Don Flack quotes from CSI: NY

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

Mac

Too smooth.

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.

I recognized your number on the vic's caller I.D. I know it was you on the other end of that line. The phone log shows you called the vic 17 times today, all within a few hours of the poor bastard being cut in half.

Jamie Lovato

Look, I didn't do anything wrong.

Convince me.

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.

I never would have pegged you as an undercover. I guess that's kind of the point though, isn't it?

Jamie Lovato

Yeah. Kinda.

Jamie Lovato

You know, the view inside wasn't what I expected. After a while, targets stop looking like targets and they started looking like... ordinary people.

Ordinary people who sell drugs to kids and solve their problems with a chain saw.

Jamie Lovato

Boys like that get recruited as young as nine. Now, that's not an excuse for what they grow up to become and things that they do. They join 'cause they want to feel loved, accepted, safe. Things they don't feel at home. Things I didn't feel at home.

You found a better way.

Jamie Lovato

I got lucky.

Cochina!

Hey! Moron, one more word out of you, and I'm gonna duct tape your mouth shut.

L, want to talk about it?

Jamie Lovato

No.

Hey, come on, you're gonna have to come clean with me sooner or later.

Jamie Lovato

Is there something that you want to know? Go ahead. Ask me.

All right. Your relationship with Benny was more than professional, wasn't it?

Jamie Lovato

Go to hell, Flack!

From where I stand, it looks to me like you're taking Benny's death a little more personal than maybe you should.

Jamie Lovato

Damn right I'm gonna take Benny's murder personally.

Because you had feelings for him?

Jamie Lovato

Because I owe him my life.

How'd he make you as a cop?

Jamie Lovato

He never told me. He didn't tell anybody else either. Because if he would have, I would've been hanging in that warehouse right next to him.

So the whole time you were busy playing Benny, he was busy falling in love with you.

Jamie Lovato

That's why I was relieved to walk away. Different time, different place, something might have happened between us. But my job means more to me than just about anything. So if you think for one second I would do anything to jeopardize that, you're crazy.

Jamie Lovato

Do you want to tell me why you're really here?

I was wrong to assume that you crossed a line with Benny. You're better than that. I was a total jerk. I'm sorry.

Jamie Lovato

What you really want to know is if I slept with him. To clear the air... no... I didn't. Relieved, aren't you?

What? Why?

Jamie Lovato

I think you're jealous.

I think you're delusional.

Jamie Lovato

(Walking up to him) Maybe. Maybe not.

It's getting late. I should probably go.

Ten grand was taken off of our vic.

Jo

So he was robbed.

Yeah, kinda.

Jo

How do you kinda rob someone?

You leave $5,328 behind.