- Hurst: What's Your sign?
- Elizabeth Gilbert: Excuse Me?
- Hurst: Under what sign of the zodiac were you born?
- Elizabeth Gilbert: Aries
- Hurst: And your horoscope, do you read it?
- Elizabeth Gilbert: Sometimes, I guess.
- Hurst: Sometimes It's right and sometimes its wrong
- Elizabeth Gilbert: Well, all that stuff is just...
- Hurst: People have always been fascinated by the stars, they chartered their movements. They could tell when Mercury was retrograde or when Mars was aligned with Venus. They made predictions based on these observations. These people were called Astrologers. They were the experts on the Solar System. Until the science of Astronomy came along and proved their ideas to be nothing but bullpucky. I've studied the report their experts wrote.
- Cameron Todd Willingham: Thanks to you, I have tried to make my peace. You showed me that love is always there if you just open yourself to it. You helped me to learn to enjoy the simple blessings of being alive.
- Reaves: This isn't about one man anymore, the systems broken he's not the only one who got fucked over
- Ponchai: [on being on death row] I'm here because to them I'm just black... your here because to them your just poor and dumb
- Cameron Todd Willingham: [bluntly] Can't I be poor and smart?
- Ponchai: [on a common quote] You Know What They Say About Capital Punishment... If You Ain't Got No Capital...
- Cameron Todd Willingham: [finishing the quote] ... Gotta Take The Punishment
- Ponchai: [on why he's on death row] Elderly white clerk reached for something under the counter
- [with regret]
- Ponchai: I put a bullet in his head
- [incredulous]
- Ponchai: Didn't matter I was high as FUCK
- [snorts in disgust]
- Ponchai: I should've been guilty of intentional manslaughter... AT THE MOST
- Ponchai: [on the states' view on execution] You know capital punishment's always been a political tool... during an election year they put to death twice as many of those on death row than they normally do
- Cameron Todd Willingham: [having been beaten by Daniels and locked in solitary whist exposed to the elements]
- [hollering]
- Cameron Todd Willingham: YOU'RE TREATING *ME* WORSE THAN A GODDAMN ANIMAL... I WOULDN'T TREAT MY DOGS LIKE *THIS*
- Hurst: My report is based on hundreds of hours of experiments by the most rigorous scientists in the field. These so-called experts of theirs may have seen lots of fires, but in the end, they're just "astrologers".
- Reaves: Thank you so much. There's also just one more thing that we have to...
- Elizabeth Gilbert: Oh, uh, what we owe you?
- Hurst: I don't believe in astrology, Ms Gilbert, but I do believe in karma. Mine can use all the help it can get. The pleasure's mine...