CSI: NY quotes

Stella

(as he looks on at the interigations) Sam, you were next.

Sam Baker

What?

Stella

Your life was insured for over $5 million dollars. In order to become a legitimate beneficiary, Debbie called herself your fiance in all of the paperwork.

Sam Baker

I can't believe this is happening. I was living on the streets. She helped me get a place.

Stella

This was all part of the plan. Debbie and Grace waited two years, enough time for the policies to mature and pay out at maximum benefits, no matter what the manner of death. Most likely, Sam, in a week, you'd have been dead.

Mac

You chose people who were vulnerable and broken. People you knew had nobody to question your motives. What's it like to live without a conscience?

Grace Chandler

It's like being rich. Something you probably know nothing about.

Mac

Putting people like you away for the rest of your life, doing good... that makes me rich. Something you probably know nothing about.

I'm thinking our vic's wallet and jewelry were on someone's Christmas list.

Mac

Along with his life.

Well, let's hope that Eli can spin a better story than Sam. 'Cause the one he's telling in there just isn't holding water.

You're so wrong. He isn't capable of murder.

Anyone's capable of murder, Miss Fallon.

Grace Chandler

I know you think I had something to do with this.

Mac

Most of the people who sit in this chair... they lie. Each time that happens we get a little bit better at knowing who's telling the truth and who's not.

Grace Chandler

And how about me, Detective. Am I a liar?

Mac

I'll let you know.

Mac

I'm going to go get Grace Chandler. Stella, you go get Sam Baker, get him out of lockup, and bring him down to Interrogation. You two pick up Debbie Fallon, get her over to the precinct.

Stella

What's going on?

Mac

We got ourselves a triangle. Except it doesn't involve love. It involves murder.

Stella

When I was a little girl, there was a sign hanging above the desk where I did my homework. And it said that "Temptation will lean on the doorbell, but opportunity may knock only once."

Sam Baker

As ironic as it might seem, Debbie provided me with a second chance, and I plan to make the most of it.

Stella

Good.

Is this the part where I look at the bloody crime scene photo, break down in tears and confess to murder?

Only if you did it.

Stella

Hey, Danny, I'm waiting for your 'boom'.

Danny

Ah, no more 'booms'. Lindsay made me promise. She's afraid it's gonna be Lucy's first word.(keeps checking the car) Boom! This is our car.

Stella

I've been guilty of it myself. Put a couple of coins or a dollar in a cup and move on. Never looking at them in the eyes, never thinking you can do more to help.

Sam Baker

Those couple of coins in the cup, that's more than most.

Debbie, before you make a complete ass of yourself, do me a favor: take a look right here.

Stella

[to Sam Baker) So somebody broke into your apartment, took the key, borrowed your car, committed a homicide, dumped the car, and then put the key back. I mean, does that sound like anything a sane person would believe?

Stella

Manning fights his way back from the streets and seems to have a great life ahead of him.

Mac

So, how does he end up in that alley right back where she found him?

You're wasting your time worrying about me, lady. I'm a lost cause.

Stella

There's no such thing. You just need to get off the street, get sober, and start taking care of yourself.

No, this life beat the care out of me a long time ago.

Mac

That's the victim, but who's the other guy?

Stella

They're both James Manning. The moment I saw him, I knew there was something familiar about him. And then when I saw that scar on his hand... I ran him through CARS for past collars and came up with this booking photo.

Mac

It's hard to believe they're the same person.

Stella

Put some meat on his bones and a shave and he looks like a completely different guy.

Mac

It's never a good thing when you look better in the autopsy photo than you do when you're alive.