- Greg Sanders: You smell like death.
- Sara Sidle: I've heard.
- Greg Sanders: You know... a real man wouldn't mind.
- Night Club Manager: Look, I was just doing my job.
- Nick Stokes: Hey... treating another human being like garbage is not a job. It's a choice.
- Sara Sidle: Soup?
- Nick Stokes: Human... soup. Well, we are 73.5% liquid, eh, Dave?
- David Phillips: Add some bacteria, a couple gases, and... voila!
- [investigating a murder in high school]
- Warrick Brown: What were you: a jock or a brain?
- Gil Grissom: I was a ghost.
- David Phillips: From the sound of it, I'd say he's been dead about two months.
- Sara Sidle: Sound of it?
- David Phillips: [shakes the bag, liquid sloshes around inside it]
- Club manager: Listen, this guy was scaring my customers, so I drove him out of town.
- Nick Stokes: You didn't, by any chance, happen to put him in a bag and dropped him off a hill into a gully did you?
- Catherine Willows: So that leaves you, Warrick. What were you?
- Warrick Brown: Oh, I was short, I had big feet, thick glasses.
- Warrick Brown: You?
- Warrick Brown: Yeah. I got pushed around by all the guys and never got any play from the girls.
- Catherine Willows: The girls didn't even notice your eyes?
- Warrick Brown: No, they used to tease me about my eyes. Called me names.
- Catherine Willows: Aww, well, what do they know? They're your best feature.
- Catherine Willows: So how's your new toy working out?
- Warrick Brown: It's been downsized.
- Catherine Willows: Bummer. I know how you wanted to see that thing work.
- Warrick Brown: Well, it's the same difference, really. Air is drawn into the last tube the chalk absorbs the chemicals from the air. And mass spec will break it down at the lab.
- Catherine Willows: So why did you need the expensive one in the first place?
- Warrick Brown: [Cath smiles at his honesty] 'Cause it was cool.
- Gil Grissom: Sara, do you have any duct tape in your kit?
- Sara Sidle: Yeah. It's what I use to hold it together.
- Warrick Brown: I thought it was our job to speak for the victim no matter what it took... and to hell with the budgets.
- Gil Grissom: Our job is to think, Warrick. Machinery should never matter more than our mind.
- Nick Stokes: Shut up. She was not.
- Warrick Brown: I saw her in action.
- Nick Stokes: Really?
- Warrick Brown: Yeah, she was.
- Nick Stokes: Catherine?
- Catherine Willows: I was what?
- Warrick Brown: I was just telling Nick how you were a big bully in high school.
- Catherine Willows: A bully? All right, I guess I was. But, I mean, not the kind that people want to take a gun out and shoot.
- Warrick Brown: No.
- Nick Stokes: No, no. You were the kind that guys fall all over themselves trying to impress.
- Catherine Willows: Like you, Nick, huh? Oh, Nick... what were you in high school?
- Nick Stokes: Me? I was, uh... I was "dependable".
- Catherine Willows: Dependable.
- Nick Stokes: Mmhmm.
- Catherine Willows: Dependable jock, dependable stoner?
- Nick Stokes: No. Never a strap, never a smoker. Just all-around "dependable" guy, I guess.
- Warrick Brown: Cath laughs. right before Sara walks into the break room: What Nick's trying to say he was unpopular.
- Nick Stokes: pointing at Warrick for emphasis: No, no I'll tell you what I wasn't; I wasn't a Mac Daddy wannabe with a 'Members Only' jacket.
- Warrick Brown: What's wrong with those Member's Only jackets? They were kinda cool back in the day.
- Sara Sidle: Nick, Ronny's got something on Liquid Man, says it's hot.
- Nick Stokes: Great.
- Warrick Brown: Hey Sara, what were you in high school?
- Sara Sidle: Nick walks past her and sniffs: Science nerd.
- Nick Stokes: whispers: You changed? But you still smell. Let's go.
- Catherine Willows: So what were you in high school, Nick?
- Nick Stokes: Me? I was... dependable.
- Catherine Willows: Dependable?
- Warrick Brown: He's trying to say he was unpopular.