Don Flack quotes from CSI: NY

What about the bag?

Man, I'm a specialist. Strictly cash and jewelry only. I'm not risking my life for some sweaty gym socks.

How much did you get away with?

20 bucks. Plus the watch. Probably like 80 bucks, total.

I'm gonna be honest with you, Arnold. You're probably the dumbest mugger I've ever met.

Why? What was in the bag?

Five million dollars. Those were some valuable gym socks.

No way Arnold did it. He's strictly small time. Muggings. Petty theft.

Sheldon Hawkes

So he robs our John Doe and leaves behind a bag worth five mil.

Yep, I guarantee you he will regret that decision for a very long time.

Wait, you don't blame him, right? 'Cause he wanted to keep it?

I think he was very lucky that he had a girlfriend who pointed him in the right direction.

Yeah, that direction got him killed.

The men who stole those gems placed a tracking device on them. So they were probably tracking Heath's movements. The fact that he was bringing them to us didn't save his life, but it might've saved yours.

Jo Danville

What's with the car?

The original architect had a thing for big-boy toys and drag racing. Been up here 40 years.

Mac Taylor

I had daydreams of owning one well into my 20s.

Jo Danville

I'm assuming yours didn't come standard with a dead body.

Mac Taylor

That wasn't even an option.

(to Flack about her son Craig) His first words were Bird and McHale.

Mine were cookie and cake.

Mrs. Anderson... we're going to find the guy who murdered your son.

That's not going to bring him back, is it? I'm sorry.

It's going to take time.

I don't know the right way to act around people, what to say to them.

No right way to act. Children aren't supposed to die.

I would like to see him, Detective.

All due respect, I don't think that's a good idea. That's not how you want to remember him.

Then, how do I say good-bye?

You don't. Not where it counts.

Jo Danville

What is this place?

Mac Taylor

Transportation Department warehouse.

This is where tired old street signs go to die.

All right, I'll start beating the bushes.

Jo Danville

Hang on. I might have a less obtrusive way. We do have his telephone number (dials and hands her cell to Flack) It's for you. [The phone rings; Flack notices it belongs to the bartender]

Gotcha. [The bartender realizes what's going on and runs away] Less obtrusive?

Jo Danville

Smug little punk. He got off too easy.

I agree. You should have put him under the dumpster.

How the heck did he survive all that time?

Mac Taylor

If you're asking the scientist, I'd say his particular body chemistry metabolized the poison slow enough to keep him breathing. Drinking condensation kept him alive. But if you want my personal opinion, I'd say science didn't have anything to do with it.

It's too bad they all can't have a happy ending.

Danny Messer

It's hard to tell in this place but I am seeing indications of a struggle. And if he took himself out, where's the gun?

Could be under his body.

Danny Messer

(checks) No. No gun here.

Well, I'm no expert but I've seen enough guns in my time to know that they don't just grow legs and walk away.

Danny Messer

No, he didn't commit suicide. Michael Reynolds was murdered. What a life. He gets kidnapped, kept for three years, escapes... only to be murdered 12 years later.

Jo Danville

No other prints to suggest she was being followed.

No... If this was a chase or a blitz attack there'd be signs of a struggle somewhere.

Jo Danville

I don't see it.

Nope. So what, or who was she running from?

Sheldon Hawkes

Ghosts.

Jo Danville

[amused] Dr. Sheldon Hawkes, did I just hear you say ghosts?

You did. Wanna know why? 'Cause that's what he said: Ghosts.

Sheldon Hawkes

A lot of New Yorkers believe this part of the park is haunted. The lake just over there, for years rumor has it, two women have been seen skating figure eights, at night. Rosetta and Janice, sisters, died in the 1800s. Apparently they just glide above the ice, if you get too close they disappear.

[amusedly scared] Shut up.

Sheldon Hawkes

Yeah. Then there was that real estate guy that got gutted by the river just east of here. Oh, and Belvedere Castle, tons of people have heard disembodied voices, and dispatch gets calls all the time.

Teenagers. Doing the nasty.

Sheldon Hawkes

go ahead, poke fun, but this area where we are, right now, some of the volunteers from the emergency medical unit won't even ride in here, they send me. I gotta be honest, there have been times when I felt something.

Jo Danville

a prescence?

Sheldon Hawkes

I dont know.

Doc, come on. You can't tell me, that in your well educated mind, you don't have an explanation for paranormal activity.

Sheldon Hawkes

ok, one night, I heard a woman screaming. I get off my bike, I run towards the sound, the screaming is getting louder and louder, but when I get to where she should've been: nothing. Nobody.

Jo Danville

What do think it was?

Sheldon Hawkes

I don't know. I don't have a rational explanation for what happened that night. Now, it could have been my mind playing tricks on me, or maybe it was the sound bouncing of the trees; but I felt something weird here, and judging by the looks of these shoeprints, maybe our Jane Doe felt something too.

Ah... That better not be poison ivy.

Danny Messer

I'd laugh my ass off.

Danny Messer

Can you believe this? In the middle of the night, and now we have to deal with coyotes.

What is that all about? They've been attacking people in broad daylight too. Between them and the spiders...

Danny Messer

You afraid of spiders?

What? Northern Black Widow spiders, the female's poison, lay you out in two minutes.

Danny Messer

You scaredy cat.

That could be the cause of her death.

Danny Messer

you're a science guy now? Black widow bite would cause vomiting, chest pain, maybe some bad muscle cramps, but is not fatal. Besides, our girl died of suffocation. Not of a little itty bitty scary spider.

[slightly annoyed] Just bag the evidence.