Gordon Northcott Quotes in Changeling (2008)

Reporter at Precinct: [as Northcott is being taken into custody] How did you avoid capture?

Gordon Northcott: Well, I didn't, did I?

Judge: Does the defendant wish to make a statement before judgement is passed?

Gordon Northcott: I want to make it real clear that I never once got a fair shake from you, Your Honor, or from this court. The only one in here worth a good goddamn is her.

[points to Christine Collins]

Gordon Northcott: 'Cause she's the only one who never badmouthed me to the press. She's the only one who understands what it is to be framed by the police for something you didn't do.

Judge: All right, that's enough.

Gordon Northcott: And then to just be thrown in the hole to just rot and to fester and to be forgotten and fade away, isn't that right?

[runs over to Christine]

Judge: Counsel!

Gordon Northcott: I never killed your boy, Mrs. Collins.

Judge: Counsel, that's enough!

Gordon Northcott: I would never do that! I would never hurt Walter!

Judge: Counsel, get control of your client or I'll have him bound and gagged!

Gordon Northcott: He's an angel!

[to his lawyer]

Gordon Northcott: Get off of me!

Judge: Gordon Stewart Northcott, you've been charged with three counts of murder in the first degree with an additional seventeen counts under review by the district attorney's office. How do you plea?

Gordon Northcott: Oh, not guilty, Your Honor.