- Gil Grissom: Nick. You failed your firearm qualifications. You can't be here.
- Nick Stokes: Oh yeah, well, I'm takin' it again, day after tomorrow. So I figured I could work.
- Gil Grissom: Not in the field.
- Nick Stokes: You're serious?
- Gil Grissom: You're in violation just carrying a weapon.
- Dr. Al Robbins: [to Catherine] Kids don't belong in the coroner's office unless they're in a drawer. You should've found a different way to deal with your daughter's rebellion.
- Catherine Willows: Well, with due respect, Doc, this doesn't concern you.
- Dr. Al Robbins: Ever notice how childhood keeps getting shorter and shorter? Whose fault is that?
- Catherine Willows: I honestly don't know!
- Sara Sidle: This counts as field work, you know.
- Greg Sanders: Oh, I'm smiling on the inside.
- Sara Sidle: Dirty laundry or garbage?
- [before Greg can answer]
- Sara Sidle: You know what? You take garbage.
- Greg Sanders: Thanks.
- Greg Sanders: [to Mia] So would you like to grab a bite later? I know a diner down the street that serves a mean liver and onions.
- Mia Dickerson: I don't eat out.
- Greg Sanders: Never ever?
- Mia Dickerson: I don't like expectorant.
- Greg Sanders: Really?
- Mia Dickerson: Kitchen staff talk while they prepare your food and then the wait staff repeats your order over the plate, and by the time you get your meal, there are several DNA samples coating it.
- Greg Sanders: Wow.
- Mia Dickerson: Yeah. No, thank you.
- Mia Dickerson: I don't eat birthday cake either.
- Greg Sanders: Oh, blowing out the candles.
- Mia Dickerson: Ugh. Don't get me started.
- Gil Grissom: [to Sybil] Did you injure yourself, Mrs. Perez?
- Sybil Perez: [looks down and sees a bloodstain on her shirt] Oh, a nosebleed.
- Gil Grissom: That's a lot of blood. I'm going to need to take your shirt.
- Sybil Perez: Why?
- Gil Grissom: If you like, I can have someone follow you home so that you can change.
- Sybil Perez: You think we had something to do with it? Our daughter is missing. She's out there somewhere alone and scared. What are you doing about that?
- Gil Grissom: I'm just collecting evidence.
- Sybil Perez: Fine. Here!
- [removes her shirt and throws it at Grissom]
- Sybil Perez: Take it! Go find her!
- Catherine Willows: [to Lindsey] Mouthing off to teachers, slipping grades, and now hitchhiking. I mean what's next, Lindsey?
- Lindsey Willows: Stripping.
- Catherine Willows: What did you just say? Okay, no phone, no friends, no nothing.
- Lindsey Willows: For how long?
- Catherine Willows: A month.
- Lindsey Willows: Whatever.
- Catherine Willows: Hey, you want to make it two?
- Lindsey Willows: Dad always said you were a drama queen.
- Catherine Willows: Well, what do you expect, Lindsey, since he was always high.
- Lindsey Willows: I'd take Dad high over you any day! Nana's coming to pick me up. I'll be out front.
- Daniel Perez: [to Grissom in a church] I didn't realize until today how lucky I am. I know pretty much how and when I'm gonna die. Most people don't. It's what they're afraid of.
- Gil Grissom: Was your sister afraid?
- Daniel Perez: Never. I'm 11 years older than her and she took care of me. She was my best friend, and I miss her. As much pain as I caused her and she wouldn't give up, and she... she wouldn't let me, either. That's why... during the last relapse, I made my parents swear that it was the very last time.
- Gil Grissom: But then your kidneys failed, and they broke their word, huh?
- Daniel Perez: They told me they... swore not to fight the cancer, so this didn't count. I wasn't gonna lose this fight. I couldn't watch her suffer anymore.
- Gil Grissom: This wasn't a mercy killing, Daniel. This was an execution. Bone marrow, transfusions... that's her blood in your veins. It dripped out of your nose onto the blanket while you were killing her. If you cared so much for Alicia, why didn't you take your own life instead of hers?
- Daniel Perez: Suicide isn't an option. It's an unforgivable sin in the eyes of God.
- Gil Grissom: But you believe that your god forgives murder? If that's your defense, it won't keep you out of jail.
- Daniel Perez: [in tears, crying] But my death will. See, I've got about six more months. I'll be dead before there's even a trial. I... I do want to thank you, though.
- Gil Grissom: For what?
- Daniel Perez: For speaking for Alicia. You're probably the first person in her life to think only of her. You know, you may not believe in God, sir, but you do his work.
- Catherine Willows: [to Gil] Have you been to bed?
- Gil Grissom: Yes.
- Catherine Willows: Did you sleep?
- [pauses]
- Catherine Willows: Me neither. She was the same age as Lindsey. She was trying to hitchhike.
- Gil Grissom: Where was she going?
- Catherine Willows: Fremont Street.
- Gil Grissom: Was she buying drugs?
- Catherine Willows: No! She's twelve. She's... just so angry. She doesn't talk to me.
- Gil Grissom: Well, if enough people knew what was out there hunting them, they'd never leave their house. I think you need to sit her down.
- Catherine Willows: Well, I don't want to scare her. I don't want my daughter to be this... frightened, paranoid kid who's always looking over her shoulder.
- Gil Grissom: Catherine, there's a big difference between scaring her and preparing her. And all the reasons why you should are in that room.
- Store Clerk: [to Brass as he carries a box of drinks] Look, dude, I didn't see it.
- [puts the box down on the side]
- Store Clerk: Chica had a nice, round ass and that's what I was scoping.
- Captain Jim Brass: What time was that?
- Store Clerk: About three. She comes in, grabs some candy, looks outside, waves at somebody. The next thing I know, she flips her wig. She's screaming about her sister. I didn't see the girl or a car. Besides, there's a lot of traffic out there.
- Captain Jim Brass: Was it busy?
- Store Clerk: Kind of.
- Captain Jim Brass: How many surveillance cameras do you have in here?
- Store Clerk: Inside we got five. They're all state-of-the-art. Place gets hit a lot. Outside they're all dummies.
- Captain Jim Brass: Well, I'm glad to see you're so concerned about your customers after they leave the store.
- Gil Grissom: Alicia's cause of death?
- Dr. Al Robbins: Cardiopulmonary arrest.
- Gil Grissom: Time of death?
- Dr. Al Robbins: That's a little trickier. No solids in the stomach contents, just a milky liquid. Liver mortis was fixed and deep purple with a vitreous humor potassium level of 20 millimoles per liter with faint putrefaction. So, I'd say she's been dead about... 44 hours between midnight and 8:00 A.M., the day of her kidnapping.
- Gil Grissom: Which means April Perez was lying about the abduction.
- Dr. Al Robbins: Yep. Story's got more holes than her sister's bones.
- Captain Jim Brass: [to April Perez] I bought it the hell we all bought it. But your sister was already dead when you raised that alarm. Her body told us that. There was no sexual assault. The evidence told us that, too. So you didn't think this through, sweetheart. So what are we left with? A false police report and a murdered little girl. So it's one to four for the Amber Alert. And for your sister, life imprisonment if it's an accident, and the needle if it's not.
- April Perez: I didn't kill Alicia.
- Captain Jim Brass: But you know, I get it. I get the picture. I mean, your brother's the center of attention. He's sick, he's dying. Your cells don't match. Your parents have Alicia. She's his savior. So, where do you fit in? What are you to this family?
- April Perez: I'm invisible.
- Captain Jim Brass: But not anymore you're not. She's dead, and your brother's sick. When he goes...
- April Perez: That's crazy, okay. I told you, I didn't kill my sister.
- Captain Jim Brass: I want to believe that. Come on. Help me to believe that. It just means you were in on it because you put on one hell of a show. You still using?
- April Perez: No.
- Captain Jim Brass: Maybe we should run your blood just to be sure, huh?
- April Perez: I use now and then to take the edge off.
- Captain Jim Brass: So how do you pay for this habit? Are you pimping your sister for drugs, April?
- April Perez: Why don't you make up your mind? No signs of rape. If I was selling my sister, there would be, wouldn't there?
- Captain Jim Brass: Depends on who you sold it to. You're not gonna talk your way out of this one. You need to get clean.
- April Perez: What I need is a lawyer, which means this conversation is over.
- Sybil Perez: [to Catherine about Alicia] You have no idea what it's like.
- Catherine Willows: I saw her medical records. I looked at her x-rays. I know what that little girl suffered, what you put her through.
- Sybil Perez: So you would let your child die and do nothing. Never. No, you'd talk to doctors and research. And then you'd find out that the national bone marrow registry can't help you 'cause your son is mixed race. And even if he wasn't, there aren't enough donors. Out of four million, only 205,000 are Latino. I did what I had to do.
- Catherine Willows: You put one child over another.
- Sybil Perez: [scoffs] I don't expect you to understand. You don't have kids.
- Catherine Willows: Uh, I have a daughter.
- Sybil Perez: So, what kind of mother are you? When do you see her? You work nights. You probably don't even know where she is half the time. Alicia's life may not have been simple, but at least I knew her. Can you say the same?
- Sara Sidle: [sees two pill bottles] Daniel Perez is taking oxycodone for pain, and Alicia was on diazepam.
- Warrick Brown: Diazepam? That's a pretty hard-core antidepressant for a kid that small.
- Sara Sidle: I guess they didn't want her complaining while they were mining her body for healthy cells.
- Captain Jim Brass: [to Carlos Perez] Wasn't Alicia part of your family? You're her father, you dumb bastard! You're supposed to protect her. What kind of man are you?
- Carlos Perez: Guilty.