Catherine Willows quotes from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Hodges

(talking about cotton fiber) I need another piece for comparison.

Catherine

Forget how to use the scissors? (pushes them to him) Put your fingers in the holes and squeeze.

Hodges

(smirks) Yes ma-am.

Nick

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

Catherine

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

Nick

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?

Nick

Oh. Yeah, her eyes were blue.

Grissom

So were Nancy's.

Nick

Then who did he write the poem for?

Grissom

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

Catherine

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.

Catherine

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

Grissom

Hmm.

Catherine

Court personnel files?

Grissom

Reading upside down is a talent.

Catherine

What are you looking for?

Grissom

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

Catherine

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.

Hodges

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

Catherine

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

Hodges

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.

Catherine

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

Hodges

Did I just piss her off?

Grissom

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

Catherine

What are you doing here?

I was waiting for you.

Catherine

How did you get in here?

Can't we talk about something interesting? Me for instance. I'm interesting.

Catherine

Yeah, let's do that. Let's talk about you.

For starters, Norah left me. Actually, she threw my stuff out onto the street, got a restraining order on me, notified the neighbors and called my boss. "Hey, Scumbag. Don't bother coming in, we'll mail you your last check." So in one fell swoop, as it were, I lost my girlfriend, my livelihood and my place to live. I thought it was going to be different this time. Frankly, I blame you.

Catherine

I didn't create the circumstances of your life, Leo.

You grind up the innocent with the guilty.

Catherine

Just take it easy. I was just doing my job.

(mockingly) I was just doing my job.

Catherine

Yeah, I was just doing my job.

I was just doing my job. I was just following orders. Blonde Nazi bitch! You get in there with your big boots and you kick it all apart and you don't care who you hurt. Whose life you destroy in the process.

Catherine

Calm down.

No! It's not fair.

Catherine

Calm down!

Don't tell me to calm down!

Catherine

(draws her gun) Just stay back and calm down!

You going to shoot me? Would that help you figure out how completely you screwed my life up? Would you sleep better at night? Maybe, I should just save you the trouble and blow my own brains out, hm. What do you think?

Catherine

I think you need to talk to somebody.

I am talking to somebody. I'm talking to you. So how about this, if I do decide to kill myself, I'm going to come over to your house, and blow my brains out right on your front lawn. As a gift to you and everything you stand for. How does that work for you? (turns and walks away)

Catherine

[to Archie] You ever worry that you could be replaced by a computer?

Archie

Every day of my life.

Catherine

We've got a BOLO out on Dana Espinoza in connection with the apartment homicides. She's considered armed, dangerous, and pregnant.

Warrick

Oh! Raging hormones and a gun; we got to get that off the street fast.

Grissom

Your killer's a ground squirrel?

Catherine

In a way I argue self defense.

Nick

Is it bad when you start thinking none of this sounds too weird anymore?

Warrick

Oh, it's a bit too freaky how these cases are connected.

Greg

Grissom, you always say that there is no such thing as coincidence...

Grissom

There isn't.

Catherine

Oh, come on. You got the guy who bursts into flames, just divorced from the woman who was fighting squirrel wars with the Martins...

Greg

... Who had hired the exterminator who's drugs were turning everybody's blood green.

Nick

And one of his green blooded customers was Evelyn, our lady of tinfoil, who was the last person that Kyle Plank touched before he died.

Grissom

There's one more connection. Evelyn had 200 bucks, and I'm thinking that when she was run over, she was on her way to buy more Thyocite. I think that Wayne Connor was with Dave Boer waiting for the money to arrive.

Greg

Only Evelyn never showed up, Connor lost his temper and Boer killed him in a fight.

Warrick

And it all started with Kyle Plank, lonely guy with a gut full of moonshine.

Grissom

String theory.

Nick

Grissom theory. This is better than a bedtime story.

Grissom

String theory is "the theory of everything." Quantum mechanics tells us about the very small. The theory of relativity explains the immense. String theory ties it all together. It proposes that atomic particles are made up of infinitesimal vibrating loops of energy or strings. Each string vibrates at its own frequency, like on a violin, producing notes and these notes make up everything in the universe.

Catherine

Cosmic symphony.

Grissom

These strings have been combining and recombining ever since the Big Bang. So, the connections between our victims or any of us are not that extraordinary.

Nick

But every one of them thought they were alone.

Warrick

Too bad they didn't know about Grissom's theory.

Greg

In a parallel universe, maybe they're all having breakfast together.

Catherine

In this universe, maybe we are.

Nick

Yeah.

Catherine

(to Grissom) And you're buying.

Grissom

No strings attached.

Warrick

[about a bloodstain] Hey, what does this look like to you?

Grissom

Hermaphrodite on rollerskates.

Catherine

A puppy.

Hodges

Bud didn't marry Annabelle. He married Natasha pretending to be Annabelle.

Catherine

Well, one thing's for sure. Neither one of them is pretending to be dead.

Nick

Looks like a comedy writer came out of the closet.

Catherine

I doubt if it's the first time.

[arriving at Warrick's crime scene] Gil, how do you wanna handle this?

Grissom

I want us to do this, Conrad. I want Nick and Catherine on the car.

[softly] Okay.

Nick

I feel sorry for whoever did this.

Catherine

[finishes her phone call and walks over to Grissom and Ecklie] Greg's coming back from the airport, I told him to go straight to the lab. (pauses) We're gonna have to take your clothes to get processed.

I'll drive ya.

Grissom

I'm gonna go with Warrick.

Grissom

He didn't wanna go, Sara.

Sara

(pause) Tell me.

Grissom

I was holding him. ... God, I could feel his life, ... I guess I felt that if I could hold him tight enough, he'd be okay.

Sara

You know that there is no place in the world that he would have rather been at the end. ... He loved you.

Grissom

[holding back tears] Yeah, I loved him. [Catherine comes in and sees Sara, Sara walks up to her and hugs her]

Sara

[while hugging Catherine] I'm so sorry.

Catherine

It's so good that we can all be together. [Greg and Nick walk in and Sara hugs them both]

Greg

I'm glad you're here.

Sara

Look, um, maybe I can pick up some of the slack. I... I know I can't work the case, but maybe I can make some of the, uh... arrangements.

Grissom

That'd be great.

Greg

I'll help you.

Sara

I'd appreciate that.

Nick

You know, since his grandmother passed, we were the only family that he had. He once told me that he'd like to be buried next to her.

Grissom

I went to her funeral with Warrick. She's, uh, buried at the Baptist cemetery on Eastern.

Sara

We're gonna need, uh, a key, I guess to his place.

Catherine

I've got one. I... went over to his place and got him some fresh clothes when he was in custody.

Nick

Warrick was right about Gedda and he was right about the department. [looks at everyone then at Grissom] Let's finish this for him.

Nick

What's with the bikini?

Catherine

Maybe she wanted to leave a good looking corpse.