Mac Taylor quotes from CSI: NY

Lindsay

Do you believe in luck?

Mac

Well, uh, Seneca said: luck is the intersection of preparation and opportunity.

Lindsay

Well, then opportunity just knocked.

Heading home, detective?

Mac

No, no, I gotta get back to the... the, uh...

The lab?

Mac

(Chuckles) The lab, yeah. It's been a long day.

Mac

They found the avalanche.

Adam

Oh, great. Where?

Mac

Impound. You parked in the red zone. Next time, put the placard in the window.

Mac

Martian probe launched by the Russians in 1988. They lost track of it, but... looks like one piece of it found its way back home.

Adam

Yeah. Animal sounds, car horns, the word earth recorded in 37 different languages, 1988's top ten hits. This was Russia's interplanetary greeting card.

Her classmate, Alexa Holdman, discovered her when she was practicing one of those twirly things.

Mac

A pirouette?

Like I said, a twirly thing.

All right, I may not be the owner of a wonderful white lab coat, but it sounds to me like you're saying somebody strangled her, then strung her up.

Mac

Why hang somebody who's already dead?

Mac

No one else was in the... (Unable to remember the word) ...the, uh...

Building? No.

I'm sorry I didn't... I didn't return your calls. I didn't know what to say.

Mac

I understand why you're angry with me, Christine.

I'm not angry. Um... hurt, uh, confused... a little embarrassed. I realized I'd been acting like a teenage girl, you know? Butterflies in my stomach 'cause I'm so excited to see you, fighting the urge to text message every minute... making a lot more of this than... than what it is, so I'm going to take a step back.

Mac

No, I don't want you to do that.

Why don't you tell me what's wrong? Why are you shutting me out of whatever it is that you're going through?

Mac

That's not what I'm doing. This isn't... about us.

Oh. Oh, okay. I get it. It's none of my business.

Mac

That's not what I'm saying.

Mac, the problem is that you are not saying anything.

Mac

You... you make me very happy. I'm just... struggling with...

You can tell me. You know, all those nights that I sat by your bedside in the hospital, it wasn't because I felt some obligation. I was where I wanted to be. I sat there day after day, praying... because I wanted... I needed you to recover. Mac, you can trust me.

Mac

I can't... I can't remember things.

Mac

(To Lindsay, who has been pranked into getting blue ink rings around her eyes) That brings out the color in your eyes.

Lindsay

Thank you.

It meant a lot, you, um, opening up to me last night.

Mac

I wish it wasn't so hard for me.

Yeah, I know that. But I want you to always feel you can come to me, be honest with me, no matter how hard it is. I'm tougher than you think.

Mac

I know how tough you are.

I want to help you, Mac.

Mac

Someone's playing a game with us. Mrs. White. Conservatory. With a rope.

Lindsay

Lisa Weston had red hair, and she was killed in Hell's Kitchen with a revolver.

Jo

Miss Scarlet in the kitchen with the revolver.

Lindsay

Holy crap.

Mac

It's Clue.

Can... can you just tell me what you're looking for?

Mac

I think you know what we're looking for.

Actually, I don't, so can you please just tell me? Because I'm a little scared here. Obviously, this has something to do with Luke.

Harvard would be lucky to have someone as smart as you.

Kid's pretty smooth. He's got an answer for everything.

Mac

Too smooth.