Mac Taylor quotes from CSI: NY

Mac

You are a very attractive woman and your husband was just an average guy. Would it be fair to say that you were more interested in a Green Card than a marriage certificate?

(tearing up) It would be offensive to say that.

Mac'

Lindsay will be back before you know it, Danny

Danny

(about Lindsay) I asked her to marry me, Mac. Did you know that? She told me no. Said I was just asking her because she was pregnant.

Mac

Was she right?

Danny

No, I mean I... I dunno, Mac... I love her, I do. I know that, but I just know myself and and I don't wanna disappoint her... or the kid.

Mac

Those fears are normal, Danny. I know that because I felt the same way with Claire. All those doubts about who you are and what you're capable of. I wasn't in a hurry to have children with Claire. I always felt that in the end I might disappoint her or myself. Now she's gone and it's something I'll always regret for the rest of my life. Danny, God brought you and Lindsay together. I believe that. And you have been blessed with a gift. The greatest gift that life has to offer. You can choose to live in a place of fear or you can believe in the best version of yourself.

Sid

(standing over a decomposed body) The last 15 overdose cases Pino worked. I had them exhumed.

Mac

(taking a good look at the corpse) You're the doctor, but isn't this one a few organs short?

Sid

Two kidneys, one bladder, and a liver to be exact.

Mac

All the organs where narcotics naturally accumulate.

Sid

And each of these bodies is missing the same ones.

Mac

It appears as if Marty Pino was able to produce heroin by cutting out and processing key organs from his assigned overdose cases. He used his training and this place as his own personal heroin pipeline. Only after he lost his job and access to dead junkies, he resorted to murder. (camera pans back to reveal the room is filled with bodies)

Stella

I just got off the phone with the Museum of the American Indian in Battery Park. They are gonna take in all of Chief Delaware's collection.

Mac

So the Montiquan Nation lives on.

Stella

It's funny, you know? We ride trains, share sidewalks, row boats with so many different kinds of people in this town from some many different places and sometimes we don't notice a culture until some is gone.

Mac

In order to be a true New Yorker you gotta keep your eyes, heart, and mind open at all times.

Mac

What kind of killer photographs his crime and then e-mails it to the cops?

A showoff. Someone who thinks he's smarter than us.

Mac

We're about to prove him wrong.

Mac

Dana Melton changed her name to Odessa and moved from Boston to Manhattan to start a new life. Baxter followed her here, started stalking her again, but this time, instead of turning to law enforcement for help, she took matters into her own hands.

Stella

She killed him and I taught her how.

You don't know what I've been through. I was so scared. I tried to start over to change everything. I know you don't understand, not really.

Mac

I do understand, Dana. I understand it all, but I have to arrest you anyway. It's the toughest part of my job.

I thought I did everything right.

Mac

You came very close. You had a good teacher. You left no prints, no DNA, no witnesses. Just circumstantial evidence.

Hawkes

In fact, without a formal confession, it will be very hard to win a conviction.

People believe what they read, Taylor. And after I'm done with you, you know what they're gonna know about you? They're gonna know what you really are. A lab rat with a little chip on his shoulder. Trust me, you are not equipped to win this war.

Mac

The Mayor can't save your son. Neither can your money. At least you got what you wanted. Tomorrow's headline.

Mac

Walsh went out the window.

So he was just collateral damage. Just like the property clerk.

Mac

Dunbrook thought he could play us from the very beginning. He thought he could buy this town. Buy the support of the police department when he ended the Blue Flu. And his own brand of justice along with it. Now he's got us cornered. It's time to fight back.

Perhaps there's someone you want to honor?

Mac

My father

(about the cache of Holocaust possessions) So, you say you found these items hidden in your murder victim's apartment?

Mac

Along with a lampshade that DNA confirms was made of human skin.

Comprised of various tattoos that were sewn together?

Mac

The commandant of Buchenwald's wife would order Jews to line up naked, and when she saw a tattoo she liked, she had the skin removed and tanned to be made into lamp shades for her home.

Two years ago, I heard about one that was traded on the black market for over $10,000

Mac

(about the auction) Anyone hear a gunshot?

Everyone I spoke to said this room was in a feeding frenzy. The only thing they heard was the sound of some rich guy getting ready to dump six-hundred large on a necklace.

Hawkes

On a piece of jewelry?

Mac

Guess some people are recession-proof.

Stella

Mac, I know I was wrong to keep investigating the case after you told me to step down. I'm sorry that I made it difficult for you and for the department.

Mac

This isn't about my job or the department. It was difficult because I care about you.

Lindsay

What?

Mac

What are you doing here? Where is Lucy?

Lindsay

She is in ballistics, analysing stria. (They both smile) Look, I have been here exactly 2 hours, I'm leaving in 40 minutes, I just wanted to fill in a few blanks in the case. You are paying me to work part-time, besides this lab would fall apart without me. (They laugh again)

Mac

Your son was minutes away from testifying against you in the grand jury. I swear to God, if you had something to do with this, you better hope that somebody other than me comes to arrest your ass.

(venomously) You're a piece of work, Taylor. My son was abducted at gunpoint and now you're threatening me. It's nice to know the NYPD has a victim's best interest at heart.