- Frank Castle: You know those, uh... those people? The ones I put down, the people I killed? I want you to know that I'd do it all again. This is a circus, all right? It's a charade, it's an act. It's bullshit about how crazy I am. I ain't crazy! I'm not crazy. Okay? I know what I did. I know who I am. And I do not need your help. I'm smack-dab in the middle of my right goddamn mind, and any scumbag, any... any lowlife, any maggot piece of shit that I put down, I did it... because I liked it! Hell, I loved it! I'm sittin' here, I'm... I'm just itching. I'm itching to do it again. And you think... What, you think you're gonna send me to a nuthouse? Some doctor, they're gonna get me to stop from doing what I want to do? Well, that ain't happening! Not on my watch! You people, you call me the Punisher, ain't that right? The big bad Punisher. Well, here I am! You want it, you got it! I am the Punisher! I'm right here! You want it, I'll give it to you. And anybody who came here today to hear me whine, to hear me beg? Well, you can kiss my ass! Do you hear me? I'm guilty. Come on, please, Judge! I'm guilty, you hear me? I'm guilty! I'm guilty!
- Stick: It all began centuries ago. Nobody knows how many, but the shit we're dipping into is ancient. Back then, warlords and their gangs ruled the countryside. Not that much different from today. Bloodthirsty, greedy brutes after loot, pussy, booze, same ol', same ol'. But one day, one of these collections of assholes comes across a thing they can barely understand. Real treasure. Not gold, or rubies, or any of that. They found the secret.
- Matt Murdock: What secret?
- Stick: Immortality. Bringing the dead back to life.
- Matt Murdock: [Scoffs] Come on, Stick.
- Stick: I thought you were a Catholic, Matty. Doesn't your whole belief system hinge on one guy pulling that off?