Luther Devarro quotes from CSI: NY

(about Mac) Fernando. Take a look at this man. If you're ever stupid enough to get arrested, this is the guy you want to put the handcuffs on. He's a fair man.

[prevents Mac from asking for medical help over the radio] Don't make... I started it. I end it. That includes me.

The rules of the street. This wasn't about taking over... [coughs so he won't choke on his blood] This was about making things right.

Next generation. Teach them a little respect.

Mac Taylor

You've been away for a while. Things have changed.

Question is: for better or worse? In our time, it wasn't about guns. It was the knuckle game, remember? I had snap in my shoulder. I hit you, you were hurting.

Mac Taylor

What I remember is you beating a rival gang member to a pulp. That's what put you away.

Defending the neighborhood. This place has always welcomed me with open arms.

Mac Taylor

So did El Puño. What you started only got stronger when you went away.

Yeah, no thanks to you. Every couple of months, I'd find one of my men in the mess hall.

Mac Taylor

Didn't want you to get lonely.

This your way of paying condolences? Last time I checked, it was one of my men who had holes burned into him.

Mac Taylor

And killing more people is going to make it right?

What's the alternative, turn it over to the NYPD? Cops like to see us as defendants or, better yet, deceased.

Mac Taylor

Doesn't have to be that way.

I didn't make the rules.

Men can reason all they want. Machines got minds of their own.

Mac Taylor

I want your assurance that this is not the beginning of a war.

I hear your concern but I can't make that assurance.

Why would I want to go anywhere else when I can learn from Mr. Devarro?

Learn from me? Learn from my mistakes. Fact is, you want to start out like me, you might end up like Panthro. Muerto.

There was a time when crimes against the people in the neighbourhood were not allowed.

You still preaching that neighbourhood garbage? You were gonna kill me for that? I'm your brother.

Mac Taylor

You're a man of reason, Luther. Come out, give yourself up.

It's too late for me, Detective. I never intended to create something violent. It was never about drugs and guns, money and power. When they put me away, all that changed. Torres, Lisa and my brother! Took what I created, just a group of guys trying to watch each other's back, taking care of their neighbourhood and they turned it into some criminal enterprise.

Sitting in my cell, hearing about how El Puño was the most feared and violent gang. Inmates coming up to me and paying respect. I wanted to tear it down!

Mac Taylor

Did you honestly think you could do that by killing the heads of the gang? They'll all be replaced by others.

I never intended to save the world but somebody had to be held accountable. Those that made the same promise I did. Promise to protect the neighbourhood, not to eat it alive. To defend it, not to become the worst threat it had ever known.

Mac Taylor

Now you've caused even more bloodshed. Killing people won't solve it. We're fighting the same fight. Why didn't you come to me? We could have taken them down together.

Because old habits die hard, and we're different kind of people. I gain closure here, Detective, in the spirit of what I created. I have no other choice. It all ends here. Tonight.