Mac Taylor quotes from CSI: NY

Detective Mac Taylor

[Noticing Reed walking into his office] Reed.

Reed Garrett

[Walking into Mac's office] Mac, um, I told them I was family.

Detective Mac Taylor

[Walking over to Reed] You okay? What's Wrong?

Reed Garrett

[to Mac] I knew Brian Miller, the kid you found in the maze. We worked on the college paper together. We were friends.

Detective Mac Taylor

[to Reed] I'm sorry. Look, I can't say much about the case right now.

Reed Garrett

[to Mac] I get it, I just, I wanna tell you what i know.

Detective Mac Taylor

[to Reed] Okay.

Reed Garrett

[to Mac] Um, well he's under more stress than the usual,you know? He was spending all his free time writing, writing this piece for the college paper, he's been writing it for the last year and a half. He said that it was his Watergate, You know? It was something that was gonna put him on the map.

Detective Mac Taylor

[to Reed] Sit down. So uh, do you know what this article was about?

Reed Garrett

[to Mac] It was about kings and shadows.

Detective Mac Taylor

[to Reed] What's that?

Reed Garrett

[to Mac] A rumor, it's a society that exists on campus. Like a fraternity. Minus the keggers and the pranks yeah, it's really, it's dark stuff.

Detective Mac Taylor

[to Reed] So it's like a cult?

Reed Garrett

[to Mac] Yeah, written by blue bloods,you know? At least that's what people believed. Brian said he was, that he was gonna get inside. He was gonna expose all their secrets. He said that the article was gonna piss off a lot of people.

Detective Mac Taylor

[to Reed] Did you ever read what he wrote?

Reed Garrett

[to Mac] He wasn't finished.

Detective Mac Taylor

[to Reed] And you think someone wanted to make sure that he wouldn't.

Reed Garrett

[Nodding his head] Yeah.

Detective Mac Taylor

Absynthe spoon, a branding, a brutal beat down.

Dr. Sid Hammerback

I'll take Cult Rituals for two-hundred.

Detective Mac Taylor

I don't think so. Kid doesn't look the part. We have reason to believe he went to Chelsea University. [pause] What is a fraternity hazing gone bad?

Detective Mac Taylor

[Finding out a pen was filled with blood instead of ink] Who writes in blood?

Adam Ross

Lawyers, college loan administrators...

Mac Taylor

I think we have a suspect.

I love this job.

Peyton

Your vic died of a broken heart...cardiomyopathy, most common in women in very passionate relationships.

Mac

I'll be very careful.

Thought you had the night off.

Mac

My dinner date dumped me for a dead body.

Danny

So she comes in, drinks some champagne and takes a bath.

Peyton

Just like the fairy tale.

Mac

Only this Goldilocks isn't sleeping. She's dead.

I thought this was your night off.

Detective Mac Taylor

[referring to Peyton at another crime scene] My dinner date dumped me for a dead body.

Well, Noah was taking these people for a ride, but it wasn't on the Ark. His flock all tested negative for GSR, and they've asked me if they can get back on the good ship looney- tunes before Sunday, because that's when the world's ending. I told them they could re-board when the crime scene's clear, but what I really want to do is throw them all in the shower and then a rubber room.

Mac

They're not crazy.

Stella

It just happened. I was putting a piece of bloody glass into an evidence bag. It was still wet. It just broke, cut me. (quick flashback to cutting her arm) I had no idea at the time that Emery Gable was HIV-positive.

Mac

Stella, why didn't you tell me?

Stella

I thought I could handle it on my own. I'm scared, Mac, I know there are a lot of people living with AIDS, and I just... I don't think I have the strength to do that. I don't think I'm brave enough to wait for a cure.

Mac Taylor

(hands Danny a lighter) You want to do the honors?

Danny Messer

Are you lighting your arm on fire in the name of science?

Mac Taylor

What other job allows you to set your boss on fire? Going once, going twice...

Danny Messer

(takes the lighter) Sold, but if you go up in flames, I get your office?

Stella

She was alive when he cut her in half.

Mac

Something tells me this girl wasn't a volunteer from the audience.

Mac Taylor

You ready for the answer?

Stella

Whatever the outcome, I am bound and determined to live every day to the fullest.

Peyton

(about the victim being alive) I'm the one who pronounced him dead.

Mac

Based on what?

Peyton

Based on eight years of training and eight more years on the job. I haven't forgotten how to tell if a victim is alive or dead, Mac!

Detective Mac Taylor

He took a genetics course of yours last year.

I've had a lot of students.

Detective Mac Taylor

But only one of them helped you steal a body.