Ian McShane credited as playing...
Jeff Novak
- Jeff Novak: If we knew all of the answers, we wouldn't be human. Maybe not knowing the answer makes us go on living. That's what life's all about.
- Jeff Novak: [to Sara] It's good to look for answers, but sometimes you look too hard, you lose the ones you have.
- [first lines]
- Jeff Novak: [entering interrogation room] Hi Emily. Didn't need to be like this, did it?
- Jeff Novak: "Emily Gray. First class artist, high school. Graduated Vancouver." Everything seems to have gone along swimmingly until 1995. Then, 1996 comes along, and wow. You tried to drown a little boy in a lake, out of the blue. You served 5 years on that, you're out for only one, and then this mess. You want to tell me what's going on? I mean you do right? I mean that's why you confessed. I'm all ears, Emily? If you've got something to say, let's hear it. What - the hell - happened?
- Emily Gray: What if I told you that I knew the meaning of life?
- Jeff Novak: You're crazy!
- Emily Gray: Am I? Because I drowned a boy? Because I killed this student? Is that so wrong? Is an earthquake wrong when it kills? Or a car? Or a flight of stairs... Why don't you just admit it, you don't understand why anything happens. And you never will...