Seven

Mills: Now, I wasn't standing around guarding the Taco Bell, alright? I worked homicide for 5 years. Somerset: Not here. Mills: I understand that. Somerset: Well, over the next 7 days, Detective, you'll do me the favor of remembering that.

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Somerset: You meant what you said to Mrs. Gould, didn't you? About catching this guy? Mills: Yeah. Somerset: Hm. I wish I still thought the way you do. Mills: Why don't you tell me what the hell it is you think we're doing, then? Somerset: Picking up the pieces. We're collecting all the evidence, taking all the pictures and samples, writing everything down, noting the time things happen. Mills: That's all? Somerset: That's all. Putting everything into neat little piles and filing it away on the off chance it will ever be needed in the courtroom. Picking up diamonds on a deserted island, saving them in case we get rescued. Mills: [sits up] Bullshit! Somerset: Even the most promising clues usually only lead to others. So many corpses roll away un-revenged. Mills: Don't try to tell me you didn't get that rush tonight. I saw you. We're getting somewhere.

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Somerset: Why don't you tell me what's really bothering you, Tracy? Tracy: David and I are gonna have a baby. Somerset: [baffled] Oh, Tracy... I don't think I'm the one to talk to about this... Tracy: I hate this city. Somerset: I had a relationship once. It was very much like a marriage. We got pregnant. This was long time ago. [sighs] I remember getting up one morning and going to work. Just another day like any other, except it was the first day after I knew about … pregnancy. And I felt this fear for the first time ever. I remember thinking, "How can I bring a child into a world like this? How can a person grow up with all this around them?" I told her I didn't want to have it, and over the next few weeks, I wore her down. Tracy: I want to have children. Somerset: I can tell you now that I know … I mean, I'm positive … that I made the right decision. But there's not a day that passes that I don't wish that I had made a different choice. If you don't keep the ba

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Mills: Do you like what you do for a living? These things you see? Man in Massage Parlour Booth: No, I don't. But that's life.

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Mills: [about Victor] Has he tried to speak or communicate in any way? Dr. Beardsley: Even if his brain were not mush, which it is, he chewed off his own tongue long ago. Somerset: Uh... Doc, is there absolutely no chance that he might survive? Dr. Beardsley: Detective, he'd die of shock right now if you were to shine a flashlight in his eyes. He's experienced about as much pain and suffering as anyone I've encountered, give or take... and he still has hell to look forward to. Good night.

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Somerset: Victor's landlord said there was an envelope of cash in the office mailbox the first of every month. Quote: "I never heard a single complaint from the tenant in apartment 306, and nobody ever complained about him. He's the best tenant I've ever had." End quote. Mills: Yeah, a landlord's dream: a paralyzed tenant with no tongue. Somerset: Who pays the rent on time. Mills: I'm sick of all this waiting! Somerset: This is the job. Mills: Why aren't we out there, huh? Why we gotta sit here, rotting, waiting until the lunatic does it again? Somerset: It's dismissive to call him a lunatic. Don't make that mistake. Mills: Come on, he's insane. Look, right now he's probably dancing around in his grandmother's panties, yeah, rubbing himself in peanut butter. Ooh. How's that? Somerset: I don't think so. Mills: His luck will run out. Somerset: He's not depending on luck. We walked into that apartment exactly one year after he tied Victor to the bed. One year to the date. He wanted us to.

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