“Harvest” quotes from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Brass

[to April Perez] I bought it the hell we all bought it. But your sister was already dead when you raised that alarm. Her body told us that. There was no sexual assault. The evidence told us that, too. So you didn't think this through, sweetheart. So what are we left with? A false police report and a murdered little girl. So it's one to four for the Amber Alert. And for your sister, life imprisonment if it's an accident, and the needle if it's not.

I didn't kill Alicia.

Brass

But you know, I get it. I get the picture. I mean, your brother's the center of attention. He's sick, he's dying. Your cells don't match. Your parents have Alicia. She's his savior. So, where do you fit in? What are you to this family?

I'm invisible.

Brass

But not anymore you're not. She's dead, and your brother's sick. When he goes...

That's crazy, okay. I told you, I didn't kill my sister.

Brass

I want to believe that. Come on. Help me to believe that. It just means you were in on it because you put on one hell of a show. You still using?

No.

Brass

Maybe we should run your blood just to be sure, huh?

I use now and then to take the edge off.

Brass

So how do you pay for this habit? Are you pimping your sister for drugs, April?

Why don't you make up your mind? No signs of rape. If I was selling my sister, there would be, wouldn't there?

Brass

Depends on who you sold it to. You're not gonna talk your way out of this one. You need to get clean.

What I need is a lawyer, which means this conversation is over.

[to Catherine about Alicia] You have no idea what it's like.

Catherine

I saw her medical records. I looked at her x-rays. I know what that little girl suffered, what you put her through.

So you would let your child die and do nothing. Never. No, you'd talk to doctors and research. And then you'd find out that the National Bone Marrow Registry can't help you 'cause your son is mixed race. And even if he wasn't, there aren't enough donors. Out of four million, only 205,000 are Latino. I did what I had to do.

Catherine

You put one child over another.

[scoffs] I don't expect you to understand. You don't have kids.

Catherine

Uh, I have a daughter.

So, what kind of mother are you? When do you see her? You work nights. You probably don't even know where she half the time. Alicia's life may not have been simple, but at least I knew her. Can you say the same?

Sara

[sees two pill bottles] Daniel Perez is taking oxycodone for pain, and Alicia was on diazepam.

Warrick

Diazepam? That's a pretty hard-core antidepressant for a kid that small.

Sara

I guess they didn't want her complaining while they were mining her body for healthy cells.

Brass

[to Carlos Perez] Wasn't Alicia part of your family? You're her father, you dumb bastard! You're supposed to protect her. What kind of man are you?

Guilty.