Manhunter (1986)

Dennis Farina: Jack Crawford

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• Will Graham : This started from an abused kid, a battered infant... There's something terrible about...

  Jack Crawford : What are you, sympathizing with this guy?

  Will Graham : Absolutely... My heart bleeds for him, as a child. Someone took a kid and manufactured a monster. At the same time, as an adult, he's irredeemable. He butchers whole families to pursue trivial fantasies... As an adult, someone should blow the sick fuck out of his socks...

  [pause] 

  Will Graham : Do you think that's a contradiction, Jack? Does this kind of understanding make you uncomfortable?

• Jack Crawford : Look, admit we struck out this month. The lear jet is standing by. The basic lab stuff is on it. You, Zeller, Jimmy Price, the photographer. Anywhere he hits, we can be there in an hour and fifteen minutes. We get the call, we roll. The scene will be fresh. Fresher then we've ever had it.

  Will Graham : It's not over yet.

  Jack Crawford : Oh, for Christ's sake, it's a foregone conclusion! It's 11:30 P.M., the full moon is happening tonight. Give it up. Forget this month. It's too damn late.

  Will Graham : I gave it up! Till you showed up with pictures of two dead families, knowing God damn well that I'd imagine families three, four, five and six. Right?

  Jack Crawford : You're fucking right I did! And I'd do it again!

  Will Graham : Great! But don't talk to me about late, pal! I'll tell you when it's too fucking late! Until then, we go as late as I wanna take it!

• Will Graham : The Tooth Fairy's gonna go on until we get smart or we get lucky. He won't stop.

  Jack Crawford : Why not?

  Will Graham : He's got a genuine taste for it.

• Will Graham : He never regained consciousness. Did you hear the tape?

  Jack Crawford : Yeah. Listen, Bowman just broke the code that Lektor used in the Tattler personal ad. It was the State of Maryland statutes. You need to know what it said right now?

  Will Graham : What?

  Jack Crawford : Listen to me, everything's OK, I've taken care of it.

  Will Graham : What is it, Jack?

  Jack Crawford : [angry]  Bastard gave him your home address. It said 'Graham home, 3860 DeSoto Highway, Captiva, Florida. Save yourself, kill them all.'

• Jack Crawford : So what are we doing?

  Will Graham : The dream. He dreams about being wanted and desired. So he changes people into beings who want and desire him.

  Jack Crawford : Changes?

  Will Graham : It's a word. Killing and arranging the people to imitate it. And Lecktor told me something: "If one does what God does enough times, one will become as God is." You put it together, you get: If our boy imitates being wanted and desired enough times, he believes he will become one who is wanted and desired and accepted. It'll all come true.

• [first lines] 

  Jack Crawford : We should have talked at the boatyard. You don't wanna talk about it here.

  Will Graham : I'm not fallin' all over myself to talk about much anywhere, Jack.

• Jack Crawford : Listen, Will, have you seen this week's Tattler?

  Will Graham : [scoffs]  It's not on my preferred reading list, Jack.

  Jack Crawford : Yeah, well, uh... your picture's all over the front page.

  Will Graham : Who the hell was it? Lounds?

  Jack Crawford : Of course. Who else?

  Will Graham : Damn it, Jack! I promised Molly. I promised her!

• Jack Crawford : If I really didn't need you to come back, I wouldn't ask.

• Jack Crawford : "Red Dragon". Mean anything to you?

  Will Graham : No.