- [first lines]
- [Grissom struggles to tie a bowtie]
- Catherine Willows: What are you doing?
- Gil Grissom: I'm going insane. I don't understand this diagram.
- Catherine Willows: You don't need a diagram. You need a woman.
- [stands behind him and successfully ties the tie]
- Catherine Willows: I'm looking forward to your speech.
- Sofia Curtis: Sofia Curtis.
- Gil Grissom: CSI-three, day shift. You work for Ecklie.
- Sofia Curtis: As of tonight, so do you.
- [Sofia tells something to Grissom who isn't paying attention to her]
- Sofia Curtis: [pause] That time I was talking to you.
- Gil Grissom: Huh?
- [turns to her]
- Gil Grissom: Sorry. I was, uh, treating it like white noise.
- [Grissom leaves the ballroom and comes to the hotel]
- Officer Metcalf: Hey, Griss. What's with the monkey suit?
- Gil Grissom: I was at a funeral across the street.
- Officer Metcalf: At a casino? My condolences.
- Catherine Willows: Why are you talking to yourself?
- Gil Grissom: I'm trying a new technique.
- Catherine Willows: Is it working?
- Gil Grissom: I have no idea.
- Catherine Willows: You crack this kid's head open, all that would come out would be T and A.
- Greg Sanders: I think you said that about me once.
- Catherine Willows: Actually, more than once.