- Special Agent Kelly Raskin: In your report, you state a Mr. Harry Dresden was with you at the crime scene.
- Lt. Connie Murphy: Right.
- Special Agent Kelly Raskin: He calls himself a wizard.
- Harry Dresden: That's 'cause I am one.
- Detective Sid Kirmani: I also got the victim's roommate.
- Lt. Connie Murphy: What's she doing here?
- Detective Sid Kirmani: Crying, mostly.
- Harry Dresden: [narrating] There's an old saying, "Blood will out." With a little blood, a person like me can learn all kinds of things - and that goes double for a friend of mine, an expert in all things dead, which makes sense because he's dead himself.
- Bob: Dresden! Please don't drag me around like an in-bred cocker spaniel.
- Harry Dresden: Well, keep up!
- [Bob touches Mina's blood and turns into an image of a werewolf]
- Harry Dresden: That was the girl?
- Bob: A lycanthrope. It's there - it's in her blood.
- Harry Dresden: How'd she die?
- Bob: I tasted silver.
- Lt. Connie Murphy: Harry offers an unconventional point of view.
- Special Agent Kelly Raskin: And this case doesn't need one. I don't want you talking to him.
- [to Harry]
- Special Agent Kelly Raskin: I know your type. You exploit fear and superstition. You're a parasite.
- Harry Dresden: [narrating] Disbelief, skepticism - hey, I get it. If I didn't know what I know, I'd be skeptical, too. I usually don't bother to set people straight, but every once in a while, well, there's somebody I can't ignore.
- Heather Bram: I'm sorry, but what is it that you do that the cops can't.
- Harry Dresden: I see things from different perspective - from your perspective.
- Heather Bram: Why are you doing this?
- Harry Dresden: Because I'm the only one that can.
- [after being bitten by a werewolf, Heather has a vision of her dead roommate]
- Heather Bram: Mina? This is a dream.
- Mina Watkins: The nightmare is when you wake up.
- Heather Bram: You killed Mina, didn't you?
- Special Agent Zachary Bushnell: I put her down - there's a difference.
- Heather Bram: You put her down like a dog?
- Special Agent Zachary Bushnell: Exactly.
- Bob: Where have you been?
- Harry Dresden: In jail. I escaped.
- Bob: You're a fugitive.
- Harry Dresden: That's the least of my problems. Heather's missing and the Fed in charge of this is a lycanthrope.
- Bob: They've killed eight lycanthropes? That's quite a tally.
- [Harry stares off into space]
- Bob: ...and I don't like that look.
- Harry Dresden: It's not a tally, it's a recipe.
- Bob: Recipe? For what?
- Harry Dresden: A cure. "Kill nine remove the sign" - the sign of the wolf.
- [to the dying Bushnell, crying]
- Special Agent Kelly Raskin: I'm back. It's gone. I'm back! It's gone!
- Harry Dresden: No. Monster's still here.
- Heather Bram: I want to rip your throat out.
- Harry Dresden: I'm willing to take that risk.
- Heather Bram: I'm not!
- Harry Dresden: [to Heather] Feel that? That is your heart and it's a good heart. It's strong and it's in control and you're in control. And you own this... this disease. I've known others like you and they've made it.
- Lt. Connie Murphy: You're no longer Public Enemy Number One.
- Harry Dresden: Well, at least not in their books. So, what's gonna happen to Raskin?
- Lt. Connie Murphy: Well, if she ever gets out of the strait jacket in the rubber room, three states are looking to pursue the penalty. Bushnell was the lucky one.
- [last lines]
- Bob: She'll be back.
- Harry Dresden: Yeah, maybe... but maybe some day, she'll slip up and I'll have to hunt her down and kill her.