Stella Bonasera quotes from CSI: NY

Stella

I just got off the phone with the Museum of the American Indian in Battery Park. They are gonna take in all of Chief Delaware's collection.

Mac

So the Montiquan Nation lives on.

Stella

It's funny, you know? We ride trains, share sidewalks, row boats with so many different kinds of people in this town from some many different places and sometimes we don't notice a culture until some is gone.

Mac

In order to be a true New Yorker you gotta keep your eyes, heart, and mind open at all times.

Stella

(about her lecture) I keep trying to remember the faces, and I just can't. It's all such a blur.

Well, if it's any consolation, I have been doing this... for over 30 years. You never remember the faces. Well... maybe a few.

Stella

It's just so disturbing to think that someone would attend one of my lectures just to learn how to get away with murder.

What students take away from a class is up to them, Stella. You cannot blame yourself.

Mac

Dana Melton changed her name to Odessa and moved from Boston to Manhattan to start a new life. Baxter followed her here, started stalking her again, but this time, instead of turning to law enforcement for help, she took matters into her own hands.

Stella

She killed him and I taught her how.

Lindsay

What if some people just aren't cut out to be parents?

Stella

Well, the fact that you already thought about all this tells me that you're gonna do just fine, Linds.

Stella

Mac, I know I was wrong to keep investigating the case after you told me to step down. I'm sorry that I made it difficult for you and for the department.

Mac

This isn't about my job or the department. It was difficult because I care about you.

Mac

These guys aren't looking to kill, they're looking to scare.

Danny

Yeah, well, then why don't they use something other than guns?

Mac

No, think about it. All that gunfire, there's been one fatality. And at both the scene last night and the restaurant, most of the damage was to the awning and the top of the building. Their weapon of choice? Style SPP auto-machine pistol, small weapon, high-recoil, certainly not known for accuracy.

Stella

So these thugs are in the business of fear. They want the entire city to be at their mercy.

Stella

Jesse performed under the stage name 'Mechanicx'. This particular competition is known as 'Battle Step'.

Mac

I thought this type of dancing went out with Ms. Pac-Man and the Rubik's Cube.

Stella

Definitely went underground and advanced, only to resurface with a new name. It's now called street-dancing, and it's gone pro.

Mac

Something's off, though. Based on the complaint of the first robbery, Jesse stared right at the guy. Why'd the I.D. go south?

Stella

Well, you know how unreliable eyewitnesses can be, especially when they're staring down the barrel of a gun.

I just can't believe it was Nick under that mask. He was our friend. He came to visit me in the hospital.

Stella

He was going to go to the police to confess, but before he did, he wanted to see you to try to explain, to apologize as best he could. But when he walked into your hospital room,...

He realized I didn't remember anything.

Stella

He thought the whole thing would just go away.

(sighs) Jesse didn't need to do any of this. I loved him for who he was. God... he could make me smile.

Adam

This guy was kinky with his food.

Stella

Care to elaborate on that?

Adam

I think he was sploshing. A sploshing party is an event where a group of people get together and they experience food in a, uh, sensual way. They, um, caress their bodies with foods of different textures and temperatures, and it, uh... it arouses and stimulates and... they say that it excites them and-and... well, I just, again, it's what I've… I've heard, I...

There are specific locations for these...?

Stella

Sploshing parties.

Adam

Oh, you can go to a Web site and get an invitation.

Mac

Have you talked to Sheldon?

Stella

I'm... I'm not sure what to say. Guess my expectations are too high.

Mac

What do you mean?

Stella

Hawkes is a brilliant former surgeon. And that being said, I know that he couldn't have saved Martin Stafford's life if he had tried. But what's bugging me is I don't understand why he didn't know more was wrong with him. Why he didn't see the symptoms, why he didn't tell us everything at the crime scene.

Mac

I've been asking myself those questions. When Hawkes told me what happened, I was angry, but I resisted giving him a lecture or threatening modified duty, because... it was Sheldon. All I kept thinking was, this isn't like him. It wasn't like him at all. I suppose we do expect a lot out of each other.

Stella

(sighing) Is that bad?

Mac

No.

Hawkes

I'm sorry. I didn't tell anyone because I was embarrassed. I'm smart, educated, and I was duped. And it wasn't like John Simmons or even his boss, Martin Stafford. They just trusted in the economy, and it let them down. Me, I got greedy, tried to play with the big boys, and I got stung.

Stella

It wasn't greed, Sheldon. It's called optimism.

Stella

I'm sorry.

Hawkes

I didn't tell anyone because I was embarrassed. I'm smart, educated, and I was duped. And it wasn't like John Simmons or even his boss, Martin Stafford. They just trusted in the economy, and it let them down. Me, I got greedy, tried to play with the big boys, and I got stung.

Stella

It wasn't greed, Sheldon. It's called optimism. You didn't have to sell your condo, you could've gone to the department, asked for an emergency loan.

Hawkes

I was living with more than I needed. I took the best offer while I had the chance. Unfortunately, it was before I had another place to live, so... I ended up staying with a friend, and... You know my biggest disappointment is that I may have to give up volunteering with the medical unit. With Angell dying, and then this money situation, volunteering was the one thing keeping me sane there for a while.

Stella

Don't you dare quit, you enjoy it too much, there are other options.

Mac

Hey, I've got an extra room. [smiling] It's not up for discussion.

Stella

What else do we know about these perps?

Targets are always young women between the ages of 19 and 25. They're highly-organized, they're well-financed. They lure these women into... prostitution, black-market surrogacy, use them as human-trafficking pawns, you name it.

Stella

And now harvesting bodies for organs.

Stella

(seeing Danny walk without help) Hey! On your own two feet and looking good, Messer.

Danny

Not bad, huh? First the wheelchair, now no more cane. Done.

Stella

Yeah. You know, that was one of the scariest moments and I'll never forget it when you said you couldn't move your legs.

Danny

When I saw the blood on my hands, I mean, I thought that was it.

Stella

Yeah, well, it wasn't your time.

Danny

Yeah, let's go with that.