Mac Taylor quotes from CSI: NY

Danny

We saw a rat with an ear on its back. I'm mean, I've got to be honest, I can handle dead bodies obviously, floaters, old ladies cut in little pieces, but mix and match with different species.

Mac

Now what's the expression? Progress is a great thing, it just went on for too long.

Detective Mac Taylor

He took a genetics course from you, at university last year.

I've had lots of students.

Detective Mac Taylor

But only one helped you steal a body.

Mac Taylor

The way I feel has never affected the way I do my job.

My weakness, I guess. Every hood Truby ever collared is going to be angling for a get-out-of-jail-free pass. Clay Dobson was just the first in line.

Mac

You having a good time, saying I told you so?

No.

Mac

(looking around the work firm) Nice place, Dobson, looks like your father's doing quite well for himself.

Detective Taylor, I was just about to send you a fruit basket. You're the reason I'm out of jail, indirectly, of course. If you're looking for an architect, I think we might be a little out of your price range.

Mac

Adam, I can't afford to be caught off guard with information as critical as this.

Adam

What?

Mac

DNA report on the mover's blanket. Why did I get this from Gerrard and not you?

Adam

G-Gerrard was here when the results came in and he asked me to show it to him.

Stella

Mac, Adam was busy doing something for me.

Mac

There's a lot of data coming in to this lab, I have to be on top of it.

Adam

What was I supposed to do.

Mac

You should've picked up the phone, called me right away.

Stella

Anyone in this lab would have done the same thing. Gerrard's the Deputy Inspector.

Mac

I don't give a damn what his title is. When I'm working a case, information like this comes to me as soon as you get it.

You know, Mac... the uh, the Department decides to go through with their internal investigation, I'm gonna have to answer questions. All I know is what you told me when I got up to the top.

Mac Taylor

Like I told the DA, I did not toss Clay Dobson off that roof. This investigation is nothing but a big political show.

Yeah, regardless, the media's soaking the story up, and by the time they're done with it, your word may not be good enough, Mac.

Lindsay

What about this website? It's encouraging kids to hurt themselves. That can't be legal.

Mac

Contests aren't against the law. Neither is stupidity or bad judgement.

No ID on the vic. Could be a Michael or Gabriel. They say it's tough to make it in Manhattan. Heaven must be brutal.

Mac

Yeah.

Still checking Missing Persons and Nostradamus.

Detective Mac Taylor

I was just wondering. When you were making all those arrests, locking up bad guys, were you imagining a day when you'd be so busy kissing the Chief of Detective's ass you wouldn't remember what it was like to be a cop?

You son of a bitch. I don't deserve that. You know I'm here because...

Detective Mac Taylor

You don't have to explain it Inspector, I get it. You're just a puppet. I'll take my case to the badge that pulls the strings.

Did you just walk out?

Det. Mac Taylor

Apparently I'm the kind of person who just does whatever he wants, why disappoint them?

Det. Mac Taylor

Do you remember your first collar?

Detective Stella Bonasera

Oh, yeah. [Stella snickers] A shoplifter on 43rd and Eigth Avenue. This guy took one of those "I Love New York" t-shirts from the souvenir shop. It was the proudest moment in my life. [Stella laughs] Two days later, I arrested him again in the same store.

I cut off their eyelids. So they'd have to look at me while they died! Okay?

Det. Mac Taylor

Now you're going to look at me when you die.

Stella

Better watch yourself, all this publicity may backfire. Sinclair might just have to make you his Deputy Commissioner.

Mac

I'm very happy where I am, thank you.

Stella

Hm, that's good. Must've been satisfying seeing the look on Sinclair's face when he realized you had him.

Mac

[Seriously] I don't take pleasure in someone else's discomfort Stella. [Laughing] Yes, it was incredibly satisfying.

Peyton

Mac, I was thinking with everything you've been going through and because you adore me, and you do adore me, that you could take some of the seven weeks of vacation and come with me to London.

Mac

You've bought the ticket?

Peyton

(eagerly) I really want you to say yes.

Detective Stella Bonasera

Hey Mac, where're you going?

Detective Mac Taylor

London.