CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series)

Justice Is Served (2001)

Alicia Coppola: Dr. Susan Hillridge

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• Dr. Susan Hillridge : Mr. Grissom. You're looking grim. I'm afraid I don't have a supplement for that.

• Dr. Susan Hillridge : You want an empirical experience? There's a fresh shake in my fridge.

• Dr. Susan Hillridge : [about her dog]  What makes you think that Simba had anything to do with that jogger's death?

  Gil Grissom : There have been complaints about your dog in the past.

  Detective Ray O'Riley : Your meter reader's singing soprano.

• Gil Grissom : [to Susan Hillridge]  You said that you were a doctor. May I ask your specialty?

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : Nutrition. My patients are mostly professional athletes.

  Gil Grissom : Do you ever consult with amateur athletes? Like marathoners?

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : You mean like that jogger? What was his name?

  Gil Grissom : Terry Manning.

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : Doesn't ring a bell. And I'm very good with names, Mr. Grissom.

• Gil Grissom : You're very organized, Dr. Hillridge. I imagine you're upset about your dog, having to put him down if it comes to that.

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : I don't hold onto things. I accept the evolution of change. We live, we die, we replenish the earth.

  Gil Grissom : Man's best friend, but not yours, huh?

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : None of us gets out alive. I would think, in your job, you'd know that.

• Dr. Susan Hillridge : Tell me, Mr. Grissom, how does a man choose death as his profession?

  Gil Grissom : It chose me, actually.

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : Well, I guess one man's corpse is another man's candy.

• Gil Grissom : [to Susan Hillridge]  We found blood in your kitchen blender. The lab has matched it to the dead jogger.

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : It had to happen eventually.

  Gil Grissom : Why?

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : You're the scientist. I should have thought you'd figured that out.

  Gil Grissom : I haven't.

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : Think of the bugs, Grissom. Cycle of life. Angels versus insects. When we die, the fable we tell ourselves is we go toward a white light and angels. But you and I both know the hard reality is that insects arrive immediately and begin turning us back to earth.

  Gil Grissom : Yes, but the insects haven't killed anyone.

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : No. But they'd die if they didn't have bodies to feed off of. And so will I.

  [Grissom looks at Susan] 

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : Porphyria.

  Gil Grissom : The madness of King George.

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : Or the Legend of the Vampire. Which makes it a real hard disease to have, but it's real for me.

  Gil Grissom : It's genetic.

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : The only thing my father ever gave me. The first time it presented was after a minor sunburn. My lips receded. So did my gums. I increased my glucose intake and I was fine... for a while. I began a drug regimen, but they only treated the symptoms. I had my spleen removed because it absorbed my blood, but nothing helped. Lesions started forming on my face. That's when I bought my first dog. Bullets and poison leave residue in the blood. Dogs kill clean. Imagine what I'd look like by now without them.

  Gil Grissom : You could've tried intravenous hematin.

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : Human blood is the richest source of heme.

  Gil Grissom : And so you extracted the organs with the most blood: the liver, the spleen, the heart.

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : If you lock me up, I'll go mad.

  Gil Grissom : Unfortunately, a symptom of your condition, but you've been killing people, doctor.

  Dr. Susan Hillridge : I'll die in prison.

  Gil Grissom : Yes, but the people you'd be feeding off of will still be alive. Cycle of life.