The Best CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Season 7, Episode 5 Quotes

Sara: Sometimes I think we made up God just to have someone to blame for our mistakes.

Captain: So you like crucifixes but maybe you made an exception when you found out that Charlotte was pregnant.
Gil: Father, I want you to take a look at this
[gives him a picture of Charlotte crucified and hanging from the roof]
Gil: .
Father: I'm responsible for her murder. I could never do that.
Captain: In my world Father you're either guilty or innocent.
Father: Well in my world you can be both.

Gil: Look, I know it sounds nuts, but this is not the way a resurrection theologian would kill his pregnant mistress.
Jim: He confessed.
Gil: He's a Catholic. They're full of guilt.

Father: You know, in Vegas, it's routine to hear the most heinous sins, and as a priest, you listen, and in Christ's name, you forgive.

Jim: [When a woman is found dead in a church] Somebody went to a lot of trouble to get her up there.
Gil: Why? I wonder. Somebody had a grudge against the church or somebody in the church.
Jim: Or maybe they were just mad at God.

Sara: [to Grissom] I didn't offend you, did I? Did I say something offensive to you as a Catholic?
Gil: 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: And the rosary beads are a part of that.
Gil: This belonged to my mother.

Gil: Sister, how much do you weigh?
Sister: A hundred and twenty-three pounds.
Gil: 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: It was a miracle.
Jim: The only miracle is I'm not charging you with obstruction.

Jim: Is it a bigger sin to lie if you're a priest?
Gil: I hope so.

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

The: If that's what you get for helping a friend you know... Look I feel awful about Charlotte I really do. But I'll tell you this, whatever happens I'm not foregoing this car.
Captain: Well I feel awful too but the car is coming with me.

Al: [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: Like Jesus.
Al: 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: Gruesome torture in any century.