Ecklie quotes from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Grissom

Ecklie! I want everything right now.

I've been going over it.

Grissom

The Collins case is my shift. You are completely off base.

What, you're afraid I'll find something that might show you up?

Grissom

Oh, I'm sure, if you could, you would have by now. Where is it?

I don't care that you got some pimply-faced kid to confess. You kept the Sheriff out of the loop. That's a career killer, Gil.

Grissom

That's what so sad, Conrad. You think of this as a career.

I just got off the phone with the Sheriff. He wants results, Gil.

Grissom'

He should go to a sports book. I hear the Stardust is good.

No. What he should do is go to his first team... my team.

Grissom'

Teams, Conrad? I didn't know this was a competition.

Well, it is, and my crew usually wins.

Grissom'

Really? Didn't graveyard beat day shift in softball last summer?

You know, you can joke all you want. It's your ass on the line.

Grissom'

I think it was 14-3.

Like I said, it's all about results. And, if you don't get them, I will.

Grissom

You son of a bitch. You swept my crime scene. You sent cleanup!

I didn't send anyone. It's been on the books for months.

Grissom

So you knew, and did nothing about it even with a man's life on the line?

If you'd have checked the docket like everybody else you would've known what was happening. Coffee? (Ecklie holds the pot out to Grissom, Grissom hits the pot out of Ecklie's hand, it flies across the room and breaks against the door) Guess you don't want cream with that. (Ecklie leaves. Grissom notices the broken glass, and how the coffee drips on to it from the door, he makes the connection with this and the melted glass from the bedroom closet at the crime scene)

Grissom

(smiles) Thanks, Ecklie.

What the hell are you doing?

Grissom

Something you probably should have done.

(scoffs) You're checking for faulty wiring? Waste of time, Gil. Fire started on the floor in the closet not in the wires in the wall.

Grissom

Look ... if this wire burned from the inside out then the fire started in the wall not on the closet floor. Discoloration throughout the conductor. It burned from the inside out. The cause of this fire was an electrical overload in the wall.

All right, you say wall, I say floor. We differ on points of origin. The jury's only going to hear one word: Gasoline.

Grissom

Speaking of which ... where's your accelerant analysis work?

I personally swabbed the closet floor. Found traces of hydrocarbon chains confirming gasoline. Leave it alone, Gil. The DA agrees with me on this.

Grissom

Too many unanswered questions, Conrad. This case should not be going to trial yet.

No, there's only one unanswered question. Why was there accelerant in the closet? Only one person knows. And that's why he's looking at the death penalty.

Grissom

What are you so afraid of, Conrad? We're just a couple of science geeks. Why can't we work together?

No, we are public servants. We investigate cases as efficiently as we can and then we move on. We're not a clearinghouse for defendants on the eve of trial who don't like what we've turned up.

Grissom

Yes, we are.. if it's our mistake that put them there.

Fine. Spin your wheels.

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.

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

Are you doing all this for the sake of the lab or to indict Grissom?

Catherine, there a number of talented CSIs, like yourself, who have put in to be supervisors. I just want to make sure the right people are in the right place.

Catherine

About my request, I really would like to supervise days.

Right. You're a single mother. Better hours. And I bet you could use the extra cash.

Catherine

No, this promotion isn't about money.

Must be nice to be independently wealthy.

Catherine

We're done here, right?

Yeah.

Greg

Brass subpoenaed Eiger's home phone calls in the last year.

Yeah, anything interesting?

Greg

Numerous calls from Eiger's house to Sy Magli's office.

Well, they were known business rivals.

Greg

Between midnight and 4 a.m., what I like to call: "Love Hours".

Grissom

Wouldn't be the first time that hate mutated into passion.

Greg

Public enemies, private lovers. So Jackie Collins.

Catherine, look it's not that we don't have confidence in you.

Catherine

I smell crap.

What?

Catherine

Don't take another step. (shines torch around and sees feces). Joe?

Yeah.

Catherine

The Eiger's have any pets?

No kids, no pets.

When Eiger was looking into buying The Queen Regent Casino out from under Sy Magli the gaming commission turned him down, so he invited some of the commissioners over to his mansion for a party, a week later he had his gaming and his liquor licences. Must've been a hell of a party.

Grissom

Well, if The Wizard of Oz had nude pictures of the Wicked Witch, Dorothy would never had lost her slippers.

Grissom

And this must be Mr. Billmeyer. I'm so glad he's back.

Very funny.

Grissom

You might want to have Hodges analyze that cigar. Oh, and the print tech is free. He could, uh, spray the party hat with ninhydrin.

I think I remember how to do my job, Gil, thank you.

Grissom

I love it when you wear your gloves.

[to Nick] Good news is Judge Crawford denied the defense's motion to dismiss.

Nick

Of course he did. She's just a mixed-up kid trying to protect her older brother. All the evidence points to Marlon.

Yeah, and all the jury's going to remember is a little girl in a bloody shirt confessing to murder. That's reasonable doubt on a silver platter.