Lauren Cooper quotes from CSI: NY

Lindsay

It's hard to pull a weapon on someone, right? Squeeze that trigger?

Lauren Cooper

I'm sorry. If you're a reporter, I got nothing to say.

Lindsay

You know what else is hard? Sharing a squad car with somebody every day and stabbing him in the back when he had yours.

Lauren Cooper

Who are you?

Lindsay

I'm Lindsay Messer.

Lauren Cooper

I can't talk to you.

Lindsay

No, it can't be easy actually facing me.

Lauren Cooper

No, I'm telling you that we can't speak.

Lindsay

I mean, you know what you're doing affects my family, but it's much easier when we're out of sight.

Lauren Cooper

I'm not supposed to have any interaction...

Lindsay

Like saying you're in a relationship with my husband.

Lauren Cooper

Hey, that's not true!

Lindsay

I know it's not true.

Lauren Cooper

I don't even know why they're suggesting that.

Lindsay

So you're only comfortable with some of the lies?

Lauren Cooper

I'm not lying.

Lindsay

So Danny told you to say that Pete Miller was holding the gun?

Lauren Cooper

Not in so many words.

Lindsay

How many words does it take?

Lauren Cooper

He suggested...It... it was how he put things.

Lindsay

What things?

Lauren Cooper

I don't have to explain myself to you.

Lindsay

No, you don't. You know why? I get this. This is self-preservation, plain and simple.

Lindsay

Think about this, Lauren. If the roles were reversed and Danny was in your shoes, you really think that he'd be looking out for number one?

Lauren Cooper

None of this was my choice. From the moment that I pulled that trigger, it was all out of my hands. I always wanted to tell the truth.

Lindsay

So look me in the eyes, Lauren. Right now. It's just the two of us. Tell me that Danny Messer told you to lie.

Mac

Pete Miller didn't fire the gun. He was standing next to the guy who did.

Lauren Cooper

It was an accident. I was aiming for the shooter. It was a good shoot.

Don't say anything else.

If it was a good shoot, you wouldn't have lied about how it went down.

Lauren Cooper

I wanted to tell the truth.

Mac

Then why didn't you?

Lauren Cooper

I was told not to.

Mac

By who?

Lauren Cooper

It wasn't his fault. He was trying to protect me.

Mac

Who told you to lie?

Lauren Cooper

Sergeant Messer.

(About Danny) What do you think about him?

Lauren Cooper

As a boss? He's excellent.