Gil Grissom quotes from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Grissom

Damon opened the door. He lied.

Warrick

So what happens now?

Grissom

We chase the lie, 'til it leads to the truth.

Sara

He's been out of work ever since.

Grissom

Sittin' around makin' bombs..

Catherine

Oh, these fire guys really know how to trash a crime scene.

Grissom

That's what they do. Put wet stuff on the red stuff.

Sara

Hey. (the alarm continues to ring annoyingly)

Grissom

Could you find that and turn it off, please? (Sara checks the clocks on the table, then finds it and turns it off. The alarm stops ringing. She picks up another clock)

Sara

Find the clock our guy used?

Grissom

(sighs): Not yet.

Sara'

This is a good choice. According to the bomb data center which has a record of every component used in any bomb -- from Ted Kaczynski to teenage boys playing with fireworks -- the most recent timing device of choice is made by TimeTell SnoozeWell, $10.99 at any local drugstore. (she hands him the clock)

Grissom

You spoiled all my fun. (Grissom starts to take apart the clock and Warrick walks in)

Grissom

Anything's possible.

Warrick

Catherine gave me this "FP" which was part of the Hansen bomb and I'm supposed to figure out what tool the bomber used to engrave it.

Grissom

You isolate the tool, and then we trace it.

Warrick

Yeah, but he could've used any number of things to initial it. I mean, screwdriver, a drill bit, a box cutter.

Grissom

It's the same as guns-- we eliminate them one at a time.

Warrick

*sigh* So what are you guys up to?

Sara

We're off to blow up some bombs

Warrick

Oh i definitely got the wrong end of this case!

Grissom

[Playing off Shakespeare's Hamlet] Alas, poor Warrick!

Catherine

Hey, Nick ... I'm sorry to hear about your friend.

Nick

Who told you?

Nick

So people know I was with Kristy last night?

Catherine

(looks at Grissom with a questioning look) Not yet.

Nick

Maybe I should just go to Ecklie and tell him I was there.

Grissom

When you're a suspect and you're innocent, keep your mouth shut. I'll talk to Ecklie.

Catherine

Bad idea. You and Ecklie ... oil and water. Just let me get into it.

Grissom

I can't tell whether he's brilliant or nuts.

Brass

Sound familiar?

Grissom

You told me you weren't dating her.

Nick

I wasn't till last night after I broke up her fight with this guy, uh... Jack.

Grissom

And Ecklie's at her house now.

Nick

Yeah, and I can tell you what he's going to find. My fingerprints; my DNA.

Grissom

What were you thinking, Nicky?

Nick

I wasn't.

Catherine

The sperm from the condom was frozen at 10:15 am. It's all heads, no tails.

Grissom

I'm not quite up to speed about the preticulars of....

Catherine

It takes about 7 hours for bacteria to eat away at the tails, that places time of ejaculation at around 2am. But Kristy's death was at around 6am.

Grissom

Well, that suggests a lag between ejaculation and Kristy's murder. But that doesn't disprove Nick's presence at the time of the homocide.

Catherine

You could be a little more supportive.

Sara

I ran a Lexis search looking for disgruntled employees, irate customers anyone with a grievance against thrift-right.

Sara

Norman Stirling -- former manager.

Grissom

How disgruntled?

Sara

Let go last year. Caused a commotion at HQ. Filed lawsuits against the company. He's been out of work ever since.

Grissom

Sittin' around, makin' bombs.

It's kind of like that old saying: 'How a person does one thing is...

Grissom

... how a person does everything.'

Grissom

Bones are porous. They stick to the tongue (puts piece in mouth again) and this doesn't stick. (puts it back down) It's a piece of rock.

Catherine

I-I hope you had your hepatitis B shot. (Grissom gets up and starts searching for more bones, Catherine follows) Did you? (Cuts to Grissom and Catherine walking toward a cadet, who may have found a piece of bone)

Grissom

Could be a piece of wrist bone.

Catherine

Well, do you want to suck on it? To be sure?

Catherine

So, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Grissom

How amazing the universe is. Everything made from the same carbon, stars to trees, trucks to human bones.

Catherine

Uh, no, I was thinking that we have about 100 bone fragments. We could ID this body before the end of the shift.

Grissom

Hmm.

Catherine

Stars and trucks?

Catherine

(About a bone that was found in the desert) Well, it is a leg bone and my guess is that it didn't walk out here by itself.

Grissom

It could have been a hiker who got lost. It's interesting to me how you always expect the worst.

Catherine

You see, that way I'm never disappointed. And sometimes I'm nicely surprised. So, is this a crime scene?

Grissom

Potential crime scene. Did you know there are 206 bones in the human body?

Grissom

Well, 205 more bones and we have a complete skelton. If we find the rest then we can determine if or if not it was a murder.

Catherine

Well, I feel it in everyone of my 206 bones that this was a murder.

Hi. Do you need a hand with that?

Grissom

Uh... no, thanks. I'll be fine.

Are you a doctor?

Grissom

Of sorts. I'm just, um... looking around.

See anything you like?

Grissom

Catherine? (he opens the box and it play music) Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers". (he looks underneath the music box and grins)

Catherine

What? Why are you smiling?

Grissom

(angry) Are you looking for work?

Nick

I just...

Grissom

The sign says, "Do Not Enter," Nick. You can't read anymore? You're blind? What?

Nick

Grissom, this is important.

Grissom

(furious) This is important. Sometimes in interrogations, Nick, you get one chance, one answer. And while I'm out here screwing around with you he's in there thinking up an answer that he didn't have before you walked in.

Nick

We matched the DNA taken from Lacey Duvall to a cold case in Texas ten years ago.

Grissom

And?

Nick

The suspect's name was Chad Matthews.

Grissom

C.M. The cuff link. Okay, I'm starting to forgive you.

Nick

Sara ran Patrick Haynes' social. The real Haynes is deceased. So Patrick Haynes is Chad Matthews and Chad Matthews is on the run.

Grissom

And he just ran into us.