CSI: NY (TV Series)

Damned If You Do (2010)

Gary Sinise: CSI Detective Mac Taylor

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• Jo Danville : Is the mother gonna make it?

  Detective Mac Taylor : She's not conscious yet, but the doctors say she'll pull through. It's nothing short of a miracle. I've never seen anyone take a beating like that and survive.

• Detective Mac Taylor : Mrs. Travers, do you remember what happened last night?

  Grace Travers : No. I just remember waking up in this room.

  Detective Mac Taylor : I realize this is hard, but can you tell me why your son would have done this?

  Grace Travers : Billy?

  Detective Mac Taylor : Yes.

  Grace Travers : You think Billy did this to me?

  Detective Mac Taylor : Last night, you identified your son. To me. I showed you a photograph and you indicated that he had done this.

  Grace Travers : No... no, I did no such thing. No, Billy didn't do this. He would never do anything to hurt me or his father.

  Detective Mac Taylor : Mrs. Travers, I know you've been through a lot...

  Grace Travers : Who are you?

  Detective Mac Taylor : My name is Mac Taylor.

  Grace Travers : Why did you come here? To tell me that my son did this to me? To tell me these lies?

  Detective Mac Taylor : I don't want to upset you...

  Grace Travers : No, you listen to me! You leave Billy alone, do you understand me? He would never do this! Now, go! Get out! Leave my family alone!

• Paul Benson : The woman who went to the hospital... she survived? She's gonna be okay?

  Detective Mac Taylor : No. She lost her husband, her son lost his father and she's gonna have permanent brain damage. So, no, she's not gonna be okay. You had an opportunity to get out and make something of your life, Paul. Instead, you destroyed another family.

• Detective Mac Taylor : Mrs. Travers, did someone in your family do this to you?

  [Mrs. Travers moves her finger up and down, meaning "yes"] 

  Detective Mac Taylor : [to an officer]  Give me that picture over there. Right there. Come on. Come on. Mrs. Travers, I need you to listen very carefully...

  [pointing to Billy Travers] 

  Detective Mac Taylor : Is this the person who did this to you?

  [Mrs. Travers moves her finger up and down, meaning "yes"] 

  Detective Mac Taylor : Is this your son? Did your son do this to you?

  [Mrs. Travers moves her finger up and down, meaning "yes"] 

  Detective Mac Taylor : We got to find this kid right away.

• Detective Lindsay Monroe : [to Mac about Billy Travers]  He was either extremely careful or we have to consider that he didn't do this.

  Detective Mac Taylor : At the scene, I thought that might be the only chance to talk to her. When they said there was no forced entry, that prompted me to show her a photo of her family.

  Detective Lindsay Monroe : And she was responsive, right?

  Detective Mac Taylor : She was. She looked me in the eye and understood me, but maybe I pushed too hard in the moment.

• Detective Mac Taylor : [to Danville]  If this is gonna work, we got to trust each other. The DD-5 documenting Grace Travers recanting the I.D., I saw you looking at it. Damaging to the case... you thought maybe I wouldn't file it?

  Jo Danville : History has a tendency of repeating itself.

  Detective Mac Taylor : What happened in D.C. is not a part of my history.

• Detective Mac Taylor : Uncovering mistakes made by your lab and alerting defense counsel was part of your oath. Still is.

  Jo Danville : Tell that to Senator Matthews. I still get letters from him blaming me for the outcome of his daughter's case. The mistake I uncovered was made by a guy named Frank Waters. Impeccable reputation. I worked with Frank Waters for 12 years, Mac. I went to his wedding, his kids' birthdays. So when I discovered he destroyed a document detailing a mistake he made interpreting DNA results, trust became just another word and Serena Matthews' rapist went free.

  Detective Mac Taylor : You had to make it public.

  Jo Danville : It was a decision I don't regret making and I'd make it again.

  Detective Mac Taylor : Jo, my team does not sacrifice integrity for a desired result. Now that you're part of it, I promise you you'll never have to make that kind of decision again, okay?

• Detective Mac Taylor : What were you thinking, Paul? You were getting even? That killing your parents was somehow gonna settle the score for them testifying against you?

  Paul Benson : I was just a kid.

  Detective Mac Taylor : You were 18 years old. You were old enough to be held accountable for your actions.

  Paul Benson : They betrayed me.

  Detective Mac Taylor : No, no. You betrayed them. You think it was easy for your parents to do what they did? Your girlfriend, Sarah... they were just supposed to let her go through life knowing you raped her and got away with it?

• Grace Travers : Billy. Who's this?

  Detective Mac Taylor : My name is Mac Taylor.

  Grace Travers : Have you met my son, Billy?

  Detective Mac Taylor : I have. You have a good son, Mrs. Travers. You're a very lucky woman.

• Sid Hammerback : [to Mac about Grace Travers' injury]  Often times, damage to the temporal lobe results in seizures and those seizures have a tendency to start in the hands.

  Detective Mac Taylor : So it's possible the movement of her finger up and down was involuntary. You think I made a mistake showing her the photograph?

  Sid Hammerback : Well, like you said, she was responsive and obeying commands. I hate to play devil's advocate here, Mac, but a defense attorney would have a field day with that ID. Bottom line, we don't have a picture of what happened in her brain when she moved her finger. So there's just no way to know if her ID is reliable.

  Detective Mac Taylor : And now she's defending her son.