- Holden Ford: [defending his interviewing techniques] You want truffles, you gotta get in the dirt with the pigs.
- Holden Ford: You would really turn down the chance to meet Richard Speck? He's almost up there with Manson.
- Bill Tench: Well, maybe he'll give you an autograph.
- Holden Ford: That would be inappropriate, right?
- Peter Dean: [concluding an intense interview] Gentlemen, we'll review these and keep you updated on our findings. What we expect from you during this process, more than anything, is candor.
- John Boylen: [turns off his recorder] Richard Speck, what a shit stain, huh?
- [nerve-relieving laughter around the table]
- [first lines]
- Holden Ford: [holding Richard Speck newspaper clippings] It's like meeting a movie star.
- Bill Tench: Could be as anti-climactic.
- Holden Ford: "Crime of the Century."
- Bill Tench: Until Charles Whitman two weeks later...
- Holden Ford: I remember staring at this wanted poster of him, trying to figure out if I saw him on the street, would I know he was insane?
- Bill Tench: You clip all these?
- Holden Ford: Everything I could get my hands on. Even went to my neighbors who subscribed to newspapers outside of Milwaukee.
- Bill Tench: Holden and his first criminal crush!
- Bill Tench: I can choke down the bile, manufacture empathy - when our subjects are at least informative.