Stella Bonasera quotes from CSI: NY

Stella Bonasera

Planning your fantasy death is the ultimate finale to life.

Yeah, but we're talking about an ice pick to the brain, Stella. I think you might be romanticizing.

Stella

Somebody kissed his ring. Lipstick kiss.

Maybe our Lancelot had a rendezvous with Guinevere at the park?

Mac Taylor

You ready for the answer?

Stella

Whatever the outcome, I am bound and determined to live every day to the fullest.

Detective Stella Bonasera

I thought lock and key parties went out in the seventies.

Apparently they've had resurgence. Who knew?

Don't be shy. Everybody's a bit nervous their first time out.

Detective Stella Bonasera

Actually we're not here to participate.

[looking suggestively at Stella] That's our loss.

We're NYPD.

I'm so sorry! That's right, you called earlier. I was expecting big burly men with guns.

If you'd focused your attention in my direction, you might see one.

Detective Stella Bonasera

I thought lock and key parties went out in the seventies.

Apparently they've had resurgence. Who knew?

Don't be shy. Everybody's a bit nervous their first time out.

Detective Stella Bonasera

Actually we're not here to participate.

[looking suggestively at Stella] That's our loss.

We're NYPD.

I'm so sorry! That's right, you called earlier. I was expecting big burly men with guns.

If you'd focused your attention in my direction, you might see one.

Mac

Adam, I can't afford to be caught off guard with information as critical as this.

Adam

What?

Mac

DNA report on the mover's blanket. Why did I get this from Gerrard and not you?

Adam

G-Gerrard was here when the results came in and he asked me to show it to him.

Stella

Mac, Adam was busy doing something for me.

Mac

There's a lot of data coming in to this lab, I have to be on top of it.

Adam

What was I supposed to do.

Mac

You should've picked up the phone, called me right away.

Stella

Anyone in this lab would have done the same thing. Gerrard's the Deputy Inspector.

Mac

I don't give a damn what his title is. When I'm working a case, information like this comes to me as soon as you get it.

Det. Mac Taylor

Do you remember your first collar?

Detective Stella Bonasera

Oh, yeah. [Stella snickers] A shoplifter on 43rd and Eigth Avenue. This guy took one of those "I Love New York" t-shirts from the souvenir shop. It was the proudest moment in my life. [Stella laughs] Two days later, I arrested him again in the same store.

Stella

Better watch yourself, all this publicity may backfire. Sinclair might just have to make you his Deputy Commissioner.

Mac

I'm very happy where I am, thank you.

Stella

Hm, that's good. Must've been satisfying seeing the look on Sinclair's face when he realized you had him.

Mac

[Seriously] I don't take pleasure in someone else's discomfort Stella. [Laughing] Yes, it was incredibly satisfying.

Detective Stella Bonasera

Hey Mac, where're you going?

Detective Mac Taylor

London.

Detective Mac Taylor

They belong to the gang we took down this morning. They're here for their coke.

Detective Stella Bonasera

What are we gonna do?

Detective Mac Taylor

Stop 'em!

I lost that music box about a year ago.

Danny

Are you kidding me? You can't come up with a better lie than that?

I move a lot, four different places in the past year. I've given up junk, throw things away.

Stella

You specifically requested that the music box played Mozart's first menuet. It seems strange that something with that kind of sentimental value would be thrown away.

Yeah well, I cried for three days when I realized it was gone.

Danny

You're killing me right now.

Stella

(about the evidence) Turns out it's an experimental sexual enhancement drug, only available in clinical trials.

Danny

Don't look at me, I don't need it.

Stella

You're too old anyway. It's currently being tested on students at Chelsea University's health center.

Danny

Argh, it's like throwing gas on a raging hormonal fire.

Mac

There are safer ways to beat the traffic.

Stella

Oh, traffic I can handle. Men are another story.

Mac

What is it?

Stella

(opening an envelope) Hmm. Gift certificate for a skydiving lesson. Met this guy in an antique store and then bumped into him again... at a coffee stand. And suddenly he wants... to hold hands at 10,000 feet. So he sent me a parachute.

Mac

Original and daring.

Stella

And a bit too aggressive for me. What?

Mac

You were smiling when you opened the box.

Stella

(chuckles a little) Mac, my last boyfriend tried to kill me and I shot him.

Mac

Well, maybe this guy's a little different. Why don't you just run him through NYSPIN?

Stella

Actually, I already did. There are three Drew Bedfords in the city. One is 96 and lives in a rest home. The other is in juvie for painting boobs on a billboard. And my original endearing friend is, uh, squeaky clean.

Mac

You and I are alike in a lot of ways. We both do everything we can to avoid this sort of thing. Sometimes you just gotta take the plunge.

Stella

So you're telling me to fall for all this?

Mac

Stella, Peyton pursued me. I never thought I'd enjoy another relationship either. Forget about all the risks of romance and enjoy the rewards.

Stella

[Laughs] Well, Detective Angell just got me a court order to pull all the patient files and talk to the students directly. I'm hoping that this will give us an I.D. on the perp.

Danny

Fantastic. We got horny college kids and horny mammals. You wanna trade?

Stella

Mammals?

Danny

Prehistoric, to be exact.