Don Alberto Vescari Quotes in The Stone Killer (1973)

[last lines]

[Torrey and Sergeant, in car, outside church]

Sergeant: Nothing changes, only the names.

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: You gotta be kidding. We're chest deep in water. Screaming against the rushing tide.

[Vescari goes into confessional in church, having organized murder of other Dons]

Don Alberto Vescari: Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I haven't been to confession for ten days... I lose my temper

[in car]

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: You know, last three weeks, in New York City alone, there were 159 homicides?

[in confessional]

Don Alberto Vescari: I don't mean to be harsh, but I struck my son in anger last Tuesday.

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: 3,000 criminal assaults, 6,000 robberies.

Don Alberto Vescari: Ruth, my wife, bless her, I swore at her.

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: You multiply that by Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles.

Don Alberto Vescari: For these, and all the other sins which I cannot remember, forgive me.

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: You remember that cartoon of an old Roman Circus, where all the lions are roaring, and the page boy yells down the corridor...

[to camera]

Detective Lt. Lou Torrey: You've got five minutes, Christians.