Catherine Willows quotes from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Grissom

(Grissom examines the bug Catherine took from the collapsed building. Grissom looks at the bug in the container while Catherine looks through the camera footage taken earlier on the computer monitor.) An anobiid powder-post beetle. Very nice specimen.

Catherine

He likes you, too. Now, tell me about him.

Grissom

Your building collapsed.

Catherine

You assigned me the case. You already know that.

Grissom

Well, this little guy confirms it. This species of beetle eats softwood. Tell me about the building.

Catherine

The frame's made of Douglas Fir.

Grissom

A delicacy.

Catherine

I did find more than a bug. Dry rot, questionable repairs, a jittery Engineer. And check this out. (She turns the monitor to the side to show Grissom.)

Grissom

Forget the beetle; this damage was intentional. You're looking for a homosapien.

Catherine

I know. Gives new meaning to "home wrecker."

Grissom

Catherine, there's a reason I assigned you this case. You're good with people, both the dead and the living.

Catherine

Translation: We're opening a political can of worms. The mayor's involved, an election's around the corner and you could've clued me in a little earlier. (Grissom looks back at the beetle in the container. He turns eagerly to Catherine.)

Grissom

Can I keep him?

Catherine

Sorry. It's evidence.

Grissom

Don't forget to feed him. (He hands the container back to Catherine.)

Catherine

I know...wood.

Catherine

(to a worker) Where's the District Engineer?

(points) He's over there!

Catherine

(sarcastically) Follow the tie!

I'm the only District Engineer!

Catherine

Then it looks bad for you! (later) Well if a boat sinks...the last person to check for leaks was negligent!

Catherine

[Hands him an ice pack] Ice.

Grissom

I don't need this.

Catherine

Just do it.

Catherine

You missed the deadline. No Chicago for me.

Grissom

Oh, Catherine...

Catherine

This is the one meeting I needed to attend. I don’t always want to be second banana. I can probably do your job. I know that I can do Ecklie’s.

Grissom

I forgot. I’m so sorry.

Catherine

Make sure to submit the paperwork by the end of the day.

Grissom

I thought you said that it was too late.

Catherine

Well, I knew you’d forget so I upped the deadline — gave you a buffer. Don’t forget again.

Catherine

[annoyed] What?

Sara

Well, this is fun.

Catherine

As opposed to...?

Sara

A more scientific approach.

Sara

The only person who could have done it, then is the person that was in the car with her, the mother.

Catherine

Her eyes were pointing in the wrong direction.

Sara

(shakes her head) I'm sorry. What?

Catherine

Carla Dantini was looking left when she told me about the accident. When a person is remembering, they look right and when they're creating, they look left.

Sara

And by creating, you mean fabricating. Neurolinguistics programming, human behavioral science.

Catherine

Call Brass and tell him to meet us at the mother's house.

Catherine

You're going to enter this as a homicide, right?

Doc Robbins

Technically, it's somewhere between accidental and undetermined.

Catherine

It's a homicide. I'm going to get your proof. So write down that "accidental" in pencil.

Grissom

Catherine. (Catherine looks at Grissom and doesn't say anything. He notices that she walked out of his office) What are you doing?

Catherine

The carnival case. I'm taking it.

Grissom

The carnival case?

Catherine

A six-year-old girl died on a ride at the carnival over on Washington. The paperwork's on your desk.

Grissom

(nods and glances at his office behind her) Did you straighten up my office while you were in there?

Catherine

You think I overstepped? ... These people come to town, they commit crimes and they leave. I just want to get there before the carnival moves on.

Grissom

Okay. Take Sara with you.

Catherine

She's meeting me there.

Catherine

Oh, before you came to Nevada you should have looked up the law. Mandatory drug testing wherever there's been an accident. Pee now, and don't tell me you're shy. (to an officer) Stay on him.

Sara

Mandatory drug testing?

Catherine

Yeah, well, there should be.

Grissom

Do you think a woman could've done this?

Catherine

I could.

Grissom

Scared of you...

Nick

Catherine. say, "Silk silk silk"

Catherine

Silk silk silk.

Nick

Now what do cows drink?

Catherine

Water? Why?

Nick

Never mind.

Catherine

Never doubt and never look back. That's how I live my life.

Grissom

I admire that.

Catherine

So, what, this guy has some strange chemical in his mutated DNA?

Greg

Freaky, huh?

Catherine

Freakiest semen I've seen in a while.

I told you I dropped them down the bathroom sink.

Brass

First time I heard that.

Look, I took two, gave Tony two and I accidentally dropped fifteen or twenty down the sink. It was an accident. You know, an accident? Haven't you ever spilled a drink?

Catherine

Not lately. We found fifty Xanax in Tony's stomach.

Don't pin that on me. I'd left.

Catherine

I'll tell you what you left -- your fingerprints all over the prescription bottle.

I went to the pharmacy waited in line picked up the prescription signed for it brought it back to the house. You know, Tony did nothing for himself except work and get high.

Brass

Got you a brand-new Mercedes, didn't it?

Yes, it did. And it'll buy me the dress I wear at Tony's funeral, too.

Brass

Look, when you left your half a house where did you go?

A friend's.

Brass

Well, let's get her on the line.

She's out of town.

Brass

Let me guess -- she's incommunicado.

That means you can't reach her? Yeah.