Sinister Quotes

Tracy: Then why did you come in here white as a ghost?
Ellison Oswalt: Because I saw a dog!
Tracy: A dog?
Ellison Oswalt: A very big dog, like Cujo big, I mean, I'd never seen him before! He's like...
Tracy: Did you get rid of it?
Ellison Oswalt: Yeah, it's gone.

Sheriff: Driving pretty fast for this time of night, don't you think? Anything I ought to know about?
Ellison Oswalt: Just trying to take your advice, that's all.
Sheriff: Ha! Which advice would that be?
Ellison Oswalt: Leave town and never look back.
Sheriff: You weren't bullied away

or anything, were you?
Ellison Oswalt: I'm sorry?
Sheriff: What I mean is, I don't want to be reading in your book that angry town folks chased you out of here. If you've been mistreated, I want to know about it.
Ellison Oswalt: There isn't going to be any book.
Sheriff: No book?
Ellison

Oswalt: No, sir.
Sheriff: Well, then... I don't see any reason for me to have your autograph. Just one more favor. Hold it under 60 till you cross the county line. Until you're somebody else's problem.
Ellison Oswalt: Yes, sir.

Tracy: [Angrily from the distance] That's the problem - you don't think! You want to be treated like an adult but you don't act like one!
Trevor: [sarcastically] Oh yeah, 'cuz you and Dad do a lot of thinking together! If you did, we wouldn't be here!
[Ellison steps out of his office to see what the argument is about]
Tracy:

Go to your room Trevor, and I don't wanna see you again 'till dinner!
Ellison Oswalt: Hey hey hey! What's the problem?
Tracy: Your son's been acting out again! He drew a picture with a permanent marker on the classroom whiteboard!
[to Trevor]
Tracy: tell him what you drew!
Trevor: [reluctantly

muttering] I drew a tree.
Tracy: With four people HANGING from it! Go to your room Trevor, I need to speak with your father.
Trevor: Fine!
[slams the door]
Tracy: [Sounding more worried and embarrassed than angry] First day of school Ellison, and your son's already drawing the grisly details of your mystery? Your book's

about a family that was HUNG? Christ, Ellison!
Ellison Oswalt: And that's all he drew?
Tracy: That's not enough?

Deputy: [the deputy stares nervously at a photo of the killer on the wall] Who is that?
Ellison Oswalt: I don't know. That's what I'm hoping to find out.
Deputy: You think these are serial murders?
Ellison Oswalt: Maybe. More ritualised than necessarily serial, but really spread out, and not just regionally,

but over time. The first one dates back to the '60s.
Deputy: The 1960's?
Ellison Oswalt: Yeah.
Deputy: That would put the killer what, in his seventies?
Ellison Oswalt: Yeah, or his sixties.

Reporter: New details today in the grisly murders of a focal family found earlier this week. Police have released this photo of Christopher Miller, the missing 13-year-old son of William and Peggy Miller. The Millers, along with their younger son, were found stabbed inside their home and police now are asking for any information that could lead to Christopher's return or the

apprehension of any suspects involved in this vicious multiple murder and child abduction.

Tracy: Kentucky Blood was ten years ago.
Ellison Oswalt: And?
Tracy: And, what if that was your 15 minutes?
Ellison Oswalt: Okay, so what if it was?
Tracy: If it was, you can't just spend the rest of your life chasing after it. If you miss out on these years with the kids, you won't get

them back.

Ellison Oswalt: I need the street address of a crime. In 1998, St Louis, a family was stabbed to death, they had their throats cut, it was a pretty ugly affair. I also need any details you can get me on another murder. In 1979 a family was burned alive parked inside their own car, in their own garage.
Deputy: What city?
Ellison

Oswalt: I dunno. All I have is the year and method of execution.
Deputy: You think the two cases are related?
Ellison Oswalt: Aw no, I'm just doing research.
Deputy: Okay, I can definitely get this for you, I gotta wait 'till the sheriff leaves the office but I will get it.
Ellison Oswalt:

Thank you very much, Deputy So & So!

Ellison Oswalt: Pool Party '66.
[Ellison plays the film reel and finds himself viewing a home video of a sun-lit swimming pool, a family dressed in 1960's fashions playing in it. The film rapidly cuts to the middle of the night; the family members are tied down to lawn chairs and an unseen being pulls them under the water. Their feet move feebly in a struggle to get out of

the pool, and Ellison sees a hideous-looking man under the water, smiling at him from the screen]