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“I can choke down the bile, manufacture empathy—when our subjects are at least informative.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 9
Tagged: bile, feigned empathy
“[first lines]
Holden Ford: [holding Richard Speck newspaper clippings] It's like meeting a movie star.

Bill Tench: Could be as anti-climactic.

Holden Ford: 'Crime of the Century.'

Bill Tench: Until Charles Whitman two weeks later...

Holden Ford: I remember staring at this wanted poster of him, trying to figure out if I saw him on the street, would I know he was insane?

Bill Tench: You clip all these?

Holden Ford: Everything I could get my hands on. Even went to my neighbors who subscribed to newspapers outside of Milwaukee.

Bill Tench: Holden and his first criminal crush!”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 9
Tagged: Richard Speck, Charles Whitman, Serial Killer Fandom, Milwaukee
“Holden Ford: What's the point if we don't apply it to the real world?

Bill Tench: We're trying to save women from getting pulled into vans and cut to pieces, not crucify some schoolmarm who hasn't done anything.

Holden Ford: Yet! Certainly our goal is to be preemptive.

Bill Tench: We're the FBI, Holden. That is not our goal. Yet.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 8
Tagged: FBI, Murder Investigations
“Bill Tench: This is how we get to him.
[shows Holden a picture of a severed foot as the businessman watches in horror]

Businessman: Please. I can switch with you.

Bill Tench: I'm enjoying the leg room.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 7
Tagged: severed foot
“Guys communicate in a certain way. It can be rough, but it's like a code. It gets out the conflict.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 7
Tagged: male communication
“Passenger seat's not the best way to transport a corpse, I'll give you that. But you said he was home alone watching TV? That's not much of an alibi.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Corpse, TV, alibi
“Holden Ford: [brushing his teeth] Here's a question, if it is Benjamin or some other boyfriend who freaked out on her, does the case merit our involvement? We still can't rule out a sequence killer, but if the perpetrator was a townie, then the crime is random, and there's no expectation that he'll be repeating it.

Bill Tench: Here's my question: Shouldn't our funding cover separate rooms?

Holden Ford: You don't like my company?

Bill Tench: We'll get connecting doors.

Holden Ford: The mutilation of her body alone justifies our involvement.

Bill Tench: Would you mind sitting on your own bed, please?”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: investigation, Murder
“Bill Tench: It's always the mother. They all have a crazy, angry mother.

Holden Ford: Or an absent father. Benjamin only changed after his father took off. Maybe has nothing to do with the mother.

Bill Tench: Aren't all fathers absent in some way? I know my old man was never around. Imagine how different Benjamin and Rose's lives might have been if their father never left.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 6
Tagged: killers, Developmental Psychology, Absent Father, Crazy Mother
“Monte Rissell: You know what? I don't think I'm interested.

Bill Tench: Fine. You want to diddle around, we'll walk out of here. We'll go have a nice, leisurely lunch wherever the fuck we want, and then take the picturesque drive back to Quantico. What's the rest of your day look like?”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 4
Tagged: Quantico, FBI, Diddling
“Bill Tench: We're from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Behavioral Science Unit.

Monte Rissell: Scientists?

Bill Tench: We're from the Behavioral Science Unit. We're doing research. Interviewing men like you.

Monte Rissell: Men like me?

Bill Tench: Murderers with multiple victims. To better understand why you do what you do.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 4
Tagged: FBI, Behavioral Science Unit, murderers, Serial Killers
“Bill Tench: I'm sorry, Ed, do you mean that violence in the movies drove you to kill those women?

Edmund Kemper: No. My point is, in reality it doesn't work the way you expect. When you stab somebody they're supposed to fall dead. They go, 'Oh,' and they fall dead, right?

Bill Tench: Right.

Edmund Kemper: In reality, when you stab somebody, they lose blood pressure and they leak to death, very slowly.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Edmund Kemper, Movie Violence, Stabbing
“Holden Ford: So you're saying you don't think this, us interviewing these killers, is crazy?

Wendy Carr: Just the opposite. I mean, crazy in the way that anyone with a truly new idea is crazy. But no.

Holden Ford: Wow, OK. That's a relief. That hasn't really been the feedback we've gotten so far.

Bill Tench: Actually, this is the only feedback we've gotten so far.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: killers, crazy, Feedback
“Holden Ford: Actually, Debbie's the first girl I've really dated-dated since high school.

Bill Tench: Dated-dated.

Holden Ford: Yeah.

Bill Tench: My wife's the first woman I've married-married.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: dated-dated, married-married
“How do we get ahead of crazy if we don't know how crazy thinks?”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: crazy
“Bill Tench: Holden, they're not gonna let you in with a sidearm.

Holden Ford: The guy is six foot nine, weighs 300 pounds.

Bill Tench: That's right.

Holden Ford: So what's he gonna do?

Bill Tench: He's gonna take the fuckin' thing away, kill you with it, and then have sex with your face.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Edmund Kemper, Rape, Gun
“Iowa Reporter #1: The woman and her little boy.

Bill Tench: We're instructors.

Iowa Reporter #2: Are you from the Methodist church?

Bill Tench: Do we look like we're from the Methodist church?

Iowa Reporter #1: Yes?

Bill Tench: Make a hole. Good to see ya...”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: instructors, methodists
“Bill Tench: Smoke?

Holden Ford: Oh, uh I don't smoke when I eat.

Bill Tench: Want to go outside?

Holden Ford: I don't smoke when I don't eat, either.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: smoking, eating
“Holden Ford: You get onto a crowded elevator, and you face the opposite direction, the back of the elevator, and everybody freaks out. They're uncomfortable for reasons they can't even articulate. But if you turn around and face the front, everybody relaxes.

Bill Tench: OK. Well, how do we do that?

Holden Ford: What do we have in common? What unites us? What keeps us all awake at night?”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: crowded elevator, relax
“The question is not only why did the killer do it, but why did the killer do it this way?”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: Murder, murder methods
“People who hunt other people for a vocation. All we want to talk about is what its like. Shit that went down. The entire fucked-upness of it. It's not easy butchering people its hard work. Physically and mentally it's hard work. People don't realize, you need to vent.”
— Ed Kemper, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: creepy, Serial Killers, Netflix
“And there’s a lot about what I want that I don’t understand and that I don’t expect a lover to understand. But I think we all live in our own version of the truth, and thus are prone to terrible miscommunications.”
— Juliette Le Gall, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Miscommunication, Love, Sex
“Look up. Do you see the sky? Do you see God? No? No matter. Now look at the person next to you. Look joyfully upon him, and remember what Saint Augustine said: "If you want to see God, you have the means to do it. God is love.”
— Cardinal Voiello, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Where Is The God?, Love, Religion, Quote of the Moment, Seeing God
“Virtuosity is for the arrogant.”
— Lenny Belardo, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: Virtuosity, Art, Get to the Point, Against Decoration
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