Along Came a Spider (2001)

Morgan Freeman: Alex Cross

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• 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.

• Alex Cross : To be brutally honest, I think you have a morbid desire to burn in hell.

• [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.

• [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.

• 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.

• 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.