- Detective: This isn't one of those tough cases which depends on clues.
- [as Finch surreptitiously pockets a vital piece of evidence]
- Girl overheard at bar: So after all that, what could I do? I just had to accept the mink coat.
- Finch: The last mile. The last long walk to the death chamber, and eternity. An eye for an eye. A life for a life. It is so written. The state, which cannot give life, demands the right to take life. Mary Kirk walked those 39 steps unafraid, leaving behind a letter, a document of courage: " In one hour, I shall be dead. Killed by the hand of the man I love. I can hear the preparations for my execution. I can feel the expectant hush through the walls."