Did the autopsy on Mr. Ferguson prove he'd been frozen, then thawed?
The autopsy proved when it comes to medical science, you're better off asking The Magic 8-ball.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
[to Harry] The same careful planning went into these crimes. [shows photos] Timing. Lack of forensic evidence. Except, of course, for... what the perpetrator chose to leave behind. And this is where I step back in awe. The planting of the DNA and the harvesting from human remains, you know, as a preemptive measure. It's a stroke of genius. [Harry says nothing.] Watching the police fumbling around must have been tremendous fun for the perpetrator, don't you think?
[Goren uses tweezers to pick a piece of lint off the dead driver's suit.]
Looks like Webster had a passenger, sat close to him. Wore a purple cashmere sweater.
Tight-fitting size 2 with a plunging neckline.
[Goren inspects the lint with interest.]
Mm. That I can't tell from this.
I can tell from the bull he was feeding his wife.
[Deakins watches Goren and Eames enter the observation room after questioning a witness.]
I smell square one up ahead.
[Goren pauses to look into a classroom where small children are working on a complicated math problem on the chalkboard.]
LDr. Leonard
Please. You're going to disturb the children.
Are they working on that problem on the board?
LDr. Leonard
Yes. This is a special math tutorial.
Really? These little kids are gonna solve that?
LDr. Leonard
These are profoundly gifted children.
You'll have to forgive my partner, Dr. Leonard. He's feeling very humble right now.
[Regarding a test that tests social adjustment.]
I remember this. We had to take it the last year of high school.
So did we.
How did you do?
I had to go to my counselor's office and have a talk with the school shrink.
[Eames chuckles.]
How about you?
Me? I was so well adjusted, they elected me prom queen.
FDr. Fellowes
You know why the battles in academia are so vicious. It's because the stakes are so low.
Everyone knows academics are all talk and no action.
[Teaching a university class.]
In American literature, the descent into madness is usually preceded by obsession. A consuming obsession. Example, anyone?
[The class is unresponsive.]
Alright, I'll get you started. Moby Dick. What characterizes Ahab's obsession?
[Goren raises his hand in the back of the room.]
Yes. In the back.
[Wallace realizes that it is Goren.]
The dogged, unrelenting pursuit of evil.
Interesting. Evil. I always fancied it was man's unrelenting pursuit of his own potency.
Sometimes a whale is just a whale.
[Discussing a grad student's poor quality thesis.]
It wouldn't butter your parsnips.
[Discussing Nicole Wallace.]
This woman is very, very good.
How old were you when you first realized your mommy wasn't like all the other mommies?
[Goren slams out of his chair and stands. He walks around the table and sits down next to Wallace. He loosens his collar.]
Seven.
Were you ashamed?
And frightened. It's my turn. How old were you when your father first molested you? [Wallace grows quiet] It's the only explanation for your intense hatred of men. The murders in Thailand were an attempt to correct the tragedy of your childhood. To punish your abuser. Absolving yourself of guilt by using a man to kill other men. Not that you think much of women either. Your mother, she was - what? Too scared, too drunk, too self-absorbed to protect you?
[shaky] No. No. None of those things ever happened. None of those things are true.
That's why you can't form connections. That's why you use sex - it's an exercise in self-hatred. It's why when you came back from Thailand, you supported yourself with prostitution, didn't you, Nicole?
[voice breaking] I am Elizabeth Hitchens, I am a professor in literature...
[pounding his fist in the table] No! No. When I met you, you wanted me to know who you truly were; how smart, how funny, how charming you are. You wanted me to know you, Nicole Wallace, a sparkling, little girl who survived horrible abuse with her wits intact.
[Goren and Eames arrive too late to arrest Wallace and find she has already abandoned her apartment.]
What did you think, she'd have scones and a glass of sherry for us?
You're really good at keeping secrets. Me, I just run off at the mouth.
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