CSI: Miami (TV Series)
Out of Time (2009)
Emily Procter: CSI Detective Calleigh Duquesne
Quotes
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[1997 flashback]
Calleigh Duquesne : You must be the tow truck driver.
Eric Delko : I prefer "automotive recovery expert".
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[searching for Eric in the Everglades]
Calleigh Duquesne : What if he collapsed in the water?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : He's out here, Calleigh, and we're gonna find him.
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Calleigh Duquesne : I really appreciate you asking me to help with the case, Horatio.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : What do you see?
Calleigh Duquesne : Well, the car's been underwater, so we're not gonna find any usable prints, fibers, or hairs. Front end's damaged.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : [opening the driver's side door] The airbag is deployed. Could that have happened when the car went in the water?
Calleigh Duquesne : No. I don't think so. I've got transfer here, and you don't get transfer from water. It looks like the car came into contact with steel or maybe concrete.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Okay, so that means someone crashed it before it went in the water. Don't we need propellant to inflate the bag?
Calleigh Duquesne : The impact will ignite the propellant, and that generates the gas that fills the airbag. It basically works like the primer of a gun.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : And just like a gun, wouldn't there be explosive material on the driver?
Calleigh Duquesne : Yeah. Wow, I never even thought about that.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Calleigh, when I was back with the bomb squad, we used to do the Greiss test for nitrites. Why are you smiling?
Calleigh Duquesne : Because this is what I was hoping it would be like when I got here.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Me, too.
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Calleigh Duquesne : Detective Caine, did I speak out of turn back there?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : You did, but you're asking the right questions. Okay?
Calleigh Duquesne : Thanks, Detective.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Okay. You know what? Call me Horatio.
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Calleigh Duquesne : Ah, Lieutenant Dorsey. I'm Calleigh Duquesne.
Fred Dorsey : You're late.
Calleigh Duquesne : Yes, I am. I'm sorry. I-I got a little lost.
Fred Dorsey : Well, don't just stand there all day. Got 1,700 guns need their serial numbers checked. Hope you got a good night's sleep.
Calleigh Duquesne : I did. I slept very well, thank you.
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Calleigh Duquesne : Detective Caine asked me to come and get the vehicle, so...
Eric Delko : Well, it's all yours. You can take it. I just have one question. You want to give me your phone number now or... later?
Calleigh Duquesne : [laughing] Does that work?
Eric Delko : Yeah, it works all the time. Well, most of the time. Actually, it's never worked, but I'm gonna keep trying anyway.
Calleigh Duquesne : Well, I wouldn't bother with me, seriously, because I wouldn't even socialize with anyone remotely related to my job.
Eric Delko : Okay. We'll see.
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Calleigh Duquesne : Oh, my gosh, this is the lab?
[laughing]
Calleigh Duquesne : It's so messy. It looks like a broom closet.
Jesse Cardoza : Oh, it used to be.
Calleigh Duquesne : Is this why you're leaving?
Jesse Cardoza : No.
Calleigh Duquesne : Well, thank you very much for your help.
Jesse Cardoza : Anytime. Oh, and, uh, good luck, Calleigh.
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Lieutenant Horatio Caine : So, Fred, what can you tell me?
Fred Dorsey : Well, elemental composition of the bullet that Dr. Woods pulled out of the victim matches the batch of bullets that were found at the house. Now, it doesn't put the gun in Bowers' hand, but this is, uh, pretty definitive.
Calleigh Duquesne : Excuse me, but I believe that analysis is flawed.
Fred Dorsey : Are you questioning my science?
Calleigh Duquesne : No, I'm not questioning the science, just the interpretation... sir.
Fred Dorsey : I don't know if they told you at that fancy institute, but bullets packaged at the same time and from the same batch are elementally identical.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Hang on a second, Fred. Officer Duquesne, continue, please.
Calleigh Duquesne : A study done by the Department of Justice is finding that bullets packaged months apart in separate batches can have the same lead composition. Therefore, your link between the husband and the victim is unfounded. I mean, anyone could own this bullet.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Fred, did we see this study?
Fred Dorsey : It's worked for 40 years, Horatio. That's good enough for me.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : But, Fred, things are changing, and we need to change with them.
Fred Dorsey : We don't have any other way to compare bullets. You drop the ball on this one, and we're back to zero. What do we do then?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Look for more evidence. Officer Duquesne?
Calleigh Duquesne : Yes, sir?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Can I have a word?
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Calleigh Duquesne : I'm wondering if someone could point me in the direction of Lieutenant Fred Dorsey. He's in Special Investigations Unit.
Larry Parker : How about I point you to my unit, and you can work the night shift with me?
Jesse Cardoza : I'm sure your wife would take issue with that, Parker.
Larry Parker : You science guys. Always the buzzkill.
Jesse Cardoza : [Parker leaves] Sorry about that. They're stuck in the Stone Age.
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[transitioning between two parallel conversations]
Steve Bowers : Why do you want my shirt?
Calleigh Duquesne : Because every contact you make, no matter how small, will leave a trace.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : It's called Locard's exchange principle.
Arnold Hollings : I don't get it.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : That's okay. We do.
Steve Bowers : Sounds like a lot of hocus-pocus.
Calleigh Duquesne : Actually, there's an entire forensic discipline based on this principle.
Arnold Hollings : How come I've never heard of this on TV?
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Because guns make the news and science doesn't.
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Calleigh Duquesne : So, all we have to do is lift these papers and see if either one of them pops for nitrites.
[checking one]
Calleigh Duquesne : Husband's negative.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Let's try the gardener.
Calleigh Duquesne : It's a positive result.
Lieutenant Horatio Caine : Wow. That is amazing. We just put Hollings in the car.