CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series)

The Accused Is Entitled (2002)

Marg Helgenberger: CSI Catherine Willows

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Quotes 

• Lawyer : You took your clothes off for a living?

  Catherine Willows : For a VERY good living.

• Atty. Marjorie Westcott : You took your clothes off for a living.

  Catherine Willows : For a very good living.

• Catherine Willows : Grissom... they're beating our heads in. Judge is going to dismiss... you can feel it.

  Gil Grissom : Don't get ahead of yourself.

  Catherine Willows : I'm not ahead of myself. I'm up there front and center taking hits along with the rest of CSI. You know, you've turned into a really lousy leader. I need your help, and you're on the sidelines.

• Catherine Willows : D.A. just got the call. Tom's manager hired Marjorie Westcott to defend him.

  Nick Stokes : Soundbite Westcott?

  Catherine Willows : Guilty, rich client, high-profile case it's right up her alley. Publicity for her new cable show.

  Gil Grissom : Forget about who's involved. We do this like we do any other case.

• Catherine Willows : [to Nick]  Remember, if you get stuck just maintain the same posture. If there's any adjustments, you're seen as squirming. It's going to make you look shifty.

  Nick Stokes : Thanks, Cath. You know, I've done this before.

  Catherine Willows : Well, I've done it longer.

• Nick Stokes : [Catherine waits outside the courtroom on the bench; Nick comes out]  Damn!

  Catherine Willows : What?

  Nick Stokes : Damn, damn, damn. I forgot to put case identifiers on my dice photos.

  Catherine Willows : Date, time and file number?

  Nick Stokes : Yeah.

  [Catherine doesn't say anything] 

  Nick Stokes : Don't look at me that way, okay? I wrote it down on the evidence envelope. I had to move fast. The casino manager wanted us out of there.

  Catherine Willows : The dice places Tom at the murder. Victim's blood mixed with his saliva.

• Nick Stokes : I was sweating bullets looking at those photos.

  Catherine Willows : Did the judge exclude the dice?

  Nick Stokes : No. No, just my credibility.

• Gil Grissom : Tom Haviland's attorneys are not waiving time.

  Nick Stokes : Are you serious?

  Sara Sidle : They're actually exercising their right to a speedy trial?

  Gil Grissom : No requests for continuances, no stall tactics. They're pushing for their day in court.

  Warrick Brown : Good defense attorney always does the last thing you expect.

  Catherine Willows : Yeah. What typically drags on for months has now been put on the fast track and the prelim is less than 72 hours.

  Greg Sanders : I'm only done processing half the evidence.

  Catherine Willows : You're going to have to call in help, because if the judge thinks that our evidence isn't strong enough to go to trial, he's going to dismiss the charges on Tom.

  Sara Sidle : Can't the D.A. drop the charges and we'll refile when we get our evidence together?

  Catherine Willows : Sure, but the odds are that Tom will relocate to Europe and pull a Polanski.

  Greg Sanders : And what's a Polanski?

  Gil Grissom : Get-out-of-jail-free card. One more thing: Westcott just added a forensic scientist to their roster. She wants him to examine every piece of evidence we have against Haviland.

  Nick Stokes : As soon as it's processed they'll get a copy of our report.

  Gil Grissom : They're entitled to see it as it's processed.

  Nick Stokes : I've never done a case where the defendant took advantage of that rule of discovery.

  Gil Grissom : Well, when you can't attack the evidence itself, you attack the method of gathering the evidence.

  Sara Sidle : So who's their guy?

  Gil Grissom : Dr. Phillip Gerard.

  Sara Sidle : Phillip Gerard? Your mentor is their forensic scientist?

  Gil Grissom : Yeah. Marjorie Westcott's a smart lawyer.

• Catherine Willows : So, I've checked every plumbing fixture in this place. There's no blood.

  Sara Sidle : Grissom said he found blood under Movie Boy's nailbeds.

  Catherine Willows : And that sheet looks like a butcher's apron. Movie Boy had to wash his hands someplace.

• Catherine Willows : Marjorie's requesting copies of CSI's proficiency test records, by midnight.

  Gil Grissom : So relax. If any of us had failed the yearly proficiency test, we wouldn't be here.

  Catherine Willows : You completely forget, don't you? My test is on appeal.

  Gil Grissom : Oh, right.

  Catherine Willows : Board said I was wrong on one question. I said the question was ambiguous. They're going to rule my way, but not before the prelim.

  [sighs] 

  Catherine Willows : Just trying to rattle me.

  Gil Grissom : Is it working?

  Catherine Willows : Maybe I should just take a page out of your book. If I don't collect or analyze anything, I don't have to testify. Of course, it helps to be boss. Very politic. Ecklie must be rubbing off on you.

  Gil Grissom : Yeah, that's it. Ecklie.