Mac Taylor quotes from CSI: NY

Dr. Peyton Driscoll

[after inviting Mac to go with her on a trip] But 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.

Detective Mac Taylor

You've bought the ticket?

Dr. Peyton Driscoll

[whispering] I really want you to say yes.

Detective Mac Taylor

They belong to the gang we took down this morning. They're here for their coke.

Detective Stella Bonasera

What are we gonna do?

Detective Mac Taylor

Stop 'em!

Our vic's this way. Floater, showed up in the middle of the sailboat race between New York and New Jersey.

Danny

I read about that. It's a reenactment of a race that happened back in the 1600s.

Mac

Yeah. Legend has it the winner got possession of Staten Island

Is it too late to give it back?

Danny

Yeah, very funny, Flack!

Danny

(as he gears up to go into the water) A graveyard for subways? What happened, they run out of landfill or what?

Mac

(laughs a little) Cheaper to sink ‘em then scrap ‘em.

Sheldon

And the subway reefs provide a marine life sanctuary.

Danny

Yeah, well screw the fish. Hope it provides us with a crime scene.

Mac

Holden surfaced right here in the harbor. We're here. Subway reef is right under us. And we're gonna focus on the old Redbird transit cars. They're the ones that contain asbestos. It's dark down there. We got tidal currents, rocks and reefs to deal with.

Danny

Let's look on the bright side. We're not gonna worry about sharks.

At least tell me what he said?

Mac

What who said?

The guy about me dying tomorrow.

Mac

Well, I'm sorry, that's part of an ongoing investigation.

This morning you said he'd been to the future. Did he say how or where or when I'd be killed?

Mac

Again, unless you have some information to share that might shed some light on our victim, I don't see what else we can do for you.

How about guaranteeing me I'm still alive in 24 hours!

Mac

There are safer ways to beat the traffic.

Stella

Oh, traffic I can handle. Men are another story.

Mac

What is it?

Stella

(opening an envelope) Hmm. Gift certificate for a skydiving lesson. Met this guy in an antique store and then bumped into him again... at a coffee stand. And suddenly he wants... to hold hands at 10,000 feet. So he sent me a parachute.

Mac

Original and daring.

Stella

And a bit too aggressive for me. What?

Mac

You were smiling when you opened the box.

Stella

(chuckles a little) Mac, my last boyfriend tried to kill me and I shot him.

Mac

Well, maybe this guy's a little different. Why don't you just run him through NYSPIN?

Stella

Actually, I already did. There are three Drew Bedfords in the city. One is 96 and lives in a rest home. The other is in juvie for painting boobs on a billboard. And my original endearing friend is, uh, squeaky clean.

Mac

You and I are alike in a lot of ways. We both do everything we can to avoid this sort of thing. Sometimes you just gotta take the plunge.

Stella

So you're telling me to fall for all this?

Mac

Stella, Peyton pursued me. I never thought I'd enjoy another relationship either. Forget about all the risks of romance and enjoy the rewards.

Mac Taylor

(Speaking for his female avatar) Hi. I like the name. (pause) I love waterfalls, don't you?

Stella Bonasera

(Laughing) Oh, my God.

Mac Taylor

What?

Stella Bonasera

You have no game whatsoever.

Mac Taylor

Look, I don't need a backseat avatar.

Stella

All right, then move over. Come on. Before your suspect bails. (takes the headset in his place on the game) Hey, Don. Sorry about that. I was, uh, distracted by a phone call. My name's Taylor. What do you say we get outta here and go for a walk?

Mac

I hate zombies.

Stella

Yeah, they spoil all the fun, don't they?

So Stella told me your mysterious caller disappeared.

Mac

Haven't got a call at 3:33 a.m. in over a week.

Maybe your guy decided it was time to stop stalking you.

Mac

Maybe he's getting ready to take it to the next level.

Amber Stanton

(during her interrogation) Whenever I see a useless piece of human trash walk away without consequence, I feel violated again... Bentley was smiling... Kaplan was going about his life as if nothing had happened...

Mac

So you became a predator? A killer?

Amber Stanton

I think of myself as an arbiter of justice.

Hawkes

Crime of passion?

Mac

That's one possibility. Or... she's the inside guy? They planned this robbery together, but before she got her cut...her partner double-crossed her.

Angell

[Handing Mac an artist's representation of the killer] Here's our killer. It's all the information we were able to get from our witnesses.

Mac

So, we just need to find everybody with two eyes, a nose, and a mouth?

After hitting a few bars, I went back to Brett's apartment and that's when I found him. I started to call the cops, right? But it's not like there was anything I could do. He was already dead. I had to get him to the park.

Uh, y-you're gonna have to help us out here, pal. Why did you have to get Brett to the park?

It was a bet. He was engaged twice before, couldn't go through with it. I bet our buddy Toby that Brett would definitely show up this time. There was no way I was gonna lose.

Mac

Whoa, whoa. You stuffed, dressed and moved your dead friend for a bet?

It was a hundred grand, man. I...I don't have it. And if I didn't pay up, Toby would have gone to my dad.

It never occurred to you, with your friend being dead and all, that just maybe the bet was off?

I told you.

Yeah. Fifteen shots of tequila. I heard you.

Yeah, well it made... made sense yesterday morning. I feel bad. If you knew Brett, Brett, (laughs a bit) Yeah, I mean, he, he would've laughed. He would've done the same thing, I'm telling you.

Detective Mac Taylor

That's the Riverton building. That was my first crime scene.

Adam Ross

No way.

Detective Mac Taylor

This way my first New York apartment. This to scale?

Adam Ross

Uh, y-yeah. As-as far as I can tell.

Detective Mac Taylor

This high-rise should be much taller in relation to the Chrysler Building.

Adam Ross

How could you possibly know that?

Detective Mac Taylor

I got engaged on that roof. This puzzle's about my life.

What made you think you'd find anything at all? You specifically asked to visit an unoccupied floor. You flashed your badge, said it was police business. Now, it doesn't sound to me like you were looking for office space.

Mac

I was sent here. I don't know why or by whom, and I don't know who the victim hanging from that ceiling is or how it connects to me.