Mac Taylor quotes from CSI: NY

Don't look so smug. It ain't over yet.

Mac

Ah, let's see, osso bucco in a nice red wine sauce, porcini mushrooms...

And you wonder why the public likes us better. You guys are so cocky.

Mac

Oh, come on, Curtis. Your boys have won the last five. I'm tired of buying you dinner.

So, how you been? You feeling all right?

Mac

Yeah. Yeah, I'm good. The last six months have felt like five years, but it's good to be back. I appreciate you coming by the hospital every week. That meant a lot.

Ah. Least I could do. Well, how's Christine? Please tell me you haven't screwed that up.

Mac

No, no. It's great. She's great. Mary and the kids?

(Scoffs) I screwed that up years ago. But she loves me. What can I say?

Nice and slow. One step at a time. You okay? You need to take a break?

Mac

I can't remember what happened. The thing. I... I can't picture it in my head. At all.

Mac

You don't have to do this, you know. Come here every day.

(Holding his arm as he walks down the hospital hall) Nice and slow, one step at a time.

Mac

I hate you seeing me like this.

Well, you better get used to it 'cause I'm not going anywhere.

The guy who died, the fireman, he was a friend of yours? I'm sorry. I'm sorry he died.

Mac

Yeah, you're so sorry you went back to the scene during his funeral. You couldn't even let us have that.

You're right. That was poor timing on my part.

Mac

How'd you light the fires, Leonard? Some kind of time-delay device, huh? How'd you do it?

I'm not gonna conjure fire from thin air, Detective.

Do you smoke?

Mac

No.

Drink? I trust you've never experimented with heroin or crystal meth? Addiction. That's what it is, an addiction. Only there's no chemical in my bloodstream weaving its way through my body. The poison coursing through my veins is psychological. And the antidote can't be found in a bottle of pills.

I don't want to do what I do, Detective. Every day, every hour, I battle with my mind. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. And I've won that battle for the last 15 years.

Mac

Yeah, I'm... I'm confused. You waiting for some kind of applause here? You want me to cry?

I have just as much incentive to figure out who set that fire as you do. Someone clearly wants to frame me, someone who has waited a long time for me to get out, but would prefer that I stay caged up in that cell.

Mac

And you might know who that someone is?

I'm offering my services. As a... arson investigator... if you will.

Did you find anything here? Either inside or next to the hole in the floor?

Mac

One of my investigators found some kind of melted metal.

About the size of a dime?

What was it, Leonard?

Have I not earned your respect enough to not treat me like one of your project thugs?

You don't have even one ounce of my respect.

Which is precisely why I'm not gonna tell you what it was. You'll use it against me.

You're suffering from what's called anomic Aphasia. When you were shot, it appears that for a time, your brain was deprived of an adequate supply of oxygen. It's likely that this caused damage to a particular area of your brain. We'll have to do more tests to determine the extent of it.

Mac

I'd rather no one else know.

Of course.

Mac

How long do you think it'll last?

Some cases are temporary. It diminishes and even disappears with time and therapy. Many times, I'm afraid, the condition is permanent.

You see that fire right there? That's what happens when cops don't take care of business.

Mac

(Pins her against a car) Come here!

What the hell are you doing?

Mac

I'm taking care of business. You're under arrest for assault and resisting arrest.

Mac

This valve is normally locked in the on position. Someone broke the lock and turned the system off. Then, after the fire started and before FDNY got here, someone turned it back on.

What, you think Leonard suddenly grew a conscience?

Mac

Maybe he had one all along.

Thank you for treating me like a human being.

Mac

We don't know any other way.

Hey, I know it's been a rough couple of weeks and I don't want to sound selfish but I'm having withdrawals. For six months I'm with you practically 16 hours a day,and now, lately, it'd be easier to get an audience with the pope.

Mac

Yeah, but the pope isn't taking you to your favorite place for dinner.