CSI: NY (TV Series)

Damned If You Do (2010)

Sela Ward: Jo Danville

Quotes 

• Jo Danville : Is the mother gonna make it?

  Detective Mac Taylor : She's not conscious yet, but the doctors say she'll pull through. It's nothing short of a miracle. I've never seen anyone take a beating like that and survive.

• Jo Danville : [as Jo and Danny are watching Adam trying to get a confession out of Owen Hicks by pretending to be a polygraph examiner]  How long do you give him?

  Detective Danny Messer : Well, if Adam remembers to plug the damn thing in, I don't think he gets past the first question.

• Billy Travers : [after his mother identifies him as the one who beat her and killed his father]  I don't understand. Why would she do this to me?

  Jo Danville : Do this to you? Maybe because you beat her within an inch of her life.

  Billy Travers : I wasn't even at the house. I haven't been home in over a month.

• Jo Danville : [to Billy]  So from about 8:00 to 11:00, I'm just supposed to take your word for it that you were in your room? And the only person who can account for your whereabouts earlier that day is your girlfriend

  [starts writing something down] 

  Billy Travers : What are you doing?

  Jo Danville : Math, because you're not man enough to admit what you did. Now I gotta do math. I hate math. Half hour by train to get to your parents' place. Twenty-five minutes to stand outside and build the courage to kill them. Another 40 minutes inside to do the deed and change your clothes. Fifteen minutes to puke and then find a place to ditch the bloody clothes. Another half hour to travel to your room... Five... ten... carry one... two hours and 20 minutes, give or take. Plenty of time for you to commit the murder and get back to your room.

• Detective Mac Taylor : [to Danville]  If this is gonna work, we got to trust each other. The DD-5 documenting Grace Travers recanting the I.D., I saw you looking at it. Damaging to the case... you thought maybe I wouldn't file it?

  Jo Danville : History has a tendency of repeating itself.

  Detective Mac Taylor : What happened in D.C. is not a part of my history.

• Detective Mac Taylor : Uncovering mistakes made by your lab and alerting defense counsel was part of your oath. Still is.

  Jo Danville : Tell that to Senator Matthews. I still get letters from him blaming me for the outcome of his daughter's case. The mistake I uncovered was made by a guy named Frank Waters. Impeccable reputation. I worked with Frank Waters for 12 years, Mac. I went to his wedding, his kids' birthdays. So when I discovered he destroyed a document detailing a mistake he made interpreting DNA results, trust became just another word and Serena Matthews' rapist went free.

  Detective Mac Taylor : You had to make it public.

  Jo Danville : It was a decision I don't regret making and I'd make it again.

  Detective Mac Taylor : Jo, my team does not sacrifice integrity for a desired result. Now that you're part of it, I promise you you'll never have to make that kind of decision again, okay?

• Steven Benson : It took a few weeks and several fights, but we decided that telling the truth was the right thing to do.

  Jo Danville : It was. No matter how much it may have hurt. So you had no contact with Paul after that?

  Steven Benson : We tried, but Paul didn't want anything to do with us. He felt that we'd betrayed him, so he just cut us off.

  Jo Danville : We moved a couple years later. Tried to put it behind us.

  Nina Benson : Paul was digging by the side of the house for the spare key, but the locks had been changed and he used a crowbar to get inside. He thought it was you in that bed. Paul went back to the house to kill you.