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Boston Strangler (2023) Best Movie Quotes

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Starring: Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, David Dastmalchian, Morgan Spector, Bill Camp, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola,Robert John Burke, Rory Cochrane 

OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆

Story:

Hulu/Disney+ crime drama written and directed by Matt Ruskin. Based on a true story set in early 1960s, Boston Strangler (2023) follows reporter Loretta McLaughlin (Keira Knightley), who becomes the first journalist to connect the Boston Strangler murders. As the mysterious killer claims more and more victims, Loretta attempts to continue her investigation alongside colleague and confidante Jean Cole (Carrie Coon), yet the duo finds themselves stymied by the rampant sexism of the era. Nevertheless, McLaughlin and Cole pursue the story at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the line in their quest to uncover the truth.

 

Best Quotes


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: What are you working on?
Jean Cole: Story on patient abuse.
Loretta Mclaughlin: That sounds important. How did you get it?
Jean Cole: I asked for it.
Loretta Mclaughlin: And they just gave it to you?
Jean Cole: That’s usually how it works.
Loretta Mclaughlin: Not around here, it isn’t.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: I think I found something. Three women were strangled over the last two weeks.
Jack Maclaine: I don’t see the interest. These are nobodies.
Loretta Mclaughlin: Who do you think our readers are? And that’s just it. Why would anybody go around killing three nobody women?
Jack Maclaine: And how do you plan to find that out?
Loretta Mclaughlin: Well, let me profile the victims. See if there’s any connection.


 

Jack Maclaine: Kid, you’re not covering a homicide.
Loretta Mclaughlin: Why not?
Jack Maclaine: Because you don’t have the experience covering homicides.
Loretta Mclaughlin: How am I supposed to get any experience if you won’t give me a shot?


 

Officer Dougan: I’m just a patrolman. I don’t touch the bodies.
Loretta Mclaughlin: Did it look decorative?
Officer Dougan: In a real sick kind of way. Yeah.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: What do these three women have in common? Three shadowy patterns of attack. Three knotted loops that bind them together. Strangers to one another in life, they became sisters in death. Each coming to the same horror-filled moment of murder by strangulation by a killer who came quietly, who is careful in his derangement, and self-possessed enough to lock the door on his way out.


 

James Mclaughlin: [to Loretta, referring to her story] There’s nothing in the Globe, or the Herald. Or any of them. You beat the whole damn city. I can’t believe it. This is incredible!


 

Eddie Corsetti: [to Jack, referring to Loretta] She’s in way over her head. You never should’ve sent her out on this.


 

Jack Maclaine: Just tell me what we got wrong, and I’ll print a correction.
Commissioner McNamara: It’s barstool gossip, for Christ’s sake!
Jack Maclaine: Half the news in the city’s barstool gossip. What the hell did we get wrong?
Commissioner McNamara: Homicide has been working around the clock on this, and we’ve got nothing to connect the murders.


 

Commissioner McNamara: [to Jack] I’m telling you this as a friend. If you keep running this story, you’re going to end up embarrassing yourself.

 

'It's crazy to think your whole life can turn on a chance encounter.' - Jean Cole (Boston Strangler) Click To Tweet

 

Jack Maclaine: I’m killing the follow-up.
Loretta Mclaughlin: We beat everyone in the whole damn city, and you’re just going to drop it?
Jack Maclaine: Yes, I am.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: So, why haven’t you asked me to stay home?
James Mclaughlin: Because I know better.
Loretta Mclaughlin: No, I’m serious. Why not?
James Mclaughlin: Because you’d be miserable.
Loretta Mclaughlin: Well, so what? Our lives would be easier. Kids would be better off.


 

James Mclaughlin: [to Loretta] You’d drive us all mad if you were sitting around here all day.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: They just found a fourth victim.
James Mclaughlin: Go.


 

Eddie Holland: I need you on the Strangler story. Jack put some amateur on it.
Jean Cole: That bad, huh?

 

'It's like I get to do half of everything I really want, and everyone around me still feels shortchanged.' - Loretta Mclaughlin (Boston Strangler) Click To Tweet

 

Jack Maclaine: Jean’s going to be working with you on the Strangler story.
Loretta Mclaughlin: Oh, no offense, but I don’t need any help with this.
Jack Maclaine: It’s not up for debate.
Loretta Mclaughlin: What is she going to cover that I can’t?
Jack Maclaine: The whole story, if you keep it up.


 

Jean Cole: Police aren’t talking. Corsetti tried too. Never seen them this tight-lipped about anything.
Jack Maclaine: That’s because they’re bracing for a s**tstorm.


 

Commissioner McNamara: I don’t care if it’s one killer or four. We’re going to catch whoever did this.


 

Jean Cole: [referring to the photographer] You’re going to let that a**hole bother you?
Loretta Mclaughlin: You don’t mind being called a fluke? By that jacka**?
Jean Cole: Let them sell their papers. You still got the biggest story in the city.

 

'You can't be apologetic, not about the things that are important to you.' - Jean Cole (Boston Strangler) Click To Tweet

 

Loretta Mclaughlin: Five women have been strangled over the past three months. By number and by nature, these stranglings are beyond anything ever seen before in the criminal history of the city.


 

Dr. Grayson: The murders are clearly premeditated. All elderly, and all lived alone. It’s a pattern.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: The crimes themselves are insane. He ransacks the apartments, but doesn’t take anything. He leaves his victims posed, with a bizarre air of ceremony. Each left with a decorative garrote around her neck. In every case, there is no evidence left behind. No clue as to how he selects his victims. He seems to come and go as he pleases, committing his crimes in broad daylight.


 

Dr. Grayson: It’s highly organized behavior. Probably escalated over time, and now he’s lost control. Barriers are down. He’ll almost certainly repeat.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: There is but one answer. The Boston Phantom… The Boston Strangler must be caught.

 

'How do you just stop caring after all this?' - Loretta Mclaughlin, 'When you realize you could give up your whole life for it, and no one would give a s**t.' - Detective Conley (Boston Strangler) Click To Tweet

 

Jean Cole: I really can’t imagine doing anything else. It’s crazy to think your whole life can turn on a chance encounter.


 

Dr. Grayson: When these guys establish a type, it usually comes from a trauma that’s been years in the making. It doesn’t just change all of a sudden.
Loretta Mclaughlin: How sure are you?
Dr. Grayson: That’s the going theory with this type of killer. But no one really knows.


 

Detective Conley: These people have no idea what they’re up against.
Loretta Mclaughlin: What people?
Detective Conley: The whole department, as far as I’m concerned.
Loretta Mclaughlin: The whole police department?
Detective Conley: The usual rules don’t apply. There’s no motive, and then he takes off without leaving a shred of evidence. Guy’s as careful as he is deranged.


 

Reporter: The city is, for some, glamorous, stimulating, prosperous. Only recently has it become dangerous.

 

'Your safe little world is just a delusion. Men kill women. It didn't start with Albert. Sure as hell doesn't end with him either.' - George Nassar (Boston Strangler) Click To Tweet

 

Anne Samans: I just can’t stop thinking about it. What he did to her. What that must have been like for her.


 

Eddie Holland: What’s the story?
Loretta Mclaughlin: The city can’t protect its women.
Jack Maclaine: Come on.
Loretta Mclaughlin: What? You don’t think it’s true, or you don’t think it’s a story?


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: Ten women are dead, and these a**holes don’t have a clue!
Jack Maclaine: You don’t have a story. You have a grudge.
Loretta Mclaughlin: How many women have to die before it’s a story?
Eddie Holland: That’s enough. These are good men busting their a**es. I’m not waging a war on the police department.


 

Eddie Holland: We’re not running a hit job on the police department.
Loretta Mclaughlin: They’re blowing the investigation. How long can we keep ignoring it?

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Eddie Holland: You really want to use this paper to tear down the police department?
Jack Maclaine: If anyone else was blowing it this badly, we’d have put it on the front page a long time ago.


 

Eddie Holland: [to Jack] You want to run with this? I’m not going to stand in your way. But it’s your neck on the block. You understand?


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: The Boston Police Department is conducting the largest manhunt in the city’s history, and yet no trace, no trail, no trip up has been detected. Without sharing evidence, police may overlook a common denominator, a missing link, a clue that could identify the killer. Unless a centralized effort is set up to catch the Strangler, he will remain today as he did one year ago, a faceless, formless, flawless executioner.


 

Jean Cole: [to Holland] I know you want to sell your papers, but at what cost? There’s more than one lunatic out there, and you’re going to get us both killed!


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: I don’t know what I’m supposed to do anymore.
Jean Cole: About what?
Loretta Mclaughlin: About everything. You know, it’s like I get to do half of everything I really want, and everyone around me still feels shortchanged.


 

Jean Cole: [to Loretta] You’re going to make yourself crazy worrying about everyone else all the time. You can’t be apologetic, not about the things that are important to you.


 

Belmont Detective: We had him. And we just let him walk away.
Loretta Mclaughlin: What was his name?
Belmont Detective: Off the record. Albert DeSalvo. He’s famous over in Cambridge.
Loretta Mclaughlin: Famous for what?
Belmont Detective: Making himself unwanted.


 

Sergeant Burke: DeSalvo had two cons, the Green Man and the Measuring Man.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: You remember Sophie’s neighbor? She said a man came to her apartment the day Sophie was killed. Now, first he said he was there to paint the apartment, and then he asked her if she ever thought about modeling. The Green Man slipped into the Measuring Man. It’s DeSalvo.


 

Detective Conley: [to Loretta] Whoever was in that lady’s apartment wasn’t DeSalvo. What you’re feeling right now, that’s every day for me. You know how many people I’ve gone down the rabbit hole with? It’s a dead-end every time with this case. You get your teeth into something, and then your bottom falls out at three in the morning, and you got nothing. And while I’m making myself crazy, he’s out there somewhere, laughing at us.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: [referring to DeSalvo] Everything lines up with him. His history, the progression of the crimes, everything.
Jean Cole: Except for the part where he was in prison for the first six murders.


 

F. Lee Bailey: [after DeSalvo’s been arrested] People can breathe a sigh of relief tonight. The career of the Boston Strangler is over.


 

Detective Conley: They think they can get life on the rape charges.
Loretta Mclaughlin: And they’re just going to ignore the fact that thirteen women were killed?
Detective Conley: That’s all I got. And I haven’t even told you the punch line yet. You know how Bailey’s getting paid? He got DeSalvo a five-figure book deal. A tell-all from the Boston Strangler. Everyone just wants it to be over.


 

Jack Maclaine: The murders stopped. The guy’s in jail. What the hell else you want?
Loretta Mclaughlin: They botched the biggest investigation in the city’s history, and you’re just going to let them sweep it under the rug.
Jack Maclaine: Come on, Loretta. How much trouble you going to cause me today?
Loretta Mclaughlin: Well, clearly not enough.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: The police are washing their hands of it, and you expect us to move on.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: [after Jean tells her she’s taken a new assignment] You never see the knife with you people.
Jean Cole: Don’t get it twisted. If there’s another murder, I’ll drop everything. But until then, we cover the news. We don’t make it.


 

Detective DeLine: [to Loretta] All the crime scenes were damn near identical to the Boston Strangler. I’ve read your stories. I think it’s safe to say that you’re an expert on the case. So, I wanted to ask you, do you still think that Albert DeSalvo is the guy?


 

James Mclaughlin: What do you think you’re going to find out there? When is this going to stop, Loretta? When are you going to let this go?


 

Jean Cole: [referring to Daniel Marsh] He was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend. Dr. Robey evaluated him at Bridgewater and had him committed.
Loretta Mclaughlin: Did he overlap with DeSalvo?
Jean Cole: They were in there together for three months in the same ward.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: Cashing in, huh?
Detective Conley: Oh, why don’t you save it? You’ve been cashing in since the beginning.
Loretta Mclaughlin: Oh, that’s pretty damn cynical, even for you.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: How do you just stop caring after all this?
Detective Conley: When you realize you could give up your whole life for it, and no one would give a s**t.


 

Jean Cole: [referring to DeSalvo’s confession] Any lawyer worth a dime would pick this apart.


 

Albert DeSalvo: [to Loretta] It’s funny, I always said you girls knew more than the police.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: Don’t you want people to know the truth?
Albert DeSalvo: I don’t give a damn about that. I’ve got a family to support. I don’t think you understand how screwed over I got.
Loretta Mclaughlin: Well, what are you holding out for, Albert? If everybody already screwed you over, then what’ve you got left to lose? Why would you let them get away with it?


 

Jack Maclaine: [to Loretta] A report just came over the wire. DeSalvo was killed in his cell. I’m sorry, kid.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: I need you to take down an address. If I don’t call back in an hour, give it to the police.
Jean Cole: What the hell are you doing?


 

Harrison: [referring to Daniel Marsh, George Nassar and DeSalvo] Yeah, the three of them were always working on DeSalvo’s confession.
Loretta Mclaughlin: What do you mean working on?
Harrison: They coached him.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: But what did they care if DeSalvo confessed?
Harrison: Reward money. That’s why Nassar got his lawyer involved.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: It’s an awfully strange coincidence, don’t you think? You’re the one who gets picked out of the lineup, and you just happen to be DeSalvo’s cellmate?
George Nassar: Maybe I just got one of those faces.


 

George Nassar: [to Loretta] And regardless of what you think, Albert convinced me he killed those women. Was it all thirteen? What does it really matter? See, you all created a myth, and it needed to be stopped. People wanted to believe it was Albert. They needed to believe that it was Albert. The alternative was just too disturbing.


 

George Nassar: There are many Albert DeSalvos out there. And your safe little world is just a delusion. Men kill women. It didn’t start with Albert. Sure as hell doesn’t end with him either.


 

Loretta Mclaughlin: [referring to DeSalvo] He just became a convenient way out for everybody else. The entire city just wanted to move on. Nobody bothered to get to the truth. And people got away with murder.


 

Commissioner McNamara: All the Strangler murders are still open cases. I’ll leave it at that.

 


 

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