Frank Black quotes from Millennium

Bletcher

I'm sorry, Frank.

Frank

You saved Helen's life, Bletch. It's your surveillance that forced him into hiding her in his house.

Frank

Why didn't you let you lawyer use temporary insanity?

I wasn't insane. I was angry. I was in rage. I let things build up shame on me.

Frank

What did you do to me?

I thought I did you a favor. One to another.

Peter

They say genius is the ability to hold two contradictory thoughts in your mind at the same time. What do you call a man who holds two contradictory personalities?

Frank

The Devil.

Frank

Who is she?

She?

Frank

Lucy Butler.

You had me commuted so you might learn the nature of evil. I can tell you now... You think I'm evil, Frank? You don't know what that is. It's greater than we are -- you and me.

Frank

Who did this to you?

The base sum of all evil... The sleep of reason... The Devil's liege...

Frank

[shouting] Who was in my house?!

It knows you, Frank. It feeds off your passion.

Frank

[shouting] Who killed my friend?!

Peter

Let's go, Frank.

Everything you hold sacred... Frank... Run... [more weakly] Run.

Once you figure that out, that's when you leave your mark on this world, Frank.

Frank

You're not going to make any marks on this earth. You don't even rate a footnote.

Frank

Hunziger doesn't fit my profile on this case. He loved animals. Trained hunting dogs with his dad. Gregarious. Dated regularly. He was very popular in high school, which is where he met his future wife. Very focused on his future. That's not the man that did this.

Emmerich

So, he's not a... loser who wet his bed and tortured his Easter bunny. A lot of men who are not serial killers murder their wives.

Frank

Her larynx was excised, but it was done very carefully. The jugulars were not cut. He wanted her alive, but unable to speak. This indicates some organization. And some medical training. I'd like to plug in to what you might have on this victim type.

Devlin

Okay, we'll give you what we have.

So you think Hunzinger's wife was done by our so-called 'Big Woodsman?'

Emmerich

There isn't a remote similarity in the M.O. The Woodsman is an abductor. He never kills in their homes.

Frank

I think Hunzinger's wife was his first victim. When he almost got caught, he changed his M.O., abducting, taking them from the home, then killing them.

But his signature is the same.

Devlin

The larynx? The four women our Woodsman has killed didn't have their larynxes removed.

Frank

In one case, the hyoid bone was destroyed, crushed with bolt cutters. In another, beaten flat with a hammer. Two others were garroted with piano wire, severing their tracheas. In each case, the aim was to stop them from speaking.

Emmerich

'Silence is golden?'

Frank

He's silencing somebody he knows... his wife or his mother. Once they're silenced, they become a captive audience. Still listen, be sympathetic. That's what he wants. That's why he never disfigures their faces.

Devlin

Do you think he's got a nagging wife? We've always pegged The Woodsman as a... loner.

Frank

Well, he never does a blitz attack. He easily enters middle-class homes and confronts them. He's comfortable there. I think that's where he lives. I think he does not live alone.

Amy Lee Walker.

Emmerich

A woman fitting his basic victim profile disappeared a few days ago in Hagerstown.

Devlin

Everybody's got a theory on the increasing violence in our society.

Emmerich

My wife thinks it's the artificial hormones in beef.

Devlin

Seriously, is it true that some of your people think it's because of some greater evil out there?

Yeah, I mean, that sounds almost like a religious thing.

Frank

Yeah, some people have that belief.

Devlin

What's your take?

Frank

I don't think it's the beef.

Frank

Henry Dion.

Uh-oh... You!

Frank

Uh-uh. Don't move, Henry.

I won't move... She's dead. The important thing is we finally came to understand each other, isn't that right, Frank?