- [Mac storms out of his disciplinary hearing]
- Det. Don Flack: Did you just walk out?
- Det. Mac Taylor: Apparently I'm the kind of person who just does whatever he wants, why disappoint them?
- Det. Mac Taylor: Do you remember your first collar?
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Oh, yeah.
- [Stella snickers]
- Detective Stella Bonasera: A shoplifter on 43rd and Eigth Avenue. This guy took one of those "I Love New York" t-shirts from the souvenir shop. It was the proudest moment in my life.
- [Stella laughs]
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Two days later, I arrested him again in the same store.
- [after getting dirt on his boss, which forces him to back off the investigation into Mac and how Clay Dobson ended up falling from a roof where he was with Mac]
- Det. Mac Taylor: [smirks] You know, I think I'm getting the hang of this politics stuff.
- Clay Dobson: I cut off their eyelids. So they'd have to look at me while they died! Okay?
- Det. Mac Taylor: Now you're going to look at me when you die.