Peter Watts quotes from Millennium

Peter

While you were at that trail. Whatever you were after. That is your business.

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.

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.

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.