what your brown eyes were concealing." Did you read Tiffany's autopsy report?

Oh. Yeah, her eyes were blue.

Grissom

So were Nancy's.

Then who did he write the poem for?

Grissom

Wintwister. (Catherine and Nick can't believe it)

The bull?

Grissom

I think that's why he went back to the arena that night. Wordsworth once wrote, "Through love we feel we are greater than we know." My guess is, riding that bull, Cody felt like a greater man.

[to Grissom] Boy, you look like hell. I need sugar. You got a soda?

Grissom

Nice to see you, too, Maddy.

6 months' worth of investigation; two months working with the grand jury; 5 low-level indictments against the LAT. Why you? 'Cause you're the only one who won't screw it up.

Grissom

My team won't screw it up.

Oh, right. Your team. Warrick Brown got mixed up with a crooked judge. Sanders ran down a civilian while on duty. Ms. Willows lied about being at a crime scene, among other things. And who can forget Stokes, your straight arrow? Suspected of killing his hooker girlfriend. How does the song go? "You call me up, I get 'em out of it"? If it weren't for me, you'd have no team.

Never thought I'd be disappointed that we solved a case.

Grissom

Hmm.

Court personnel files?

Grissom

Reading upside down is a talent.

What are you looking for?

Grissom

The leak. 90 minutes after the warrant was issued, Alvarado's apartment went up.

So you're looking at the judge, his staff, the clerk that issued the warrant, court reporter, any cops who knew...

Grissom

Yeah, but according to this, everybody cleared. The only ones left are the grand jurors and Maddy Klein.

Well, I was right about Alvarado, he was leaving Vegas. Otherwise, he would have killed me himself.

Grissom

You okay?

Yeah. Guess now, I owe you one, huh?

Grissom

I don't keep score, Madeline.

You know what Gilbert? You're the only man I know that's never let me down. Which means either that your a classic enabler or my soulmate.

It's hard to believe that anybody could do something like this to such a beautiful little girl.

So, if she had been plain or homely, it'd be easy for you to accept?

No, but, maybe it's just me, that when something like this happens to a kid with a face like that, it just seems a little more tragic.

Maybe that will work in our favor. (Catherine walks out)

Did I just piss her off?

Grissom

Yeah, but she was heading that way when she came in.

(looking at the victim who was shot in the head) Organ donor. Her heart was in the right place.

Grissom

Unfortunately her head was in the wrong place.

The name on the lease is Kellen Tyford.

Drops?

Grissom

The nightclub promoter?

Yeah, and get this, he leases the upstairs apartment too.

Grissom

That's a lotta apartments for a guy who's getting free room and board.

In an interview in the San Francisco Chronicle, October 31, 1996, if I recall correctly, one Professor Gilbert Grissom revealed that as a boy he collected dead animals he found in his Marina Del Ray neighborhood and performed necropsies on them.

Grissom

Hodges, I want you to stop stalking me.

Anytime you need a sniffer to detect it, my nose has the cyanide gene.

Grissom

What type of gene turned your nose brown? (referring to the squirrel he just necropsied) Go ahead. You can sew him up. (gets up and leaves)

Will do. And I'll notify next of kin, too. (chuckles, then grimaces at the open body cavity of the squirrel)

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