- Adam Ross: [Watching survelliance of the suspect] I can tell she's got a bully in her life. Check that out. Look how she flinched when a customer raised his hand.
- Detective Danny Messer: Could be too much coffee.
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Or a sign of abuse, and withdrawal like that is a classic symptom of PTSD.
- Detective Danny Messer: [to Adam] How'd you know that?
- Adam Ross: Huh, uh, uh, my, uh, my dad was a bully.
- [watching the surveillance tape of the "invisible" killer, which shows up as a white blur on the tape]
- Detective Stella Bonasera: Did the camera malfunction?
- Detective Danny Messer: Either that or Fifth Avenue's haunted.
- Detective Mac Taylor: [Noticing Reed walking into his office] Reed.
- Reed Garrett: [Walking into Mac's office] Mac, um, I told them I was family.
- Detective Mac Taylor: [Walking over to Reed] You okay? What's Wrong?
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] I knew Brian Miller.
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] The Kid you found in the maze.
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] We worked on the college paper together.
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] We were friends.
- Detective Mac Taylor: [to Reed] I'm sorry.
- Detective Mac Taylor: [to Reed] look, in can't say much about the case right now.
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] I get it, I just, I wanna tell you what i know.
- Detective Mac Taylor: [to Reed] Okay.
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] Um, well he's under more stress than the usual.
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] You know? He was spending all his free time writing, writing this piece for the college paper, he's been writing it for the last year and a half.
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] He said that it was his Watergate, You know? It was something that was gonna put him on the map.
- Detective Mac Taylor: [to Reed] Sit down.
- Detective Mac Taylor: [to Reed] So uh, do you know what this article was about?
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] It was about kings and shadows.
- Detective Mac Taylor: [to Reed] What's that?
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] A rumor, it's a society that exists on campus.
- Reed Garrett: [to Reed] Like a fraternity?
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] Minus the kankers and the pranks yeah, it's really, it's dark stuff.
- Detective Mac Taylor: [to Reed] So it's like a cult?
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] Yeah, written by blue bloods.
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] you know? At least that's what people believed.
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] Brian said he was, that he was gonna get inside.
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] He was gonna expose all their secrets.
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] He said that the article was gonna piss off a lot of people.
- Detective Mac Taylor: [to Reed] Did you ever read what he wrote?
- Reed Garrett: [to Mac] He wasn't finished.
- Detective Mac Taylor: [to Reed] And you think someone wanted to make sure that he wouldn't.
- Reed Garrett: [Nodding his head] Yeah.
- Adam Ross: Turns out our suspect is not as spooky as she wants us to believe. I mean, come on, if this was a real ectoplasm, what's it doing shopping? Unless it's, like, the spirit of Imelda Marcos, but I don't even think she's dead.
- Detective Mac Taylor: Absynthe spoon, a branding, a brutal beat down.
- Dr. Sid Hammerback: I'll take Cult Rituals for two-hundred.
- Detective Mac Taylor: I don't think so. Kid doesn't look the part. We have reason to believe he went to Chelsea University.
- [pause]
- Detective Mac Taylor: What is a fraternity hazing gone bad?
- Detective Mac Taylor: [Finding out a pen was filled with blood instead of ink] Who writes in blood?
- Adam Ross: Lawyers, college loan administrators...
- Detective Stella Bonasera: So did our vic surprise a shoplifter?
- Detective Danny Messer: Shoplifter surprised him with a bullet.