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Danny Messer quotes from CSI: NY

Played by Carmine Giovinazzo · 467 quotes · page 18 of 32

Danny Messer

Played by Carmine Giovinazzo

CSI: NY · 2,123 quotes

3rd most-quoted character in CSI: NY: in 467 of its 2,123 quotes
Most scenes with: Lindsay Monroe (127), Mac Taylor (60), Don Flack (54)

Scenes with Danny Messer 390

(about their burn victim) Face with no name is simply a face. And your victim's helmet preserved his quite well, but it hasn't helped me make an I.D. Yet.

Danny

To think I ever opposed the helmet law.

Well, not so fast. That skull bucket also contributed to what killed him.

Danny

You mean, it wasn't the fact that he was on fire with a high speed impact with a fire truck?

Imagine your victim catches fire. A helmet starts to fill up with toxic fumes. He panics, struggling to get it off, which only increases the rate of smoke inhalation. Result was direct toxicity to the cardiac muscle.

C.O.D. was smoke inhalation.

And death was near instantaneous.

Danny

What about the stab wounds?

Turned out to be minor injuries inflicted with a meat thermometer.

Danny

Whoa. Wha'? A meat thermometer? Who stabs somebody with a meat thermometer?

Cannibal? It's anyone's guess. Severity of charring was significantly greater above his ankles than below...And based on the degree of trauma to the bones, I'd say your human comet's rate of speed was at least 80 mph at the time of impact.

Danny

80?! What was he doing to be moving that fast?

Now keep in mind that I'm simply a pathologist, but the injuries to this victim, well frankly, they appear consistent....with him re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. Now until you come up with some evidence that says otherwise, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

SPSandra Polk

Demon and I had an interesting relationship. Rivals from afar, I guess you'd say. I heard what happened to him.

He was wearing a suit just like yours when he died. Do you have any idea where he got it?

SPSandra Polk

Word got out he broke a 100 miles per hour. So I sent him a suit, along with some ceramic bearings.

Danny

It's awfully nice of you to send a gift to someone who just broke your speed record.

SPSandra Polk

My record's official. His wasn't. But I was curious to see what he could do with some real gear. An even playing field.

Danny

Did you ride Graveyard night before last?

We walked that stretch of road. We found one of your wheels melted. It had accelerant all over it.

Danny

It's the same juice that sent Demon to hell.

SPSandra Polk

All right. I went out there. My sponsors would kill me if they knew I was racing unofficially. But I just wanted to see if I could match Demon's speed on the same course... I got up to about 96. Then I flamed out.

Danny

Anyone out there to see the sparks fly?

SPSandra Polk

No. I didn't want anyone to know I was there.

Why not?

Danny

‘Cause you were nervous that you'd lose your title, right? That prize money and endorsements on the line. You didn't want to get burned by the underdog. So you decided to burn him first and send him a spiked suit.

SPSandra Polk

Look, I don't have a clue who killed Demon. But I can tell you one thing. It wasn't me. You guys think we're just a bunch of street-happy skate punks. But this sport is my life. The last thing I'm gonna do is screw it up by taking someone else's.

Detective Danny Messer

Why'd you run when I badged you?

MMercury

[as if it's obvious] Street racing is illegal.

[Danny laughs]

Fire department was en route to a structure fire on 49th when this thing...

Danny

Thing?

That's what they called it. Came flying at them like some flaming meteorite. Slammed right into the windshield.

Danny

Fire came to the firemen, it's gotta be a first.

Danny

Hey Linds! (walking up to her, with a tray of test vials)

Oh, Danny! They're beautiful! Nothing says you're special like centrifuge tubes filled with DNA samples.

Danny

I'm not gonna live this down, am I?

Forgetting my birthday? Probably not. Where did you get these?

Danny

Adam found more blood samples on the knife. There was a piece of shrapnel hidden inside the handle. You run the blood he found on the hilt?

(turning, a little upset) Yup, came back non-human. Send it to serology for protein analysis.

Danny

Lindsay, come on. Guys, we are not wired for remembering dates, okay? We remember sports stats and then steak sides, that sort of thing, all right?

(sighs and turns back around) Steak sides? You are so busted!

Last night was just sex. Before my son died, you were just a guy that I smiled at in the hallway and joked with at the mailboxes. What are we doing?

Danny

(cupping her face in his hands): Making each other feel better because Reuben's gone. There's nothing wrong with that. (kisses Rikki).

Danny... One day you're gonna wake up and realize that Ruben's death wasn't your fault. Yes he was with you when he was shot but it was an accident. And me, can't you see, I'm just taking advantage of the guilt you feel so that I don't have to be alone.

Danny

I don't care. I don't care cause I just want this hurt to go away. Don't you?

(Rikki nods her head, Danny kisses her again)

I really should go...

Danny

Ok, but this is my shirt and I'm gonna need my shirt back, okay. Before you go...

(Danny starts to unbutton the shirt and kisses her again, Rikki gives in)

Danny

I'm gonna get some coffee, you want some coffee?

No, thanks.

Danny

How long are you gonna stay mad at me, Linds?

Oh, is that what this is? Me mad at you?

Danny

Is it still about missing your birthday?... Look, I didn't want to go to lunch yesterday. Why do you have to make a big deal out of it?

(bitingly) Do me a favor, Danny, don't reduce me to some shallow clingy girlfriend that's starting to suffocate you, OK? That's not what this is about! Ever since Ruben Sandoval died, I feel like I've lost my best friend. And don't mistake this for jealousy ok, I know what it's like to lose someone you care about, to see them one day and not see them the next and to know you'll never see them again. I would never expect you not to grieve, but clearly you've just decided to do it all on your own... OK, I get it (stands up to leave). My mistake for thinking that you might need somebody to lean on. And you know, for the record, I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at myself because I've fallen in love with you and I have to figure out how to let that go. (leaves the room almost in tears)

(formulating on the board) Silicon Dioxide plus four molecules of hydrofluoric acid produces...

Danny

Oh me, me, me, pick me! (takes a marker and writes on the board).

That's cold, man.

Danny

(has written N(e)R(d)! on the board)

(assessing the chemicals from the trashed office) Phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid. He couldn't have kept the keys in the English room?

Danny

Which one of those you think melted this guy's face off?

Hydrofluoric acid. Highly lethal. Trace amounts of this on the skin can dissolve and eat it away without you even knowing it.

(observes Danny looking at lipstick samples) Need help picking the right shade?

Danny

Ha, ha, ha, that's just it. Unless the make-up counter at Bloomie's is selling mood lipstick, this partial print we got from the vic's mouth seems to have changed color. It started out pink.

And now it's amber.

Danny

Means the efflorescent crystalline residue we're looking at is atropine trace.

Well, that explains the color shift. So which cheerleader wore it?

Danny

And if she had poison on her lips, why isn't she dead too?

Hey.

Danny

(in his apartment) Hey, where are you?

I'm taking a rain walk. It's a Montana thing. You wouldn't understand.

Danny

Yeah, maybe I would. Maybe there's a lot of things that...that I understand now. How about that?

Yeah, like what?

Danny

How sorry I am for pushing you away.

Danny, I tried to give you your space, but I don't know how much longer I can feel alone. It's messing with my work. It's breaking my heart.

Danny

I know, no; I know, I do. I swear to God it won't happen again. 'Cause the truth is...truth is I miss you... I miss you more than I can say even if, uh, I don't know how to say it.

Do you have any idea how hard you are to love?

Danny

(smiling) Why don't you come over here and tell me in person? Please.

(stops walking for a moment) I gotta go...

(during the autopsy post)

Any stomach contents?

Like you wouldn't believe. At least two hotdogs, popcorn, nachos, peanuts, an ice-cream sandwich and almost a full liter of beer.

Danny

I'm surprised he could get out of his seat!

What's even more surprising is the traces of phentermine I also found in his bloodstream.

Wait, time-out, Scott was taking an appetite suppressant?

Clearly a failure in this case, but someone still found him lovable! (hands Danny impression/trace cards)

Danny

Lip prints.

Twelve to be exact. I lifted them from both cheeks, the neck and the forehead. In various shades, from Candy Kitten to Sangria Sunset.

Twelve girls on the cheerleading squad.

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