- Friend: Did you know the boy they found dead, in the car?
- William Garretson: [Nods] Steve Parent, but not so good.
- Friend: Concerning Steve Parent, did you cause his death?
- William Garretson: No.
- Friend: You understood the question?
- William Garretson: Yes.
- Friend: Do you feel responsible for Steve's death?
- William Garretson: Well, that he even knew me, yeah.
- Friend: Huh?
- William Garretson: Well, that he even knew me. I mean, he wouldn't have come to visit me that night. Nothing would have happened. In other words, to him.
- Friend: Did you cause Mrs. Polanski's death?
- William Garretson: No.
- Friend: [Turns off polygraph machine] Why are you so nervous?
- William Garretson: Wouldn't you be?
- Friend: Not if I was telling the truth.
- William Garretson: But i am telling the truth.
- Friend: So relax.
- William Garretson: Look, I can tell you what made me so nervous if you want to know.
- Friend: What?
- William Garretson: When they brought me in here, policemen pointed to me and said, "That's the guy! That's the guy who killed all those people!"
- Friend: So it's not because you're lying.
- William Garretson: I'm not lying. I'm just confused.
- Friend: Why are you confused?
- William Garretson: For one thing, how come I wasn't murdered?
- Vincent Bugliosi: Boots is no longer with us.
- Danny DeCarlo: What do you mean, Boots is no longer with us?
- Vincent Bugliosi: He's among the dead. He shot himself the other night, playing Russian Roulette.
- Danny DeCarlo: Oh, terrific. Who was with him?
- Vincent Bugliosi: Cisco Budge.
- Danny DeCarlo: Cisco Budge. That's it. I ain't talking no more. I'm riding out of here on the wind, mister.
- Vincent Bugliosi: There are a couple of warrants outstanding against you, Danny. I don't think you'd feel very safe in prison. That's where Charlie is.
- Danny DeCarlo: [slight pause] That sure is cold, man.
- Vincent Bugliosi: Good evening. You're about to see a dramatization of actual facts in which some of the names have been changed, but the story is true. If it were not true, it would not be believable, for it is surely one of the most bizarre chapters in the history of crime. We may not like to accept the fact that people such as some of those in the story of Helter Skelter exist in our life, and yet, they do. And while they do, we can not say that the story of Helter Skelter has ended.
- Susan Atkins: I was holding her arms behind her and she's looking at me... begging an-and crying: "Please don't kill me. Please don't kill me. I don't wanna die. I wanna live. I wanna have my baby. I wanna have my baby." And I looked her straight in the eye and I said "Look, bitch. I don't care about you. I don't care about your baby. You better be ready. You're gonna die and I don't feel a thing about it." And then I proceeded to stab her, okay?
- Ronnie Howard: Okay.
- Susan Atkins: And you know what? I just kept stabbing her and stabbing her 'till she stopped screaming.
- Ronnie Howard: But she was pregnant. Didn't it bother you to kill her?
- Susan Atkins: No, I thought you understood. I LOVED her, and in order for me to kill her, I was killing part of myself when I killed her. In fact, Charlie gave us instructions to mutilate them. We were gonna cut out the baby if we had time.
- Ronnie Howard: I gotta go to the can.
- Susan Atkins: Y-you know the other two? The next night?
- Ronnie Howard: LaBiancas. Mm-hmm.
- Susan Atkins: [nods] Well, what do you think?
- [Ronnie shakes her head, shocked]
- Susan Atkins: And there's more. Before, one guy we cut his head off and uh, three more in the desert... and more besides. At least eleven. Eleven they'll never solve. And there's gonna be plenty more to come. We're gonna pick out some of the biggest pigs and execute them and release them from this Earth. You have to have a real love in your heart for people to do this for them, you know?
- Ronnie Howard: I gotta go to the can. I'll let you get some sleep.
- [Ronnie leaves and starts to sob]
- Vincent Bugliosi: [narrating] It was so quiet, one of the killers would later say, you could almost hear the sound of ice rattling in cocktail shakers in the homes way down the canyon.
- Vincent Bugliosi: Are you always this happy?
- Cindy Jane Orelia: Uh-huh.
- Vincent Bugliosi: What's the secret?
- Lisa Armbruster: We found the truth.
- Vincent Bugliosi: What's the truth?
- Lisa Armbruster: Charlie is love.