CSI: NY (TV Series)

Grand Murder at Central Station (2005)

Gary Sinise: Mac Taylor

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• [Mac has shown Aiden an unsealed evidence packet] 

  Det. Mac Taylor : There are three things that I'll protect at any cost: the honor of this country, the safety of this city, and the integrity of this lab. As scientists, we have a great deal of power, the ability to assign guilt or innocence. But when we analyze a crime scene, we collect pieces of evidence, we make a promise to the people of this city. A promise to handle that evidence with respect, integrity, and good faith. When you broke the seal, you broke that promise.

  Detective Aiden Burn : I didn't do it. I didn't plant the evidence. I wanted to. Man, I wanted to, but I couldn't go through with it. I knew I couldn't live with that.

  Det. Mac Taylor : Is it that you couldn't live with it, or you couldn't compromise the integrity of this office?

  Detective Aiden Burn : You know how much this place means to me, Mac. But that son of a bitch raped Regina twice, and he's gonna get away with it twice?

  Det. Mac Taylor : And if the credibility of our findings is suspect, how many more do you think will walk? Ten? Twenty? A hundred? Truth is, Aiden, I can't have someone like that working in this lab. You're fired.

  Detective Aiden Burn : [handing over her badge]  Truth is I can't do this anymore, Mac. I mean, I got to be honest with you. If somethin' like this ever happened again, I don't think I'd trust myself. And I'm sorry I let you down. Just do me a favor, huh? Catch this guy for Regina.

  Det. Mac Taylor : I will. This folder... will be right here on my desk till we get him.

• [Hawkes, formerly the medical examiner, is uneasy in his new position as a detective] 

  Det. Mac Taylor : You on break?

  Dr. Sheldon Hawkes : I'm just taking five minutes to eat. That's allowed, isn't it?

  Det. Mac Taylor : [seriously]  Eating is frowned upon, Hawkes.

  [Hawkes quickly starts collecting his food and garbage] 

  Det. Mac Taylor : [stopping him, smirking]  Hey, I'm kidding.

• [to Detective Sheldon Hawkes about little girl's teddy bear found at crime scene] 

  Det. Mac Taylor : So did Franklin help out or did he lawyer up?

• Det. Mac Taylor : It never ceases to amaze me how men of higher education can commit such... stupid crimes.

• Detective Don Flack : We got some whackadoo running around throwing acid in people's faces?

  Det. Mac Taylor : Not acid, lye.

  Detective Don Flack : Alright, well, I'll start with the nuts in this city and work my way up!

• Det. Mac Taylor : [to Dr. Stanley Thatcher]  Your record is clean, but your partner has more flags than the UN building.

• Det. Mac Taylor : A crime in a crowd. Two thousand eyes, not one witness.

• Det. Mac Taylor : This whole thing was an insurance scam.

• Dr. Sheldon Hawkes : Did you know rumor has it that Jennifer Lopez's ass is insured for one billion dollars?

  Det. Mac Taylor : Excuse me?

  Dr. Sheldon Hawkes : Five hundred million per cheek. They're her trade instruments, like a soccer player's legs or a model's face...

  Det. Mac Taylor : Or a surgeon's hands.

• Detective Stella Bonasera : Hey.

  Det. Mac Taylor : Hey.

  Detective Stella Bonasera : You look serious.

  Det. Mac Taylor : Shut the door.

  Detective Stella Bonasera : [closes Mac's office door]  What's up?

  Det. Mac Taylor : Rape case Aiden's been working on - Regina Bowen. Rapist struck eighteen months ago.

  Detective Stella Bonasera : Right. We never caught the guy, and ten days or so ago he raped again, same girl.

  Det. Mac Taylor : [handing Stella an evidence baggie]  You notice anything... unethical about this?

  Detective Stella Bonasera : Seal's broken. Oh, you don't think Aiden...

  Det. Mac Taylor : Seal's broken, Stella. She tampered with the evidence. Aiden is the only one on the case.