English for Law & crime

“This was my doing and my doing alone.”

Sidney Promises Nothing Will Go Wrong · Deathtrap 1982 · Ch. 17/30

• Apologies
• Crime scenes
• Confessing

“Don't you try to bluff me, Mr. Roderick.”

Lizzie Names the Dead Woman's Nurse · The Uninvited 1944 · Ch. 21/28

• Investigation
• Interrogations
• Asking

“We'd never gone that long in Dallas without clearing a murder of an officer.”

David Harris Brags About the Killing · The Thin Blue Line 1988 · Ch. 4/20

• Investigation
• Police questioning
• Confessing

“You know, these are the limits of your life, man.”

Carl Rants at the Parking Attendant · Fargo 1996 · Ch. 12/16

• Arguments
• Police questioning
• Confronting

“I'm sober now, but that... That was the beginning of it all.”

Reporters Interview Abuse Survivors · Spotlight 2015 · Ch. 7/21

• Investigation
• Comforting a friend
• Asking

“No, make a big thing out of it.”

Harriman Hired Men to Kill Them · Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 · Ch. 9/12

• Investigation
• Threats
• Explaining

“"This is the Zodiac speaking.”

Zodiac Claims the Taxi Murder · Zodiac 2007 · Ch. 7/30

• Investigation
• Crime scenes
• Threatening

“So when she's born, I'm going to put her up for adoption.”

Tracing Fred Back to Owen · Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made 2021 · Ch. 9/18

• Investigation
• Confessing feelings
• Confessing

“This thing feels like a hunk of concrete inside me.”

Keyes Suspects the Beneficiary · Double Indemnity 1944 · Ch. 16/21

• Investigation
• Office chat
• Explaining

“You see, I thought if he was leaving me, he'd suffer, thinking that I was alone.”

Maria Gambrelli's Testimony · A Shot in the Dark 1964 · Ch. 6/12

• Interrogations
• Police questioning
• Confessing

“Envy is a deadly sin, Mary.”

The Girls Turn on Mary Warren · The Crucible 2014 · Ch. 23/29

• Courtroom
• Accusations
• Threatening

“Each day is better than the next.”

Ted Hires Healy to Find Mary · There's Something About Mary 1998 · Ch. 6/24

• Investigation
• Comforting a friend
• Suggesting

“He won't admit what he did, but I know he knows.”

Tessa Is the One on Trial · National Theatre Live: Prima Facie 2022 · Ch. 17/22

• Courtroom
• Monologues
• Explaining

“- No man is free while one bunghole is in chains!”

Cornholio Leads a Prison Riot · Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe 2022 · Ch. 15/22

• Investigation
• Speeches
• Explaining

“But for the life of me, I can't figure out why.”

FBI Subpoenas Jordan's Wedding Video · The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 · Ch. 16/30

• Investigation
• Phone calls
• Warning

“But we lived alone. We owned the joint.”

Henry Does Easy Time in Prison · GoodFellas 1990 · Ch. 18/28

• Courtroom
• Storytelling
• Explaining

“But it is the only way that this works”

Blanc Exposes the Real Killer · Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 2022 · Ch. 7/8

• Investigation
• Accusations
• Bargaining

“No. I've just walked up from the road. I'm dying for a drink.”

Adela Vanishes at the Marabar Caves · A Passage to India 1984 · Ch. 8/19

• Investigation
• Accusations
• Confronting

“No, and you can quote me.”

Peggy Questions Stanley · The Mask 1994 · Ch. 4/8

• Office chat
• Investigation
• Saying no

“It's only one night. A boy may die.”

Juror 8 Proposes Another Vote · 12 Angry Men 1957 · Ch. 6/17

• Courtroom
• Arguments
• Persuading

“The highest-paid person at the camp was a priest.”

V Kills Bishop Lilliman · V for Vendetta 2006 · Ch. 12/25

• Threats
• Crime scenes
• Warning

“You want to go to jail or you want to go home?”

Alonzo Coaches the Cover-Up · Training Day 2001 · Ch. 15/23

• Crime scenes
• Threats
• Threatening

“Fucking dying isn't good for you, either, but that doesn't seem to be stopping anybody!”

Chad Rallies the College Kids · Tucker and Dale vs. Evil 2010 · Ch. 10/19

• Arguments
• Police questioning
• Threatening

“Now with the entire solution in my field of view, the arc of this case is a tragedy of errors.”

Blanc Reveals Who Hired Him · Knives Out 2019 · Ch. 12/14

• Investigation
• Accusations
• Explaining