Millennium Season 1 quotes

Frank

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

Fashion an angel for your wife's birthday and then kill the family. Happens all the time.

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.

I came in from working in the garage. I was tired. I put in a long day. William Jr. was coming down from the stairs. He didn't see me at first. I think I thought I was just smacking him till I realized I had the chisel in my hand and there was blood all over me... my son was dead. My wife came down from the stairs, she must have heard the noise. There was no stopping now. After I was finished with my wife I went into my daughter's room. Mary was awake. That made it more difficult. She cowered on her bed crying. She didn't fight. She didn't fight back or try to run away. It was the first time I had ever laid a hand on her. I had to go upstairs to Gabe's room. I'm grateful now he didn't wake up to see me looking down at him. He was only five years old. Once you start something like this you somehow have to finish it.

Peter

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm not playing with you anymore in any way. Understand? I'll annihilate your sleep forever because I'm sure as hell going to let the public know that what's happening to them is because of you... your stupidity and Frank Black! I know about Frank Black, yes. Now, you go back and you find her, damn it! She's in those woods alone! I might as well let you know, Mr. Kane, that I intend to terrorize D.C. until there are soldiers in the streets corners.

You're misunderstanding me.

Do not talk to me! This city is just one small room in my playground. I've decided to take my stake in America, lay claim to my own peculiar heritage. The 'moron' is going to wander far and wide through the land and kill and kill and kill...

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.