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WILSON (Michele Schlossberg)

Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.  Commit a crime and it seems as though a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge and fox and squirrel and mole.  You cannot recall the spoken word.  You cannot wipe out a foot track.  You cannot draw up the ladder so as to leave no inlet or clue.     -- Emerson

MEINIKE (Tom Reid):  There was no human reason I was not hanged.  I think perhaps God delivered me.

RANKIN (Peter Brown):  The German sees himself as the innocent victim of world envy and hatred, conspired against, set upon by inferior peoples, inferior nations.  He cannot admit to error, much less wrongdoing.  He still follows his warrior Gods, marching to Wagnerian strains, his eyes still fixed upon the fiery sword of Siegfried.  And in those subterranean meeting places that you don’t believe in, the German’s dream world comes alive and he takes his place in shining armor beneath the banners of the Teutonic Knights.  Mankind is waiting for the Messiah, but for the German, the Messiah is not the Prince of Peace.  He’s another Barbarosa.  Another Hitler. 

MARY (Sarah Jane Bunker)

"I’m not interested in proving that he isn’t Charles Rankin.  I need to prove that he is Franz Kindler.  I can only do that with Mary’s help.  Whether willingly or unwillingly.  Rankin can’t trust a person approaching hysteria, and he won’t.  He’ll have to act.  He may try to escape, which would be an admission of guilt.  Or he may try to kill her. "

MEINIKE (Tom Reid)

The little man was walking all by himself across a deserted city square.  Wherever he moved, he threw a shadow.  But when he moved away, the shadow stayed there behind him and spread out, like a carpet…  

"In prison, in Czechoslovakia, a war criminal was awaiting execution.  Konrad Meinike.  He was, at one time, the executive officer for Franz Kindler.  When Meinike was captured at Belsen, the arresting officials noted the stench of burning flesh in his clothes.  He still smelled of it when we let him escape.  We gave him his freedom in the hope that he might lead us to Kindler."

WILSON (Michele Schlossberg):  You can kill me, Mary, half the people down there, but there’s no escape.  The world closed in on you until there was only Harper.  That closed in on you and there was only this room.  And this room is closing in on you.

RANKIN (Peter Brown):  Murder can be a chain, Mary, one link leading to another, until it circles your neck.

MARY (Sarah Jane Bunker):  I know him, Noah.  Maybe he’s not the man I married, but I know him.  I have to go to him, Noah.  He doesn’t want to escape, Noah.  He wants to be caught.  He wants to die.  He’s a caged animal.  No matter what he is, I have to go to him.