Mac Taylor quotes from CSI: NY

What are these for?

Mac

I don't think I ever officially thanked you for taking care of me. There is no gift or words that could ever come close to saying how much it meant having you there by my side through those six months. Every single day your smile and your love just pushed me to work harder, and you... you lifted my spirits. So... two dozen roses: one for every week you took care of me.

All right, enough of the mushy stuff. Let's go and eat. I'm starving. You know I have favorite places all over the city. Which one are we going to?

Mac

(Struggling to remember the name of the restaurant) Well, you know, the one with the, uh, the dish that you like.

Oh, let's see, that narrows it down to about 50 places?

Mac

You know... th... the one with the, uh, stuff. The one with the chef who, uh, you always ask him what the recipe is and he always leaves out one ingredient.

Oh, Piccolo! The truffle rigatoni with vegetable and sausage!

Mac

Yes.

Mac

Well, I think it's hanging off your arm.

Mac

(Addressing a young officer) Answer it, just say hello.

Hello? (To Mac) It's for you, Detective.

Mac

(Grabbing the phone) Taylor.

Sorry about the lack of hospitality Detective, I wasn't expecting guests.

Jo

Oh my God, Mac. Looks like those pipes were the source of the heat. Someone turned this elevator into a boiler.

Mac

Somebody turned this elevator into a torture chamber.

What's his endgame here, Mac?

Mac

Whatever it is, Leonard Brooks had 15 long years to plan it.

Turns out Brooks has no known friends or associates, which doesn't shock me, having met the man.

Mac

He's independent and self-reliant. Makes him even more unpredictable.

Press is wrong about me, you know?

Mac

Don't like being called a monster?

No, that part is accurate. I am a monster, but please tell those reporters my victim was anything but innocent.

Jo

For years, Leonard Brooks has suffered from sudden impulse control disorder, compelling him to start fires, but he did it to cause property damage, never to cause bodily harm or to take a life.

Mac

So, why does his M.O. suddenly change? And in such an extreme fashion?

Jo

Because, clearly, the relief that he got from starting fires no longer had any value.

Mac

So torture and murder is his new drug of choice.

Jo

And when his emotional need shifted, he needed to find another means to satisfy it.

Mac

Brooks stuck around to see his plan in motion.

Looks to me like the bastard enjoyed the show.

Mac

Subpoena his CPS records.

Jamie Lovato

Oh, they're on their way already. I motivated the file clerk with a couple meatball subs from Romeo's.

If nothing else, Lovato, you got damn good taste in Italian.

Mac

It won't be easy connecting the dots without knowing Rita Lowman's real name.

Jamie Lovato

That's why Flack's going to help me. And since I still don't have a desk, looks like we'll be using yours.

Mac

I like her.

Yeah.

Mac

You were expecting Jimmy to save you?

He was just so big. He was like an adult. He looked like one of the guys in the comic books, like some kind of superhero.

Jo

But he wasn't a superhero. He beat you, too, didn't he, Leonard? Afraid that if he didn't, he'd suffer the same fate.

When I think about it, though, Mother was smaller, yet it always hurt more coming from her.

Mac

(To Leonard Brooks) All those fires, and the one that got you caught, the one that put you away, is the one where you went back in to save an innocent woman.

Jo

You did the one thing no one would do for you: come to the rescue.

You think I chose to be like this?

Mac

It's the events in our life that shape us, but it's our choices that define us, and you made the wrong choice, Leonard.

Uh, damn, take it easy cop. Why are you so agro?

Mac Taylor

Sorry. I'm not from around here.