James Spader credited as playing...
Campbell
- Joel Campbell: It's never quite that easy. You go through the door, and they're never just sitting there waiting for you with a welcoming smile on their face. best you can do is hope they fuck up and do what you can to be there when they do.
- Dr. Polly Beilman: And then blame yourself for the killings?
- Joel Campbell: Oh, no. I blame the asshole who did them.
- Lt. Hollis: Hello, I am Lt. Hollis and welcome to my crime scene, can I help you with anything or are you just looking?
- Joel Campbell: I'm Joel Campbell , I'm just on my way home...
- Lt. Hollis: Did you happen to see that police tape marked do not cross on your way up...
- Joel Campbell: If you're done with that I'll just take it and go...
- Lt. Hollis: You don't happen to know this lady do you...
- Joel Campbell: No, never. Why what's happened... she dead?
- Lt. Hollis: I have made no reference to homicide... why would you hasten to such a conclusion?
- Joel Campbell: Well you've got half the block taped off and about a dozen cops in their fucking up your crime scene... doesn't seem like somebody boosting stereos to me...
- Joel Campbell: [frustrated that victim never saw her bulletin picture on TV] Ellie Buckner. Single, 24, parents live in Florida. So far no known boy friend. She has a cat named Frank. Apparently he doesn't watch the news.
- [last lines]
- Joel Campbell: It's never quite that easy. You go through the door, they're never just sitting there waiting for you with a welcoming smile on their face. Best you can do is hope they fuck up and do what you can to be there when they do.
- Joel Campbell: Time's up.
- Joel Campbell: His last alias was David Allen Griffin. I worked the case for three and a half years in Los Angeles. We attributed at least 11 homicides to him.
- Lt. Hollis: What's he doing in Chicago.
- Joel Campbell: I assume he's still strangling young women with piano wire.