Mac Taylor quotes from CSI: NY

Detective Lindsay Monroe

[Lindsay is looking up] She was stabbed with an icicle?

Detective Danny Messer

That's cold.

Detective Mac Taylor

Not cold enough. Our evidence is about to turn into a big pool of water.

Sid

Just my opinion, but cyanide seems a lot simpler way to kill someone.

Mac

Murder's never simple doctor.

Stella Bonasera

Did some research on the Hydra.

Mac Taylor

Whoa, research - you're Greek, don't you know all that stuff?

Stella

Even we Greeks have to brush up on our mythology once in a while.

Detective Stella Bonasera

[Reading from a piece of paper the victim had in his sock] "In my darkest moment, when all seems lost, you are at my side."

Detective Mac Taylor

[Coming up from behind] I appreciate you too, Stella.

Mac Taylor

We want a reference sample.

Tony DeLuca

What, so you can put it on some government database? Forget it, I know my rights.

Yeah, we've got rights, too--they're called warrants.

Detective Mac Taylor

You got anything on the railing?

Adam Ross

That's a joke, right?

Detective Mac Taylor

Call it wishful thinking.

Adam Ross

Huh, it's got more trace on it than a public restroom. Actually, I have no idea what I'm looking for here.

Detective Mac Taylor

Sometimes you don't know what you're looking for until you find it.

Adam Ross

[Reads the folder] Mandi Foster? Oh, oh, I love Mandi Foster.

Mac Taylor

We'd like a reference sample of your DNA.

Tony DeLuca

What, so you can stick it on some government database? No way, I know my rights.

We have rights, too. They're called warrants.

Lindsay Monroe

I'm just going to go check on..

Mac Taylor

No, you stay here, Lindsay.

Mac Taylor

They build these balloons in sections and divide them into compartments.

Sheldon Hawkes

Yup, well, that would explain the limp arm.

Mac

The bullet's somewhere inside all that polyurethane. Thought you might wanna do the autopsy. For old times' sake.

Hawkes

(smiling) This job is never boring.

Reed

(To Stella) Are you Claire Conrad?

Stella Bonasera

No

Mac

You mean Claire Conrad-Taylor?...She was my wife.

Detective Stella Bonasera

I think somebody's following me.

Detective Mac Taylor

What makes you think that?

Detective Stella Bonasera

I'm hearing footsteps and seeing shadows and glimpses of something or someone and - [sighs] Look, I know this sounds crazy but I really feel like I'm being watched.

Detective Mac Taylor

This is at your place?

Detective Stella Bonasera

No. No, actually it's, uh, as I go into work, twice on the subway, while I was shopping today.

Detective Mac Taylor

When did this start?

Detective Stella Bonasera

Uh, about a week ago. I first felt it when I dropped off your birthday gift at your place.

Detective Mac Taylor

Well, I'll assign a patrol unit. We'll have some guys outside your place.

Detective Stella Bonasera

No, no that's not necessary.

Detective Mac Taylor

[Mac's phone rings] Taylor. Okay. [He hangs up] A homocide on Lafayette. Come on, I'll drop you off at home, it's on the way.

Detective Stella Bonasera

Nah, no, it's okay. I wanna enjoy every last minute of my day off. Just telling you makes me feel a lot better, okay?

Detective Mac Taylor

Okay, I'll call ya.

Detective Mac Taylor

I'm just asking questions, Don.

No, you're not just asking questions, Mac. Come on, I know you. You wouldn't be here talking to me if you hadn't already tracked the chain of custody, checked with property, and called the DEA agents. And let me tell you something, cocaine from that raid wouldn't last six months on the street. So what is this? My interrogation?

Detective Mac Taylor

You're overreacting.

Well maybe I am, but let me save you a little bit of time - none of my guys took a thing.

Detective Mac Taylor

You can't be sure of that. You weren't there. You just said you didn't remember.

It didn't happen, Mac.

Detective Mac Taylor

You're listed on the DD5 as the recorder on the scene. You had to take everything down in your memo book - every detective who was there, who searched the room, who found the drugs.

You askin' me for it?

Detective Mac Taylor

You can check your notes or you can let me do it.

Is this official business?

Detective Mac Taylor

It's a request, from a friend.

Then I'm gonna have to think about it.

Detective Mac Taylor

Don.

Hey.

Detective Mac Taylor

You know why I'm here.

Do you care about the consequences?

Detective Mac Taylor

I know this isn't easy for you.

I'm not talking about me, Mac. I'm talking about the hundred of arrests this cop was involved in, the thugs who are going to be screaming for an appeal because his credibility's in question, and the ones who are going to go free despite the fact they're guilty and he did everything by the book. I'm talking about child molesters, rapists, murderers.

Detective Mac Taylor

Kym Tanaka's shooter stepped over his body and collected shell casings. He stuck his fingers into the victim's shoulder wound to retrieve a bullet all to save his own ass. He was there to sell drugs, poison, that destroys families, creates addicts out of babies in the womb, and accounts for twenty-three percent of the murders in this city. Don't make me subpena your memo book, Don. [Flack throws him the memo book. Mac walks away, stops, and turns back to Flack] The consequences I care about are the cops who never cross the line who now have to face critisim on suspicion because one of their own forgot the oath we took. Whichever one of these guys is found guilty I hope he goes away for a very long time because he disrespected the badge that you and I wear.

You have to understand, my husband died last year, Heather was all I had.

Mac Taylor

There is nothing about this that I understand.

Mac

(about his father) He spent the last eight months in bed on a feeding tube. Eventually, the medicine didn't do anything for the pain, so one day, he asked me...he begged me to end it for him. I couldn't do it.

Hawkes

You made the right choice.