- Kinderman: This I believe in... I believe in death. I believe in disease. I believe in injustice and inhumanity, torture and anger and hate... I believe in murder. I believe in pain. I believe in cruelty and infidelity. I believe in slime and stink and every crawling, putrid thing... every possible ugliness and corruption, you son of a bitch. I believe... in you.
- Kinderman: My wife's mother is visiting, Father. And Tuesday night, she's cooking us a carp. It's a tasty fish, I've got nothing against it. But, because it's supposedly filled with impurities, she buys it live and for three days, it's been swimming... up and down... in my bathtub. Up and down... and I hate it. I can't stand the sight of it, moving its gills. Now, you're standing very close to me, Father; have you noticed? Yes. I haven't had a bath for three days. I can't go home until the carp is asleep because if I see it, swimming... I'll kill it.
- University President: Joey... What did you say that offended Tom Lowery? He's our biggest benefactor.
- Father Dyer: Oh, he is?
- University President: What did you say to him?
- Father Dyer: "Jesus loves you. Everyone else thinks you're an asshole."
- The Gemini Killer: It's too bad about Father Dyer. I killed him, you know. An interesting problem, but finally... it worked! First, a bit of the ole succinylcholine to permit one to work without, ah, annoying distractions, then... a three foot catheter threaded directly into the inferior vena cava - or, superior vena cava. It's a matter of taste, I think, don't you? Then the tube moves through the vein, under the crease of the arm, into the vein that leads directly into the heart, and then, you just hold up the legs and you SQUEEZE the blood manually into the tube from the arms and the legs. There's a little shaking and pounding at the end for the dregs - it isn't perfect, there's a little blood left I'm afraid. BUT, regardless, the overall effect is astonishing! And isn't that REALLY what counts in the end? Yes, of course, GOOD SHOW BIZ, Lieutenant, the EFFECT! And then, off comes the head without spilling one single drop of blood. Now I call that SHOWMANSHIP, Lieutenant!
- The Gemini Killer: I like plays. The good ones... Shakespeare... I like Titus Andronicus the best; it's sweet. Incidentally, did you know that you are talking to an artist? I sometimes do special things to my victims: things that are creative. Of course, it takes knowledge, pride in your work... For example, a decapitated head can continue to see for approximately twenty seconds. So when I have one that's gawking, I always hold it up so that it can see its body. It's a little extra I throw in for no added charge. I must admit it makes me chuckle every time. Life is fun. It's a wonderfull life, in fact... for some.
- Kanavan: Try and make a good confession, and remember, Christ forgives all our sins.
- Penitent: Only little things. Nothing. Seventeen of them, Father. The first was that waitress in Candlestick Park. I cut her throat and watched her bleed. She bled a great deal. It's a problem I'm working on, Father. All this bleeding.
- Kinderman: The whole world is a homicide victim, Father. Would a God who is good invent something like that? Plainly speaking, it's a lousy idea. It's not popular. It's not a winner.
- Father Dyer: There you go, Blaming God.
- Kinderman: Who should I blame? Phil Rizzuto?
- Father Dyer: You wouldn't want to live forever.
- Kinderman: Yes, I would.
- Father Dyer: No, you wouldn't. You'd get bored.
- Kinderman: I have hobbies. In the meantime, we have cancer and mongoloid babies and murderers, monsters prowling the planet, even prowling this neighborhood, Father... right now, while our children suffer... and our loved ones die, and your God goes waltzing blithely through the universe like some kind of cosmic Billie Burke.
- Father Dyer: Bill, it all works out right.
- Kinderman: When?
- Father Dyer: At the end of time.
- Kinderman: That soon?
- Father Dyer: No. We're going to be there. We're going to live forever, Bill. We're spirits.
- Kinderman: Oh, I would love to believe that.
- Mrs. Clelia: My radio. Aren't you going to fix it? Nothing ever gets fixed round here. Just a whole bunch of pies and anchovies. Go away. I don't ever talk to strangers.
- Kinderman: I'm the radio repairman, Mrs. Clelia.
- Mrs. Clelia: Well then, fix it.
- Kinderman: What's wrong with it?
- Mrs. Clelia: Dead people talking. It's right here. Do you see it?
- Kinderman: Yes. I see it.
- Mrs. Clelia: I just knew you weren't really a radio repairman. That's a telephone I'm holding.
- The Gemini Killer: Well, there I was so awfully dead in that electric chair. I didn't like it. Would you? It's upsetting. There was still so much killing to do, and there I was, in the void, without a body. But then along came - well - my friend. You know. One of them. Those others over there. The cruel ones... the Master. He thought my work should continue. But in this body. This body in particular, in fact. Let's call it revenge. A certain matter of an exorcism, I think, in which your friend Father Karras expelled certain parties from the body of a child. Certain parties were not pleased, to say the least. The very least. And so, my friend, the Master, he devised this petty scheme as a way of getting back, of creating a stumbling block, a scandal, a horror to the eyes of all men seeking faith, using the body of this saintly priest as an instrument of, well, you know - my work. But the main thing is the torment of your friend Father Karras as he watches while I rip and cut and mutilate the innocent, his friends, and again, and again, on and on! He's inside with us! He'll never get away! His pain won't end!
- [Abruptly calm and composed]
- The Gemini Killer: Gracious me. Was I raving? Please forgive me. I'm mad.
- Patient X: You again. You've interrupted me. Well... come in, Father Morning. Enter, knight. This time you're going to lose.
- Father Dyer: [On the film 'It's a Wonderful Life'] I've seen it 37 times.
- University President: Commendable.
- Father Dyer: Do you have a favorite picture?
- University President: 'The Fly'.
- Father Paul Morning: [performing exorcism] You robber of life! You author of pain! You corruptor of justice, and innocence, and youth!
- Father Dyer: [in a hospital complaining that he's read all of the newspapers already] Now look, these are all last weeks editions. I've read every one of them. No, can't ya pick me something up?
- Kinderman: My God, the grammar.
- Patient X: I still hear from her occasionally, screaming. I think the dead should shut up, unless there's something to say.
- Kinderman: You're reading Women's Wear Daily?
- Father Dyer: So, what, I'm supposed to give spiritual advice in a vacuum?
- The Gemini Killer: It's the smiles that keep us going, don't you think? The little giggles and bits of good cheer.
- Kinderman: You make a lot of people nervous.
- Father Dyer: Only sinners.
- Kinderman: EVERYBODY!
- Nurse Blaine: Is everything all right in here, guys?
- Kinderman: WE'RE FINE!
- Kanavan: [makes the Sign of the Cross] May the Lord be in your heart to confess your sins. Yes?
- Penitent: I have a... a... scrupulous conscience, Father. This need to... confess... so many things. If I... step on... two straws on the shape of the Cross, I feel that I have to confess it. It torments me.
- Kanavan: Try to make a good confession. Remember, Christ forgives us all of our sins.
- Penitent: Only little on things like... seventeen of them, Father. The first was that... waitress... near Candlestick Park. I... cut her throat. Watched her bleed. She bled a great deal. It's a problem I'm working on, Father - all... this... bleeding.
- [begins cackling diabolically; Kanavan looks on in horror]
- Kinderman: And the autopsy?
- Dr. Freedman: [Dubiously] Tomorrow...?
- Kinderman: [Having raved about Macbeth] ... and tomorrow and tomorrow...
- Patient X: Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those who think'st thou dost overthrow die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
- Kinderman: [After receiving a frustrating, unhelpful answer to a question, he says to himself] We're abandoned.
- Kinderman: If you'll forgive me, I shall leave this mystical conversation, too much of asthetics, always gives me a headache.
- Kinderman: The Gemini is dead.
- The Gemini Killer: [the Gemini Killer screams] NO I AM NOT, I'M ALIVE. I GO ON, I BREATH. LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME. AND TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE.
- Kinderman: And the autopsy?
- Dr. Temple: [Tentatively] Tomorrow...?
- Kinderman: [Sarcastically, having ranted abot MacBeth] ... and tomorrow, and tomorrow...
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