- [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.
- [Det. John Scagnetti walks in carrying a pink purse]
- Danny Messer: Ooh, Detective Prada! That's a nice bag, matches your shoes perfectly.
- Det. John Scagnetti: You're a funny guy, Messer.
- [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?
- Danny Messer: [looking at three trees lined up and noticing one is bent over] Guess which tree needs Viagra.
- 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.
- [victim, Evelyn Danner, was blind]
- Detective Stella Bonasera: [to murderer] I didn't know Evelyn, but I have to give her credit for one thing. For not being able to see, she was able to see right through you.
- 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.
- [riding with a burn victim to the ER, Hawkes inserts a catheter into his arm]
- EMT: You qualified to do that?
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: Five years in the ER. You want my résumé or you want my help?
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: And what is your name, young lady?
- Emily Dickerson: Emily.
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: Did you lose this, Emily?
- [Hawkes holds out a stuffed teddy bear]
- Emily Dickerson: Franklin!
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: Can I ask you a big favor? Can I borrow Franklin for just a little while?
- Emily Dickerson: Why? Did you lose yours?
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: No, but I think Franklin could help tell us who hurt your arm.
- Emily Dickerson: Yeah, he's pretty smart.
- Dr. Sheldon Hawkes: Well, he and I are gonna get along just fine, then.
- Dr. Stanley Thatcher: Plastic surgery is an inexact science. We try to make people into swans, but you can't always fix an ugly duckling.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: [with Danny in their victim's apartment] Looks like she was one hell of artist. It's hard to believe she was blind. Such attention to detail, it's exquisite.
- 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.
- [Flack is questioning Melanie, a former patient of the victim, plastic surgeon Dr. Spencer Howard]
- Melanie Hampton: C'mon, you can say it. What household pet do I resemble?
- Detective Don Flack: C-cat?
- Melanie Hampton: I'd kill that man.
- Detective Don Flack: Spencer Howard, did this to you?
- Melanie Hampton: He kept telling me that he could fix it! I just went in there for a little eye lift, I look like a freakin' cat!
- Detective Don Flack: So you decided to get even.