Alex Cross: To be brutally honest, I think you have a morbid desire to burn in hell.
Gary Soneji: Cool beans.
[Alex and Jezzie are examining Soneji's handiwork]

Alex Cross: Wow. Imagine the patience... the dedication...

Jezzie Flannigan: You sound like an admirer.

Alex Cross: Well, he's like a spider. I happen to like spiders.
Jezzie Flannigan: Would you kill another partner?

Alex Cross: You're not my partner.
[crying]

Megan Rose: Please, I wanna go home! Please, I wanna go home...
Gary Soneji: I am living proof that a mind is a terrible thing.
Alex Cross: You do what you are Jezzie.

Jezzie Flannigan: You mean you are what you do.

Alex Cross: No, I mean, you do what you are. You're born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you're good at, you don't take for granted. You don't betray it.

Jezzie Flannigan: What if you do, betray your gift?

Alex Cross: Then you betray yourself. That's a sad thing.
Gary Soneji: They say that when I die, the case will die. They say it will be like a book I close. But the book, it will never close...
[first lines]

Tracie: Tonight was your first night at the club, wasn't it?

Jim: No. I've been there a few times before.

Tracie: Really? Well, how come I haven't seen you?

Jim: I noticed you the first night I walked in. You always stand out.
[last lines]

Megan Rose: Who are you?

Alex Cross: I'm a policeman. My name is Alex Cross. I'm a friend of your parents.

Megan Rose: Can you take me to them?

Alex Cross: Nothing would give me greater pleasure. Could you...

[she helps him up]

Alex Cross: Ah, thanks.
Jezzie Flannigan: Dr. Cross, Agent Ben Devine. Agent Devine is security systems supervisor.

Ben Devine: Well, for now. We're going to be thrown to the wolves, as soon as they find Megan Rose dead in a ditch.

Alex Cross: Now what makes you so sure that's what's going to happen?

Ben Devine: Me getting fired or the girl in a ditch? Sorry. I'm having a pessimistic day.
Vickie: It's time you forgave yourself.

Alex Cross: Vickie, you know that forgiving yourself is the one thing a person cannot do.
Gary Soneji: [about Megan] I envy her. What would life have been like with parents like that?

Alex Cross: Come on, Gary. Blaming your parents for what you are?

Gary Soneji: I'm not blaming them, Alex. They've been punished already. I burned down the house while they slept.