Mac Taylor quotes from CSI: NY

Mac

(about the missing flash-drive) I didn't take anything.

Yeah. Well, a word to the wise, Detective. Before you use that weapon of yours to start taking pot-shots at politicians, better make damn sure there isn't another one pointed right at your head.

Detective Stella Bonasera

[walking into his office] Mac, where the hell did you go last night? I called you repeatedly, looked all over the street. You just vanished.

Detective Mac Taylor

I was with the FBI... They picked me up in a car and questioned me for over an hour about the Ann Steele case.

Detective Stella Bonasera

The fixer with the flash drive.

Detective Mac Taylor

I was the last one who handled it. They accused me of stealing it.

Detective Stella Bonasera

What?

Detective Danny Messer

[standing atop the Empire State Building] I thought the view from Liberty was nice!

Detective Mac Taylor

She's about eleven-hundred feet below us.

Was it worth it, Greg?

What? You think I was in on it? Well, you're wrong. Dead wrong. Carl was like family.

Detective Mac Taylor

What was your cut? Did you get the money yet? How much did they pay you to sit by and watch while your family fried in the back of that truck?

I already told you I couldn't get out of the cab! I tried to call it in, but the radio didn't work!

Isabel Vaughn was a ungrateful little bitch. After all I did for her she though she could just walk away? We had a contract and it was legally binding.

Mac

So is a murder conviction.

Stella

(about George Kolavos) The man is taunting me, Mac. He sent me a dead rat as a message. Put yourself in my shoes.

Mac

Try stepping into mine. I'm in charge of this lab, responsible for everyone and everything that happens here. I admire your passion Stella but what you did is reckless. And more importantly, it could compromise any future criminal prosecution.

Stella

What I'm doing is perfectly legal!

Mac

And contrary to the policies of this lab and this department!

Mac

(seeing the table set with a variety of foods) Tell me this is not one of your weird cravings.

Lindsay

Only for science.

Mac

You were looking for me?

Lindsay

I was hoping to offer you a little a snack.

Mac

Well let me guess. This is another one of your famous reconstructions.

Lindsay

Just put one of these berries in your mouth and swab it around for a couple of seconds.

Mac

Lindsay I'm your boss, not a guinea pig.

Lindsay

Mac, I'm pregnant. Just humour me.

Stella

Hawkes should have followed proper protocol but he stepped over the line because somebody he loved got hurt by this guy.

Mac

Oh c'mon, you know I know that.

Stella

I know. Just... I want you to hold on for a second. You gotta realize that people can't just turn off their emotions when something horrible happens.

Hawkes

So what do you want me to do? Just ignore the fact that Colin's sweat is on our murdered victim's clothes?

Mac

The reason we follow FBI DNA protocol is to ensure an unquestionable conviction.

Hawkes

So we sit in here waiting for that perfect scientific connection while Colin could be out there raping and killing another innocent victim? I don't know about you, Mac but I can't live with that.

Lindsay

How does a worm from Brazil end up in a bathtub in Brooklyn?

Mac

Worms are like humans. You wanna know exactly where they came from, you can sequence their DNA.

Lindsay

We are talking wormtopsy.

Lindsay

Hey, but coincidences happen. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, they both died on the same day exactly 50 years after signing the Declaration of Independence.

Mac

Stella.

Stella

I hear you, Mac.

Mac

Sheldon, you knew the samp didn't meet FBI protocol or this lab's standards. It could give you a false lead. We could end up bringing someone completely innocent. These results are circumstantial at best, and then you go and have Adam run the DNA anyway? I removed you from this case because you're personally connected to it. What were you thinking?

Hawkes

Mac, Colin Clark was in possession of a rape victim's necklace. His DNA on Eleanor's blouse proves he was near or on her body, he could be our killer and the rapist from eight years ago.

Stella

I realized that the evidence is circumstantial, but couldn't we still bring Colin in?

Mac

If we bring Colin in based on the results and don't have anything else to throw at him to get a confession, he could lawyer up, leave town.

Hawkes

So what do you want me to do? Just ignore the fact that Colin's sweat is on a murder victim's clothes?

Mac

The reason we follow FBI DNA protocol is to ensure an unquestionable conviction.

Hawkes

So we sit in here waiting for that perfect scientific connection, while Colin could be out there raping and killing another innocent victim. I don't know about you, Mac, but I can't live with that.

Stella

Mac...

Mac

Look, don't... try to defend him.

Stella

I'm not. Hawkes should have followed proper protocol, but he stepped over the line because somebody he loved got hurt by this guy.

Mac

Oh, come on, you know I know that.

Stella

I know. Just, just... I want you to hold on a second. You gotta realize that people can't just turn off their emotions when something horrible happens.

Mac

That's exactly why I pulled him off this case.

Mac

Det. Angell is working this case until IA is finished with their enquiry.

Danny

Enquiry? Is that what they're calling it?

Stella

They can't possibly think that Flack's responsible for Todd Fleming's death. I mean, he is so by the book. He doesn't even swear.

Stella

(about Carolyn) She is not telling the truth.

Mac

She is terrified.

She should be. You know about an hour ago this place was probably filled with at least 30 young girls just like her from all over. Eastern Europe, Latin America. They took their big dreams and now they're living a very real nightmare: they're sex slaves. Being beaten, drugged... who knows what else.

Mac

Every single police officer in this city devotes their life to the protection of the people who live here.

Really? Besides the ones that are sitting in their asses right now?

Mac

I respect everyone who stands behind their convictions, but I can not stand men who are motivated purely by greed and the destruction of others.