The Black Dahlia (2006)

Hilary Swank: Madeleine Linscott

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• Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert : I've been pointing my gun at a lot of people this week. I haven't had a chance to shoot anybody yet. What do you think?

  Madeleine Linscott : I think you'd rather fuck me than kill me, but you don't have the guts to do either.

• Madeleine Linscott : Imagine the headlines, "Construction Tycoon's Daughter Questioned in Dahlia Case. Footsie at Lesbian Nightclub." Get the picture?

  Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert : Technicolor.

• Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert : Are you sure there isn't anything you haven't told me about you and Betty?

  Madeleine Linscott : Betty and I made love once, that one time last summer. I just did it to see what it would be like to do it with someone who looked like me.

• Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert : I don't get modern art.

  Madeleine Linscott : I doubt modern art gets you, either. But, I do.

• Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert : [upon seeing a stuffed dog in the hallway]  Who's this?

  Madeleine Linscott : Balto. The paper is the LA Times for August 1, 1926. Balto was bringing in the paper when daddy found out he made his first million. He wanted to consecrate the moment, so he shot him.

• Madeleine Linscott : You should thank me for Lee Blanchard. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have had the balls to fuck your partner's girl.

• Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert : Bucky, please stay.

  Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert : You stupid slut!

  Madeleine Linscott : Stay, Sugar, stay!

• Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert : Slumming, Miss Linscott?

  Madeleine Linscott : I am, now.

• Madeleine Linscott : She's a snob. The kind who takes pills the doctor gives her so she doesn't have to admit to being a hophead.

• Madeleine Linscott : Smile at me. Look soft and sweet.

  Ofcr. Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert : I picked up Lorna Mertz yesterday. She had a copy of a stag film, her and Betty Short playing les. Pretty spooky stuff.

  Madeleine Linscott : Did she mention me?

• Madeleine Linscott : You're a boxer, not a fighter.

• Madeleine Linscott : That girl, that sad, dead bitch, she's all you have.

• Madeleine Linscott : You miss them? Mother's insults? Martha's pornography?