- Mac Taylor: [a tech from the crime lab has been murdered] She was a white lab coat in my peripheral vision, handing me a note, or a result, and I probably mumbled "thank you" and didn't pay much attention. Feels like a missed opportunity.
- Christine Whitney: Well, a lot of people work in the lab, and you're a very busy man, Mac.
- Mac Taylor: True, but today... it just sounds like an excuse.