Mac Taylor quotes from CSI: NY

How sure are we it's the same guy?

Mac Taylor

Sure as I was before.

So, I hear you've got a primary suspect. Somebody you're familiar with?

Mac Taylor

Michael Reynolds, missing person 15 years ago. I handled the case.

Complete whack job?

Mac Taylor

Well, he was held against his will for three years, physically and emotionally abused the whole time. It affected him, if that's what you mean.

Your stunt at the press conference didn't stop him from killing this guy, did it?

Mac Taylor

Michael had a brother... Tom Reynolds.

Lindsay Monroe

Mitochondrial DNA from the hair was a match to Michael.

Mac Taylor

Mito's shared by all maternal relatives, including brothers, so it would also be a match to Tom.

Lindsay Monroe

So he's our shooter. Why?

Jo Danville

Off to one side, unnoticed. Everyone else around him is celebrating Michael's return. Tom is just standing there.

Mac Taylor

Emotionless, neglected.

Lindsay Monroe

So you're telling me he starts shooting people 'cause he didn't get enough hugs and kisses from mommy and daddy?

Lindsay Monroe

He murdered his brother, then he goes on a shooting rampage. Getting to that point cannot be that simple.

Jo Danville

No, it's not. It's usually a preexisting condition, a genetic anomaly of some sort that renders them susceptible.

Mac Taylor

Nature combined with nurture.

Mac Taylor

It's over, Tom! Put down your weapon! I know what happened to your brother!

You don't know anything!

Mac Taylor

I know what happened to him. I was there. I know what happened to you.

You don't know anything. No one knows what that's like living in a hole! Abandoned. Ignored. No one knows what that's like!

Mac Taylor

Killing people won't change that!

Look around you. What's going on. All of this is because of me! Because of what I'm doing!

Mac Taylor

There are other ways, Tom!

I've tried all the other ways. Nothing changes. It's just the same! But now? Now it's different. People will know me. They'll know my name. They'll know my face.

Danny Messer

Yo Mac.

Mac Taylor

Let me guess, she gave you a full confession, our job is done.

Wouldn't that be nice. No, she still won't say a word.

Danny Messer

But, something I found at the crime scene is speaking volumes. Piece of glass from one of those window lamps, actually had human flesh burnt into its surface. Had a hit in Codis to a Pascal Denton. Now, he is the StoneFields window display designer.

Turns out, before he was a designer, he was a regular at Rikers. Did six months for assaulting a police officer.

Mac Taylor

Any connection to the victim?

Danny Messer

Well we found his prints on a rode iron branch used as the murder weapon, and on top of that Groseman fired him a week ago.

Mac Taylor

gives him motive. Still doesn't explain how Elena fits in.

No, but this will. She and Pascal got engaged six months ago.

Mac Taylor

so all this time we thought she was there alone with Groseman, maybe her fiance was there too.

Don't say anything. It's just better of you don't say anything.

Mac Taylor

the victim's inside?

The owner. Gino Cressida, was his son's sixth birthday. Witness' just say a clown walked in a wasted him.

Mac Taylor

And when you showed up, the arresting officers had these guys contained? [nodding to suspects]

Yeah. Now, some of these costumes are way off, but they happen to match the description witnesses gave of the shooter they saw walk across the street and disappear down the alley.

Mac Taylor

So one of these clowns might actually be our killer.

Danny Messer

[After talking about evidence] ok... one more thing, do you wear sneakers inside clown shoes?

Mac Taylor

Are you seriously asking me that question?

Danny Messer

What, no good? What the hell do I know about clowns?

Mac Taylor

Look, I'm a bright man Danny, but I'm afraid I can help you with that one.

Jo Danville

Hey.

Danny Messer

Jo, do you wear sneakers inside clown shoes?

Jo Danville

I don't know, I don't own any.

Danny Messer

Clown shoes?

Jo Danville

Sneakers.

Mac Taylor

Danny, get out of here.

Mac Taylor

What happened here Don?

This was a truck party gone bad. It's the latest craze in afterhours entertainment. They convert tractor trailers into exclusive nightclubs. Times and locations are spread among the social networks.

Mac Taylor

I'm assming this one didn't start at the bottom of the Hudson?

Jo Danville

I thought the truck was not supposed to move once the party started.

It's not.

Mac Taylor

So who moved it?

Couple cabbies nearly got runover, but they didn't get a good look of the drivers face. They did say that he accelerated through the fence. The abscence of skid marks confirms that there was no breaking.

Mac Taylor

Driver could've drowned. Or still be among the survivors.

Jo Danville

we have divers in the water looking for more bodies and the others are being transported to the precint for questioning.

My guess; driver saw that river coming, jumped before splash down, then got the hell out of dodge.

Mac Taylor

Either way, looks like crashing this party wasn't an accident.

I got what the system couldn't. Justice.

Mac Taylor

What you got was retribution.

Aren't they the same thing?

Mac Taylor

Not even close.

How did she get here without getting caught?

Mac Taylor

Buildings on either side are abandoned. No one has been up here for years.

What the hell was she doing in here?

Mac Taylor

Looks like Tessa was living here.

Whoa...[They find a wall plastered with Newspaper clippings, polaroids of people, masks...] I don't think the elevator goes to the top floor, if you know what I mean.

Jo Danville

Its amazing.

Mac Taylor

Somewhere in here is the answer to what Tessa was trying to tell me.

A lot of sex going on in this room. Apparently VIP room means something else.

Mac Taylor

Well, sex isnt a crime, murder is. We need to find blood.

Bingo.

Mac Taylor

The splatter suggests a gunshot wound. Tessa was right.

Mac Taylor

Significant blood loss. She couldn't have gone far. She was murdered right here in the school grounds.

Usually you tell your kids to be careful coming home from school, not through it.

Mac Taylor

Since when were Stalin, Khrushchev, and Beria ingredients in water?

Lindsay Monroe

Never...

Sheldon Hawkes

I don't think there's 1947 calories in it either.

Jo Danville

Where did that water bottle come from?

Sheldon Hawkes

Vics' backpack.

Mac Taylor

[Looking at the water bottle closely] Heh, Multiple Choice. 1-T-D

Lindsay Monroe

1947. TD. Truman Doctrine.

Mac Taylor

2-M-P

Jo Danville

Marshall Plan.

Mac Taylor

3-N-S-A

Lindsay Monroe

National Security Agency.

Mac Taylor

National Security Act, Agency wasn't formed until 1949. Everything on this bottle has been replaced with information pertaining to the Cold War.

Jo Danville

All the answers to the test. It's a cheat sheet.

Sheldon Hawkes

That's impressive.