- Louie Provenza: As a general rule, Emma, when a psychopath tells you that someone is going to die, pick up a phone.
- Dr. Morales: All right, the room is now safe for the faint of heart.
- Amy Sykes: Okay.
- Louie Provenza: Oh, God... It takes a special kind of asshole to do this.
- [picks up the cover]
- Louie Provenza: Oh, God, Morales! Where are her hands?
- Dr. Morales: I cut 'em off and put 'em in the rehydrating solution. I've had some success identifying burn victims this way before, but it takes time and... usually a little bit more skin.
- Andy Flynn: We'll cross our fingers.
- Phillip Stroh: Which letter is stuck today?
- Judge Stephen Schaeffer: The S and the D, both.
- Phillip Stroh: I'll need the compressed air, please.
- [Judge Schaeffer gives a compressed air duster to Stroh]
- Judge Stephen Schaeffer: I know DDA Rios is pretty, but you don't have to creep her out.
- Phillip Stroh: [cleaning behind Mac's keyboard with compressed air] Why should I be any nicer to her than she is to me? Here you go.
- Judge Stephen Schaeffer: [tries the keys] Oh, great, thanks.
- Phillip Stroh: [drops the pen] Sorry.
- Judge Stephen Schaeffer: Every time. I think you drop that pen just to make me pick it up for you.
- Phillip Stroh: It's the most fun I have all day.
- Louie Provenza: Why are we waiting out here? The clock is ticking, people.
- [whirring saw sounds from the autopsy room]
- Louie Provenza: Oh, well, um, anything else?
- Phillip Stroh: Give me what I want, in writing. In return, you'll receive a chance to arrest a murderer, an opportunity that... won't come around again for a while.
- Sharon Raydor: "Won't come around again for a while?" What's that supposed to mean? How did you know what would happen to our victim?
- Phillip Stroh: The question is, how could you not? Oh. Perhaps I've said too much. That should give you something to think about, anyway.
- Amy Sykes: My God. He's already got his second victim.
- Louie Provenza: Yes. And our pimp is already screaming "lawyer," several times. Damn it. How many deals are we gonna have to make before this is done?
- Sharon Raydor: Do not try and do our job for us. Don't ask questions. Don't try and engage in dialogue about this case. If you feel concerned for your safety, you walk out that room. Stroh is really smart. He will try to manipulate you. He will try to make you feel small and unimportant. Do not let him talk you into crossing over to his side of the room. We will all be watching you from Electronics.
- [Stroh comes into the interview room]
- Sharon Raydor: Look at me. When you are ready.
- Phillip Stroh: Rusty Beck. Please take a seat.
- Rusty Beck: I'm fine here, thanks. What do you wanna know?
- Phillip Stroh: Just the basics. For example, if we end up in court... do you intend to repeat your pretrial testimony against me?
- Rusty Beck: Yeah. Every word.
- Phillip Stroh: Even knowing your statement could help the state execute me?
- Rusty Beck: No one gets executed in California anymore. Actually, in the last ten years, you've killed more people than the state has. And you tried to kill me.
- Phillip Stroh: Well, it was never personal, Rusty. I mean, who wants to leave witnesses behind? You're living proof of how dangerous that can be, right?
- [Rusty steps back as Stroh moves his body forward]
- Phillip Stroh: Relax, okay? I am incapable of reaching you from here. So, moving on, I understand Emma Rios has asked you for an Impact Statement.
- Rusty Beck: Yeah, what about it?
- Phillip Stroh: I was just wondering if in addition to the dustups we've had, you might wanna include some of the positive effects I've had on your life.
- Rusty Beck: Positive effects?
- Phillip Stroh: By becoming a material witness for the state, you were taken off the streets and out of a life of prostitution, an incredibly unsafe profession. You gained a mother. You got a high school degree. You think anybody around here would have given a shit about you if it hadn't been for me?
- Rusty Beck: Okay, and what about the interest Wade Weller took in me?
- Phillip Stroh: Who?
- Rusty Beck: Oh, don't act like you don't know his name. Wade Weller. The freak who you had write me threatening letters and who you ordered to kill me, okay? That Wade Weller. You think I should change my Impact Statement because you changed my life? Well, get this from me, okay? If anyone in this room changed someone else's life, I changed yours, okay? I changed yours.
- Phillip Stroh: Oh, and I never forget it, Rusty, but to be completely fair, to be completely honest, we changed each other's lives, as we were fated to do. And we will have the power to change each other again.
- Rusty Beck: Change each other how?
- Phillip Stroh: I don't know. I can't see that far ahead, but our lives have been intertwined, yours and mine. A pattern has begun to emerge, wouldn't you say? And that pattern is destiny. And when you finally see destiny, Rusty, in all her glory, destiny is like an arrow... pointing toward the end.
- Rusty Beck: What end? The end of what?
- Phillip Stroh: Heaven knows. I'm satisfied with the witness.
- Rusty Beck: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What end? What are you talking about? What end?
- Phillip Stroh: I'm satisfied with the witness. Now, get me the written parts of my deal to Judge Schaeffer and I'll give you the name of the killer.
- [Rusty exits directly]
- Fritz Howard: This is the sixteenth time Stroh has been transported from county to Judge Schaeffer's chambers. You're risking somethin' terrible each time.
- D.D.A. Emma Rios: I can't help it. He fired his attorney and he started representing himself, and the deal my boss offered him forces me to give Stroh unlimited access to files from his former legal practice to review with the special master.
- Fritz Howard: [together with Emma] ... the special master, to see where he can violate privilege and where he can't. I know all of that, but how long is this gonna go on? Is he just trying to play out the clock... or are you actually getting information out of him that could solve open cases?
- D.D.A. Emma Rios: There was one thing about a possibly active child molester, but it didn't pan out.
- Fritz Howard: But Stroh's ready to confess and make his statement of facts.
- D.D.A. Emma Rios: In exchange for information leading to the arrest and conviction of rapists and murderers, which, so far, he has failed to provide.
- Fritz Howard: But if you wanted, you could determine his communications valuable enough to give him life today... and end this whole process.
- D.D.A. Emma Rios: In this whole process... Phillip Stroh raped and murdered at least five women, and I can prove it. My opinion: he's too dangerous to be anywhere but on death row inside a maximum-security prison, and that is where I intend to put him unless he gives up something actionable. Excuse me, Chief Howard.