- Sara Sidle: [to Grissom] You told me a few weeks ago that nothing is personal. No victim should be special. Everyone follows your lead.
- CSI Dr. Gil Grissom: Everyone didn't find that baby. I did, and that little boy is dead because someone lost their temper or screwed up, or God knows what. So, excuse me, but this victim is special.
- CSI Dr. Gil Grissom: Nick.
- Nick Stokes: [turns around] Yo.
- [sees the soda bottles]
- Nick Stokes: No, thanks, I'm an iced tea man.
- CSI Dr. Gil Grissom: It's not a refreshment. It's an experiment. Take this to the lab in a controlled space, 72 degrees Fahrenheit and open it. Keep this in the same room-temp space.
- Nick Stokes: Okay, then what?
- CSI Dr. Gil Grissom: Process, Nick. Process.
- C.S.I. Night Shift Assistant Supervisor Catherine Willows: Nice digs.
- Captain Jim Brass: Yeah, guy got rich off some dot-com outfit. Moved here from Oregon two years ago.
- C.S.I. Night Shift Assistant Supervisor Catherine Willows: Bet they wished they hadn't today.
- CSI Dr. Gil Grissom: [to Greg] I hear you're backlogged.
- Greg Sanders: Twenty "unknowns" from some drug shoot-out. FBI special request. Sheriff told me to clear it off my counter before I do anything else.
- CSI Dr. Gil Grissom: These?
- Greg Sanders: Yeah. You can almost smell Quantico, you know?
- [Grissom grabs the paperwork in front of Greg and puts it aside on the cart with all the other samples on it; he pushes the cart out of the door and into the hallway where it stops when it hits the wall, attracting the attention of some people, including Nick]
- CSI Dr. Gil Grissom: There. Now they're off your counter.
- [Greg nods his head; Grissom takes out a file folder and the samples]
- CSI Dr. Gil Grissom: Zachary Anderson, DOB 01-23-01. Date of death, three hours ago. Until we find out how and why...
- [puts a tray full of blood samples in front of Greg]
- CSI Dr. Gil Grissom: This is the only case you work on.
- Greg Sanders: Yes, sir.
- C.S.I. Night Shift Assistant Supervisor Catherine Willows: [to Gwen] Now I know why you didn't want to hold Robbie when your husband handed him to you outside the police department. I'm very sorry.
- Gwen Anderson: [sniffles] I always, uh... I always tell them, "gentle, gentle."
- [Catherine nods her head]
- Gwen Anderson: He didn't mean it. I know he didn't mean it.
- C.S.I. Night Shift Assistant Supervisor Catherine Willows: [shakes her head] Of course he didn't.
- Gwen Anderson: You must think that we are awful people, all this stuff that's come out.
- C.S.I. Night Shift Assistant Supervisor Catherine Willows: You're an average family burdened with a tragedy that put you under a microscope. That close, nobody can look good.
- C.S.I. Night Shift Assistant Supervisor Catherine Willows: A wife kills her baby to get back at her husband over his affair. Come on. Any woman would go after the husband, not the baby.
- Dr. Philip Kane: True, but in some instances, women have been known to kill their children as a way to pay back a spouse particularly if it's over an affair and particularly if the child was a male child.
- C.S.I. Night Shift Assistant Supervisor Catherine Willows: Well, I don't buy it. I just don't buy it, doctor. She really loved that baby.
- Dr. Philip Kane: Well, Catherine, that's why she's in this much pain now.
- C.S.I. Night Shift Assistant Supervisor Catherine Willows: A guy cheats, but the wife commits murder. How come moms always end up the bad guy with you Freud types?
- Captain Jim Brass: That's because this mother is the bad guy.
- CSI Dr. Gil Grissom: [to the media] Let me tell you something. People are presumed innocent... . innocent until a court of law can examine all the evidence and prove otherwise. Until then everything else is gossip.
- Captain Jim Brass: I also did a background search. Tyler has quite a temper on him, don't you, Ty?
- Tyler Anderson: What?
- Captain Jim Brass: You were expelled from school twice last year for physical altercation.
- Steven Anderson: That was schoolyard stuff.
- C.S.I. Night Shift Assistant Supervisor Catherine Willows: Beat up a 12-year-old in the school stairwell.
- Tyler Anderson: He made fun of my mother. I wasn't going to let him get away with that.
- Captain Jim Brass: Your brother Zack say something you didn't like you weren't going to let him get away with either?
- Tyler Anderson: [stands up] Don't talk about my brother that way, you bastard!
- Captain Jim Brass: Why didn't you just tell the truth?
- Steven Anderson: We wanted to protect Robbie. We didn't want him to grow up with the stigma of "the boy who killed his brother."
- CSI Dr. Gil Grissom: He's three. He's clinically unaware of his actions. No court would hold him accountable for that.
- Steven Anderson: But everybody else would know. It would follow him the rest of his life and my wife would rather go to prison than to have anybody know what Robbie did.
- CSI Dr. Gil Grissom: Mr. Anderson, we won't let that happen.
- Al Robbins: [to Grissom about baby Zachary] I can't give you exact time of death, but I do know cause of death was asphyxiation.
- CSI Dr. Gil Grissom: He was smothered.
- Al Robbins: [nods] The retinal hemorrhages are the result of intercranial pressure from an edema. The edema was caused by an acute lack of oxygen.
- CSI Dr. Gil Grissom: Smothered how? Did you find hand marks? Trauma around the mouth or nose?
- Al Robbins: No.
- CSI Dr. Gil Grissom: He was in a blanket when I found him... wrapped pretty tight.
- Al Robbins: Positional asphyxiation? Maybe. Abductor might've tried to protect him from the cold. Suffocated him by mistake. I'm going to run tests on a microscopic fiber I found in his throat. But I don't think his death was benign, Gil or accidental. Sternum was cracked. X rays say the fracture is fresh. Manhandled and suffocated. This little guy didn't have a chance.