- Rusty Beck: Thank you for everything that you've done for me, but... I don't think I should live with you anymore.
- Sharon Raydor: Why?
- Rusty Beck: Because I don't think you'll want me there.
- Sharon Raydor: Rusty, why on earth would you say that?
- Rusty Beck: Because I... I played chess with that Wade guy, and... and in some ways, what, um... not... not... not... not the illegal ways, not... not the violent ways, but in other ways... ways... ways that I... that I can't fix, I'm just like him.
- Sharon Raydor: No, no, no, no, no. You are not like Wade Weller.
- Rusty Beck: Yes, I am, Sharon. I am just like him. I'm exactly like him, and I'm... I'm... I'm just like Dr. Morales and... and maybe Dr. Joe and... and all of those guys who picked me up on the street. And I can't fix it, Sharon. I... I can't fix it. I am just like them, Sharon. I am just like them.
- Sharon Raydor: Rusty, what you are... is who I love, and all of you is coming home.
- Linda Rothman: How are you holding up?
- Rusty Beck: Fantastic. Thanks for asking.
- Linda Rothman: Fantastic? Is that why your guardian asked the psychologist Dr. Joseph Bowman to perform an evaluation of your mental status, because you're fantastic?
- Rusty Beck: No. That was... um... that was for another reason.
- Linda Rothman: What reason?
- Rusty Beck: It was related to a lie that I told Captain Raydor.
- Linda Rothman: So you're still lying to the police? Surprised. About what this time? About what did you lie to the police?
- Rusty Beck: I don't think I can say.
- Linda Rothman: Your Honor?
- Rusty Beck: I, I, I can't... I can't answer that. I really can't...
- Linda Rothman: Your Honor?
- Judge Grove: Rusty, you will answer truthfully, as you have been sworn to do: About what did you lie to the police?
- Rusty Beck: I lied about all of the threatening letters I had received about my testimony against Phillip Stroh.
- Linda Rothman: Your Honor, I object!
- Judge Grove: To your own question? Too late. You asked and demanded an answer, and now these letters are on the record. I'd like to read them, DDA Rios, if you could hand them over after we're done here today.
- Julio Sanchez: It's all right. I wake up screaming too.
- [pause]
- Julio Sanchez: This place is pretty scary, huh? You'll feel better after you say your piece in court today.
- Rusty Beck: Has there been an arrest yet?
- Julio Sanchez: Don't worry about that guy. I'm gonna kill that guy.
- Amy Sykes: Oh, my God, this place! Ever thought about cleaning after yourselves, Lieutenant?
- Louie Provenza: Yeah, the last person that said that to me, Sykes, I divorced... twice.
- D.D.A. Emma Rios: That's the call the people's witness described making to the authorities, the call that helped the LAPD find and unearth four murdered girls buried in Griffith Park, the call that led this young man to be detained by the police, to be attacked by Phillip Stroh, to be threatened at the defendant's instigation from giving his testimony here today...
- Linda Rothman: Objection! Your Honor, the prosecution can present no evidence that my client attempted to intimidate Russell in any way.
- D.D.A. Emma Rios: Your Honor, we have almost thirty threatening letters sent to...
- Linda Rothman: The authenticity of those letters is doubtful at best.
- D.D.A. Emma Rios: Doubtful? Doubtful? That's not what you were saying three hours ago...
- Judge Grove: Hold on, ladies! Hold on. I don't allow cross-talk in this courtroom. You'll address me, not each other. First... what are these threatening letters?
- D.D.A. Emma Rios: Your Honor, both this boy and his guardian Captain Raydor received menacing letters suggesting terrible things would happen if they continued to assist the prosecution. The people intend to link those letters...
- Judge Grove: What you intend to do and what you can prove today are two different things. Neither the prosecution, nor the witness may enter these letters into the record during the hearing if Ms. Rothman objects.
- Russell Taylor: Criminals change their names all the time but they almost always keep their birthday.
- Tyler Lang: Hey, dude, this game is sick. I didn't know you play.
- Wade Weller aka Ryan Mills: Oh, yeah, I'm a regular killing machine.
- Tyler Lang: I bet. Hey, uh... what's in the basement? That where you keep your victims?
- Wade Weller aka Ryan Mills: No. No, I wrap my victims up in plastic couch covers, like the one you're sitting on, and then I bury them in the backyard... or dump them somewhere.
- [both laugh]
- Louie Provenza: Last time I qualified with my weapon, I scored a perfect target. Have your friends at, uh, FID come down and take my after-action report and I'll, uh, check in with my union rep.
- Louie Provenza: As you walk through that door, just remember that I'm very proud of you, Rusty. Very proud.
- Susan Mills: It's easy money, and I was just trying to find some way for Ryan and me to survive
- Andy Flynn: And pay for your drug habit.
- Susan Mills: Yes. I was strung out back then, but one night we met a man, a nice man. I thought he was a nice man - Henry Jinks. He took an interest in us, and we moved in with him for a while. He had a place in Marina del Rey. Uhh... Not sure you'll understand what happened after that.
- Sharon Raydor: Doesn't sound that complicated: You needed heroine and a place to stay, and you started sleeping with Henry Jinks.
- Susan Mills: No. I didn't sleep with him. Not me.
- Louie Provenza: My God...
- Tyler Lang: Oh, you know how it is. One minute you're bummin' a cigarette on Santa Monica Boulevard and the next you're wakin' up on Zuma Beach.
- Tyler Lang: Hey, you don't mind if I have a beer? I'm a long way from twenty-one.
- Wade Weller aka Ryan Mills: You're an old soul. Just one beer.