Murder by Numbers (2002)

Michael Pitt: Justin Pendleton

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Quotes 

• Justin : All real freedom risks crime. Indeed, freedom *is* crime, because it thinks first of itself and not of the group.

• [first lines] 

  Richard : Shall we say the words one last time?

  Justin : One cannot live fully without embracing suicide in crime.

  Richard : Say it.

  Justin : A pact made with relentless fire that requires that, while some live, others die.

  Richard : On three...

  in unison : One, two, three

  [gun shot] 

• Richard : Man cannot live freely without embracing suicide and crime.

  Justin : A pact made with relentless fire that says, while some live, others must die.

• Justin : I enjoy taking indefensible positions and creating an argument for them.

• Justin : We have to pay for what we did.

• Richard : You can't get fingerprints off of skin.

  Justin : You can with a magna brush, or a print camera, or an iodine gun and silver transfer sheets.

• Justin : You were going to sit here and watch me kill myself.

• Justin : Each of us has within us a weak aspect, eager to give up freedom for the comfort of being dominated. But we also have a will to power that desires freedom - that insists on deciding for ourselves, each of us, individually, what is good, and what is evil.