Mac Taylor quotes from CSI: NY

Mac Taylor

If this is gonna work we got to trust each other. The DD-5 documenting Grace Travers recanting the I.D.... I saw you looking at it. Damaging to the case... you thought maybe I wouldn't file it?

Jo Danville

History has a tendency of repeating itself.

Mac Taylor

What happened in D.C. is not a part of my history.

Mac Taylor

Uncovering mistakes made by your lab and alerting defense counsel was part of your oath. Still is.

Jo Danville

Tell that to Senator Matthews. I still get letters from him blaming me for the outcome of his daughter's case. The mistake I uncovered was made by a guy named Frank Waters. Impeccable reputation. I worked with Frank Waters for 12 years, Mac. I went to his wedding, his kids' birthdays. So when I discovered he destroyed a document detailing a mistake he made interpreting DNA results, trust became just another word and Serena Matthews' rapist went free.

Mac Taylor

You had to make it public.

Jo Danville

It was a decision I don't regret making and I'd make it again.

Mac Taylor

Jo, my team does not sacrifice integrity for a desired result. Now that you're part of it, I promise you you'll never have to make that kind of decision again, okay?

Mac Taylor

What were you thinking, Paul? You were getting even? That killing your parents was somehow gonna settle the score for them testifying against you?

I was just a kid.

Mac Taylor

You were 18 years old. You were old enough to be held accountable for your actions.

They betrayed me.

Mac Taylor

No, no. You betrayed them. You think it was easy for your parents to do what they did? Your girlfriend, Sarah... they were just supposed to let her go through life knowing you raped her and got away with it?

The woman who went to the hospital... she survived? She's gonna be okay?

Mac Taylor

No. She lost her husband, her son lost his father and she's gonna have permanent brain damage. So, no, she's not gonna be okay. You had an opportunity to get out and make something of your life, Paul. Instead, you destroyed another family.

Mac Taylor

I'm sorry you had to go through that, Billy.

Yeah. I get it. You were just doing your job, I guess.

Mac Taylor

You know, sometimes we lose sight of how hard it is to be called a suspect.

Billy. Who's this?

Mac Taylor

My name is Mac Taylor.

Have you met my son Billy?

Mac Taylor

I have. You have a good son, Mrs. Travers. You're a very lucky woman.

(about Panthro Torres) Guy wakes up a big shot, ends up a shish kabob.

Mac Taylor

A lot can change in one day.

Torres was the leader of El Puño so this was likely a hit by a rival gang.

Mac Taylor

That means El Puño's gonna want blood.

Jo Danville

From what I've heard, these aren't two-bit, three-block dope dealers.

Mac Taylor

Far from it. They control East Harlem.

Drug trafficking, extortion, murder for hire, name it. El Puño's a one-stop shop for all bad things.

Jo Danville

Whoever killed Torres is gonna have a mark on their head.

Mac Taylor

Well, we got to find them before the streets do, or it's going to be war.

Jo Danville

Torres' death leaves a void at the top of his crew, so I thought I'd look at his replacements might be able to avoid a street war if we can talk to them. So I'm gathering this as I go. Seems, Torres was the face of this crew, but Lisa Brigosa... she's the brains and Rick Devarro is the street muscle. Although, given his penchant for getting arrested, Rick's not too bright.

Mac Taylor

There's one other. Luther Devarro.

Jo Danville

Any relation to Rick?

Mac Taylor

His older brother. Founder of El Puño, but more of an advisor at this stage of his career. I helped put him away 15 years ago. He was released last week.

Jo Danville

Gasoline on the fire.

Mac Taylor

It's one thing to be a street guy, another to be smart. But it's dangerous when both those qualities are embodied in one person.

Next generation. Teach them a little respect.

Mac Taylor

You've been away for a while. Things have changed.

Question is: for better or worse? In our time, it wasn't about guns. It was the knuckle game, remember? I had snap in my shoulder. I hit you, you were hurting.

Mac Taylor

What I remember is you beating a rival gang member to a pulp. That's what put you away.

Defending the neighborhood. This place has always welcomed me with open arms.

Mac Taylor

So did El Puño. What you started only got stronger when you went away.

Yeah, no thanks to you. Every couple of months, I'd find one of my men in the mess hall.

Mac Taylor

Didn't want you to get lonely.

This your way of paying condolences? Last time I checked, it was one of my men who had holes burned into him.

Mac Taylor

And killing more people is going to make it right?

What's the alternative, turn it over to the NYPD? Cops like to see us as defendants or, better yet, deceased.

Mac Taylor

Doesn't have to be that way.

I didn't make the rules.

Men can reason all they want. Machines got minds of their own.

Mac Taylor

I want your assurance that this is not the beginning of a war.

I hear your concern but I can't make that assurance.

I'm good. I'm pissed. Hazel Ortega got shot in my custody.

Mac Taylor

And they would have killed her if you didn't get off some shots. There was nothing you could do. This was an organized hit and she was the target.

Sheldon Hawkes

Two shootings. Same signature.

One gang, El Puño.

Jo Danville

So Torres' murder wasn't a rival hit by the Mambas; it was an inside job.

Sheldon Hawkes

So, just like a snakehead, someone in El Puño's eating their own.

Mac Taylor

I want to talk to each one of their power players. Lisa Brigosa, the Devarro brothers, Rick and Luther and Fernando Flores. Each one of them is either a potential suspect, or a potential victim.

Mac Taylor

You're a man of reason, Luther. Come out, give yourself up.

It's too late for me, Detective. I never intended to create something violent. It was never about drugs and guns, money and power. When they put me away, all that changed. Torres, Lisa and my brother! Took what I created, just a group of guys trying to watch each other's back, taking care of their neighbourhood and they turned it into some criminal enterprise.