CSI: NY (TV Series)

Supply & Demand (2005)

Melina Kanakaredes: Stella Bonasera

Quotes 

• Detective Mac Taylor : [the father of a suspect has filed a complaint against Stella]  You should've told me. You know how I hate getting surprised by Hillborne.

  Stella Bonasera : Lipstone's just trying to get us on the defensive, Mac.

  Detective Mac Taylor : You handed her ammunition. Benson's just trying to protect his daughter like any father would.

  Stella Bonasera : Yeah, well, I was thinking of Will's father. How long that drive back to Jersey must've been after what we said to him.

  Detective Mac Taylor : You should've been thinking about Lipstone. She's an expert at turning a criminal trial into a referendum on how cops screw up.

  Stella Bonasera : I know how trials work, Mac.

  Detective Mac Taylor : Good! Act like it.

• Diane Lipstone : My client has nothing to say.

  Stella Bonasera : It's okay. I'm in a chatty mood. You know, Jordan, when you opened that purse and saw what you walked away with, my guess is you figured out a way that you could regain the lifestyle your father had cut you off from.

  Jordan Benson : [flashback]  Coke at a serious discount. Text me, it's safer.

  Stella Bonasera : And you had two buyers the next day. So you hid the drugs at your apartment, took the two portions to campus to sell, and after you sold to Paul and Andrea, Deroy was waiting for you, and grabbed your purse. But the drugs weren't in the purse. Now you had his drugs, and he had your address. You couldn't call the police. You went back to the apartment, got the rest of the drugs and took off, so you could sell them.

  Jordan Benson : [flashback to Jordan and Will]  Taking off for a couple days.

  Will Novick : See ya.

  Stella Bonasera : But you never gave Will a heads up. It didn't matter that he was brutally, *brutally* murdered. At some point, when you came back here, maybe after Detective Flack and I told you what happened to Will, you realized that those drugs were bad news. And up until that moment, everything that happened was a series of... stupid mistakes made by a spoiled, sheltered little girl. But what a jury will find most unforgivable... is that there is no record of you *ever* trying to contact Andrea Allix, knowing that those same drugs killed Paul Collins. Perhaps on your lawyer's sound advice. Jordan Benson, you're under arrest for negligent homicide and heroin trafficking.

• Sheldon Hawkes : Fatal shot to the head was an act of mercy, after the beating he took.

  Stella Bonasera : His attackers were on a mission.

  Sheldon Hawkes : Yeah, and they knew how to inflict pain. They broke three ribs, causing him to lose his breath. Kicked him in the kidneys hard enough to bruise the organs. It'd be excruciating. Stomped each kneecap.

  Detective Mac Taylor : The intruders were desperate for something inside that apartment. Probably a stash of heroin.

  Sheldon Hawkes : Did they find it?

  Stella Bonasera : We don't think so.

  Detective Mac Taylor : Signs of heroin use?

  Sheldon Hawkes : I'm running a tox. No needle marks, no inflammation of the nose or lips. Weight was good, heart in great condition. I'd be surprised if he's a user.

  Stella Bonasera : Well, the smartest dealers never dabble in their own product.

  Sheldon Hawkes : His father came up from Jersey to, uh, do the ID. I did not detail the torture to him.

• Stella Bonasera : This place is totally trashed.

  Detective Mac Taylor : So is the victim.

  Stella Bonasera : I don't think I've seen this severe of a tossing in a long while. Oh, yeah, they were definitely looking for something.

  Detective Mac Taylor : Thoroughness of the search says it probably wasn't found.

  Stella Bonasera : You search, you find, you stop.

• [about rich father who froze his spoiled daughter's credit card account] 

  Stella Bonasera : Six weeks ago, he paid off two balances over $10,000 each, and then her froze her account. It's the uptown version of being grounded.