Catherine Willows quotes from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Nick

Hey.

Warrick

Hey.

Catherine

Nicky, how's it going?

Warrick

What's up?

Nick

Good, good. (he looks at the painting) Are you putting one of Lindsey's drawings into evidence? (Cath and Warrick laugh)

Catherine

If only her artwork brought in this kind of dough I wouldn't need to worry about her college tuition.

Nick

Yeah, I heard your missing person was a "painting".

Warrick

(scoffs) At least we solved our case.

Nick

Oh! (Nick puts a hand to his chest as if wounded)

Catherine

Keep walking. (Nick laughs and leaves the room)

Grissom

You don't have a worry that technology is gonna make us obsolete?

Catherine

No.

Grissom

Sara Sidle. 419. [Grissom hands the assignment sheet to Sara]

Sara

Dead body -- bonus.

Catherine

Whoa, somebody likes their job.

Grissom

Nick Stokes. 416, fight at the Bellagio. She says she's a friend of yours.

Catherine

Ex-girlfriend, Nick?

Nick

Well, that depends. Was she the assaulter of the assaultee?

Sara

You tell us, you like leather or lace?

Nick

[chuckles] No, I'm not even going there. [turns to leave, but turns back] Lace! [Sara smiles]

Brass

A kid from a crime lab doing favors for a hooker, can't make the unit look too good, huh, boss?

Grissom

Yeah, well, I'll get into it.

Brass

I bet that's just what Nicky said.

Catherine

[walking past them and toward the crime scene] You two ladies done talking? It's hot out here.

Brass

[Leads them to the body] Kid over there was taking a whiz on the side of the road, found the body.

Grissom

[Touches the body] And she's stiff...like a two-minute burrito that's only been nukes for a minute.

Brass

In this heat?

Catherine

You know how you're always pushing that Holy Trinity stuff?

Grissom

Father, son and Holy Ghost?

Catherine

Victim, suspect and crime scene.

Grissom

Oh, that one.

Catherine

The prisoner plea. Brass told me about the video.

Grissom

Yeah. If we take the case we have very little time to work it. The trial starts in three days.

Sara

How did he find you? 1-800 Grissom ...? (Nick laughs)

Catherine

Wait a minute. Ecklie was the CSI on that arson. I see a bad moon rising.

Warrick

Can a CSI take over another CSI's case?

Catherine

Only if they're of equal rank and they're looking for trouble.

Grissom

No trouble. We're both colleagues searching for the truth.

Grissom

I was supposed to pass out some supervisor evaluation forms. Where are they?

Catherine

(grabs the papers and beings to hand them out) Here they are.

Nick

(smiles) Mmm. Get to rate the boss. I dig this.

Catherine

Give him a perfect ten or your ass is out of here.

Grissom

No, it's not. (Sara laughs)

Catherine

Am I disturbing you?

Grissom

Yeah.

Catherine

Good. (Grissom looks up to see everyone standing there waiting for their assignments)

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.

Catherine

Sheriff, you arrest Nick now you end his career.

So, what can you offer me?

Catherine

Nothing, except my gut and ten years of experience. He didn't do this.

Ignore the evidence against Stokes it looks like special favors for CSI.

Well, I can't have that. Not and keep my post.

Catherine

So give me twelve hours, access to the crime scene and evidence without filing papers on Nick.

Twelve hours. But then we arrest Mr. Stokes with all the attendant documentation.

Catherine

I ran priors. The guy's got an '88 conviction for sexual assaults.

(smugly) Boy, if I ever get in trouble, I know which CSI I'm going to.

Catherine

Let's watch the show.

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.

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.

I need a DNA sample from you, Nick.

Nick

I assume you're trying to prove Kristy Hopkins and I were sexually active last night.

We found a condom, used.

Nick

And my DNA will match, no warrant necessary. And I have something else for you. (Nick hands Ecklie a piece of paper with writing on it) I got this off a valet surveillance tape.

A license plate number?

Nick

Vehicle belongs to Jack Willman. Had a fight with Kristy Hopkins outside the Orpheus last night around midnight.

Well, I'll look into it but come on-- your fingerprints, your DNA, that's what's going into evidence.

Nick

You just love that, don't you?

You think I want to believe a CSI could commit murder? Hell I don't even want to believe that a CSI could sleep with a hooker.

Catherine

You know what? Nick's private life...

Is no longer private. (beat) Catherine, I'm sorry if you guys don't like where the evidence is pointing. But show me otherwise-- tell me I'm wrong. In the meantime, my hands are tied. I have protocol to follow. (leaves)

Nick

(to Cath) I hate that guy.

Catherine

I think we'd better head over to the police station.

Nick

(who is suspected of murdering Kristy) DNA didn't pan out huh?

Catherine

Never have I seen such a clean match. Jack Willman killed her.

Nick

Thank you. (he hugs her)

Catherine

Hey, I'm just doing my job. Besides if they'd sent you to jail I'd get stuck with all your cases. (Nick laughs)