Cradle of Fear (2001 Video)

Barry Lee-Thomas: Chief Inspector Roper

Quotes 

• Detective Neilson : You don't need to say it Sir. Four murders in one week and now solid lead is a piss poor show I know, but that new computer system's a load of old wank, with all due respect. For every piece of crap we type in we get a load more bollocks back.

  Chief Inspector Roper : That's not what I wanted to talk about Pete. I've had a worrying call from Joe, the photographer. Something about you touching the dead bodies...

  Detective Neilson : Yes Sir, it's just something I have to do.

  Chief Inspector Roper : Okay. Any particular reason?

  Detective Neilson : To make sure they really are dead.

  Chief Inspector Roper : How long's this been going on Pete?

  Detective Neilson : About seven years. Ever since the girl, Abigail Watson.

  Chief Inspector Roper : Abigail Watson... wasn't she one of Kemper's?

  Detective Neilson : His fourth victim. She was only ten years old. That bastard raped and abused her repeatedly for two days.

  Chief Inspector Roper : I remember Pete, you were the first to find her.

  Detective Neilson : He'd broken her pelvic bone with his fist. Severe trauma lead to a state of advanced catalepsy, her body functions shut down. No sign of life.

  Chief Inspector Roper : I know what happened. It was all a terrible mistake.

  Detective Neilson : I was with her for longest. If I'd touched her I would've known. She woke up in a fridge.

  Chief Inspector Roper : Yes but, I mean no one...

  Detective Neilson : She woke up in a fridge, in the morgue. They think she was awake for at least ten hours before she froze to death. No one heard her screams. When they eventually pulled her out, they found she'd broken every bone in her hands from pounding endlessly against the metal walls... no one should have to suffer like that, except maybe bastards like Kemper.

• Chief Inspector Roper : Sit down Pete. We got the lab results back, you're not gonna like it. The finger-print on the medalion is Kemper's.

  Detective Neilson : You're having a fucking laugh aren't you sir?

  Chief Inspector Roper : I wish I was Pete. But the results are one hundred percent positive, it's Kemper's.

  Detective Neilson : Bollocks.

  Chief Inspector Roper : I've spoken to Dr Ross at the hospital...

  Detective Neilson : Dr Ross is a stupid cunt, sir. Don't listen to her.