Mindhunter (TV Series)

Episode #1.2 (2017)

Cameron Britton: Edmund Kemper

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• Edmund Kemper : You see, Bill, I knew a week before she died I was gonna kill her. She went out to a party, she got soused, she came home alone. I asked her how her evening went. She just looked at me. She said, For seven years. She said, "I haven't had sex with a man because of you, my murderous son." So I got a claw hammer and I beat her to death. Then I cut her head off, and I humiliated her. And I said, "There, now you've had sex." If there's one thing I know, it's this: A mother should not scorn her own son. If a woman humiliates her little boy, he will become hostile, and violent, and debased. Period.

• Holden Ford : You don't think you could benefit from psychiatry?

  Edmund Kemper : I already did all that in the institution. It didn't take. For me, I think surgery might give me the best chance.

  Holden Ford : And if surgery doesn't take, in this modern society, what do we do with the Ed Kempers of the world?

  Edmund Kemper : Well, isn't that your department?

  Holden Ford : From your perspective...

  Edmund Kemper : Death by torture?

• Edmund Kemper : Cops like me because they can talk to me more than they can talk to their own wives, some of them.

• Edmund Kemper : Butchering people is hard work. Physically and mentally. I don't think people realize. You need to vent.

  Edmund Kemper : What are you writing down?

  Holden Ford : [freely showing his notebook]  Oh, I just think it's an interesting choice of words, "vocation."

  Edmund Kemper : Well, what would you call it? A hobby? I'd say it's more than that. Look at the consequences. The stakes are very high.