- Dr. Susan Hillridge: Mr. Grissom. You're looking grim. I'm afraid I don't have a supplement for that.
- Warrick Brown: [while Nick and Warrick are searching the park where the jogger's body was discovered and it starts to rain] This sucks! But it's evidence, right?
- Nick Stokes: No, hair and fiber is evidence, Warrick. This is combat duty.
- Warrick Brown: [as he sees something on the ground] Yeah, it's somebody's "doody."
- Greg Sanders: [to Grissom] You know, most dogs have 42 teeth but, as you've discovered, your Cujo only has 41. Woof-woof.
- Gil Grissom: Did you ever hear a dog say "woof-woof," Greg?
- [Greg shrugs]
- Gil Grissom: I mean, what is the origin of that? And what do we sound like to them, I wonder.
- Greg Sanders: I don't know. Probably blah, blah, blah.
- [Catherine and Sara have just seized a carnival as evidence and Sara is grinning madly]
- Catherine Willows: [Annoyed] What?
- Sara Sidle: Well, this is fun.
- Catherine Willows: As opposed to...?
- Sara Sidle: A more scientific approach.
- Gil Grissom: [to Catherine] What are you doing?
- Catherine Willows: The carnival case. I'm taking it.
- Gil Grissom: The carnival case?
- Catherine Willows: A 6-year-old girl died on a ride at the carnival over on Washington. The paperwork's on your desk.
- [Grissom nods and glances at his office]
- Gil Grissom: Did you straighten up my office while you were in there?
- Catherine Willows: You think I overstepped?
- [Grissom shakes his head]
- Catherine Willows: These people come to town, they commit crimes and they leave. I just want to get there before the carnival moves on.
- Gil Grissom: Okay. Take Sara with you.
- Catherine Willows: She's meeting me there.
- Gil Grissom: Like David Crosby said, big fella: "If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of my teeth."
- 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.
- Catherine Willows: [to Greg] So you did the tox screen on my carny?
- Greg Sanders: Roger that. You know, I have seen guys drink, like, 5 gallons of water to try and dilute their urine. It's the old straight flush. But all bad boy Sanders has to do is just test their specific gravity and... blammo! I can still catch their toxic butts.
- Gil Grissom: Simba's mold's still damp, but you can see it's a perfect match to the bite mark on the jogger.
- Nick Stokes: Does this mean Simba's going to the big dog pound in the sky?
- Gil Grissom: No. We need to build some more evidence.
- 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.
- Warrick Brown: [about Susan Hillridge] She gives me the willies.
- Gil Grissom: We can't arrest her for that.
- Catherine Willows: [while examining the evidence] The belt wasn't loose enough to yank the girl out. Forget Pickens.
- Sara Sidle: The only person who could have done it, then is the person that was in the car with her. The mother.
- Catherine Willows: Her eyes were pointing in the wrong direction.
- Sara Sidle: [shakes her head] I'm sorry. What?
- Catherine Willows: Carla Dantini was looking left when she told me about the accident. When a person is remembering, they look right and when they're creating, they look left.
- Sara Sidle: And by creating, you mean fabricating. Neurolinguistics programming. Human behavioral science.
- Catherine Willows: Call Brass and tell him to meet us at the mother's house.
- 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.
- Catherine Willows: [to Carla Dantini] So this is everything that you wore at the carnival last night?
- Carla Dantini: Yes.
- Catherine Willows: [picks up Carla's watch] Your watch is waterlogged.
- Carla Dantini: Yes. I went into the water after my daughter.
- Sara Sidle: So, you jumped in the water.
- Carla Dantini: Yes.
- Catherine Willows: How come your shoes are dry?
- Carla Dantini: Well... it was yesterday. Of course they're dry.
- Catherine Willows: The lining's blue. If they'd gotten wet, the indigo dye would have bled onto your white socks.
- Sara Sidle: You never went in the water.
- Catherine Willows: If you didn't go into the water, how did your watch get wet?
- Carla Dantini: [sounding nervous] Like I told her, reaching for my daughter.
- Catherine Willows: You reached for her all right. To hold her under.
- Catherine Willows: [to Carla Dantini] You took your daughter to the carnival 'cause "kids get hurt there all the time". You thought the blame would leave town with the ride. Well, you should have planned better.
- [grabs Carla's arm to stop her from walking away]
- Catherine Willows: What did you actually think? That you and your boyfriend would run off like newlyweds? No kid? No cares?
- Hugh Young: I never thought anything like that.
- Catherine Willows: She did.
- [to Carla]
- Catherine Willows: Didn't you?
- [Carla doesn't answer her]
- Carla Dantini: [in a cold tone of voice] I'm going to need a new lawyer.
- Catherine Willows: [to Sara] Bag the evidence.
- [to Brass]
- Catherine Willows: Arrest her, Jim.
- Al Robbins: Whoever removed this guy's organs knew how to handle one.
- Nick Stokes: So a dog killed him, then someone came along and cut him up.
- Gil Grissom: Someone with two legs and a medical degree.
- Thomas Pickens: I didn't do nothing. She was dead. I didn't come within two feet of her. I'm sorry about what happened, but that's all that I know.
- Catherine Willows: If you so much as breathed on this child, the evidence will tell me. You can dope your urine, change your name, compare yourself to Elvis himself, but if you harmed Sandy Dantini, I'm going to get you.
- Thomas Pickens: [about his carnival] I own this attraction and it's going with me to the next town.
- Catherine Willows: It's evidence. It's not going anywhere. Nothing is.
- Thomas Pickens: [as he steps towards Catherine] What says, you two string beans?
- Catherine Willows: It's going to take a lot more than vegetable insults to get us to move.
- Thomas Pickens: Lady, you don't know who you're messing with.
- Catherine Willows: Oh, I know exactly who you are, Mr. Pickens. And if you so much as look at me in the wrong way, I will personally lock you in a cell with someone who's going to do the same thing to you that you've been doing to those little girls.