Frank Black quotes from Millennium

Frank

He's teaching us a lesson... about our pretensions to safety... about how vulnerable we are.

Frank

He takes chances but everything's considered... as if scripted, planned -- what to leave, what to take, what he wants us to see, what he wants others to see. He's leaving a record of the events -- videos, 911 calls, witnesses.

Frank

The kidnapper sees himself as a holy figure, a purifier. He makes the impure ingest his blood so that they can be cleansed.

Frank

To him, the victims are unreal, erotic figments to be manipulated. He kills them to prevent them from existing outside his fantasies.

Frank

He used his son to procure his victims. He was the devil that Green couldn't escape.

Frank

Some truths are better left unknown.

Frank

Your Honor, I've spent my whole adult life trying to understand how the mind of a killer works. How he thinks, how he feels. William Gary is not capable of doing the things he has been convicted of.

Frank

He may be feeling so guilty that he convinced himself he is responsible for the killings.

Frank

I know this man. I know what drives him. Dr. Fabricant told me as a boy he used to slit the stomachs of neighborhood cats, turn them loose, just to see how long they'd live. After med school, as a resident, he would respond to no-code patients just to see how they died. He said the medical profession had but one interest for him -- the knowledge and the opportunity to rend death from life.

Frank

His only source of feeling alive is his urge for sexual pleasure. His paraphilia has now defined it. It intoxicates and terrifies him. He's standing at an abyss and he's hesitating.

Frank

This time. My work normally begins with dead bodies... multiples of dead bodies. I came here because I think we have a chance to stop this killing before it starts. You're witnessing the birth of a psychosexual killer.

Frank Black

I'm not depressed. I'm just quiet.

Frank

The killer is confused about his sexuality. He feels guilt, quite possibly from his mother. So he goes to peep shows to try to feel something toward women but all he feels is anger - anger that fuels his psychosis, that distorts and twists his view of reality.

Twists it to fit some screwy French poetry?

Frank

The killer doesn't see the world like everyone else.

Bletcher

How does he see it?

Frank

Differently.

Wait a second. You say this guy is angry at women, that he cruises boys but then he kills this John Doe we found burned in the forest. How does that work?

Frank

He's very confused.

Undoubtedly.

Frank

His way of dealing with it is by fulfilling a prophecy.

I don't buy it.

Uh, it's a good story but I've got to agree. Evidence just doesn't support it.

Frank

I was approached by a group of men who helped me understand the nature of my facility... my gift.

Bletcher

This Millennium Group. They really believe all that stuff? Nostradamus and Revelations? The destruction of the world?

Frank

They believe we can't just sit back and hope for a happy ending.

Bletcher

Tell me how you know. Why are you so sure? You see it, or something.

Frank

It's complicated, Bletch.

Bletcher

What do you see?

Frank

I see what the killer sees.

Bletcher

What, like a psychic?

Frank

No. I put myself in his head. I become the thing we fear the most.

Bletcher

How?

Frank

I become capability. I become the horror--what we know we can become only in our heart of darkness. It's my gift. It's my curse. It's why I retired.