Mac Taylor quotes from CSI: NY

Mac Taylor

This case has been sitting on the edge of my desk for the last nine years.

You got a new lead?

Mac Taylor

No.

Is the chif asking about it?

Mac Taylor

Nope.

Then, whats up? Why you looking into it now?

Mac Taylor

No reason.

Mac Taylor

We processed this thing when the crime occurred and we never got a second donor. Why would it be different now?

Sheldon Hawkes

Well, I used a different genetic analyzer. Every instrument varies in sensitivity. If I ran it through a third one might not pick it up but this one did. Machines. Sometimes there's no rational explanation for why they do what they do.

Natalie Dalton

I suppose you read the reports... the... the ones that the police made that night. I was a different person back then.

Mac Taylor

Ms. Dalton, I'm not here to judge you. Based on what I've read here, you're a mother who's never given up hope, and I admire that.

Mac Taylor

How did Olivia end up in that bodega alone?

Natalie Dalton

I was more interested in getting loaded than taking care of my baby girl.

Mac Taylor

The bodega was just around the corner. She [Olivia] went to get you some aspirin.

Natalie Dalton

And when I woke up a couple hours later, she was gone. I went through the entire building, knocked on every door, went through the streets screaming her name. I haven't had a drink since that night. That's what it took to open my eyes. But it was too late.

Mac Taylor

It's never too late.

Natalie Dalton

You've been looking for these men for nine years. What makes you think you're going to find them now?

Mac Taylor

Olivia.

Mac Taylor

I want a last name for Wes.

I couldn't tell you. We... we just met a couple weeks before the robbery. I barely knew that guy. After it all went south, we figured the less we knew about each other, the better.

Mac Taylor

I want the girl, Olivia. Tell me where she is.

I don't know.

Mac Taylor

Well, then I don't know where you might end up. I'm thinking maybe, uh, New Mexico right now. How about that?

Mac Taylor

This writing style is very unique. Look at the I's. Exaggerated slant. Alternating capital and lowercase letters between words. Someone may be able to recognize it.

Adam Ross

I'm not sure I follow.

Mac Taylor

We use it like a missing persons billboard. Instead of a face, we use this. 'If you recognize the handwriting, call the NYPD tips line.' That kind of thing. See? Out of the box thinking. Get it out to every media source you can think of. I want it on electronic billboards, too.

Adam Ross

All over the state?

Mac Taylor

The country.

Mac Taylor

Olivia Dalton. That's your name. You're from Queens, New York. Your mom's name is Natalie. Remember? I saw her just before I came here. She wanted you to know that she never forgot about you. She never stopped looking for you. She never stopped hoping that you were out here somewhere... alive. She loves you, Olivia.

(About Wes) He loved me, too. My father loved me.

Natalie Dalton

Thank you. Both of you for all that you've done. (Jo motions for Natalie to go join Olivia) Is... is that her? (She peers inside the office) She's beautiful. Can I go...?

Mac Taylor

Of course you can. You're her mother.

Jo Danville

Why didn't you say something about what happened to you on that roof? You put it in the paperwork, but you didn't tell anyone. Why?

Mac Taylor

I'm still trying to wrap my head around a few things, Jo. I've eluded death on many occasions, but this time it was different. It was staring me right in the eyes.

Mac Taylor

What am I doing? How much longer can I do this?

Jo Danville

So that's why you went back to the bodega homicide, the last unsolved case. You wanted to see if you could find some closure.

Mac Taylor

I've done a lot of good.

Jo Danville

Yeah.

Mac Taylor

Maybe I've done my part.

Mac Taylor

I'm going to the opera tonight. Claire, would you hand me one of those things?

Claire Taylor

No, who are you going to the opera with?

Mac Taylor

John from the Robbery Squad.

Claire Taylor

John from the Robbery Squad? You're going to the opera with John from the Robbery Squad?

Mac Taylor

Yeah, that's right, he's an opera buff. Claire, would you hand me...?

Claire Taylor

I've been asking you to take me to the opera for I... I... I don't even know how long, and now you're telling me that... (She finds two opera tickets in the cotton swabs container) Nicely done.

Mac Taylor

John from the Robbery Squad is going to be very disappointed.

You lost your wife on 9/11, right?

Mac Taylor

Yes, I did.

Did they...? Was she ever...?

Mac Taylor

No, no, she was never identified.

Was she the...?

Mac Taylor

Claire. Her name is Claire, and the victims are not just DNA profiles. They have names.