The Minus Man (1999)

Dennis Haysbert: Graves

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• [Vann talks to the imaginary agents Graves and Blair] 

  Vann Siegert : Once when I was young... I was laying in the grass, and a spider crawled in my ear. And...

  Graves : And?

  Vann Siegert : Well, he crawled out again. Nobody home.

  [Vann smiles a big smile] 

• [Vann sees Blair and Graves stand over him as he stands in an empty grave] 

  Blair : How about the carpet salesman, Glenn Skile? Was that your first? They never find the corpses, do they, Vann?

  Graves : Nobody will know shit, except the soft, dead Earth. Right, Vann? That where you keep 'em?

• [Vann sits in his bedroom looking at the stack of mail he took from his route] 

  Blair : [Vann hears the voices talk behind him]  What are you doing? That's a federal offense, isn't it?

  Graves : Yeah. Didn't you read the Carrier's Manual? You think crime is some fucking kind of entertainment. Reading other people's mail?

  Vann Siegert : You tell me.

  Blair : No, no, it's not our job, Vaninsky.

• [Vann shows Graves and Blair his different expressions] 

  Graves : Speak up, Vann. Express yourself.

  Vann Siegert : I got seven expressions. but I'll show you guys two if you want to see them.

  [Vann stands up in the center of his bedroom as Graves and Blair watch, Vann then makes the expression of himself getting electrocuted without any sound, then stops, turns to the side, and then expresses himself from the side view getting electrocuted, stopping, facing back to Graves and Blair] 

  Blair : That's not bad. Except number two looks an awful lot like number one.

• [Vann sits in an interrogation room talking to Graves and Blair] 

  Graves : Don't give him shit. What's he given us?

  Blair : What he means, Vann, is you're just giving us stock answers.

  Vann Siegert : Well, I think one thing you guys oughta learn is that the story's mine, it belongs to me, so I think I'll tell it my way.

  Graves : No matter which fucking way you tell it, gas chamber is where you're headed, Siegert.

  Vann Siegert : That's one guess.

  Graves : Just like Ted Bundy.

  Vann Siegert : Who?

  Graves : Mm-hmm. Yeah, he talked real big, too. But in the end, it took two deputies to hold him down.

• [Graves and Blair talk to Vann about the witnesses] 

  Graves : Two guys just like us are gonna be taking over this case full-time. They're gonna read the coroner's report. And every time they do, they're gonna find something new.

  Blair : Interview the customers, the cook, that girl at the diner. Then back to that asshole bartender. The lady with the baby. Then they'll have some artist start to make a sketch of what they describe.