Melina Kanakaredes credited as playing...
CSI Detective Stella Bonasera
- Detective Stella Bonasera: [At Danny's apartment, holding a bag with soup in it] Jewish penicillin.
- Detective Danny Messer: [laughs] I'm not sick, Stella.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: You like chicken soup, don't'cha?
- Detective Danny Messer: [Hesitates] I could never say no to a little chicken noodle.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Then invite me in.
- [He lets her in]
- Detective Stella Bonasera: You know, I came over here to yell at you.
- Detective Danny Messer: Stella, we deserve to get paid. Come on, cops work hard in this city, you know, I mean, the Brass, they're not working for free so why the hell should I? You know I'm right. Come on, pull up a spoon.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: I'm old school, Danny. You know, I took an oath and I take it literally. My responsibility is first and foremost to the people of this city and job that I do.
- Detective Danny Messer: That's exactly why I'm holding out for a little respect. I mean I come from a family of cops, Stell, I'm not taking this thing lightly.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Yeah, I know, I know, I know. Look I guess, I guess, it just took me driving over here to understand it all. People were crazy. They were getting out of their cars, it was chaos, there were no traffic cops.
- Detective Danny Messer: So you were coming over here to lay into me, yeah?
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Yeah I was on my way to lay into you! I was so pissed off, Danny. Hawkes stood in for you at that hearing and they threw the case out. And there was so much work at the lab. Thank God for Lindasy, you know, she's a real trooper.
- Detective Danny Messer: Yeah, yeah, she is. She's been calling me every other hour. Except I got to cough every time I answer the phone in case it's not her.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: You did the unpopular thing.
- Detective Danny Messer: [Chuckles] Me? That's my M.O., right?
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Ah, look, I got to get back to work, but I'm not leaving here without some of that soup, so how about you fix me up one to go please?
- Detective Danny Messer: Sure.
- Dr. Sid Hammerback: [Stella is wearing an cocktail dress and carrying a brown paper evidence bag] You might have chosen a different bag to go with that dress.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: You think?
- Adam Ross: [Stella has just suggested Jake could have killed his father] Come on, Stella, he's a small thirteen year old boy. There is no way that he's strong enough to strangle an adult.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Closing off the two carotid artries stops blood flow to the brain. That takes a matter of seconds and very little pressure, Adam. It's about the position of the ligiture not the force behind it. And since science puts Jake with our vic at time of death...
- Adam Ross: [Hesitant] Jake could have murdered his father.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Hey Adam, you'll be alright?
- Adam Ross: Yeah, uh, you know, nothing that a slice and some Guitar Hero can't fix.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: [pauses] Okay, see you tomorrow.
- Adam Ross: Night.
- [Turns and walks away. Stella is about to call out to him but doesn't and returns inside]