Mac Taylor quotes from CSI: NY

Mac

Shoot to stop.

Sid

Hmm?

Mac

What you're taught at the academy. Fire in bursts of twos and threes.

Sid

Yet here we have a single gunshot wound to the chest, almost perfectly placed. Bullet lodged in the heart.

Mac

Could mean Officer Cooper kept cool. Took an opportunity. Lucky shot in an unlucky situation.

Sid

Of course, he may not have had a gun at all, Mac. In which case, she fired by mistake and killed an unarmed man.

Mac

Run me through it, Danny.

Danny

All right, so, uh, we... came here for a drink after shift, just to blow off some steam. The guy in the white shirt, he's a sloppy drunk.

Mac

This was the victim?

Danny

Yeah. He got aggressive with Cooper. She said, you know, she told him to back off. He was reluctant to leave. So I showed him the door.

Mac

You identify yourself as a policeman?

Danny

No, Mac, I mean, the guy was wasted... I show him my shield, it makes things worse. The guy was a jerk. And I didn't give it a second thought... till a few hours later. Next thing I know, I'm looking up into the sky, my off-duty piece is in Cooper's hand and this guy is dead.

Mac

Why did Officer Cooper have your weapon?

Danny

I was the only one carrying.

Mac

It was three men that jumped you?

Danny

That's right, three of them. Foley and Cates, they start fighting with them. Vic pulls out a nickel-plated revolver.

Mac

Well, you didn't see that, Danny... you were unconscious.

Danny

That's what my people are saying.

Danny

I see what this is. It's an officer-involved shooting, talking three-ring circus... those cops are the main attraction, right?

Mac

Not just them. You're their supervisor. You were in the bar. Somebody got shot. The gun is missing. Bosses will want someone to answer. You're the one with the stripes, Danny. Get ready.

Criminal court judge assassinated in front of a sequestered jury, right under the nose of a half a dozen cops.

Mac Taylor

Brazen son of a bitch.

Mac

Triple murder in front of this bakery a year ago.

Danny

Markov... he's like the Sammy the Bull of Russian organized crime. That's why we got a dozen bodies on him.

Mac

Looks like it just went to a baker's dozen.

Any comment on your number two, Jo Danville, dropping the ball on the original D.C. rape case?

Mac

The FBI lab tech who mishandled the evidence blew the case. As for Jo Danville, I'll take her courage and integrity over official misconduct every time.

Has she been excluded from the New York case because of political pressure from Senator Matthews?

Mac

The decisions I make have nothing to do with political pressure from anyone. I do what's best for the case. And what's best in this case is Jo Danville sits this one out.

The assassination of a judge is no small thing. You've got a lot on your plate. Hope it's not too much.

Mac

Always have a lot on my plate. That's the nature of the business.

(About John Curtis) I've seen this animal walk away from what he's done once before. I will not tolerate any dragging of the feet on this.

Mac

No one in this lab knows how to drag their feet.

(About Jo) I don't want her anywhere near this thing.

Mac

I already made that call. But I want you to know it has nothing to do with Jo Danville's abilities. If my daughter were attacked, I'd want her investigating the case.

Mac

Your little visit to Mr. Curtis wasn't a very good idea. I hope you got whatever it was you had to say off your chest.

Jo

I did. Thanks for not making a big deal about it.

Mac

Most of these camps are privately owned, for profit operations. The state pays a fee for every kid sent there.

Jo

Yes, a very generous fee. So for the two years after Nelson buys it, Judge Corsica sends twice as many kids to Forest Brook than any other Juvenile Court judge.

Mac

More kids, more money.

Mac

You know you can't be doing that. You shouldn't even be within ten feet of that evidence.

Jo

John Curtis is posting bail as we speak. I can't sit back and watch this case fall apart.

Mac

The case isn't yours, Jo. It's Lindsay's. She'll be the one to go back over the evidence and you should get some distance.

Jo

You know John Curtis is not just another bad guy to me. I can't pretend this is business as usual.

Mac

Yeah, I get that, it's personal. All the more reason why you should step away.

Mac

Ali didn't just lie about the GHB, she lied about when she was beaten, too.

Lindsay

Mac, she's lying about everything.

Jo

(About John Curtis) Why would he agree to come in and then not be willing to talk?

Mac

He's willing to talk, just not to me. He specifically requested you.