CSI: NY quotes

Adam Ross

(to Owen Hicks; impersonating a polygraph examiner)I understand there's a question to the veracity of certain statements that you may or may not have made and or heard during your confinement in the fine institution known as Rikers Island. Is that correct?

I have no idea what the hell you just said, man.

Adam Ross

Are you playing games with me, son?

No, I'm not playing games...!

Adam Ross

Because any heretofore games will not be tolerated. Okay?

Jo Danville

How long do you give him?

Danny Messer

Well, if Adam remembers to plug the damn thing in, I don't think he gets past the first question.

Jo Danville

First question? No way it gets that far.

Adam Ross

(to Owen Hicks as he gets him ready for the polygraph) This simply measures your blood pressure while the test is being administered. The information then relays to the pen thingy which will go haywire if you're full of... if you're being untruthful. And, based on the amount of sweat that's accumulated on your forehead... gross... is more than likely.

Mac Taylor

Judge let Billy Travers out on bail. As of now, the mother's I.D. is all we have and I'm not even sure we have that.

Jo Danville

Should we offer her some kind of protection?

Mac Taylor

She'll refuse. She's on her son's side now. So unless we come up with a forensic link, he'll be at her bedside by the end of the day.

Mac Taylor

If this is gonna work we got to trust each other. The DD-5 documenting Grace Travers recanting the I.D.... I saw you looking at it. Damaging to the case... you thought maybe I wouldn't file it?

Jo Danville

History has a tendency of repeating itself.

Mac Taylor

What happened in D.C. is not a part of my history.

Mac Taylor

Uncovering mistakes made by your lab and alerting defense counsel was part of your oath. Still is.

Jo Danville

Tell that to Senator Matthews. I still get letters from him blaming me for the outcome of his daughter's case. The mistake I uncovered was made by a guy named Frank Waters. Impeccable reputation. I worked with Frank Waters for 12 years, Mac. I went to his wedding, his kids' birthdays. So when I discovered he destroyed a document detailing a mistake he made interpreting DNA results, trust became just another word and Serena Matthews' rapist went free.

Mac Taylor

You had to make it public.

Jo Danville

It was a decision I don't regret making and I'd make it again.

Mac Taylor

Jo, my team does not sacrifice integrity for a desired result. Now that you're part of it, I promise you you'll never have to make that kind of decision again, okay?

Danny Messer

He was even dating the prom queen, Sarah Dufresne.

Apparently dating her wasn't enough (reads from Benson's file) "I told him I wanted to wait, that if he loved me, he would respect that I wanted to wait. He grabbed my arms and pinned me down." One minute he's Harvard bound, next he's Rikers bound.

(about testifying against his son, Paul in a rape case) Not a day goes by we don't second-guess our decision. Paul's our son.

Jo Danville

If you'd kept silent, you wouldn't have been able to live with yourselves.

It took a few weeks and several fights, but we decided that telling the truth was the right thing to do.

Jo Danville

It was. No matter how much it may have hurt. So you had no contact with Paul after that?

We tried, but Paul didn't want anything to do with us. He felt that we'd betrayed him so he just cut us off.

We moved a couple years later. Tried to put it behind us.

Jo Danville

Paul was digging by the side of the house for the spare key. But the locks had been changed and he used a crowbar to get inside. He thought it was you in that bed. Paul went back to the house to kill you.

Mac Taylor

What were you thinking, Paul? You were getting even? That killing your parents was somehow gonna settle the score for them testifying against you?

I was just a kid.

Mac Taylor

You were 18 years old. You were old enough to be held accountable for your actions.

They betrayed me.

Mac Taylor

No, no. You betrayed them. You think it was easy for your parents to do what they did? Your girlfriend, Sarah... they were just supposed to let her go through life knowing you raped her and got away with it?

The woman who went to the hospital... she survived? She's gonna be okay?

Mac Taylor

No. She lost her husband, her son lost his father and she's gonna have permanent brain damage. So, no, she's not gonna be okay. You had an opportunity to get out and make something of your life, Paul. Instead, you destroyed another family.

Mac Taylor

I'm sorry you had to go through that, Billy.

Yeah. I get it. You were just doing your job, I guess.

Mac Taylor

You know, sometimes we lose sight of how hard it is to be called a suspect.

Billy. Who's this?

Mac Taylor

My name is Mac Taylor.

Have you met my son Billy?

Mac Taylor

I have. You have a good son, Mrs. Travers. You're a very lucky woman.

Jo Danville

(To Sid) Can you tell us anything about the nature of the blunt-force object?

Sid Hammerback

(Stares at her, doesn't say anything)

Sheldon Hawkes

Sid?

Sid Hammerback:

I'm sorry, I just wasn't prepared for you to be so...

Jo Danville

Female? (smiles)

(about Panthro Torres) Guy wakes up a big shot, ends up a shish kabob.

Mac Taylor

A lot can change in one day.

Torres was the leader of El Puño so this was likely a hit by a rival gang.

Mac Taylor

That means El Puño's gonna want blood.

Jo Danville

From what I've heard, these aren't two-bit, three-block dope dealers.

Mac Taylor

Far from it. They control East Harlem.

Drug trafficking, extortion, murder for hire, name it. El Puño's a one-stop shop for all bad things.

Jo Danville

Whoever killed Torres is gonna have a mark on their head.

Mac Taylor

Well, we got to find them before the streets do, or it's going to be war.

Sheldon Hawkes

Torres was a big time gangster, but I guess it's true what they say: you live by the gun...

Sid Hammerback

You get gunshot wounds.