Mindhunter (TV Series)

Episode #1.1 (2017)

Holt McCallany: Bill Tench

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Quotes 

• 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 : FBI Agent Bill Tench: The question is not only why did the killer do it, but why did the killer do it *this* way?

• 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 : Okay. 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 : [to reporters asking about local murder]  We're here for something else.

  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 : Let me tell you something about aberrant behavior. It's fucking aberrant. If we understood it, we'd be aberrant too.

• [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 : Okay. 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. Okay?

  Holden Ford : Okay.

  Bill Tench : How's that sound?

  Holden Ford : It sounds okay, Bill.