Ben Affleck credited as playing...
Nick Dunne
- [last lines]
- Nick Dunne: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do?
- Nick Dunne: You fucking cunt!
- Amy Dunne: I'm the cunt you married. The only time you liked yourself was when you were trying to be someone this cunt might like. I'm not a quitter, I'm that cunt. I killed for you; who else can say that? You think you'd be happy with a nice Midwestern girl? No way, baby! I'm it.
- Nick Dunne: Fuck. You're delusional. I mean, you're insane, why would you even want this? Yes, I loved you and then all we did was resent each other, try to control each other. We caused each other pain.
- Amy Dunne: That's marriage.
- [first lines]
- Nick Dunne: When I think of my wife, I always think of the back of her head. I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brain, trying to get answers. The primal questions of a marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do?
- Margo Dunne: [discussing what kind of wood item Nick is going to give to Amy for their 5th wedding anniversary, the "wood" anniversary] So what are you going to give her?
- Nick Dunne: I don't know, there's nothing good for wood.
- Margo Dunne: I know what you can do. You go home and fuck her brains out. Then you take your penis and smack her in the face with it, and you say, "There's some wood, bitch!"
- Nick Dunne: Go, you're my voice of reason. I need you with me on this.
- Margo Dunne: Of course I'm with you. I was with you before we were even born.
- Nick Dunne: Your parents literally plagiarized your childhood?
- Amy Dunne: No, they improved upon it, and then peddled it to the masses.
- Nick Dunne: [after seeing positive pregnancy test] I didn't touch you!
- Amy Dunne: You didn't need to.
- Nick Dunne: Bullshit! That notice of disposal, I have that. You threw it out.
- Amy Dunne: The notice? Yes.
- [rubs stomach]
- Nick Dunne: I want a blood test! I want a paternity test!
- Amy Dunne: I love tests.
- Nick Dunne: You fucking cunt!
- Amy Dunne: I'm the cunt you married! The only time you liked yourself was when you were trying to be someone this cunt might like. I'm not a quitter... I'm that cunt.
- Ellen Abbott: I so appreciate you giving us this time, Nick.
- Nick Dunne: You went on national television and told people that I murdered my wife.
- Ellen Abbott: Well, I go where the story goes.
- Nick Dunne: You implied that I had carnal relations with my sister.
- Ellen Abbott: I didn't use the "I" word. I said you two were extremely close.
- Nick Dunne: You had a pile of nitwits diagnose me as a sociopath.
- Ellen Abbott: Icebreaker.
- Ellen Abbott: [shows him a robot cat toy] To go with your robot dog.
- Nick Dunne: I'll go find Amy.
- Nick Dunne: I hope you don't mind me coming by, I got your address from this letter you wrote to my wife.
- Desi Collings: Amy and I believe in the lost art of letter writing.
- Nick Dunne: I always wondered why you kept in touch, after everything. You were together for two years in boarding school, right?
- Desi Collings: She was my first serious girlfriend.
- Nick Dunne: Why did you break up?
- Desi Collings: That's a strange question.
- Nick Dunne: Did you treat her bad? Did you cheat on her?
- Desi Collings: That's a RUDE question.
- Nick Dunne: Let me tell you what Amy told me. She dumped you, you completely unravelled. You stalked her, you threatened her, you attempted suicide in her bed and were institutionalised.
- Desi Collings: Your wife is missing, and you came all this way to tell me this?
- Nick Dunne: Well I thought there might be another side to this story.
- [Desi closes the door]
- Nick Dunne: You know, we have a pretty serious homeless problem in our neighborhood. You maybe could should check that out.
- Officer Jim Gilpin: We'll look into that.