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last lines]
Christine Collins:
Three boys made a run for it that night, detective, and if one got out, then may be either or both of the other two did too. Maybe Walter's out there having the same fears that he did. Afraid to come home and identify himself, or afraid to get in trouble. But either way, it gives me something I didn't have before today.
Detective Lester Ybarra:
What's that?
Christine Collins:
Hope.
Reporter at Precinct:
[
as Northcott is being taken into custody] How did you avoid capture?
Gordon Northcott:
Well I didn't did I?
Christine Collins:
He's not my son.
Capt. J.J. Jones:
Mrs. Collins...
Christine Collins:
No, I don't know why he's saying that he is, but he's not Walter and there's been a mistake.
Capt. J.J. Jones:
I thought we agreed to give him time to adjust.
Christine Collins:
He's three inches shorter; I measured him on the chart.
Capt. J.J. Jones:
Well, maybe your measurements are off. Look, I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for all of this.
Christine Collins:
He's circumcised and Walter isn't.
Capt. J.J. Jones:
Mrs. Collins, your son was missing for five months, for at least part of that time in the company of an unidentified drifter. Who knows what such a disturbed individual might have done. He could have had him circumcised. He could have...
Christine Collins:
...made him shorter?
Christine Collins:
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
Christine Collins:
I used to tell Walter, "Never start a fight... but always finish it." I didn't start this fight... but by God, I'm going to finish it.
Arthur Hutchins:
'Night, mommy.
Christine Collins:
[
yelling] Stop calling me that! I'm not your mother! I want my son back! Damn you!
Detective Lester Ybarra:
Dig. You put them in the ground, now you can take them out. You heard me. Dig.
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Christine Collins:
Walter, honey. Time to wake up.
Walter Collins:
Just ten more minutes...
Christine Collins:
Sorry, sport. You can sleep in tomorrow, that's what Saturdays are for.
Rev. Gustav Briegleb:
Because once you give people the freedom to do whatever they want, as the Lord found in the Garden of Eden, they will do exactly that.
Detective Lester Ybarra:
It's raining cats, dogs, and democrats out there, this better be worth it.
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