Sheldon Hawkes quotes from CSI: NY

Sheldon Hawkes

In theory, if you built a machine that could travel the speed of light away from here, then slowed down, turned around and flew home just as fast, when you got back, a trip that might have lasted just seconds for you, could've been weeks for everybody else.

Kinda like your explanation.

Hawkes

Crime of passion?

Mac

That's one possibility. Or... she's the inside guy? They planned this robbery together, but before she got her cut...her partner double-crossed her.

Danny

So these guys are mailing the money somewhere.

Sheldon

Smart move. Not keeping the cash on them or in the apartment.

Angell

If you raise the ink from the pouch, maybe we can get an address.

Danny

Oh, what? You doing science now?

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes

So the killer got Fiona.

Detective Lindsay Monroe

And her little dog too.

Hawkes

(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).

Hawkes

That's cold, man.

Danny

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

Hawkes

(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?

Hawkes

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

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes

[upon see in the indoor plants] Are you serious? This is peyote!

Detective Danny Messer

Marijuana seeds, shrooms.

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes

Looks like someone was growing their own magic garden.

Detective Danny Messer

Right under the faculty's nose, man.

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes

Sometimes too much education may be a dangerous thing.

Lindsay

Dante Gunther and Liza Carpenter have to be connected somehow.

Hawkes

They both died of radioactive thallium poisoning at around the same time. Other than that, I still do not see a connection.

Lindsay

What if they just randomly crossed paths?

Hawkes

Few seconds at a public place, unaware of each other, not knowing that they came into contact with something contaminated? If that's true, how many more people out there have no idea how sick they are?

Hawkes

How you doing?

Sid

Let's just say I know how a microwaved burrito feels. But I should also say thank you. I owe a great deal of my recovery to you.

Hawkes

Ah, come on, that was nothing. You would have done the same for me.

Sid

As a matter of fact, I would.

Mac

Prussian blue?

Hawkes

Yeah. It's his second dose. It speeds up the removal of thallium from the body, but he's too sick to swallow it, so they had to insert a feeding tube.

Mac

Is it working?

Hawkes

Only time will tell.

…conditions such as these in a public facility are indefensible and reprehensible. That's why I'm filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of New York and the New York City Library, both complicit in the radiation deaths of the my clients, (holds up pictures of Liza Carpenter and Dante Gunther) Liza Carpenter, Dante Gunther…

Hawkes

Those are our two victims, Mac.

(holds up a picture of Molly Paulson) …and Molly Paulson.

Mac

Who's Molly Paulson?

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes

[Enters Mac's office] Hey, Mac.

Detective Mac Taylor

Hold on. Don't tell me. Trip to San Francisco in January?

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes

Yeah. Turns out San Francisco is closed in January. Strangest thing.

Detective Mac Taylor

[Smiling] Get out of here. Go home.

Detective Danny Messer

What's the deal with your funny money?

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes

The value of the fake dollar just went up

Sheldon

(on discovering a picture locket) Found a piece of jewellery in pretty good shape.

Sid

Based on age, I'd say they're probably the victim's parents.

Sheldon

The job never gets easier does it?

Sid

I can tell you I've been working here twenty-nine years. That's 4846 cases and names I will never forget. What gets me through are people like them. Folks who are going to be looking to me for answers.

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes

[to Sid as he heats up an organ] You workin' up an apetite?

Dr. Sid Hammerback

Hmm? No. You know there's a strict no eat policy in the lab.

Dr. Sheldon Hawkes

Never stopped me from sneakin' in the occasional bag of popcorn.

Hawkes

So what do you want me to do? Just ignore the fact that Colin's sweat is on our murdered victim's clothes?

Mac

The reason we follow FBI DNA protocol is to ensure an unquestionable conviction.

Hawkes

So we sit in here waiting for that perfect scientific connection while Colin could be out there raping and killing another innocent victim? I don't know about you, Mac but I can't live with that.