Charles Manson, Bill Tench and others in “Unfinished Business”

I did not direct anyone to do anything that isn't what they wanted to do.

Bill Tench

You didn't stop them, either.

I always let children go. If he falls, that is how we learn. You become strong by falling.

Bill Tench

You're not supposed to let children fall. You're supposed to guide them!

Guide them into what? Guide them into what you've guided them into?

Bill Tench

You fucking midget.

Holden Ford

Bill!

[laughs] This anger that you're feeling, Agent Tench, this is just the anger that you have got for you. Find someone else to put yourself on; I'm tired of being your goat. I'm tired of being your reflection.

Bill Tench

You're not my reflection.

I've always been yours. I've been in your cell since I was eight years old. I don't even have a name. I'm B-33920. A bell rings, I get up! A bell rings, I go out! A bell rings, I do what that bell says! I'm Pavlov's dog, man, I'm anything you want me to be! But what you want is a fiend... 'Cause that's what you are. See, I never had any say in your world; you created it. How do you feel about those murders? That's what counts. Happened in your world. Not in mine.

Bill Tench

What counts is that you ordered the deaths of seven people. Eight, if you count the death of an unborn baby.

And now you can reflect it back on me. And you can lock me up in your penitentiary and you can say that your world's better! But prison's a frame of thought. We're all our own prisons, we're each our own wardens, we do our own time. Prison's in your mind. Can't you see I'm free?

Bill Tench

You don't look so free to me, Charlie.

You don't look free to me! You look like a composite of what someone told you you are! You live for other people's opinion, you got pain on your face, and you wonder if you look okay.