- Claude Bolton: Well, as the saying goes, if God truly hates your guts, then he grants your deepest wish.
- Howard Salomon: I swear to God, I never met a cop who didn't hate a nickel because it wasn't a dime.
- El Cuco: I need to eat.
- Jack Hoskins: You just did.
- El Cuco: He was full of cancer.
- Jack Hoskins: Well, he doesn't have to worry about that anymore.
- Ralph Anderson: Let's just say that you sold me on this El Cuco thing of yours, right?
- Holly Gibney: Mm.
- Ralph Anderson: What does it want?
- Holly Gibney: It wants what every organism wants, it wants to perpetuate its own existence, it wants to survive. At all costs.
- Ralph Anderson: By turning itself into someone else, right down to their DNA, torturing, killing children, laying waste to families, um, framing the innocent and then disappearing, only to pop up and do it all over again in some other city or country twenty-odd days later? Cause that's not like any criminal that I've ever heard of.
- Holly Gibney: It's not a criminal. It's not even human.
- Ralph Anderson: I knew you were gonna say that.
- Holly Gibney: Um I know what I just told you might sound a little insane.
- Claude Bolton: Insane don't even come close.
- Ralph Anderson: Just so you know, um... apparently, Jack came back to town this morning. He broke into his own place, stole his own car.