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Hitman Sentences

(Sentences from Hitman (2007). Adjust phrasing where needed)

"If I was going to kill you, I'd have done it when you walked to the car this morning and would have been gone by the time you hit the sidewalk."

"I'm going to ask you a question. How you answer it will determine how this night ends."

"How does a good man decide when to kill?"

"This is where you tell me your name."

"Make a sound and I'll end your life. Do you understand?"

"You're as good as dead without me."

"How about dying with a little dignity?"

"You think it's done? It's just beginning."

"Why are you covering this up? You know that's not our killer."

"I'd thank you if I wasn't so mad at you."

"If you're looking for a reason not to kill me, I don't really have one."

"Stop talking or I'll put you back in the trunk."

"You know, you can sleep in the bed. I won't bite."

"It's not polite to stare."

"So, when are you going to tell me your name?"

"You know, you're really quite charming when you aren't killing people."

"Do you remember everything you see?"

"What colour underwear do you think I'm wearing?"

"This is not a request. This situation is fixed, and you know both possible outcomes."

"If you kill me, they will never let you go. They will hunt you for the rest of your life."

"You did your job, and you did it very well. For that, you should be proud."

"Knowing how this ends, was it worth it?"

"If I think a man means to do me or my family harm, then I will do whatever I can to stop him."

"I want to be left alone."

"I told you to leave her alone. You should have listened."

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Damnation Sentences

(Sentences from Damnation (2017). Adjust phrasing where needed)

"If you make someone rich, you can get away with just about anything in this country."

"We're all in this together, whether you like it or not."

"If you disappoint me, you can be so easily discarded."

"We resolve our differences with words and laws here, not guns."

"I've done wicked things in this world, and every day I'm trying to make up for that."

"As children, we're taught that the golden rule is to be kind. But we're not children anymore."

"You look different to the last time I saw you."

"Maybe we can win this war, maybe we can't, but I'm not going to let people keep pretending it's not going on."

"I don't have a side. I just have a job to do."

"I know of fathers like you. Your kids would be better off without you."

"How does it feel to go around town with a psychopath?"

"The world doesn't care about you or your wants. What the world cares about is maintaining an agreeable semblance of order."

"You underestimate just how charming I can be!"

"Where I come from, men like you die pretty easily."

"You don't actually care for this cowboy, do you?"

"So what's your excuse? Corruption? Cowardice? Or just plain idiocy?"

"Deep down, that cold-blooded killer routine is just an act."

"I know you don't like it, but there are still things about my past I don't want you to know."

"Just because you don't trust me doesn't mean I'm wrong about this."

"If you would only stop running from your past, perhaps then you would not be fated to repeat it."

"I know that I'm hard on you, but it's all done out of love."

"Everyone's dead because of you."

"I've paid for the sins of my past. What about you? Can you say the same?"

"I may have written a couple of poems for you..."

"This is how we're going to do it! This is how we're going to bring people together!"

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Cardinal Sentences, Condensed

(Sentences from Cardinal (2017-2020) and related stories. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"If I make you the lead on this, I need to know that you're not going to drift."

"When were you planning on sharing this?"

"I don't know how you stay so patient."

"What am I missing here? I can't do my job if you leave me in the dark."

"You know not to come here. We shouldn't be seen together."

"Whatever you're looking for, there's nothing to find."

"Do you really want to make an enemy of me right now?"

"Did you hear the screaming last night?"

"The problem with most people is that they don't understand that to survive, you have to find meaning in suffering. There's power in pain."

"You know you're going to have to face this eventually. It might as well be today."

"I'm fine! Why can't you see that?"

"You try, and try, and try, but some people just can't be saved."

"You're nothing special. You're just another killer."

"People always look better in pictures taken by people who love them."

"I won't ask how you're doing, but I do want to offer my help."

"You could have come to me. I know what you're going through."

"If you're going to do this, then do it quieter. We can't have you being suspended, understood?"

"Do you know why I chose you? I chose you because you've seen the worst of people and you're still standing."

"I promise you, I'm not going to ask you to do anything you're not ready for."

"You were right to doubt me."

"Can I stop worrying about you?"

"What happened wasn't your fault. None of it's your fault."

"Did you put him there to protect me or to watch me?"

"You said you could keep me safe."

"You said you wanted to retire, but you keep doing this job that grinds you down and makes you shut everyone out. Why can't you just stop?"

"We both know I'm not walking out of these woods again."

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Cardinal Sentences, Vol. 1

(Sentences from Cardinal (2017-2020) and related stories. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"If I make you the lead on this, I need to know that you're not going to drift."

"Do me a favour and keep this between us?"

"When were you planning on sharing this?"

"No judge will grant this warrant!"

"Since when do you want to meet my family?"

"I don't know how you stay so patient."

"What am I missing here? I can't do my job if you leave me in the dark."

"You know not to come here. We shouldn't be seen together."

"Do you know how stupid it is to come here?"

"Do you even know how to use that thing?"

"Whatever you're looking for, there's nothing to find."

"Do you really want to make an enemy of me right now?"

"Is this a dream or a memory?"

"It'll only be two days. You don't need to worry."

"I have to prove I'm okay."

"Do they think that I'm dead, or are they going to try again?"

"Did you hear the screaming last night?"

"Do you have to follow me?"

"The problem with most people is that they don't understand that to survive, you have to find meaning in suffering. There's power in pain."

"And you expect me to give you that information without a warrant?"

"You know you're going to have to face this eventually. It might as well be today."

"I'd offer you a beer, but you probably shouldn't drink right now."

"I'm fine! Why can't you see that?"

"You try, and try, and try, but some people just can't be saved."

"You're nothing special. You're just another killer."

"People always look better in pictures taken by people who love them."

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New Tricks Sentences, Vol. 6

(Sentences from New Tricks (2003-2015). Adjust phrasing where needed)

"I'd forgotten how much your knuckles bruise when you hit somebody."

"I'm sorry to deprive you of an emotional fireworks display, but stoicism runs in the family."

"As fascinating as these facts are, there are only so many I can take!"

"We're not on holiday! We're conducting an investigation!"

"You're turning ignoring orders into an art form!"

"I think you're all about your work, and you don't know when to stop."

"I understand that you need to ask these questions, but I do feel a little disappointed that you felt it necessary."

"Most kids don't know when their childhood ends. I read somewhere that most of it just fades, little by little, until one day you wake up and you realise it's been gone for years. I can tell you the precise moment that my childhood ended."

"I won't lie to you, I'll sleep easier tonight knowing you've gone home."

"You solve everyone else's problems, but never your own."

"Will you stay with me? I feel safer with you."

"Your actions have brought an awful lot of trouble to my door too!"

"It's a miracle you've lasted so long as a detective!"

"I don't think we're very popular with witness protection right now."

"I don't want to talk to you again until you've got something worth talking about."

"Have you ever been stupidly in love?"

"This is exactly why I never tried swinging!"

"You built the ship, but you don't have to go on steering it forever."

"With all due respect, forensics don't solve most of these cases - people do."

"Her death was the worst thing that ever happened to me, but it kind of set me free because I knew I could never be hurt like that again."

"I'm not afraid of death. I don't care for anyone and I don't want anything. And that makes me a very dangerous opponent."

"If you're trying to scare me off, it's not working."

"One way or another, I will bury you."

"No one wins if the truth comes out - including you."

"We both know there's enough blood on these hands to serve a dozen life sentences."

"You've been reading too many conspiracy novels!"

"I think you and I are going to get along very well."

"How many more drinks is it going to take before you tell me what this is all about?"

"You know, in my experience, it's best to keep the personal and the professional apart."

"He wants to be friends with you. Is that so wrong?"

"If you're going to show me spurious nonsense like this, at least make it new."

"What exactly did you do in the diplomatic service?"

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The Twilight Zone Sentences, Condensed

(Sentences from The Twilight Zone (1959-1964). Adjust phrasing where needed)

"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity."

"There's some question about my identity. Let me put it to you this way: I'm not sure who I am."

"I'm in the middle of a nightmare I can't wake up from, and you're part of it."

"You've been looking behind you. Try looking ahead."

"What are a few hundred years, or a few thousand? The world will go on ad infinitum."

"What's the good of immortality if there aren't any kicks or excitement?"

"The mind is everything. If you think you've got a pain in your arm and there's no physical reason for it, it hurts just the same, doesn't it?"

"What's it like up there in outer space?"

"This is weird. Just plain weird."

"Keep going. Make tracks. Push on and push out, because if you stop, maybe sanity will get you by the throat."

"A man can be lost not only in terms of maps and miles, but also in time."

"You don't seriously expect me to believe this?"

"How many coincidences add up to a fact?"

"Tell me something, will you? How old are you?"

"I thought if a man could live forever, he would grow wiser - but that isn't true, is it?"

"There's no such thing as magic."

"You share the most common ailment of all men: the strange and perverse disinclination to believe in a miracle."

"You know the trouble with you? You were born too late."

"Oh, I remember now - or, at least, I remember parts of it."

"There's something unholy about this..."

"No matter what you wish for, you must be prepared for the consequences."

"I know it's an incredible story - I, of all people, know this! You won't believe me, not at first, but I'm going to tell you the whole thing."

"What you saw is not a man."

"There is one other small thing I should tell you about my car... It's haunted."

"That light! That crazy light! What was it?"

"We go off on a lot of nutty assignments, but this one? Wow!"

"I don't know what normal is. I thought I did once; I don't know anymore."

"Nothing's impossible. Some things are less likely than others, that's all."

"I've often wondered why it is man fears the unknown, like a child afraid of the dark."

"How come you were wandering around out there in the middle of nowhere?"

"Are you real?"

"I want you to quiet down, hear me out, and listen to a little logic and reason!"

"I don't know what it is, but there's a logical explanation for this! Everything has a logical explanation!"

"What good is the soul, anyway? It's sort of like the appendix these days."

"There must be a lot of ghosts running around a place like this."

"I can bring back the dead."

"The major ingredient in any recipe for fear is the unknown."

"Being frightened is a normal, natural human function, just like breathing. It's how you react to fright that really counts."

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New Tricks Sentences, Vol. 1

(Sentences from New Tricks (2003-2015). Adjust phrasing where needed)

"Everyone is aware what a distinctive and enviable career path you've carved out for yourself, but you screwed it up!"

"I know it's tricky, the thought of working for someone you used to boss, but if there's one thing I learnt from you, it's to respect people's abilities, not their rank."

"Do you want to do the job properly, or do you just want to look nice?"

"I don't want you doing this - for your own sake!"

"Isn't it all just a bit busy inside your head?"

"I don't ever want to hear you using that word again."

"I do have a life outside the office, you know."

"The last time I punched you, you couldn't get up. The next time, you won't."

"You can only push this thing so far. You do know that?"

"How long have you had this obsession with money?"

"What's that you're writing?"

"If I want to immobilise someone and I've already shot him in the leg, he's kind of stuck in situ while I shoot him in the other one, so I might as well do it!"

"Do you have a bad feeling about this?"

"Do you have any idea what you've done?"

"Never underestimate your skills."

"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - I like about today!"

"We don't get to see much beauty in our job, do we?"

"You'd think that being exposed to all this ugliness would make us more appreciative of beautiful things, wouldn't you? But we don't, do we? We don't balance the ugly with the beautiful. We just accept ugly."

"Have I missed something? Or was there a day when all art became so grotesque?"

"Do you ever have cases where the suspects are still alive?"

"I don't kill boring people."

"It's a dangerous game, sleeping with the enemy."

"Is there any chance you'll find who really did it?"

"I don't think you should lecture me on what's right or wrong."

"What time of the day do you normally start drinking?"

"You must think you're pretty cute."

"I don't appreciate sarcasm."

"You're not going to go all obsessive, are you?"

"I don't remember seeing ballroom dancing on your CV!"

"I know it's too late for excuses, but I'm sorry."

"You aren't seriously entertaining the possibility that this guy is psychic, are you?"

"When you said you were going to do dinner, I hadn't realised that you were just going to order in a couple of pizzas."