- [Danny has been cleared of an officer-involved shooting, and his rookies' careers are over]
- Detective Danny Messer: I can't stop thinking, Mac, how I treated these cops like they were my family, and they didn't think twice about throwing me to the wolves. I've been doing this job way too long. I gotta work with people I can trust.
- [dissolve to the lab two weeks later]
- Detective Danny Messer: Just finished with Chief Sinclair.
- Lindsay Monroe Messer: And?
- Detective Danny Messer: That's it. It's done. No more Sergeant Messer. Just a... plain old detective.
- Lindsay Monroe Messer: Does that mean I don't have to salute you in the morning anymore?
- Detective Danny Messer: I still need you to do that.
- [Lindsay laughs]
- Lindsay Monroe Messer: You feel all right?
- Detective Danny Messer: I mean, it wasn't easy giving up the stripes, you know.
- Lindsay Monroe Messer: It's the right move, Danny.
- [Danny glances at Mac walking by in the hallway]
- Detective Danny Messer: This is where I belong.
- Detective Danny Messer: When you, uh, you know, take a life, no matter how justified, it messes you up.
- Don Flack: Meet Thomas Hurtz. Star and proprietor of Get the Geek. This guy insults you, you pay him five bucks, get a chance to shoot him with a paintball gun.
- Jo Danville: Well, clearly, the shooter didn't understand the rules of the game. He shot him with a real gun. Could we at least get a description?
- Don Flack: Sketch artist is sitting with the witnesses right now.
- Jo Danville: "Get the Geek", huh?
- Don Flack: [smirking] I bet he told his mother he was in show business.
- Ray James: On my way to the subway this morning, out of nowhere, someone shoots me. Must have been a stray.
- Mac Taylor: Didn't call 911?
- Ray James: Oh, I only live a couple blocks away.
- Don Flack: So, what, you hopped here?
- Mac Taylor: ER doc said you lost twenty percent of your blood volume when you were admitted. Wound like yours, slow bleeder. Probably took hours to lose that kind of blood.
- Ray James: They can't tell you that. That's my private medical records.
- Don Flack: This is not a kidney stone we're talking about. All gunshot wounds get reported to the police.