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Detective First Grade, Mac Taylor

In Mac Taylor we trust, all others pay cash.

Created on 2009-01-12 20:26:05 (#18016278), last updated 2009-11-19

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Name:	Detective Mac Taylor
Birthdate:	11-12
Location:	New York, United States

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Detective first grade, Mac Taylor

In CSI: NY, Mac Taylor is the Head Investigator of the New York Police Department's CSI team. Originally from Chicago, he moved to New York after his discharge from the United States Marine Corps. He now considers New York home and once told a colleague that they were working for the finest city in the finest country in the world. Throughout the series, Mac has shown that he will protect three things at any cost: The honor of his country (through his military service), the safety of his city (through his work at CSI), and the integrity of his lab.

Mac believes in following the evidence, not trusting to intuition. He looks at a crime scene (and often the world) with Veneziano’s theory of quantum physics in mind: Everything is connected. In Mac's mind, if he and his team can just figure out the connections, then they can solve the crime.

Mac's father died of small-cell lung cancer and spent the last eight months of his life in bed on a feeding tube. As a result, Mac has come to believe strongly in a person’s right to a dignified death. However, when his father begged him to pull the plug, Mac couldn’t do it (episode 309, "And Here's to You, Mrs. Azrael").

Mac was married to Claire Conrad. They never had children though Claire had a child (Reed Garrett) from a previous relationship, who she had since put up for adoption. Mac once described Claire as athletic, with curly brown hair and big blue eyes. Claire was killed in the 9/11 attacks and her death troubles him to this day, causing chronic insomnia. After her death, Mac got rid of everything that reminded him of her, except pictures and a beach ball she had blown up, saying, "Her breath is still in there". Her remains were never recovered from the debris of the World Trade Center.

Military background

Mac once said that he had wanted to serve his country more than anything else in the world. Even as a child, he dressed up in fatigues and pretended to be a soldier rather than a superhero. He served as a lieutenant in the 1st Battalion 8th Marines (known today as "The Beirut Battalion") in Beirut, and was injured in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, from which he still bears a scar over his heart. A young Marine died in his arms from shrapnel wounds in the attack (episodes 224, "Charge of this Post;" 301, "People With Money"). The 1/8 also served in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. According to episode 224, "Charge of this Post," Mac was discharged in March of 1992, so he probably also served in these operations in some capacity, but so far there hasn't been a mention of them.

Thanks to his Marine training, he is skilled in unarmed defense and seems to have an intimate knowledge of a wide range of weaponry, from bows to East Asian weaponry to the more everyday guns and knives. To Mac, the type of weapon used is as revealing as anything else at the scene of the crime.

Important stuff about Mac Taylor

*Plays base guitar in a Blues Band every Wednesday Night at Cozy's Night Club.
*Badge Number is 8433
*Mac Taylor keeps a pile of unsolved cases on the corner of his desk.
*Mac's integrity was once called into question when a serial killer, Clay Dobson fell from a roof handcuffed after Mac arrested him. He was later vindicated.
*Mac Taylor hates playing office politics.
*In season four Mac was stalked by the 333 caller, who ended up being the brother of a childhood friend, Andy (Drew Bedford).
*Mac tells Flack when he and Jimmy were both 14 they used to tag along with Jimmy's brother Will (age 16) to make deliveries for a guy named Sal Marchetti. One night, they delivered money to Bobby Toole, but Toole got upset that it wasn't all there. He began to beat Will. Jimmy grab Bobby's gun but was hit and dropped it. Jimmy yelled for Mac to get the gun and he did but Mac couldn't bring himself to pull the trigger. Jimmy grabbed the gun from Mac and shot and killed Toole.

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