Seven

Se7en

Detective David Mills tells his teacher wife Tracy, "Serpico’s got to go."
Tracy: ”You might want to get rid of this little crusty eye, Serpico.” (0:07)

A police officer asks David and detective William Somerset, "Did I stutter?" (0:08)

Detective: "Very moody." (0:11)

Somerset: "... there was definitely a point when he passed out."
David: ”Sadistic... huh?” (0:14)

District Attorney Martin Talbot tells reporters, "If those questions do not come in a calm, sane, and orderly fashion, I’m on my way out." (0:17)

The police captain tells Somerset, "I’m confused." (0:23)

Somerset tells Tracy, "Don’t worry." (0:35)

Somerset tells David, "Edit out the initial shock." (0:38)

David tells Somerset, referring to the murderer, "I’d say he’s whacked enough."
”Voices made me do it.” (0:45)

The captain tells the others, referring to Theodore “Victor” Allen, "He’s got a long history of serious mental illness... Victor dabbled in drugs..." (0:48)

David tells Somerset, "Anyway, we bust open the door looking for this junkie..." (0:49)

Somerset tells David, "We have to divorce ourselves from emotion."
David: ”Man, I feed off my emotions.”
Somerset: ”It’s impressive to see a man feeding off his emotions.” (0:54)

A doctor tells David and Somerset, referring to Victor, "Blood tests show many drugs in his system..."
”Detective, he’d die of shock right now...” (0:55)

David tells Somerset, "Yeah, a landlord’s dream..."
”Why we got to sit here rotting, waiting till the lunatic does it again?”
Somerset: ”That’s dismissive to call him a lunatic.”
David: ”He’s insane.”

Somerset: ”This guy’s methodical, exacting... patient.”

David: ”... doesn’t make him Yoda.” (1:02)

Somerset tells David, "There’s a book called 'Murderers and Madmen'."
David: ”Marquis de Sade” (1:07)

David tells Somerset, "This is crazy."
”This is retarded.” (1:08)

Somerset tells Davide, "I just don’t think I can continue to live in a place that embraces and nurtures apathy as if it was a virtue."
”Hell, I sympathize. I sympathize completely. Apathy is a solution... it’s easier to lose yourself in drugs than it is to cope with life... It’s easier to beat a child than it is to raise it...”
David: ”We are talking about people who are mentally ill... crazies.” (1:29)

David answers Somerset: "Sleeping pills."
Close-up of prescription bottle labeled “seconal” (1:33)

Detective, referring to John Doe: "About the only thing we know about that guy right now is he’s... totally insane."
David: ”... we’re just taking it like idiots.” (1:35)

Doe’s defense attorney: "... if you do not accept, he will plead insanity across the board."
Somerset: ”If he were to plead insanity, this conversation is admissible...” (1:37)

David asks Somerset, "... if I were to accidentally shave off a nipple, would it be covered by workman’s comp?" (1:39)

David tells Doe, "That wouldn’t be shocking enough."
Doe: ”Don’t worry.”
David: ”When a person is insane... do you know that you’re insane?... how... crazy I really am?”
Doe: ”It’s more comfortable for you to label me insane.”
”... an obese man”
”... a drug dealer, a drug dealing pederast, actually.”
David: ”Delusions of grandeur.”
Doe, referring to his victims: ”I don’t mourn them any more than the thousands that died at Sodom and Gomorrah.” (1:42)

Somerset slaps Doe in the head. (1:59)

Somerset: "Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place and worth fighting for...’" (2:01)

References in Keanu, The Butterfly Effect, The Hollars