Lindsay Monroe quotes from CSI: NY

Detective Lindsay Monroe

[Lindsay is looking up] She was stabbed with an icicle?

Detective Danny Messer

That's cold.

Detective Mac Taylor

Not cold enough. Our evidence is about to turn into a big pool of water.

Detective Lindsay Monroe

I need you to take this, okay?

Detective Danny Messer

Why?

Detective Lindsay Monroe

I'm no good with mothers, all right? Fathers, I can give bad news to all day long. I can't face mothers. I need you to take it.

Detective Danny Messer

All right. Okay, I got it.

Lindsay Monroe

I'm just going to go check on..

Mac Taylor

No, you stay here, Lindsay.

Lindsay Monroe

So now what do we do?

Danny

Scratch our asses while these guys decide Hawkes' fate.

Lindsay

I know I owe you an explaination. I can't tell you what's going on, not because I don't want to. Because I'm not sure I know myself.

Stella

You said you were the only one?

Lindsay

I survived a crime... a very uh, a terrible crime. Friends of mine were killed... (very sad) I could use a friend here, Stell.

Stella

You got one, kiddo.

Stella

You can talk to me off the record, you know that, right?

Lindsay

What do you want me to say?

Stella

You left the crime scene Lindsay, I mean, I covered for you, but...

Lindsay

Yeah, thanks.

Stella

Look, if you have a problem you should tell someone, I'm just trying to help.

Lindsay

Well don't, OK? Just leave me alone.

Stella

Clearly I made a mistake about trying to be your friend here, so I'll be your boss: when you're requested at a crime scene you show up and you do your job. Speaking of your job, I expect to see you at the autopsy this afternoon.

Sheldon Hawkes

Hey. I thought you'd left. You okay?

Lindsay Monroe

Yeah. Just, uh, tying up some loose ends. Have you seen Danny?

Hawkes

Yeah, he's out in the field.

Lindsay

(holding up a card) Could you, make sure that he sees this?

Hawkes

That's how you're going to tell him you're leaving? A card? At least call him. Give him a chance to say good-bye.

Mac

(enters his office to see Stella and Lindsay waiting for him) Something wrong?

Stella

Lindsay's gonna take off for a little while.

Mac

When?

Lindsay

I leave tomorrow for Montana. A couple of months ago I got a call from the Bozeman's prosecutors office. They apprehend a suspect who was wanted in a multiple homicide ten years ago. Four girls. They were uh... they were friends of mine. I was the only witness.

Mac

And the only survivor as I remember.

Stella

They want her to testify.

Lindsay

I still see their faces. My friends faces. The mothers' faces... I don't know what I'm more scared of. Standing in front of the monster who did this... or seeing those faces. (she gets up as Stella gives her a hug)

Stella

Hey, you take care of youself, kiddo.

Lindsay

Thanks.

Mac

(gives Lindsay a hug) You're tough, Lindsay. You'll pull through this.

Danny

Since when do you know so much about wine, Montana?

Lindsay Monroe

We're more than beer and buffalo burgers, Messer.

Lindsay Monroe

I think Danny's favorite wine is the house Chianti.

Danny Messer

See, that's where you're wrong. My favourite wine is beer.

Lindsay

I mean, isn't the cockroach kind of the unofficial mascot of New York?

Danny

Very funny, take it easy there, Montana.

Detective Danny Messer

Get outta here, these are real stones?

Detective Lindsay Monroe

Uh huh, and I'm thinking this chain was attached, which makes this roach jewelry, or a pet, or a jeweled pet.

Detective Danny Messer

Or roach-broche.

Detective Lindsay Monroe

Hey, it could be the next big thing.

Danny

I'm gonna head out to Brighton Beach, 'cause one of the guys who got busted with Scott Colson owns a Russian food joint, called Sokov's.

Lindsay

If the guy took his chances running with the Russian mob, maybe his past finally caught up with him.

Danny

Da! (as Lindsay laughs)

Lindsay

What about this website? It's encouraging kids to hurt themselves. That can't be legal.

Mac

Contests aren't against the law. Neither is stupidity or bad judgement.

Lindsay

I'm sorry.

Danny

What are you sorry about?

Lindsay

You're not supposed to be here. You took my shift.