CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series)

Goodbye and Good Luck (2007)

Jorja Fox: CSI Sara Sidle

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• Sara Sidle : Gil, You know I love you. I feel I've loved you forever. Lately, I haven't been feeling very well. Truth be told, I'm tired. Out in the desert, under that car that night, I realized something, and I haven't been able to shake it. Since my father died, I've spent almost my entire life with ghosts. We've been like close friends, and out there in the desert, it occurred to me that it was time for me to bury them. I can't do that here. I'm so sorry. No matter how hard I try to fight it off, I'm left with the feeling that I have to go. I have no idea where I'm going, but I know I have to do this. If I don't, I'm afraid I'll self destruct, and worse, you'll be there to see it happen. Be safe. Know that I tried very hard to stay. Know that you're my one and only. I will miss you with every beat of my heart. Our life together was the only home I've ever really had. I wouldn't trade it for anything. I love you. I always will. Good bye.

• Hannah West : You don't expect me to confess to something I didn't do?

  Sara Sidle : I am just putting you on notice. You are not fooling me anymore.

  Hannah West : I think I know why you're so angry, Sara. I did some research. I read about what that serial killer did to you out in the desert, under that car...

  Sara Sidle : We're talking about you, Hannah.

  Hannah West : It must've been so terrible being trapped like that all alone. Did your life flash in front of your eyes?

  Sara Sidle : That is none of your business.

  Hannah West : You must've been so sad knowing that you were gonna lose everyone who mattered to you.

  Sara Sidle : Stop it, Hannah.

  Hannah West : Look, I know how it feels. One moment my parents were alive, and the next they were gone.

  Sara Sidle : Answer the question!

  Hannah West : My life changed in that moment. All that I have left is Marlon. Why would I do anything to hurt him?

  Sara Sidle : [stands and hits the table]  Stop playing games with me!

  [leaves the room] 

  Hannah West : You're the one who's playing games.

• Nick Stokes : [about Marlon West]  He confessed. It was later thrown out on a technicality. We really didn't need it. The prosecution's case against Marlon was very strong.

  Sara Sidle : Until Marlon's little sister Hannah got on the stand and confessed to the murder herself.

  Catherine Willows : Oh, yes, I remember this case. A high school senior at age 12.

  Nick Stokes : She's a pint-size Machiavelli. She manipulated events, fabricated evidence, and in the end...

  Sara Sidle : She claimed that she did it because she loved Marlon. Some warped sense of justice... She graduated later that summer, became legally emancipated from her parents and went off to Harvard, pre-med.

  Gil Grissom : You keeping tabs on her?

  Sara Sidle : Not recently. Look, accident or no accident, Marlon killed before. Hannah sunk this case, Marlon got a free pass, and now he's killed again.

  Catherine Willows : Well, we don't know that just yet. I mean, we don't have Marlon's DNA to compare with the semen that was found in the victim. All the old evidence was expunged with the verdict.

  Sara Sidle : I want this case.

  Gil Grissom : The one that got away?

  Sara Sidle : We're not supposed to let them get away, right?

• Marlon West : I asked Hannah to teach me how to make GHB, and how to get it into Kira. I just wanted to mess her up a bit. I snuck it into Kira's room a few days ago; I still had a key. Hannah must've made a copy.

  Sara Sidle : I believe you, Marlon. I really do. But the only thing that a jury's going to see is your prints on the lube, your prints on the windowsill, and another dead girl.

  Marlon West : Why is Hannah doing this to me?

  Sara Sidle : I don't know. All I know is... you don't deserve to take the fall for this. And the question is... are you going to let your sister get away with this and spend the rest of your life in jail?

  Marlon West : If Hannah wants me in jail, that's where I'm going to be. There's nothing I can do about it.

• Hannah West : [to Sara]  He didn't kill Kira. He cared about her.

  Sara Sidle : Hannah, what makes you think that I would believe anything that you tell me?

  Hannah West : [sweetly smiles]  I suppose I'm an optimist. College has been a difficult adjustment for Marlon, especially after we lost our parents.

  Sara Sidle : I'm sorry about that.

  Hannah West : You're not really, though. When will Marlon be able to leave?

  Sara Sidle : Well, we're going to keep him here as long as we possibly can.

  Hannah West : At least that's honest. It also seems a little vindictive.

  Sara Sidle : Given your brother's history, I think it's pretty sensible.

  Hannah West : What's wrong, Sara? You're different than you used to be. You're angry. And a little sad, too. Why?

  Sara Sidle : If you want to spend more time with your brother, I recommend you invest in a good lawyer, Hannah.

• Captain Jim Brass : [to Sara]  It's going to be tough to get a warrant.

  Sara Sidle : I need Marlon West's DNA. If his semen is in Kira Dellinger, it puts him at the murder.

  Captain Jim Brass : Look, they had a known sexual relationship, so there's no evidence of rape. And I don't know if you know this, but Marlon's mother and father were killed in a car accident last year. Judge Bowman is going to be very sensitive to that. It could look like harassment.

  Sara Sidle : Jim, are you going to talk to the judge or not?

  Captain Jim Brass : Wow, you really got it out for this kid. What's the deal here, Sara?

  Sara Sidle : Marlon West has killed before.

  Captain Jim Brass : Not according to a jury of his peers.

  Sara Sidle : Did you have fun talking to Kira Dellinger's parents?

  Captain Jim Brass : Excuse me?

  Sara Sidle : Must've been a lot of screaming and crying and despair.

  Captain Jim Brass : Yeah, there usually is. What's your point, Sara?

  Sara Sidle : My point is, if we had done our job right the first time, Marlon West would be in jail, and Kira Dellinger would still be alive. Talk to the judge.

• Marlon West : [to Marlon]  We're here to talk to you about Kira Dellinger.

  Marlon West : Kira committed suicide.

  Sara Sidle : Actually, she was murdered.

  Marlon West : Somebody I know ends up dead and I'm automatically a suspect?

  Captain Jim Brass : History has a way of repeating itself, Marlon.

• Ronnie Lake : [about the Jiminezes]  How are we going to handle this?

  Sara Sidle : Well, the guy's under arrest.

  Ronnie Lake : He'll be free by tomorrow. Her husband is obviously abusing her.

  [sighs] 

  Ronnie Lake : There's got to be something we can do.

  Sara Sidle : We'll be back for her body next month. Or his. Or both. There is nothing you can do about this, Ronnie. Don't kid yourself.

• Sara Sidle : [to Ronnie about Mrs. Jimenez]  What happened? Her husband attack her again?

  Ronnie Lake : No. She came involuntarily. It took some convincing, but she's agreed to go to a shelter.

  Sara Sidle : She won't stay.

  Ronnie Lake : Maybe not. But at least now she has a chance. Look, I did it all on my own time, no OT. I know it's not the way you do things, but I think it's part of the job. At least, that's how I want it to be. For me.

• Hannah West : [to Sara]  You need to talk to me again?

  Sara Sidle : I do. I know that you killed Kira Dellinger. I just can't prove it.

  Hannah West : That must be frustrating for you.

  Sara Sidle : Hannah, Marlon's dead.

  Hannah West : Wow. That's a really sad and desperate ploy, Sara. It's beneath you.

  [Sara shows Hannah the photo of Marlon hanging at the windowsill] 

  Hannah West : .

  Sara Sidle : He was doing well here, wasn't he? Making friends, joining a band, falling in love. But you're still a freak, just like high school.

  Hannah West : You're lying. No. This is a lie.

  Sara Sidle : His world got bigger, and yours stayed the same, and you killed Kira so you could keep him all to yourself, didn't you?

  Hannah West : [screams]  It's a lie! No... it's a lie! It's a lie! This is a... lie!

  [She drops her backpack and grabs Sara's hands. Sara struggles with her and kneels as Hannah cries] 

  Hannah West : Stop it! Marlon... he-he-he can't leave me all alone.

  [Sara puts her arm around Hannah] 

• Sara Sidle : I don't think Kira punched Marlon. I think Hannah picked up the tooth from a fight that Marlon had earlier in the evening. And I think she planted it on Kira.

  [Grissom is silent as he thinks about it] 

  Sara Sidle : That's crazy.

  Gil Grissom : It's possible.

  Sara Sidle : This kid is spinning me in circles again.

  Gil Grissom : You know, Sara, some cases, some suspects, can get under your skin. Like this tooth. But you can't let 'em make you feel bad.