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Quotes
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[Andy picks up a photo of the victim from a nearby desk]
Det. Andy Sipowicz : Let's see his mug.
[Bobby grimaces, then gingerly moves the man's head]
Det. Bobby Simone : He don't look much happier in that photograph.
Det. Andy Sipowicz : Hope he didn't want to get buried wearing a hat.
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[Bobby and Andy are trying to put a young uniform officer at ease after she discovered a decapitated man]
Det. Andy Sipowicz : You don't often encounter this method of suicide.
Det. Bobby Simone : What's the name of that kids' story, Ichabod Crane?
Officer McGuire : The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The Headless Horseman.
Det. Andy Sipowicz : I thought that was about Notre Dame.
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Mrs. Reese : How was Daniel murdered?
Det. Andy Sipowicz : [sighs and clears his throat] Believe me, being a parent, I hate to have to tell you something like this, but you'll need to know for identification purposes. Your son was stabbed very badly in the region of the neck. The knife went pretty much right through.
Mrs. Reese : Are you telling me his head was cut off? That he was decapitated?
Det. Bobby Simone : Mrs. Reese, we are... we are terribly sorry, but it is better if you hear it now.
Mrs. Reese : Yes, it's good to know in dealing with the funeral arrangements.
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Rodney Wellstone : I asked him if I could have twenty dollars because I didn't have any money and I hadn't eaten.
Det. Bobby Simone : He give it to you?
Rodney Wellstone : No, he took me to a deli and bought me something to eat. He had a cup of coffee for himself. We chatted. He's got a big heart. I know, because I reached in through his neck and felt it down there.
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A.D.A. Leo Cohen : That's the first one of those I've done.
Det. Bobby Simone : Is that so?
A.D.A. Leo Cohen : I mean, doesn't it get to you after a while? Listening to that sickness, not being able to respond?
Det. Andy Sipowicz : No, I always find myself cheery and peppy afterwards.
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Det. Andy Sipowicz : Okay, so last night, what happened?
Rodney Wellstone : Last night I wanted to murder him, so I murdered him.
Det. Andy Sipowicz : Why did you wanna murder him?
Rodney Wellstone : Oh, man, he wanted me to kill him anyway... for the fun of it. 'Cause you know what? He's freaky like that.
Det. Andy Sipowicz : What do you mean?
Rodney Wellstone : He's a fag-faggoty-faggot. I could tell what was on his mind, and I didn't like it.
Det. Bobby Simone : Did he make a pass at you?
Rodney Wellstone : I knew what was on his mind. I saw all those damn Pump magazines in his bedroom. That's why he got all insistent about me having to leave. Plus, his mother was saying to kick me out. I talked to that bitch on the phone, and I took offense to what she was saying, because I am God Almighty! And Professor Reese said that that apartment was mine! He said all the money he had was MINE! His car was MINE!
Det. Bobby Simone : When was this?
Rodney Wellstone : When he was begging for his life.
Det. Bobby Simone : This is just before you killed him.
Rodney Wellstone : He offered me all that. Now he wants to throw me out? I took off my shirt. I took off my pants. I said, "Hey, I'm not going no place." And I took a knife from the kitchen, and I made him go in there with me. And then I took him back out in the living room and sit in his chair, like Mister Big Bad Moojoo Man, and I told him, I said, "Take your clothes off. I know what you want." And he took them off, and for a while he didn't say a word. Because he knew, after he had insulted me like that, he knew that wasn't right. And then he started beggin'. And then I stabbed him.
Det. Bobby Simone : Where'd you stab him?
Rodney Wellstone : In the belly. And then he went --
[makes a gasping sound]
Rodney Wellstone : . And then I put him out of his misery. I took his head off from his body. Just like I'll do to you.
Det. Bobby Simone : You wanna stab me?
Rodney Wellstone : I'll murder every person in this building.
Det. Andy Sipowicz : I don't want that to happen, but we're gonna have to ask you a few more questions.
Rodney Wellstone : Do you think these handcuffs can hold me?
Det. Andy Sipowicz : Rodney, what'd you do after you cut off Daniel Reese's head?
Rodney Wellstone : I won't speak of anything subsequent to that. Except washed myself sacramentally. I'm about to commence my four years and seven months of silence.
Det. Bobby Simone : Before you do that, just tell us why you did what you did to Professor Reese.
Rodney Wellstone : It was the most fitting punishment I could think of. I am the Holy Spirit. I give you consciousness of self. I control your heartbeat through omnipotent pyrotechnics.
Det. Andy Sipowicz : And you're not faking this, are you Rodney?
Rodney Wellstone : I was a student in New York University when I was first sanctified by omnipotent pyrotechnics. I sometimes resented my sanctification, because I was a student and a family member, and I had hopes to study philosophy abroad. But finally I came to accept my calling and how I must live in the same way Jesus Christ and his partial system had doubts about his life, but finally accepted it. And even he, who had been my teacher, I CUT HIS FAGGOT HEAD OFF!
[long pause as the others react]
Rodney Wellstone : Now I begin my silence.
