CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Season 3 Episode 6

Jacqui: You got to wonder when a guy gives it up this easily. Prints, DNA, his car ...
Nick: Yeah, well ... maybe he thinks he's some kind of smart guy you know, covering all the bases.
Jacqui: Or maybe he didn't do it.

Catherine: Mathers' execution's back on. The Roths asked me to sit with them.
Grissom: Is that a good idea?
Catherine: I just need to do it.
Grissom: Why?
Catherine: It's like your first autopsy ... your first murdered child. You can make it through that you can keep doing this work.
Grissom (shows her results): All the paints match all the victims except for Charlene Roth. See, being capable of matching paint samples that are fifteen years apart that's why I keep doing this work.
Catherine (smiles): Well, that's the difference between you and me.

Grissom: So Janet Kent's killer saved some of her hair and planted it on Debbie Reston fifteen years later on the night that John Mathers was set to be executed.
Catherine: John Mathers is the copycat.
Grissom: Yeah. And the original killer's still out there playing a really twisted game.

Grissom: We just learned something we didn't know about the prior murders.
Catherine: Yes, what the paint was all about.
Grissom: And if we just learned about it now, how did the copycat killer know?

Catherine: Ms. Campbell, I have no personal opinion about your client. I tested the evidence in his case and that evidence failed to exonerate him.
Ms. Campbell: Fifteen years ago. Before DNA. Before the real killer struck again. You are going to test the pubic hair sent to the federal lab against the new suspect ...
Catherine: What suspect? I can't help you.
Ms. Campbell: You CSIs are biased for the prosecution. You decide ahead of time how you want the evidence to come out.
Catherine: Ms. Campbell, I am only an interpreter of the evidence. I know how to make the evidence speak to me. I don't care about the outcome.
Ms. Campbell: How about guilt or innocence? John was 15 seconds from execution. Sure you're not biased? I hear the same evidence speaking. You know what it's telling me? The killer's still out there.

Mr. Reston: I don't know her schedule. She works, goes to school. I hardly ever see her.
Brass: She's 17. She lives in your house. You're going to have to do better than that.
Mr. Reston: Stuck-up bitch is ashamed of me. Can't wait to graduate high school and move out. She's already got a job: Coffee shop. Got a car.
Brass: What kind of car?
Mr. Reston: VW convertible, blue.
Brass: And as a concerned parent, you're going to ask me to put out a broadcast, aren't you?

Warrick (looks at the body): This looks familiar.
Catherine: A little too familiar.

Nick: Missing girl's old man's got blood all over him. Blood in her room ...
Grissom: I think it's time for dear old dad to go to detox.

Jacqui: You and me need to catch up. How's Lindsey?
Catherine: Second grade, tons of homework.
Jacqui: Lucky for her she got your smarts, not Eddie's.
Catherine: Now I know why I missed you so much.

Grissom: Dead bolts on her bedroom door.
Nick: Trying to keep something out.
Grissom: A bedroom refrigerator? (looks inside it) There's milk, fruit ... a toaster?
Nick: Guess they weren't much on family dinners.

Brass: His blood alcohol level is .37.
Grissom: Ooh... alcoholic.
Brass: Yeah.
Sara: Lucky me.
Grissom: Yeah.

Grissom: So, how do you feel about it?
Catherine: Mathers was convicted and sent to death row by a jury of his peers. I played a small part. I presented my findings ...
Grissom: Non-responsive.
Catherine: Okay. I haven't figured out how I feel yet.
Grissom: It's just about evidence. It's not up to you whether he lives or dies. Case has no face.

Brass: He's going to kill again.
Grissom: Yeah. And all we've got is a partial fingerprint and an M.O. that may lead us in the right direction.
Brass: You know sometimes in this job I'd rather be lucky than good. Maybe
next time we'll get lucky.
Grissom: I don't believe in luck. My only real purpose is to be smarter than the bad guys to find the evidence that they didn't know they left behind and make sense of it all. Makes me very uncomfortable to realize maybe this guy is smarter than me.

Nick: People are pigs.
Grissom: Don't insult the pigs, Nick. They're actually very clean.