Fr. Jud Duplenticy: You're right. It's storytelling. The rites and the rituals. Costumes, all of it. It's storytelling. I guess the question is, do these stories convince us of a lie? Or do they resonate with something deep inside us that's profoundly true, that we can't express any other way except storytelling?
Fr. Jud Duplenticy: I take it you're not a Catholic.
Benoit Blanc: Ah, no. Proud Heretic. I kneel at the alter of the rational.
Benoit Blanc: What I see is not a guilty man in torment, but an innocent man tormented by guilt. Let me help you.
Fr. Jud Duplenticy: How?
Benoit Blanc: This was dressed as a miracle. But it's just a murder... and I solve murders.
Chief Geraldine Scott: What the hell was that?
Benoit Blanc: Road to Damascus. Scales fell from my eyes.
Chief Geraldine Scott: So what? Facts, schmacks? You believe in God and all this mishegoss is real?
Benoit Blanc: No, no. God is a fiction. My revelation came from... from Father Jud. His example to have grace. Grace for my enemy. Grace for the broken. Grace for those who... deserve it the least, but who need it the most. For the guilty.
Martha Delacroix: Yes, the harlot whore. That was Wicks' mother.
Fr. Jud Duplenticy: OK, so what's the deal with that?
Martha Delacroix: She was a harlot and a whore.
Fr. Jud Duplenticy: OK.
Chief Geraldine Scott: What the Hell was that?
Benoit Blanc: The Road to Damascus, scales fell from my eyes.
Chief Geraldine Scott: So, what, facts schmacts, you believe in God and all this mishigas is real?
Benoit Blanc: No, God is a fiction. My revelation came from... from Father Jud. His example to have grace. Grace for my enemy. Grace for the broken, grace for those who deserve it the least, but who need it the most.
Fr. Jud Duplenticy: So, that's how I came to Chimney Rock. Daniel in the lion's den. David facing off Goliath. Young, dumb and full of Christ. Ready for anything.
Martha Delacroix: She died throwing herself against Prentice's tomb. Brain aneurysm, they said. Struck down, I say, by God in His mercy.
Fr. Jud Duplenticy: Holy shit. Sorry, sorry.
Fr. Jud Duplenticy: Maybe we need to get back to fundamentals. You know, basic building blocks on how to genuinely inspire people.
Cy Draven: The basics. Like show them something they hate and then make them afraid it's going to take away something they love?
Fr. Jud Duplenticy: Uh, my first Mass is coming up if... if you wanna stick around.
Benoit Blanc: Um... That's so nice of you. There is, uh... nothing I would rather not do. Toodle-oo.
Martha Delacroix: Mr. Blanc, you know the truth.
Benoit Blanc: I do, yes.
Martha Delacroix: And you made yourself the fool just now.
Benoit Blanc: So that you could do this of your own free will. And now you better do it. Quickly.
Martha Delacroix: Thank you.
Benoit Blanc: Scooby-dooby-doo.
Fr. Jud Duplenticy: Here's what's gonna happen: Benoit freakin' Blanc and I are gonna ask you all some questions, and you all are gonna answer them and we're gonna get to the bottom of who killed Monsignor Wicks and why and then... that's it!
