CSI: Miami (TV Series)

Hostile Takeover (2009)

Rex Linn: Sergeant Frank Tripp

Quotes 

• Ryan Wolfe : So, I know the hostage-taker's van looks dirty, but it's clean as a whistle. No VIN, cold plates, no fingerprints.

  Frank Tripp : These your blueprints?

  Ryan Wolfe : Yeah, blueprints of the lab. This guy really did his homework.

  Frank Tripp : Probably knows the building better than we do.

  Ryan Wolfe : Check this out.

  Frank Tripp : [taking an evidence baggie containing a pill bottle]  Huh. Label torn off, no name. Little blue pills.

  Ryan Wolfe : Not exactly. Diazepam. They're antidepressants.

  Frank Tripp : Well, this just gets better and better, doesn't it? Without those, his state of mind's gonna get a lot worse.

• Lieutenant Horatio Caine : What's Mr. Sloan's full name?

  Darren Ripley : Mathew Sloan.

  Frank Tripp : I'll check it out. Track down the ex-wife.

  Darren Ripley : Yeah, track her down.

  [laughing] 

  Darren Ripley : What, are you guys kidding me? What does he have anything to do with this?

  Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Mr. Sloan is seeking justice. You did something to him, and now he's sent me after you. Why?

  Darren Ripley : We were legitimate business partners, okay? I was starting this new venture, this drive-in, check-cashing thing. I mean, we both went in 50/50.

  Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Which means he put up his life savings, and you put up fake paper.

  Darren Ripley : Yeah, that. Whatever. See, when the venture failed, he noticed that I wasn't too concerned about it, so he somehow figured out that I was counterfeiting. You know? Then he kept calling the Better Business Bureau. He kept calling the attorney general's office. He was trying to sic them on me. I mean, he was crazy, man.

  Lieutenant Horatio Caine : This man... has you facing federal charges now, so who's crazy?

• Frank Tripp : You own Royal Vista Check Cashing, Mr. Ripley?

  Darren Ripley : Uh, you know what? Here's a better question. When are you paying back the 100 grand that you took from me?

  Frank Tripp : Pay you back? What the hell are you talking about? That money's not worth the lint in my pocket.

  Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Yes, what my esteemed colleague is trying to say is that we know you're counterfeiting money.

  Darren Ripley : [amused]  Get out of here, man. You guys got some bad intel.

  Lieutenant Horatio Caine : The burn marks on your hands indicate a process that uses a corrosive material to strip ink off bills.

  Frank Tripp : Then you print whatever denomination you want.

  Darren Ripley : Okay, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Look, just listen. You guys came into my workplace, no warrant, nothing - which I was cool with, by the way - and now you're setting me up.

  Frank Tripp : No, we didn't, but somebody wanted to make sure you went down for this.

  Lieutenant Horatio Caine : [putting a picture on the table]  Why don't you have a seat?

• Lieutenant Horatio Caine : [after Mathew was spotted at his ex-wife's house]  So, what do we have?

  Frank Tripp : Nada. Family wasn't here at the time. Patrol has fanned out, the canine unit's been, uh, notified.

  Calleigh Duquesne : Was anything taken from the inside?

  Frank Tripp : No. Pool guy across the street said he just showed up, kicked the door in, and high-tailed it out of here.

  Calleigh Duquesne : Well, that's a new one. You kick the door in and then turn around and flee?

  Lieutenant Horatio Caine : You know, friends, I think this is another message.