California Somebody call somebody.
David Mills
Brad Pitt · 30 quotes
William Somerset
Morgan Freeman · 23 quotes
John Doe
Kevin Spacey · 16 quotes
Mark Swarr
Richard Schiff · 4 quotes
Most scenes together: David Mills & William Somerset (11), David Mills & John Doe (6), William Somerset & John Doe (3)
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Dr. Beardsley He's experienced about as much pain and suffering as anyone I've encountered, give or take, and he still has Hell to look forward to.
My client says there are two more bodies ... two more victims, hidden away. He will take Detectives Mills and Somerset to these bodies, but only Detectives Mills and Somerset. Only at six o'clock today.
Police Captain (answering phone that interrupted his conversation): This is not even my desk! [Hangs up]
David Mills (picks up the phone): Hello?
I admire you. I don't know how you found me, but imagine my surprise. I respect you law enforcement agents more every day.
Well, I appreciate that, John. I tell you ...
No, no, you listen, all right? I'll be re-adjusting my schedule in light of today's little ... setback. I just had to call and express my admiration. Sorry I had to hurt ... one of you, but I really didn't have a choice, did I?
Hm.
You will accept my apology, won't you? I feel like saying more, but I don't want to ruin the surprise. [Hangs up]
Do you like what you do for a living? These things you see?
Man in Massage Parlour Booth
No, I don't. But that's life.
Hey, loser.
Tracy Mills Hi, idiot.
How is it working for a scumbag like this? You proud of yourself?
Police Captain Ease back, Mills.
I'm required by law to serve my clients to the best of my ability, and to serve their best interests.
I seem to remember us knocking on your door.
Oh, that's right. And I seem to remember breaking your face.
Wait, I thought all you did was kill innocent people.
Innocent? Is that supposed to be funny? An obese man, a disgusting man who could barely stand up, a man who if you saw him on the street, you'd point him out to your friends so that they could join you in mocking him, a man, who if you saw him while you were eating, you wouldn't be able to finish your meal. After him, I picked the lawyer, and I know you both must have been secretly thanking me for that one. This is a man who dedicated his life to making money by lying with every breath that he could muster to keeping murderers and rapists on the streets!
Murderers?
A woman ...
Murderers, John, like yourself?
A woman, so ugly on the inside she couldn't bear to go on living if she couldn't be beautiful on the outside. A drug dealer, a drug-dealing pederast, actually! And let's not forget the disease-spreading whore! Only in a world this shitty could you even try to say these were innocent people and keep a straight face. But that's the point: we see a deadly sin on every street corner, in every home, and we tolerate it. We tolerate it because it's common, it's trivial. We tolerate it morning, noon, and night. Well, not anymore. I'm setting the example. What I've done is going to be puzzled over and studied and followed ... forever.
Why us?
He says he admires you.
Yeah, a landlord's dream: a paralyzed tenant with no tongue.
Who pays the rent on time.
Don't ask me to pity those people. I don't mourn them any more than I do the thousands that died at Sodom and Gomorrah.
Is that to say, John, that what you were doing was God's good work?
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
It's more comfortable for you to label me as insane.
It's very comfortable.
Realize, detective, the only reason that I'm here right now is that I wanted to be.
No, no, we would have got you eventually.
Oh, really? So, what were you doing? Biding your time? Toying with me? Allowing five innocent people to die until you felt like springing your trap? Tell me, what was the indisputable evidence you were going to use on me right before I walked up to you and put my hands in the air?