“Now, w-what if he escapes? I'd hate to lose my job or go to…...” – Harry Terwilliger, The Green Mile ... Movie Quotes Database

Harry Terwilliger

[Terwilliger out the foolishness of taking convicted murderer Coffey out of prison.]

Now, w-what if he escapes? I'd hate to lose my job or go to… prison… but I'd hate worse to have a dead child on my conscience.

Paul Edgecombe

I don't think that's gonna happen. In fact… I don't think he did it at all. I do not see… God putting a… a gift like that in the hands of a man that'd kill a child.

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