Tales from the Crypt (TV Series)

Confession (1996)

Alun Armstrong: Inspector Herbert

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Quotes 

• Inspector Minty : Tell me something I don't know.

  Inspector Herbert : I wish I could.

  [this exchange is repeated several times as the story progresses] 

• Inspector Herbert : [at the scene of a murder]  I can see the tabloids now: 'Headless Girl in Topless Club'.

  Inspector Minty : That's rich. Ever think about a career in journalism?

  Inspector Herbert : No. Too cutthroat for me.

• Inspector Herbert : White woman, white killer. Statistics show most mass murderers kill within their own ethnic group.

  Inspector Minty : Jack tell you that?

  [Jack is the police department's expert on serial killers] 

  Inspector Herbert : Yeah.

  Inspector Minty : What about Jeffrey Dahmer?

  Inspector Herbert : Jack said Dahmer was different. He killed outside his ethnic group, but he only ate the people he liked.