Quotes by Horatio Caine
"She was hanging on."
     "No. She was hanging on."
"She was hanging on."
-- Horatio Caine and Megan Donner (Golden Parachute)

"I didn't know they made body armor in triple extra-large."
-- Horatio Caine to Al Humphreys (Losing Face)

"You miss it, don't you? Being on the front lines."
     "The simple answer is no."
"I saw you out there. Why leave something you're good at?"
     "You ever been in a horse race?"
"Life's enough of a gamble."
     "Some horses run better in a harness and the science is my discipline."
-- Megan Donner and Horatio Caine (Losing Face)

"I think we're going to need a bigger body bag."
     "If anybody can find one, it's you, Alexx."
"You got that right. All right, fellas. You heard the man. Bag him. My shark now."
-- Alexx Woods and Horatio Caine (Wet Foot/Dry Foot)

"Hmm. Gynecomastia. Enlarged breast. Would signify female, but could also be male. No armpit hair but pronounced hair on the knuckles."
     "So what are you saying?"
"What I'm saying is, I'm not an anthropologist. Could be a big woman or a small man."
-- Alexx Woods and Horatio Caine (Wet Foot/Dry Foot)

"Gentlemen ... May I?"
     "Be kind, Horatio."
"As always, Marin."
-- Horatio Caine and Marin Diaz (Wet Foot/Dry Foot)

"Now, are you going to rebut everything I'm saying?"
     "Yes."
"Excellent."
-- Horatio Caine and Marin Diaz (Wet Foot/Dry Foot)

"Wait a minute. First you take my client's shark then you take my chart? What do I get?"
     "You get a pass on your illegal GPS unit."
-- Captain and Horatio Caine (Wet Foot/Dry Foot)

"You said ... our entire genetic makeup ... is in one cell. How do we escape that?"
     "Your family? You stop procreating."
-- Drake Hamilton and Horatio Caine (Just One Kiss)

"Yes, but the girl is the one who'll pay. The press will eat her alive. Protect her."
     "Are you suggesting that I protect a woman? That's rich."
-- Drake Hamilton and Horatio Caine (Just One Kiss)

"Oh. You're not going to believe this."
     "A diamond ring."
"Looks like she ate about four carats for her last supper."
-- Alexx Woods and Horatio Caine (Ashes to Ashes)

"'Artie's Adult Playground?'"
     "Do you know Artie?"
"Do you know Artie?"
     "Just go to the address, Eric."
-- Eric Delko and Horatio Caine (Ashes to Ashes)

"What do we have here, stolen uniforms? 'Sir golf-a-lot.' You on to your next victim, Stewart?"
     "That's not mine."
"Really? Whose is it, mine?"
-- Horatio Caine and Stewart Otis (Broken)

"I never even got to play with her."
     "Life ... Stewart ... is filled ... with disappointment."
-- Stewart Otis and Horatio Caine (Broken)

"This place is a buffet for these creeps."
-- Horatio Caine (Broken)

"Do you believe her story?"
     "I don't know. I guess that depends on whether you like seeing men dress up in your underwear or not."
"Personally, leather chaps, nothing else... That was a joke."
-- Calleigh Duquesne and Horatio Caine (Breathless)

"Your average adult has been clocked at two-and-a-half to three miles per hour, but to my knowledge, no toddler has ever been road-tested."
-- Horatio Caine (Slaughterhouse)

"So what do you get when a six-foot-tall man lays down with a three-foot-long rifle?"
     "Hot flashes. But that's just me."
-- Horatio Caine and Calleigh Duquesne (Kill Zone)

"Don't you want to know why?"
     "You just killed four innocent people. You're evil. You enjoy death. I hope you enjoy your own."
-- Christopher Harwood and Horatio Caine (Kill Zone)

"Have you considered a transfer to SWAT?"
     "I don't look good in all black."
"I beg to differ."
-- Horatio Caine and Calleigh Duquesne (Kill Zone)

"Somebody wanted to make sure he saw something."
     "Or, based on the damage to his retina ..."
"... saw nothing."
-- Horatio Caine and Alexx Woods (A Horrible Mind)

"... a present for you from Alexx."
     "Nasal mucus. And it isn't even my birthday."
-- Horatio Caine and Calleigh Duquesne (Camp Fear)

"What did the state's attorney say when you called them and told them they had the wrong guy?"
     "Well, he said it was a very, very interesting study."
-- Tim Speedle and Horatio Caine (Entrance Wound)

"Okay, but whether he killed her or she was just bound and gagged, our prostitute did not turn up the air by herself."
-- Horatio Caine (Entrance Wound)

"Bag it, tag it, and let's see what else is here."
-- Horatio Caine (Bunk)

"So what are we chasing, the fumes or the pills?"
     "We're chasing the cook."
-- Tim Speedle and Horatio Caine (Bunk)

"No, it's not. Really brilliant operation Dr. Welmont has going on here. He provides the house, the chemicals and the recipe. He pays off a couple of cooks like you with lux cars. That's peanuts to the guys who sling the pills. Pills so unusual there's not a law against it, but at the end of the day, he and his partners split about six million bucks."
     "It's not six million."
"This is where you say, 'I don't know any Dr. Welmont.'"
-- Adell Sevilla, Gregory Kimble and Horatio Caine (Bunk)

"No signs of forced entry."
     "Oh ... I wouldn't be too sure about that."
-- Detective Bernstein and Horatio Caine (Forced Entry)

"I wanted justice."
     "Leonard, justice is not for you to dispense. And now you're going to pay for it."
-- Horatio Caine and Leonard Murphy (Forced Entry)

"Did you know Horatio was the first CSI?"
     "He was ... the what?"
"In Hamlet. When Hamlet was poisoned and dying, he asked his best friend Horatio to tell the world who murdered him."
-- Belle King and Horatio Caine (Dead Woman Walking)

"Right, so let's check into zoos, animal shows, circuses, anywhere where an Eastern European with bad teeth could have access to an ape."
-- Horatio Caine (Evidence of Things Unseen)

"Yes, let's go talk to the other Russian, the cousin, before he chokes on a twizzler."
-- Horatio Caine to Frank Tripp (Evidence of Things Unseen)

"Infante is a liar. I just don't know what the lie is yet."
-- Horatio Caine about Eduardo Infante (Evidence of Things Unseen)

"Tomorrow is what you make of it."
-- Horatio Caine to Stripper (Evidence of Things Unseen)

"Jeans, t-shirt, K-Mart socks."
     "Big spender."
-- Horatio Caine and Frank Tripp (Evidence of Things Unseen)

"Don, I need you to make more time."
     "Your grandma better be bleeding from her eyeballs. Twenty-four hours."
-- Horatio Caine and Don Haffman (Simple Man)

"Look, Horatio, we're on the same side."
     "I'd like to think so."
"Yeah, well, we are in the middle of the trial. We've already picked the jury. We've called our experts. We spent over a million dollars in taxpayers' money."
     "We have new evidence."
"Yeah, well, that's what appeals are all about. Listen, this is not about the case anymore. Now, it's about winning."
     "Well, you know what then? We're not on the same side."
-- Don Haffman and Horatio Caine (Simple Man)

"Fastest scalp on the east."
     "I think I just set some kind of postmortem speed record."
-- Horatio Caine and Alexx Woods (Simple Man)

"I'm just saying, it's a hell of a lonely road he's walking."
     "Well, that's why I'm walking it with him."
-- John Hagen and Calleigh Duquesne about Horatio Caine (Simple Man)

"This cocaine did not come from Haiti."
     "Not unless Haiti's in the middle of our crime lab."
-- Horatio Caine and Tim Speedle (Dispo Day)

"They ask you about your girlfriend?"
     "H, you know I don't have a girlfriend."
"No girlfriend this week?"
     "The girl I'm seeing, I'm glad she doesn't have a polygraph."
-- Horatio Caine and Eric Delko (Dispo Day)

"Hey, Jack. You miss being a real cop?"
     "You're just full of them today, aren't you?"
"You have no idea."
-- Horatio Caine and Jack Seeger (Dispo Day)

"Do you have any idea how much one of those costs?"
     "About half as much as two."
-- Paul Tomassi and Horatio Caine (Dispo Day)

"There's ten thousand guns just like that out there. You're not going to be able to prove a thing."
     "That is a very dumb thing to say to a CSI."
-- James Fukes and Horatio Caine (Double Cap)

"... you know what they say: You lie down with the devil, you wake up in hell."
-- Horatio Caine to Dennis Sackheim (Double Cap)

"We are being detoured into the land of make-believe."
-- Horatio Caine (Double Cap)

"Town car, tinted windows -- take a guess."
     "Fan belt inspectors?"
"Nope, U.S. Marshals, Witness Protection, baby-sitters."
-- Horatio Caine and John Hagen (Double Cap)

"Sometimes it's difficult to have family."
     "Sometimes, it's more difficult not to."
-- Calleigh Duquesne and Horatio Caine (Double Cap)

"'Four Twenty Boyz.' Time to get high, I bet."
-- Horatio Caine (Grave Young Men)

"It's not important what people say about us. It's only important what we know inside about ourselves."
-- Horatio Caine to Raymond Caine, Jr. (Grave Young Men)

"The club was grandfathered in -- built pre-code."
     "Yeah, I bet you those chained exit doors were grandfathered in, too, huh?"
"What'd you expect me to do? People were sneaking in."
     "And dying to get out."
-- Quentin Haid and Horatio Caine (Tinder Box)

"Why didn't you let me die?"
     "Because you died a long time ago, Stewart. Let's go."
-- Stewart Otis and Horatio Caine (Body Count)

"I will get out. It's my nature."
     "And I'll be waiting. That's my nature."
-- Stewart Otis and Horatio Caine (Body Count)

"Alexx, you think they were killed in the crash?"
     "Not unless they each crashed into a bullet."
-- Horatio Caine and Alexx Woods (Body Count)

"Remember when you are in Miami that we never close."
-- Horatio Caine to Clavo Cruz (Blood Brothers)

"You know what that is, Suzie?"
     "An antenna?"
"That... is a gun barrel."
-- Horatio Caine and Suzie Barnham (Big Brother)

"Killer just made his second mistake."
     "What was his first?"
"His first mistake was murder."
-- Horatio Caine and Yelina Salas (Big Brother)

"The next time you want to take a swing at someone, start with me."
-- Horatio Caine to Bob Keaton (Big Brother)

"The rumour of a dirty cop is far juicier than its confirmation."
     "You just called your own brother a dirty cop."
"Maybe he was, but he didn't deserve to die."
     "We all have to die some time."
"Some sooner than others."
-- Horatio Caine and Bob Keaton (Big Brother)

"Your little brother sure knew how to mess things up, didn't he?"
-- Suzie Barnham to Horatio Caine (Big Brother)

"But, Eric, as a rule of thumb, off-duty relationships, no matter how well intended, can be seen as a conflict of interest in court. You understand?"
     "Yeah. But uh...how do you suggest I walk that line?"
"Carefully."
-- Horatio Caine and Eric Delko (Extreme)

"Keith."
     "That's 'Doctor', Lieutenant."
"Maybe not for long."
-- Horatio Caine and Keith Winters (Complications)

"Hey, I did that guy a favor! He was a retard!"
     "Okay, Eugene might have a few things to overcome, I'll give you that, but you know what, Pete? You know what? At the end of the day, he just put you away for life."
-- Pete Tolson and Horatio Caine about Eugene Thomas Walter (Witness To Murder)

"Eugene, I think your dad would be proud of you. I really do. I know I am."
-- Horatio Caine to Eugene Thomas Walter (Witness To Murder)

"So you're saying that you left her alone, running for her life?"
     "Yeah."
"And they say that chivalry is dead."
-- Horatio Caine and Dale Stahl (Slow Burn)

"Don't do it! Don't do it!"
[...]
"They never listen."
-- Horatio Caine to robber (Money for Nothing)

"They hit one of us, they hit us all."
-- Horatio Caine (The Oath)

"... Florida has the death penalty."
     "So does New York."
"Yes, but you have not executed since '76."
     "Politics."
-- Horatio Caine and Mac Taylor (MIA/NYC - NonStop)

"Mac ... I have ... a 16-year-old girl who is suddenly without both parents. I have promised her peace of mind."
     "I got an officer's widow who'd like some answers."
-- Horatio Caine and Mac Taylor (MIA/NYC - NonStop)

"The guy's a monster. Or he doesn't know his own strength." "Well ... he's about to know ours."
-- Alexx Woods and Horatio Caine (MIA/NYC - NonStop)

"Drive-by, Miami style."
-- Horatio Caine (Pro Per)

"The jury was in one week of deliberations."
     "No need now. The verdict is in."
-- Frank Tripp and Horatio Caine (Hell Night)

"So, this is what a pirate looks like?"
     "You were expecting an eye patch?"
"Maybe a shoulder parrot."
-- Alexx Woods and Horatio Caine (Pirated)

"I created Caitlin Townsend."
     "Didn't give you the right to kill her."
-- Nick Marshall and Horatio Caine (Money Plane)

"It's tax season."
-- Horatio Caine (Sex & Taxes)

"Horatio? I didn't know this was your parish."
     "Well father, when the cardinal of New York makes a surprise visit to Miami, word gets around."
"You're coming to confess a new sin?"
     "No, father. Same one."
"You're angry."
     "Father, I am confused."
"Well, guilt takes many forms."
     "Father, I have been over this and over this a thousand times and I am certain with every fiber of my body that I couldn't have done anything differently."
"I told you when you came to me those many years ago, with blood on your hands, that it's not about the life you took, but the lives you make different in the here and now. That's what god is judging you on."
     "I know what my penance is!"
"So why are you here?"
     "I need you to tell me."
"When you've done enough, Horatio, you'll know."
-- Cardinal Benedetti and Horatio Caine (From the Grave)

"Frank the tide is rising and we have a sinking crime scene."
-- Horatio Caine to Frank Tripp (Blood In The Water)

"I'd bet that half a million looks like a bargain now."
-- Horatio Caine about the father refusing to pay for help (Blood In The Water)

"Someone is really gunning for us aren't they?"
     "I don't know who they are."
-- Horatio Caine and James Burton (Three-Way)

"Notified New York."
     "Appreciate it."
"Detective Taylor sends his regards ... offers his services."
     "Mac's a good man."
"I figured you'd say that. I'll tell him to come down."
-- Frank Tripp and Horatio Caine (Under Suspicion)

"You think a guy like Darius can stop on his own?"
     "He's not going to stop until we make him stop."
-- Frank Tripp and Horatio Caine (Under Suspicion)

"So I'm human."
     "It's a shame that there's not a swab to confirm that."
-- Gary Hall and Horatio Caine (Nailed)

"I've got to admit divorce sucks."
     "Frank, it's a killer."
-- Frank Tripp and Horatio Caine (Nailed)

"I never made it to the original crime scene. Did you?"
     "Five hours ago."
-- Eric Delko and Horatio Caine (Nailed)

"All the evidence is pointing to you. A DNA sample will rule you out."
     "Get a warrant."
-- Horatio Caine and Jeff Colson (Payback)