“[last lines] Bill Tench: [squabbling about their differing methods] Let me ask you something else. Do you have a girlfriend? Holden Ford: I do now, Bill, as it happens. Bill Tench: OK. So next time you're a long way from home and you flip your shit, you find a pay phone and you tell it to your…”Tagged: instructors, methodists
“Iowa Reporter #1: The woman and her little boy. Bill Tench: We're instructors. Iowa Reporter #2: Are you from the Methodist church? Bill Tench: Do we look like we're from the Methodist church? Iowa Reporter #1: Yes? Bill Tench: Make a hole. Good to see ya...”Tagged: instructors, methodists
“Bill Tench: Smoke? Holden Ford: Oh, uh I don't smoke when I eat. Bill Tench: Want to go outside? Holden Ford: I don't smoke when I don't eat, either.”Tagged: smoking, eating
“Holden Ford: You get onto a crowded elevator, and you face the opposite direction, the back of the elevator, and everybody freaks out. They're uncomfortable for reasons they can't even articulate. But if you turn around and face the front, everybody relaxes. Bill Tench: OK. Well, how do we do that?…”Tagged: crowded elevator, relax
“The question is not only why did the killer do it, but why did the killer do it this way?”Tagged: Murder, murder methods
“Bill Tench: There's nothing behind Kemper's eyes. It's like standing near a black hole. Holden Ford: Right. Bill Tench: And he thinks we're his friends. Well, he thinks you're his friend. Which makes you a pretty great FBI agent.”Tagged: Edmund Kemper, dead eyes, FBI Agent
“Bill Tench: I'm sorry, Ed, do you mean that violence in the movies drove you to kill those women? Edmund Kemper: No. My point is, in reality it doesn't work the way you expect. When you stab somebody they're supposed to fall dead. They go, 'Oh,' and they fall dead, right? Bill Tench: Right. Edmund…”Tagged: Edmund Kemper, Movie Violence, Stabbing
“Holden Ford: So you're saying you don't think this, us interviewing these killers, is crazy? Wendy Carr: Just the opposite. I mean, crazy in the way that anyone with a truly new idea is crazy. But no. Holden Ford: Wow, OK. That's a relief. That hasn't really been the feedback we've gotten so far.…”Tagged: killers, crazy, Feedback
“Holden Ford: Actually, Debbie's the first girl I've really dated-dated since high school. Bill Tench: Dated-dated. Holden Ford: Yeah. Bill Tench: My wife's the first woman I've married-married.”Tagged: dated-dated, married-married
“[last lines] Holden Ford: So what are you teaching? Wendy Carr: Um, I'm teaching a class on the intersection of sociopathy and fame. People like, um, Andy Warhol, Jim Morrison. Their celebrity becomes the only thing they need to sustain their ego. Bill Tench: Nixon was a sociopath. Wendy Carr: Very…”Tagged: Sociopath, Richard Nixon, Jim Morrison, Andy Warhol, White House
“Unit Chief Shepard: Can you make him shut up? Bill Tench: I have not been able to, sir. Holden Ford: How do we get ahead of crazy if we don't know how crazy thinks? Unit Chief Shepard: I like you, Bill. I don't particularly like him, but I like you... OK, you may continue with your little sideshow.…”Tagged: demotion, behavioral sciences, crazy, Basements
“Bill Tench: Holden, they're not gonna let you in with a sidearm. Holden Ford: The guy is six foot nine, weighs 300 pounds. Bill Tench: That's right. Holden Ford: So what's he gonna do? Bill Tench: He's gonna take the fuckin' thing away, kill you with it, and then have sex with your face.”Tagged: Edmund Kemper, Rape, Gun
“Monte Rissell: You know what? I don't think I'm interested. Bill Tench: Fine. You want to diddle around, we'll walk out of here. We'll go have a nice, leisurely lunch wherever the fuck we want, and then take the picturesque drive back to Quantico. What's the rest of your day look like?”Tagged: Quantico, FBI, Diddling
“Bill Tench: We're from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Behavioral Science Unit. Monte Rissell: Scientists? Bill Tench: We're from the Behavioral Science Unit. We're doing research. Interviewing men like you. Monte Rissell: Men like me? Bill Tench: Murderers with multiple victims. To better…”Tagged: FBI, Behavioral Science Unit, murderers, Serial Killers
“Passenger seat's not the best way to transport a corpse, I'll give you that. But you said he was home alone watching TV? That's not much of an alibi.”Tagged: Corpse, TV, alibi
“Holden Ford: [brushing his teeth] Here's a question, if it is Benjamin or some other boyfriend who freaked out on her, does the case merit our involvement? We still can't rule out a sequence killer, but if the perpetrator was a townie, then the crime is random, and there's no expectation that he'll…”Tagged: investigation, Murder
“Bill Tench: It's always the mother. They all have a crazy, angry mother. Holden Ford: Or an absent father. Benjamin only changed after his father took off. Maybe has nothing to do with the mother. Bill Tench: Aren't all fathers absent in some way? I know my old man was never around. Imagine how…”Tagged: killers, Developmental Psychology, Absent Father, Crazy Mother
“Bill Tench: This is how we get to him. [shows Holden a picture of a severed foot as the businessman watches in horror] Businessman: Please. I can switch with you. Bill Tench: I'm enjoying the leg room.”Tagged: severed foot