Daniel Craig credited as playing...
Benoit Blanc
- Benoit Blanc: I spoke in the car about the hole at the center of this doughnut. And yes, what you and Harlan did that fateful night seems at first glance to fill that hole perfectly. A doughnut hole in the doughnut's hole. But we must look a little closer. And when we do, we see that the doughnut hole has a hole in its center - it is not a doughnut hole at all but a smaller doughnut with its own hole, and our doughnut is not whole at all!
- Marta Cabrera: You're not much of a detective, are you?
- Benoit Blanc: Well, to be fair, you make a pretty lousy murderer.
- Marta Cabrera: What was that about will readings being boring?
- Benoit Blanc: The exception that proves the rule.
- Benoit Blanc: But the complexity and the gray lie not in the truth but what you do with the truth once you have it.
- Benoit Blanc: [to Marta] I want you to know that you didn't win the game by playing it Harlan's way, you won it by playing it your way. Because you have a good heart.
- Ransom Drysdale: [to Marta] I'm going to say this just to you. No cameras, no courthouse, because you know it's true. We allowed you into our home, let you watch our grand dad, welcome you into our family. And now you think you can steal it from us. You think I'm not going to fight to protect my own, our birthright, our ancestral home...
- Benoit Blanc: [laughing] That is hooey! Harlan, he bought this place in the 80's from a Pakistani real estate millionaire... .
- Ransom Drysdale: Oh shut up! Shut up! Shut up with that Kentucky fried Foghorn Leghorn drawl!
- Benoit Blanc: [of the novel Gravity's Rainbow] It describes the path of a projectile determined by natural law. Et voila, my method. 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.
- Marta Cabrera: I've never been to a will reading before.
- Benoit Blanc: You'd think it'd be like a game show, but think of a community theatre production of a tax return.
- Benoit Blanc: Harlan's detectives, they dig, they rifle and root. Truffle pigs. I anticipate the terminus of Gravity's Rainbow.
- Marta Cabrera: Gravity's Rainbow.
- Benoit Blanc: It's a novel.
- Marta Cabrera: Yeah, I know. I haven't read it though.
- Benoit Blanc: Neither have I. Nobody has. But I like the title. It describes the path of a projectile determined by natural law.
- [last lines]
- Marta Cabrera: This family, I should help them. Right?
- Benoit Blanc: Well, I have my opinion. But I have a feeling you'll follow your heart.
- Benoit Blanc: Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to request that you all stay until the investigation is completed.
- Linda Drysdale: What?
- Joni Thrombey: Can we ask why? Has something changed?
- Benoit Blanc: No...
- Joni Thrombey: No, it hasn't changed, or no, we can't ask?
- Benoit Blanc: Why is grief the providence of youth? I don't know. But I'd imagine that age deepens all feelings.
- Lieutenant Elliott: I'm sorry this is an open and shut case of suicide and quite frankly Benny we are getting to the point where I have to ask you what we're doing here.
- Benoit Blanc: The method? Throat slit? Typical for a suicide?
- Lieutenant Elliott: Yes, I mean, that's dramatic, but look around. I mean, the guy practical lives in a Clue board.