Jo Danville quotes from CSI: NY

Jo

I think your cake's done.

Danny

(As Hawkes examines a glove) It's looking like you got a few good prints there.

Hawkes

Let's hope it's the icing on the case.

Danny

(Scoffs) Really?

Lindsay

Oh, that's pathetic.

Jo

Eh, I kind of liked it.

Jo

This was all that was left of your property, Leonard. I'm sorry.

Guess when you don't have much, you don't have much to lose.

Jo

Oh my God, Mac. Looks like those pipes were the source of the heat. Someone turned this elevator into a boiler.

Mac

Somebody turned this elevator into a torture chamber.

Jo

For years, Leonard Brooks has suffered from sudden impulse control disorder, compelling him to start fires, but he did it to cause property damage, never to cause bodily harm or to take a life.

Mac

So, why does his M.O. suddenly change? And in such an extreme fashion?

Jo

Because, clearly, the relief that he got from starting fires no longer had any value.

Mac

So torture and murder is his new drug of choice.

Jo

And when his emotional need shifted, he needed to find another means to satisfy it.

Danny

Jo, uh, so Jane Fonda just called. She said she wants her workout tapes back.

Jo

They are not Jane's. They're Cher's.

Danny

Cher had a workout video?

Jo

Yes, she did.

Danny

What do you got here?

Jo

Video recordings of Leonard Brooks' prison therapy sessions. 14 years' worth.

Danny

Why don't you call his shrink and get the Cliff Notes?

Danny

(About Leonard Brooks) People like Brooks spend their entire lives blaming other people for all their problems. And I don't care how rough he had it, there's nothing on these tapes that are going to justify what he did to those people.

Jo

I'm just hoping there's something on these tapes that tells us why he did it.

Danny

You think Mac's okay?

Jo

How do you mean?

Danny

How do I mean? I don't know exactly. It's just, you know, he's... he seems off.

Jo

Well, a little off would be pretty damn good considering everything he's been through. I mean, think about it. He suffered a life-changing trauma, months of painful rehab.

Danny

Yeah.

Jo

Most people would have reexamined everything, quit their job and be sitting on a beach, but not Mac. Couldn't wait to pick up exactly where he left off. I think it's a miracle and a gift that the guy's the same old hard-ass boss he's always been.

Mac

You were expecting Jimmy to save you?

He was just so big. He was like an adult. He looked like one of the guys in the comic books, like some kind of superhero.

Jo

But he wasn't a superhero. He beat you, too, didn't he, Leonard? Afraid that if he didn't, he'd suffer the same fate.

When I think about it, though, Mother was smaller, yet it always hurt more coming from her.

Mac

(To Leonard Brooks) All those fires, and the one that got you caught, the one that put you away, is the one where you went back in to save an innocent woman.

Jo

You did the one thing no one would do for you: come to the rescue.

God, I thought we'd never get through dinner.

Jo

You didn't enjoy me rattling on about my work?

Of course I did. I just couldn't stop thinking about dessert.

Jo

There's no tougher job in the world.

Being a cop?

Jo

Being a parent.

Jo

We need to talk.

I don't want to talk.

Jo

Why not?

Because it's just going to be one of those talks where you do all the talking.

Jo

(About Cade) He's an FBI agent. He's visiting from California. He and I used to work together at the Bureau.

Looks like you were doing a little bit more than that.

Jo

I am the adult, you're the child.

I'm not a child.

Jo

Okay, you're a teenager. We still have rules in this family.

Yeah, and yours are different than mine... I get it.

Jo

Good.