CSI: NY Season 8 quotes

Adam: (playing an Xbox video game) Hey, Mac. Listen, why don't you pull up a chair and challenge the champ, okay? Now, look. I just want to warn you, this is not like the old-school games. Grab this. See these little buttons here? Press those. It's not like in the olden days, with the black and white screen and the little ball, or Ms. Pac-Man...

Mac: When I was a kid, my dad used to take me to the carnival in the summer. I loved to do the milk bottle toss. But I never won. When I was older, my dad explained to me that it was rigged. That one of the bottles was weighted so it couldn't fall over. I was so mad. Then my dad told me that life wasn't fair.

Flack: I'm disappointed, Vera. I really thought we had something.

Vera Channing: Oh, well, we'll always have Paris.

Mac: You know, when I was a kid, I used to bring a bag full of quarters to the arcade and set up in front of the Asteroids machine for a whole Saturday.

Jo: Really? I would have never clocked you as a nerd.

Flack: The handles Vera gave Walt correspond to the list of names we found on his body. Of those gamers, three were knocked out in the first round, one was disqualified, and two said Walt gave them the option of resigning to save face.

Mac: Sounds like six good motives.

Mitch Johnson: (About the world of video games competitions) There's always younger and younger kids coming up. Born holding iPads and hopped up on ADD meds.

Steve Blanton: I know that life isn't fair, I get that, I get... My wife left me, and I only see my kid once a week. But video games are supposed to be fair. The best player wins.

Mac: If you're searching for fairness, you're focused on the wrong things, Steve. You have a son. Who's going to grow up without his father. How is that fair?

Jo: Walter was playing video games at least 35 hours a week. That's practically a full-time job.

Mac: For some people it is. The highest paid professional gamers make over $500,000 a year in tournament winnings and endorsements.

Christine Whitney: Mac Taylor, you're an idiot.

Mac: Why is that, exactly?

Christine Whitney: 'Cause I'm a catch, and you're gonna lose me.

Mac: I should have called, I know. Besides work and the fact that I'm not very good at this...

Christine Whitney: Hey, it's not about the phone call. If you're not... ready for something or, um... work's too busy or your life's complicated or you're scared, I get it (Laughs) I mean, I'm scared, too. Look, um, when your brother dies in the line of duty, the last guy you want to date is a cop. But I'm here and... we kissed, and I guess I just want to know if it felt right to you, too.

Mac: It did.

Christine Whitney: (Laughs) Good.

Mac: So, how about I make it up to you. We'll go out to dinner tonight. I know this amazing restaurant with this incredible chef.

Christine Whitney: Well, why don't you just come by the... (Laughs) Oh! Cute. You mean me.

Lindsay: I've always been curious. Why do they call this area Hell's Kitchen?

Mac: Well, the story goes, a veteran cop was watching a riot with his rookie partner who said: 'this place is Hell itself'. To which the veteran replied: 'Hell is a mild climate compared to this. This place is Hell's kitchen'.

Adam: If this is Hell's Kitchen in 1970, as it moves into 1975, '80, '85 and so on, you'll see the change. Anything that turns blue has been bought up, remodeled, torn down or rebuilt. Corporate America moves in.

Mac: And the older generations, like Byrne, who were born and raised there, are driven out because they can't afford the soaring costs.

Mac: So given what we know, we're looking for someone who used a heavy-duty power saw to dismember a body, but before they did that, they used it for something involving plaster, money and blood.

Jo: Sounds ridiculous, but it is Hell's Kitchen.

Mac: Maybe a few decades ago, but not anymore. Those four corners have been all but forgotten, it's not even called Hell's Kitchen anymore.

Jo: Clinton does have a nicer ring to it.

Mac: So why is the violence suddenly back?

Jo: Maybe it never really left.

Flack: According to his financials, he's lived at 48th and 9th his whole life.

Danny: That's Hell's Kitchen, I mean, yuppie central now, but back then, it couldn't have been too easy.

Flack: Irish kid growing up there in the '60s and '70s? You're looking at a 90% chance of ending up a priest, a cop or a gangster. Take a guess what most ended up as?

Danny: Well, of course, priests.

Flack: Not quite. But they did take cash, confessions, and have their own form of catechism.

Flack: Lindsay Messer, meet John Doe.

Lindsay: You know, most people spend their Monday catching up on their co-workers' weekend over a nice cup of coffee.

Flack: We're not most people. And as for my weekend, you're not missing much.