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Joe Penhall Quotes

Total quotes: 24
“The classic is talking too much about the crimes. Over interest. You have to remain casual. They tried everything to trick me, I'm too savvy, I don't fucking talk period.”
— Ed Kemper, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: creepy, Serial Killers, Netflix
“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
“[to reporters asking about local murder] We're here for something else.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: Reporters, Murder
“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
“If what we're doing doesn't get under your skin, you're more screwed-up than I thought, or kidding yourself.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 7
Tagged: cold, Emotionless, Screwed-Up
“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
“You think they want to talk about this shit? It's like if you worked at a slaughterhouse with livestock. Real conversation stopper.”
— Ed Kemper, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: creepy, Serial Killers, Netflix
“I've been around crazy. I was in the Army.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 7
Tagged: crazy, army
“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
“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: There's nothing behind Kemper's eyes. It's like standing near a black hole.

Holden Ford: Right.

Bill Tench: And he thinks we're his friends. Well, he thinks you're his friend. Which makes you a pretty great FBI agent.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Edmund Kemper, dead eyes, FBI Agent
“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
“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
“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
“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: 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
“[last lines]
Bill Tench: [squabbling about their differing methods] Let me ask you something else. Do you have a girlfriend?

Holden Ford: I do now, Bill, as it happens.

Bill Tench: OK. So next time you're a long way from home and you flip your shit, you find a pay phone and you tell it to your girlfriend. OK?

Holden Ford: OK.

Bill Tench: How's that sound?

Holden Ford: It sounds OK, Bill.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: instructors, methodists
“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
“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
“Unit Chief Shepard: Can you make him shut up?

Bill Tench: I have not been able to, sir.

Holden Ford: How do we get ahead of crazy if we don't know how crazy thinks?

Unit Chief Shepard: I like you, Bill. I don't particularly like him, but I like you... OK, you may continue with your little sideshow. However, no one can know about it. Clear? You will relocate yourselves to the basement beneath Behavioral Sciences, reporting directly and exclusively to me.

Bill Tench: The basement? I'm 44 years old.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 2
Tagged: demotion, behavioral sciences, crazy, Basements
“[last lines]
Holden Ford: So what are you teaching?

Wendy Carr: Um, I'm teaching a class on the intersection of sociopathy and fame. People like, um, Andy Warhol, Jim Morrison. Their celebrity becomes the only thing they need to sustain their ego.

Bill Tench: Nixon was a sociopath.

Wendy Carr: Very similar.

Holden Ford: How do you get to be president of the United States if you're a sociopath?

Wendy Carr: The question is, how do you get to be president of the United States if you're not? That's why this work is so vital. It goes so much further than the FBI.

Bill Tench: All the way to the White House.

Wendy Carr: Perhaps, yeah.”
— Bill Tench, Mindhunter, Mindhunter Season 1: Episode 3
Tagged: Sociopath, Richard Nixon, Jim Morrison, Andy Warhol, White House
“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
“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
“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
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