Benoit Blanc Quotes

You won, not by playing the game Harlan’s way, but yours. You’re a good person.[to Marta]

You have a regurgitative reaction to mistruthing.[to Marta]

Why is grief the providence of youth? I don’t know. But I’d imagine that age deepens all feelings. Including grief.

The complexity and the gray lie not in the truth, but what you do with the truth once you have it.

Strange case from the start. A case with a hole in the middle. A doughnut.

Physical evidence can tell a clear story with a forked tongue.

My presence will be ornamental. You will find me a respectful, quiet, passive observer of the truth.

I suspect foul play. I have eliminated no suspects.

I spoke in the car about the hole at the center of this doughnut. And what you and Harlan did that fateful night seems at first glance to fill that hole perfectly. A doughnut hole in a doughnut’s hole. But we must look a little closer. And when we do, we see the doughnut hole has a hole in its center. It is not a doughnut hole, but a smaller doughnut with its own hole and our doughnut is not whole at all![to Marta]

I observe the facts without biases of the head or heart. I determine the arc’s path, stroll leisurely to its terminus, and the truth falls at my feet.

Best judge of character is a dog.

As we can see from this morning, everyone can lie. Well, almost everyone.