Don Flack quotes from CSI: NY

Lindsay

Bartender have any idea who did this?

Nope. He didn't even know there was an altercation, another customer found the vic when he came in to take a leak.

Lindsay

Did you just use 'take a leak' and 'altercation' in the same sentence?

What do you want from me, Flack? It's like I told you, I'm standing on the corner when I see the guy. He's staring right at me. I'm thinking 'you got to be kidding me? That's the guy.' He gives me one of these stupid grins, he books, I chase after him, I call it in. Five minutes later, you're right behind me.

Mac

Casey's just walking down the street?

Yeah.

And what? He's wearing a shirt that says 'I just escaped from Pennsylvania State Prison, and I all got was this lousy T-shirt?'

We don't know who our killer is. We don't know who our victim is.

Jo Danville

And our crime scene could be anywhere in the world.

Unless what?

Jo Danville

Well, the sympathetic nervous system is responsible for your body's reaction to stress and right now, there's no question you're under a great deal of that. So you're gonna need to really figure out how to alleviate that somehow.

How about by telling us the truth, Torrey?

Jo Danville

It's a matter of your personal safety.

What the hell kinda mind games are you playing, lady?

He didn't do it. He doesn't have it in him to do something like this.

Okay, Jules, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Everyone has it in them to do something like this. Everyone.

No. Not Billy.

How long have you been going out?

Five months.

Five months? I usually like to wait at least six months before I can attest to somebody's lack of homicidal tendencies.

You're kind of a bitch, you know that?

[to Manny Ravarra] We're here about a homicide that was committed last night in Jamaica Estates. Couple was bludgeoned to :death.

Danny Messer

And we don't make you for it. In fact, we have an eyewitness who says it wasn't you.

All right.

Danny Messer

But your cell mate, he says you did it. Said you were bragging about it.

But Owen Hicks is looking to get out from under a robbery charge that will most likely send him upstate for the next 15 years, so...

Danny Messer

Yeah, not the most reliable source. We figured we'd come here, lay our cards on the table, give you an opportunity to respond.

Let me see if I got this right. My crackhead cell mate gives me up for a murder that an eyewitness says was committed by someone else, and you two drop by here to give me the opportunity to say that I didn't do nothing? I got that right?

What about it, Manny?

What about it? Sometimes crackheads actually tell the truth.

Danny Messer

So what are you saying?

I'm saying your eyewitness is wrong. I killed that couple.

(sitting in the sidewalk) I can just picture Manny Ravarra, sitting the cafeteria with a stupid grin on his face, eating a bologna sandwich, gloating to the other inmates how two mope detectives are knee-deep in crap for absolutely no reason.

Danny Messer

(coming out of the sewer) Actually, I only see one mope detective down here. You want to join me?

I don't do sewers. It's like he said... he's doing life, he's got nothing to lose, so why not jerk us around?

Danny Messer

He was even dating the prom queen, Sarah Dufresne.

Apparently dating her wasn't enough (reads from Benson's file) "I told him I wanted to wait, that if he loved me, he would respect that I wanted to wait. He grabbed my arms and pinned me down." One minute he's Harvard bound, next he's Rikers bound.

(about Panthro Torres) Guy wakes up a big shot, ends up a shish kabob.

Mac Taylor

A lot can change in one day.

Torres was the leader of El Puño so this was likely a hit by a rival gang.

Mac Taylor

That means El Puño's gonna want blood.

Jo Danville

From what I've heard, these aren't two-bit, three-block dope dealers.

Mac Taylor

Far from it. They control East Harlem.

Drug trafficking, extortion, murder for hire, name it. El Puño's a one-stop shop for all bad things.

Jo Danville

Whoever killed Torres is gonna have a mark on their head.

Mac Taylor

Well, we got to find them before the streets do, or it's going to be war.

I'm good. I'm pissed. Hazel Ortega got shot in my custody.

Mac Taylor

And they would have killed her if you didn't get off some shots. There was nothing you could do. This was an organized hit and she was the target.

Sheldon Hawkes

Two shootings. Same signature.

One gang, El Puño.

Jo Danville

So Torres' murder wasn't a rival hit by the Mambas; it was an inside job.

Sheldon Hawkes

So, just like a snakehead, someone in El Puño's eating their own.

Mac Taylor

I want to talk to each one of their power players. Lisa Brigosa, the Devarro brothers, Rick and Luther and Fernando Flores. Each one of them is either a potential suspect, or a potential victim.

Recognize our robbery vic?

Mac Taylor

Roland Carson, defense attorney.

I prefer scumbag lawyer but, yeah, that's him. Body belongs to Melvin La Grange. He was a drug dealer whose hobbies include murder and extortion.

Mac Taylor

Let me guess, scumbag's client?

Mac Taylor

What were they after?

Cash, stock certificates and get this. $5 million in precious gems and jewellery. Carson was keeping them for a client in his private safe.

Mac Taylor

It's not so safe after all.

Got any bad habits, Arnold? For instance, I crack my knuckles. It used to drive my mom nuts (his knuckles crack) Some people pick their nose, chew with their mouths open, use a pen knife to clean their fingernails in public.

So what? That's a crime now?

No, Arnold, that's not a crime. It's disgusting, but it's not a crime. Unless, of course, you use that same pen knife to mug someone.