The Watcher (I) (2000)

James Spader: Campbell

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• 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.