CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV Series)

Double Cross (2006)

William Petersen: CSI Dr. Gil Grissom

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• Gil Grissom : Sister, how much do you weigh?

  Sister Bridget : A hundred and twenty-three pounds.

  Gil Grissom : It's a question of physics. Charlotte weighed 140 pounds, plus the weight of the cross. You don't weigh enough or have enough strength to have hoisted the body 17 feet into the air.

  Sister Bridget : It was a miracle.

  Jim Brass : The only miracle is I'm not charging you with obstruction.

• Jim Brass : [When a woman is found dead in a church]  Somebody went to a lot of trouble to get her up there.

  Gil Grissom : Why? I wonder. Somebody had a grudge against the church or somebody in the church.

  Jim Brass : Or maybe they were just mad at God.

• Gil Grissom : Well, Jesus died for our sins. What sin did she die for?

• Al Robbins : [about the victim]  Time of death was sometime between 2:00 and 4:00. Nasty head wound. She was actively bleeding, so she had to have been alive when she was tied to the cross. Good chance she died of suffocation.

  Gil Grissom : Like Jesus.

  Al Robbins : Well, Jesus had a footrest. He was able to lift himself up and take short breaths. Her pectoral muscles probably became paralyzed and the intercostal muscles were unable to function. She was able to breathe out, but not breathe in. In time, carbon dioxide built up in her lungs and bloodstream. Edema built up in the chest cavity. Heart went into fibrillation.

  Gil Grissom : Gruesome torture in any century.

• Jim Brass : Is it a bigger sin to lie if you're a priest?

  Gil Grissom : I hope so.

• Sara Sidle : [to Grissom]  I didn't offend you, did I? Did I say something offensive to you as a Catholic?

  Gil Grissom : I'm not really a Catholic anymore, you know. I suppose I practice a kind of secular Catholicism that involves ritualizing certain aspects of everyday life and imbuing them with a spiritual intensity they might not otherwise possess, but I don't want to put too fine a point on it.

  [opens up the box and takes out rosary beads] 

  Sara Sidle : And the rosary beads are a part of that.

  Gil Grissom : This belonged to my mother.

• Gil Grissom : Look, I know it sounds nuts, but this is not the way a resurrection theologian would kill his pregnant mistress.

  Jim Brass : He confessed.

  Gil Grissom : He's a Catholic. They're full of guilt.

• Captain Jim Brass : So you like crucifixes but maybe you made an exception when you found out that Charlotte was pregnant.

  Gil Grissom : Father, I want you to take a look at this

  [gives him a picture of Charlotte crucified and hanging from the roof] 

  Gil Grissom : .

  Father Frank Berlin : I'm responsible for her murder. I could never do that.

  Captain Jim Brass : In my world Father you're either guilty or innocent.

  Father Frank Berlin : Well in my world you can be both.