Mac Taylor quotes from CSI: NY

For every NYPD salary we no longer pay, we can hire three new civilians. You do the math, detective. The phrase is: bottom line. Three people for one.

Mac

If lab security is vulnerable, every piece of evidence we process can be called into question. What's the bottom line on that?

I understand your frustration. I get orders from the top, just like you. I don't have to like them, I just have to make them happen.

Stella

Looks like James Sutton fashioned himself a real Indiana Jones.

Mac

Until someone made this his last crusade.

That was my life.

Mac

That wasn't your life, this is. And for the next twenty five years, that life is the property of the New York State Department of Corrections.

Mac

So why is half the lab out in the hall watching you fly paper airplanes?

Adam

Um... uh... you know, that's a good point. And, um, I'm going to walk away and work and hopefully save my job.

Adam

(nervously) Was it, um, the paper airplanes? Or-or the-the dancing? It was the dancing, wasn't it? I mean I don't-I don't have to dance. And look, I know I say "what up" a lot, and I'll definitely limit the number of times that I say it, but you just need to tell me, boss, what I need to do and what I don't need to do and I'll do it, or I won't do it but you know 'cause this-this is just--

Mac

Adam, Adam. Take a breath.

You'll have to excuse the mess, we just had the place fumigated. (sees a roach and puts his briefcase down right on top of it) Clearly, they did a bang-up job. But uh, I guess it's just as well, we come from the same species, right? What, you don't like lawyer jokes?

Mac

I don't like lawyers.

Detective Danny Messer

[Enters Mac's office] Yo, Boss.

Detective Mac Taylor

Danny, what's up?

Detective Danny Messer

I put in for that vacation next month.

Detective Mac Taylor

That's right, the, uh, trip to Costa Rica.

Detective Danny Messer

Yeah, Costa Rica. Well it fell through, so you can put me back on the schedule, alright?

Detective Mac Taylor

Alright, I'll do that. Just let me know when you wanna take the time.

Detective Danny Messer

All right, thanks.

Detective Lindsay Monroe

[Enters Mac's office] Mac. Hey. Remember that wedding in Italy I told you about in March?

Detective Mac Taylor

Girlfriend from college?

Detective Lindsay Monroe

Very good. Well, they decided to postpone. So.

Detective Mac Taylor

You want back on the schedule?

Detective Lindsay Monroe

Yeah.

Detective Mac Taylor

[Suspicious look] No problem.

Detective Lindsay Monroe

Thanks.

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes

[Enters Mac's office] Hey, Mac.

Detective Mac Taylor

Hold on. Don't tell me. Trip to San Francisco in January?

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes

Yeah. Turns out San Francisco is closed in January. Strangest thing.

Detective Mac Taylor

[Smiling] Get out of here. Go home.

Detective Mac Taylor

I should've known you'd orchestrate something like this.

Detective Stella Bonasera

It's only temporary. Everybody giving up a week of paid vacation for Adam buys him a little time.

Detective Mac Taylor

Department doesn't just transfer vacation days. How'd you do it?

Detective Stella Bonasera

I've a friend at the Union who has a friend in the City Council who has a friend who has a friend.

Detective Mac Taylor

Well you're a good friend, Stella Bonasera. And don't you forget that. So what about Buenos Aires?

Detective Stella Bonasera

Would have been a good trip.

Mac

So let me get this straight. People take the time to put down their darkest secrets and then they send them to someone they don't even know. Two questions: why and why?

Lindsay

They say confession is good for the soul.

You always so confident and sure of everything?

Detective Mac Taylor

99.2% of the time.

Mac

Look, I completely understand the frustration you're feeling.

You're kidding me right? I mean, I get a call about an hour ago from somebody telling me that I need to report to this precinct because someone's trying to kill me. And you understand my frustration. [Mac looks away uncomfortably] Sorry, I didn't get your name. I'm sure we'd all like to know the name of the officer who understands our frustration.

Mac

It's Detective. Detective Mac Taylor.

Danny

Maybe this time they broke in to dump a car.

Mac Taylor

And a few spare body parts.

Mac

We may be guilty of creating an uban legend, but there's no way this building is guilty of murder.

Danny

Alright. Well if the Empire State Building didn't do it, what did?