“The Thing About Heroes” quotes from CSI: NY

He holds Mac responsible for losing someone in his family.

Lindsay

So what? Now he wants Mac to lose someone in his family?

Stella

Yeah. One of us.

What made you think you'd find anything at all? You specifically asked to visit an unoccupied floor. You flashed your badge, said it was police business. Now, it doesn't sound to me like you were looking for office space.

Mac

I was sent here. I don't know why or by whom, and I don't know who the victim hanging from that ceiling is or how it connects to me.

A little out of your jurisdiction, aren't ya?

Mac

When you called me, I thought you were in New York.

Sneaky like that. Plus it made it easier to find you.

Mac

Sinclair?

Yeah. He doesn't like to be embarrassed, Mac. So I got the rundown from Detective Brennan. Don't you wanna tell me what this is really about?

Mac

Wanna take a ride?

Long as it's not on the subway.

Danny

(holding the iPod) So, this is what was used to hijack the train. He attached an MP3 player to the control panel. The sick bastard.

Stella

Ya, well that sick bastard is Mac's stalker.

Mac Taylor. Heard your voice on the phone, I couldn't believe it. Now you're standing here. Look like your old man. Been a long time, Mac.

Mac

Since we were kids.

Yeah. Last I heard you were in New York, married, working for the mayor's office or something.

Mac

I'm a crime-scene investigator.

Phew. Must be something, huh? What's the statute of limitations for us sneaking into Wrigley? What brings you back, Mac?

Mac

Bobby Toole is dead.

That's supposed to be funny? He's been dead for 30 years.

Mac

Yeah. But they found his body today, in the Tribune Building.

We swore we were never gonna talk about this. I haven't told a soul.

Mac

Somebody put his body in the Tribune Building for me to find, the word coward on the wall. Did you do it, Jimmie?

What? What, are you out of your mind, Mac? Huh? Is this some kind of sick joke to you?

Mac

Over a month ago I got a T-shirt stained with blood. I didn't know until today, that's your brother's shirt. Will's blood. The same shirt he was wearing when Bobby Toole beat him to death.

You feeling guilty, Mac?

Mac

I don't regret the choice I made that day.

No, I don't imagine that you do, because you didn't lose a brother. Your family didn't fall apart. You didn't watch your father cry for the first time in your life, watch him crumble to his knees. You didn't spend ten years trying to make it up to your mother and your little brother, lying to little Andy about how Will died. Not you.

Mac

(comes to, tied to a chair with lasers and guns pointed at him)

Mac Taylor. The Mac Taylor. Phew. You know, it's funny, but you don't look like a hero.

Mac

Andy. I don't know what you...

Shh, shh, shh. Whatever you do, don't move. You see that gun? The slightest movement puts a bullet right between your eyes. Of course, freezing is something that comes naturally to you, isn't it, Mac? Something the public doesn't know about its hero cop, but my dead brother knows all too well.

Mac

For God's sakes, Andy, I was just a kid.

Yeah, well, you were old enough. All you had to do was pull the trigger. You know, playing with your crack CSI team, it's been, it's been fun. I gotta tell you, man, that Stella, she's just... She's smart. She never quite trusted me. Can see how she'd be an asset to you. Be a shame to see her die. You see, whoever comes through that door is gonna take a bullet. And I'm sure Stella and company are working on finding out where you are, as we speak.