Leo Knox quotes from The Finder

Leo Knox

Sometimes when a woman loses a man in a bar, it's because she suddenly remembers she met him in a bar.

Leo Knox

Secrecy is the element of all goodness - even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Leo Knox

I choose my own life. How I live isn't your fault.

Leo Knox

Laws are like cobwebs which catch small flies but let wasps and hornets break through.

Leo Knox

The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Walter Sherman

She works really hard for crap pay. Why? She wants Leo to like her. So Willa wanting someone to like her, by definition, means she's not a sociopath.

Leo Knox

So, she's redeemable.

Walter Sherman

Like a coupon.

I'm sorry, sir, I-I can't seem to find my wallet.

You stole my wallet?

Leo

You probably just dropped it and Willa was kind enough to pick it up for you.

Leo Knox

After twenty years, like looking for a needle in a hay stack. I don't like it.

Walter Sherman

Like two needles in a hay stack. Twice as easy.

Lance Sweets

Have you ever contemplated suicide?

Walter Sherman

Hell, I can think of at least ten people I'd kill before I'd kill myself.

Leo Knox

I'd write that as a "no".

Willa

Attention, boring old people, I got invited to a beach party, can I go?

Leo Knox

Anyone I know?

Willa

The Montgomerys at Farrow Point.

Leo Knox

Rich folks.

Willa

Their son Kevin asked me, I told him the truth that I am on probation.

Walter Sherman

Ahh I bet that got him exited, found himself a bad girl.

Willa

Don't make it like that, he was cool.

Walter Sherman

Was he "cool" or was he a target?

Leo Knox

Walter, didn't we agree to give Willa the benefit of the doubt?

Shouldn't you take advantage that there is a shrink on the house? [points to Sweets] He could tell us if Willa is a sociopath.

Lance Sweets

I'm sorry, who is this? [points to Willa]

Walter Sherman

Willa works and lives here while she is on probation.

Leo Knox

[fatherly] Should we have a talk about boys and beach parties?

Willa

Ewww!

[awkwardly] It's not like... you know... you... being around...?

Willa

[to Isabella] Thanks, Mom! [to Leo] Thanks, Dad! [to Walter] Thanks, creepy older brother! [to Lance Sweets] Thanks, eavesdropping shrink!

Walter Sherman

It's a no brainer. There's nothing more anti-American than the designated hitter.

Leo Knox

Al-Quaeda is more anti-American than anything.

Walter Sherman

This country was founded on a celebration of our individual freedoms. The designated hitter puts the team's collective success over that of the individual. Can't bat? Don't worry. We'll send somebody to do that part of your job for you so we can all win together. There's a name for that, Leo. It's Communism.

Leo Knox

You can't get any more anti-American than actually trying to destroy America.

Walter Sherman

Al-Quaeda's doomed to failure. Hiding in caves. Designated hitters walk among us as heroes. It's subversive.

Walter Sherman

What'd you lose? Your bag of tricks? Your wand? Your sleight? Your hand? Your rabbit? Your false bottomed hat?

My career. My reputation. My good standing in the fellowship of magic. My prestige. My eclat.

Leo Knox

You never looked for "eclat" before.

Walter Sherman

Finding someone's "eclat" would be a nice feather in my cap.

Will you help me?

Walter Sherman

We'll start first thing in the morning at the crime scene.

Leo Knox

Nobody said anything about a crime, Walter.

Walter Sherman

The man just admitted there's no such thing as magic. What's that leave? Skulduggery and monkey business. Trust me. There's a crime.

Willa Monday

Do you believe that ultimate fulfillment can only be found in the arms of a "significant other"?

Leo Knox

There are an infinite number of paths to fulfillment. The soul is neither man nor woman. What are you reading?

Willa Monday

Some ladies magazine from the 80's.

Leo Knox

How's it going?

Willa Monday

There's an internet behind the internet made up of cached information. It's been archived and erased, but not destroyed.

Leo Knox

There's a difference between erase and destroy?

Willa Monday

Oh yeah. It's like chasing a ghost through a hall of mirrors.

Leo Knox

Where'd you learn to do this?

Willa Monday

I used to be the ghost.