- Sara Sidle: [Sara and Grissom sit facing each other. The light from the setting sun filters through the darkening room] It's funny... the things that you remember and the things that you don't, you know. There was a smell of iron in the air. Cast-off on the bedroom wall. There was this young cop puking his guts. I remember the woman who took me to foster care. I can't remember her name, which is strange, you know, 'cause I couldn't let go of her hand.
- Grissom: Well... the mind has its filters.
- Sara Sidle: I do remember the looks. I became the girl whose father was stabbed to death. Do you think there's a murder gene?
- Grissom: I don't believe that genes are a predictor of violent behavior.
- Sara Sidle: You wouldn't know that in my house. The fights, the yelling, the trips to the hospital. I thought it was the way that everybody lived. When my mother killed my father, I found out that it wasn't.
- [Sara starts to cry. Grissom reaches out and holds her hand]
- Conrad Ecklie: I thought I was clear.
- Grissom: You were. Now let me be clear. Sara's behavior is a direct result of my management.
- Conrad Ecklie: So I should fire you.
- Grissom: But you won't.
- [last lines]
- Grissom: [about Sara] She's a great criminalist, Conrad. And I need her.
- Conrad Ecklie: I'm sure you do. You know what? She's a loose cannon with a gun. And she's all yours.
- Catherine Willows: You know, every time we get a case with a hint of domestic violence or abuse, you go off the deep end. What is your problem?
- Sara Sidle: Yeah, I probably do, and you let your sexuality cloud your judgment about men, and I'm gonna go over your head.
- Sara Sidle: [to Ecklie] The only reason this is your lab is because Grissom doesn't kiss ass. You couldn't hack it in the field, so you fail your way up, you break up our team, and now you just hang out in the hallways waiting for one of us to screw up.
- [Grissom comes to Sara's residence]
- Sara Sidle: Well, if you're here, it can't be good... Can I get you anything?
- Grissom: Sure. An explanation.
- [first lines]
- For Sale sign: Sandstone. The American Dream. From $399,000
- Construction Guy: [shouts] Joe! Joe! Hey, Joe! Phone! I'm not your damn secretary and your wife's not my boss!
- [to phone]
- Construction Guy: You hear that, Cheryl? This is a company phone.
- Cheryl: [from phone] I don't care! I want to talk to Joe!
- [He sees legs half buried in the ground]
- Captain Jim Brass: So men shop for a wife. You screen the guys?
- Chloe Daniels: You pick up a woman at a bar, does the bartender screen you? You take her home, take her to your bed. How well did you screen her?
- Captain Jim Brass: You should be sainted.
- Chloe Daniels: What do you think engagement rings are? Just proof that a man can pay for his bride... Marriage is not romance. It's a contract with the state. It's an investment in your future. I'm not making it about money, it just is.
- Grissom: It's from The Big Chill. One of the characters explaining a basic fact of life - that rationalizations are more important to us than sex even.
- Captain Jim Brass: We also found your blood on her parka that she wore to the hospital two years ago.
- Ken Wellstone: I can explain that. That was from
- [being interrupted]
- Captain Jim Brass: So can we - you beat her, you killed her, you buried her.
- Warrick Brown: Tell me, what's a receptionist at a hair salon doing with that much tar?
- Vlad: In Russia, I work for certain family. When they want body taken care of, I go to oil field, dump body in tar. None ever found.
- Warrick Brown: Sounds like fun.
- [One-liner before credits]
- C.S.I. Swing Shift Supervisor Catherine Willows: I don't know if she was buried alive, but she wasn't buried alone.
- Conrad Ecklie: You are a law enforcement officer, and a representative of this city, that means I expect you to conduct yourself in an appropriate manner in and away from this lab.
- Catherine Willows: You know what, if this is gonna be one of your "for the good of the lab" speeches, don't bother. I've heard them.
- Conrad Ecklie: Just, take a seat.
- [Sara doesn't sit]
- Conrad Ecklie: Willows is a supervisor which means you treat her with respect, insulting her in front of coworkers...
- Catherine Willows: She's not my supervisor.
- Conrad Ecklie: ...Alright, your superior. Sara, you berate witnesses, you disrespect the people you work with, you luck your way out of a DUI take a look! You've got a half a dozen complaints in your jacket. And if Grissom *really* documented your performance there'd probably be a dozen more. That's not the kind of person I want in my lab!
- Catherine Willows: The only reason this is "your" lab is because Grissom doesn't kiss ass. You couldn't hack it in the field so you fail your way up, you break up our team, and now you just hang out in the hallways waiting for one of us to screw up!
- Conrad Ecklie: Sidle, you're on one week's suspension without pay.
- Catherine Willows: Great.
- Conrad Ecklie: And when you get back you're apologizing to Catherine.
- Catherine Willows: [frankly and with a smile] No I'm not.