The Deliberate Stranger (1986)

Frederick Coffin: Jerry Thompson

Quotes 

• Ted Bundy : You're just grasping at straws. Just straws, Jerry.

  Jerry Thompson : What kind of game are you playing?

  Ted Bundy : You keep at it. Maybe if you find enough straws you can put the broom together.

• Det. Mike Fisher : What did you think about that call to Cas?

  Jerry Thompson : Phone records show that he made one every single night a girl vanished. I'd call that more than a coincidence.

  Det. Mike Fisher : I think Theodore had a need to tell Mommy he was a really good boy after all. A little stroking.

  Richard Larsen : I loved that bit about the patent leather shoes. Ted says he's never had any, and this guy who lives in Ted's apartment house sits there on the stand: "I distinctly remember Ted Bundy wearing patent leather shoes because I happen to hate patent leather shoes!"

  Jerry Thompson : So do you think you're going to be able to get a murder indictment in Colorado?

  Det. Mike Fisher : If it's the last thing I do. We got a couple of bodies to work with. The FBI forensic specialists may take their own damn time, but they've finally given us some honest-to-God evidence.

  Richard Larsen : What? I didn't hear...

  Det. Mike Fisher : We're not telling the press yet, or Theodore. This is off the record, Dick. We know you're ethical. We also know you like him.

  Richard Larsen : I used to like him. I don't hate him.

  Det. Mike Fisher : I don't hate him.

  Jerry Thompson : I hate him.

  Det. Mike Fisher : I lied. I hate him too.

• Det. Bob Keppel : Well, at least they got the animal locked up.

  Jerry Thompson : Yeah. Florida won't let him go. They'll fry him down here.

  Det. Mike Fisher : I'll drink to that.

  Det. Bob Keppel : Richard, you couldn't possibly still have any doubts.

  Richard Larsen : No, no doubts. I was just remembering Ted asking me where they execute people these days, and I said, "Maybe Florida". I think maybe Ted Bundy came here to destroy that part that he knows is a monster.

  Det. Mike Fisher : You know, it's weird that every time Theodore's been caught, it's because of his lousy driving. They ought to send him to remedial driving school before the chair. I sentence you, Theodore Bundy, to driver's ed.

  [Chuckles]