- Gil Grissom: It's been 24 minutes, Greg. When's this thing going to be done?
- Greg Sanders: Well, with all due respect, sir, it's not a baked potato.
- Captain Jim Brass: Can you get a set of prints off those balloons?
- Warrick Brown: I can get a print off of air.
- Greg Sanders: Did I ever tell you I used to live in New York?
- Gil Grissom: Is this going to be a short story or a novel?
- Gil Grissom: Would you mind if I took a picture for my bite collection?
- Walt Braun: Whatever rubs your Buddha.
- Walt Braun: That's the thing about my father - he could never give advice but he had a million stories. "Scorpion and the Frog."
- Walt Braun: [in a jail cell talking to Brass and Grissom]
- Walt Braun: Scorpion needed to get across the creek and asked the frog for a ride. Frog says, "I can't trust you, you're a scorpion." Scorpion says, "Sure you can." Hops on the frog's back. Midway across, the scorpion stings the frog. Frog looks at him. "Why would you do that? Now we're both gonna die." Scorpion says..."I can't help it. I'm a scorpion."