Mac Taylor quotes from CSI: NY

Mac

Judge Spencer owed you a favor? What are you doing, Frank? Listen to yourself.

He killed Luke.

Mac

You're not only jeopardizing the investigation, you're risking your job. Now let us do what we do. If Billy did this, we'll catch him. The right way... no favors.

Check out the prison ink. Our boy has gang ties. 41-6-12 stands for D.P.L.

Mac

Dios, Patria, Libertad. God, Fatherland, Liberty.

Jo

The Dominican National Motto.

Nobody loves a good dismemberment like the Latin street crews.

Benny the Bull. 33 years old. He's got priors for possession, distribution, assault, all kinds of weapons charges. This guy's been in and out of jail since he was 15 years old.

Jamie Lovato

He was one of the subjects on an undercover narco case I was on before I got transferred into homicide.

Mac

What was the assignment?

Jamie Lovato

Infiltrating a crew of local Trinitario gang members, gathering intel for a joint NYPD/DEA task force.

Mac

So, the question is, who did she report to after seeing you?

Let's pick her up and find out.

Jamie Lovato

We can't. I don't know her name.

Mac

But you do know where she was sitting on the bus.

Heard you had a little falling out with Carmen Vega earlier today.

Mac

Young woman made a bad decision, paid for it with her life.

Gallows humor... occupational hazard, I guess.

I'm sorry about Carmen and Benny but if they weren't dead already, they'd be spending the rest of their miserable lives behind bars.

Mac

That doesn't change the fact that we have a murder to solve.

Mac

So you're blaming Benny's murder on Carmen?

Just keeping it real, Detective. Call me Honest Abe. I cannot tell a lie.

Mac

That was George Washington.

Same difference.

Mac

Not your first time with a chain saw?

Lindsay

I'm from Montana, Mac... if I hadn't left, I'd probably be a lumberjack right now.

You got a set of brass balls, Taylor. What the hell is my informant doing in police custody?

Mac

At the moment, he's writing out a confession for the murder of Benny Madera.

Raymond can serve up the Trinitarios on a silver platter. Drugs, kidnapping, murders... all of it. We can take them down... if my star witness gets on the stand and spills his guts.

Mac

Doesn't it bother you that your star witness is a sadistic, cold-blooded killer?

I can live with that, considering what he means to the big picture.

Mac

The only picture I see is of a man fooling himself. You had a responsibility to uphold the letter of the law, not pick and choose the parts that make your job easier!

Hey, I never asked you. How did your doctor's appointment go yesterday?

Mac

He said I'm showing signs of improvement. Sailing through my tests and getting better all the time. Couldn't have done it without you.

This is nice. You, me, a quiet moment. I can see us here years from now sitting on our bench... wrinkly, gray. You'll be all crotchety, of course.

Mac

(Chuckles) What's the fun of getting older if you can't be crotchety?

Lindsay

Foot tread would indicate our vic was kicked in the chest.

Mac

Probably the force that sent him back onto the spike.

Lindsay

Yeah, it's just hard to tell if it was intentional or accidental. The blunt force trauma? Nothing accidental about that.

$10,000. Scary to think what some people would do for that kind of money.

Mac

In your case, you killed for it.

Look, I already told you what happened, all right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was part one of a two-part tale.

I searched him... found the deposit bag, took my money back.

Mac

It wasn't yours to begin with.

Think what you want... but that money was my hope to start over. A hope to meet my kid. He was born four months after I went in.

Yo, you were gonna start over with stolen money?

The sins of the father are the shackles worn by their children.

Mac

Let's hope your son is able to break free.