Edge of Darkness Quotes

Senator Jim Pine: I am a United States senator!

Darius Jedburgh: By what standard?

Northmoor Doctor: I regret to say that this probably means that you'll have less time.

Darius Jedburgh: I know what it means, I've been havin' aural hallucinations... my father's voice callin' my name as I start to sleep. Bastard's been dead for forty years, and suddenly he's yellin' at me again. I come awake.

Northmoor Doctor: You're not sleeping?

Darius Jedburgh: No, I'm not sleepin'. I start to sleep - then I jolt awake. There's somethin' about the darkness. I don't like it.

Northmoor Doctor: I'm not a counselor. I know you want to banter with me. I don't do that. I can only give you the facts.

Darius Jedburgh: Well, we all know what the facts are. We live a while, and then we die sooner than we planned.

Darius Jedburgh: Now, you know better than anyone, cases like these are never solved. They're simply too complicated, too much hard work. There's a lot going on out there in this world. And you just never can connect A to B.

Thomas Craven: How do you know that?

Darius Jedburgh: Because I'm usually the guy that stops you connecting A to B. It's part of what I do.

Darius Jedburgh: I don't know what it means to have lost a child, but I know what it means never to have had one.

Thomas Craven: Yeah, got nobody left to bury you.

Thomas Craven: I'm not gonna hit you again, she wouldn't want me to.

Thomas Craven: But she's not here because of you!

[punches him again]

Senator Jim Pine: You left as a Master Sergeant of a heavy weapons platoon.

Thomas Craven: Ah, yes sir.

Senator Jim Pine: How'd you do that at 20?

Thomas Craven: Everybody else was dead.

[last lines]

Darius Jedburgh: You got a family?

State Trooper #2: Yeah.

Darius Jedburgh: Kids?

State Trooper #2: Yeah.

Darius Jedburgh: [lowers his weapon]

Thomas Craven: Deep down, you know you deserve this.

[Shoots Bennett in the neck]

Darius Jedburgh: Cigar?

Thomas Craven: I'm not celebrating just now.

Darius Jedburgh: I know you don't smoke. I saw your DARPA file.

Thomas Craven: You gonna tell me what that is?

Darius Jedburgh: Defense Advance Research Projects Agency. Their slogan is:

Darius Jedburgh: [speaks Latin] scientia est potentia

Darius Jedburgh: And I know you know Latin.

Thomas Craven: [speaks Latin] stile sursum

Thomas Craven: You know what that means, yeah?

Darius Jedburgh: Stand the fuck up.

Thomas Craven: Please do so.

Neighbor: [yelling at Tom] What the fuck are you burning out there? Fucking Christ.

Thomas Craven: My English friend, Mr. Davenport here about 6 feet tall, 220 pounds is enjoying his cigar.

Darius Jedburgh: [as the doctor is staring into his eyes with a flashlight] Do you see a soul in there?

Northmoor Doctor: I beg your pardon.

Thomas Craven: I'm not gonna arrest anyone.

Darius Jedburgh: I never do.

Thomas Craven: [Drawing his gun and turning around] Creeping up on a bereaved man at a murder scene is not very bright.

Darius Jedburgh: Mr. Craven, we have things to talk about.