- [last lines, Ruth is in prison for trying to attempt murder]
- Ruth Coe: [to her prison guard] I, uh... don't suppose I have a letter from son? He's so loyal - he writes me often. I have a fine baby boy. Well, he's not really a baby anymore, but he'll always be my baby. Do you have children?
- [the prison guard looks at her as she waits]
- Ruth Coe: No, I've asked you that before. Everyone should have children; it's life's grandest experience, to watch them grow, to become good and fine and strong, someone to look after you in your old age.
- [winks at her, gets taken to her cell]
- Ruth Coe: He was framed, of course. It's unconscionable. All political - all of it - to get my family, to bring down the Coes. And to what end? I'll never understand it. Do you know what Kevin and I share? It's much more closer than a mother and a son. It's closer, deeper. I know what he's feeling right now, and he knows what I feel - always. Nothing can ever come between us, nothing. No one can be closer than a mother and a son.
- Willie Jay: [while Kevin asks him to help him file a lawsuit] Kevin, listen to me: if you want to get off, plead insanity. Try to get in to one of those sexual-psychopath programs and you'll be out in a year or two.
- [Kevin goes angrily suspicious on him]
- Kevin Coe: I would never lie about my sanity! Never! You know what the problem is? You think I'm guilty, Jay. Don't you? Come on, say it to your old buddy.
- [Jay hesitates]
- Kevin Coe: [shouts] COME ON, SAY IT!
- Willie Jay: [remorsefully] I think... you're guilty, Kevin.
- [Kevin leaves in anger never to see Jay again]