- [talking about training officers]
- Detective Stella Bonasera: I ran into mine a month ago. I swear, if I were Chief of Police, he'd still call me 'Toots'.
- Detective Danny Messer: Most feared man in New York dies from fear of his own wife.
- Detective Aiden Burn: And she was the only one that loved him.
- Detective Danny Messer: Were there any people at the party tonight that might have had a problem with your husband?
- Chandra Heckman: Definitely.
- Detective Danny Messer: You got a name?
- Chandra Heckman: You got a pen?
- Banger #1: [Mac and Stella are watching surveillance footage of the bodega murder] Hector, blast that fool.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: [to Mac, gleefully] Did you hear that? Thank you for being stupid. We got a Hector.
- [investigating a crime scene above a canopy]
- Detective Aiden Burn: Well, too bad birds can't talk, because there's a robin's nest like 12 feet away.
- Detective Danny Messer: Bird's eye view.
- Detective Aiden Burn: [laughing] You had to say it, right?
- Detective Danny Messer: What're ya gonna do?
- Mac Taylor: [Tomas Perez's hands have come up clean on a GSR test] You murdered a man tonight, Perez. If there's one speck of dust out there that proves it, I will find it, and you will answer for what you did.
- Mac Taylor: The samples have identical chromatograms.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: And the spatter's consistent with the shooter's position.
- Mac Taylor: Perez thought it was safe to keep his jacket because he didn't get blood on it.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Hmm. Didn't expect to be brought down by a bottle of white wine.
- Mac Taylor: High-velocity Chardonnay spatter.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Score one for the yuppies.
- Mac Taylor: What brings a prosecutor to a crime lab?
- D.A. Allen McShane: I need an arrest on this one.
- Mac Taylor: That's always my goal with homicide.
- D.A. Allen McShane: But this is the stuff the papers clobber us with. Innocent people gunned down by gangbangers.
- Mac Taylor: Innocent white people.
- D.A. Allen McShane: You know, it's real easy for you. The politics doesn't come in here to your lab.
- Mac Taylor: Not if I can help it.
- D.A. Allen McShane: What do you need from me?
- Mac Taylor: Space. We're doing everything we can.
- D.A. Allen McShane: Do it faster.
- [at a social gathering, a guest fell four floors to his death on a canopy below]
- Sheldon Hawkes: There's a joke here about crashing a party, but I won't go there.
- [Melvin Heckman, the most powerful producer in New York before his death, was 200 pounds overweight and obnoxious]
- Detective Danny Messer: Your perfume was on Melvin Heckman.
- Gwen the Actress: I'd rather wait tables than get on that casting couch.
- [Gangbangers shot up a wine shop, murdering the owner and destroying several bottles]
- Detective Stella Bonasera: It's Nagasaki in there.
- [victim died at a party of film industry folks]
- Detective Danny Messer: Let's go print some beautiful people...