Frank Black quotes from Millennium

Frank

It's not enough, Pete... all this manpower. I feel I could save so many lives if I understood what he wants.

Peter

We all heard him, Frank. It's the thrill. Sexual transference.

Frank

It's more. His thrills wear out quickly. First, he alerts the authorities there's a bomb. After a day he needs more. So he contacts us? Taunts us to the point of near capture? What will he do to increase his excitement?

Peter

What if it's some kind of god complex? He talked about his creation, about controlling people.

Frank

What I can't get out of my head is when he stated I'd be famous when I caught him. A 'star.' It lies in there, somehow.

You want to bring him in because he was a hero... twice?

Frank

That's him, I know it.

Frank... after Centennial Park, there is no way that I could bring this guy in without more evidence.

Frank

The bomber has expert knowledge in explosive devices. He knew exactly what and how much to use to create the effect he wants. There were two explosions today... neither one of which matched the lethal intensity of The Queen's Arms bombing.

It was lethal enough to kill five people.

Frank

But not so destructive a person couldn't survive inside of it. Especially if he knew when and how the force would dissipate. Raymond Dees is a maintenance worker in that building. He has the knowledge and the opportunity to place those devices where it would best suit him. He watched the first bombing from a distance. He believed that watching the chaos which he created would be the thrill, but he needed more... to smell it, to touch it, to participate in the aftermath, but that wasn't enough either.

Peter

So, today he placed himself within his created chaos.

Frank

It wasn't enough to watch others. He needed to watch himself. A real star.

Are you saying he killed 18 people so he could be on Good Morning America?

Frank

Killing wasn't the motive. It was a by-product of his obsession.

In all these years, we work at a distance, with a remove. It helps us to objectify... so why is this one different to me?

Frank

The coldness, the calculation, the victims... merciless acts against the merciful.

I haven't been to church since I was eight. I've always been happily cynical. So why I am taking this so personally?

Frank

I feel it myself.

Have you and your wife raised Jordan in any particular faith, Frank?

Frank

No. Catherine and I haven't even dealt with it yet.

I know. My husband and I make it up as we go along.

Frank

Maybe faith is like the picture album left in the closet. We don't go back and visit it every day. We need to know it's there, need to know it's safe... so we can pass it along when the time is right.

Frank

The man who did this... who we believe did this... he does it without conscience. Is that evil?

There's a disconnectedness out there and those desperate with that feeling expect faith to fill the void and when it doesn't... they blame us.

Frank

I can't speak to that, father.

No?

Frank

I'm afraid my own faith is lacking.

Well, I've ministered to many who have lost their way.

Frank

I think my time would be better spent trying to catch the man who killed your friend.

Then you know the truth. You know that God has abandoned us. That's why you're afraid to die. Just like I am.

Frank

No.

You're lying.

Frank

I'm afraid, Galen, but not like you. You're afraid to die, because you fear God's judgment.

I've... lost my faith.

Frank

No, you've tried to kill it, but you can't. I've... seen your ritual. You try to kill your faith with the tools of your own belief because of your pain, because you think God's forsaken you. You think that you can get rid of your pain by slaughtering the faith that's inside you.

It is inside of me, isn't it? It just won't die.

Frank

Yeah. I was just thinking on the plane about this man Calloway. I felt how human he was... so inundated by pain, fragmented by grief. It led him to surrender his humanity.

Catherine

I know, Frank. It scares me.

Frank

We can't stop evil but we can't lose our faith either.

Catherine

And you're thinking that's what we need to teach Jordan.

Frank

I'm going to tell Jordan that bad things happen. And even though the bird died and it upset her, we have to balance sadness... with a sense of hope... and faith.

Catherine

I still have faith, Frank... even in a world where men like that exist.

Frank

So do I.

Frank

He knew who she was.

Bletcher

Not many housewives make that kind of enemy.

Frank

It's not about her. Killer's rage is directed towards someone else.

Peter

I agree. The stab wounds were brutal but impersonal, clustered well away from her face.

So he knew who she was, but it wasn't about her? And he sliced her up, but it wasn't directed at her?... Hey, I'm just trying to keep up.

Catherine

How could anyone abandon a child? But millions of people do it. Millions. God, it's scary. We have home after home filled with kids like James. And we know they'll turn violent. How do I tell the survivors that no one saw it coming? They're out there, Frank.

Frank

Thousand points of darkness.

Catherine

People full of holes. Like James. Living off the fantasy that his mother will somehow make everything better. Frank?

Frank

It doesn't make any sense. James never gave up. He never stopped looking.

Catherine

It was fantasy.

Bletcher

You should have waited for us, damn it.

Frank

She'd be dead now.

Bletcher

He should have waited. You tell him.

Catherine

I know... I know you had to go in there... Because of who you are... Because you had no choice. Frank... I can't lose you.

Frank

I'm not going anywhere.

Catherine

Promise me? I don't want to ask myself 'am I strong enough to be alone?'

Frank

It's okay. Nobody is.

Catherine

Tell me honestly, Frank. Am I going too far?

Frank

We live in a world where too many people won't go far enough, won't do what they know is right, what they believe. I don't know how or why it got this way but the world has become so complicated that to involve yourself in someone else's problems is to invite them needlessly on yourself.

Frank

Yeah. Thinking about my parents, my grandparents -- forty or fifty years ago, they never locked their doors, day or night. We seem to have accepted it so... gracefully, so naturally -- the security systems. We've allowed ourselves to become almost besieged by our own fear.

Catherine

If you're not afraid, you're living in denial. The world's changed.

Frank

Yeah, I know. Can't turn it back. But we wonder... where are we headed from here?

'John Allworth.' The signature... centrifugal, vertical lines, forward expansion. The strokes... forceful, measured, alternating cursive and print. This man's signature's probably been the same since he was old enough to sign it.

Frank

What does that tell you?

That the signer is deliberate. He has focus, but that this is to contain his rage or his anger -- that he can be explosive, prone to outburst or violence.

Frank

The victims were taken brazenly, in public spaces. The killer knows these neighborhoods, he feels safe here.

What does this guy want? If it's money, why doesn't he ask for it?

Frank

He sees his victim as ugly, decayed. The mutilation suggests that he wants us to see the boy the same way.

Frank

There is someone out there who believes in May 5th. He's responsible for the death of two girls already. I need to know who else believes in earth changes.

Einstein did.

Frank

I mean today.

I mark 'em, on the palm. That's my trademark. That makes them my property - my meat.

Frank

And the third?

The third one was a coward. I ate his fear up like it was a Thanksgiving meal. His sweat was the cranberry sauce. His breath was the stuffing. And those frozen eyes? They were the dark meat.

Frank

You marked him - but you didn't kill him.