Wide Country (TV Series)

Our Ernie Kills People (1962)

Don Collier: Detective Sgt. Van Anda

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• Detective Sgt. Van Anda : I know it's popular to say there's no such thing as a bad boy, just bad parents. And maybe parents are responsible for bad boys. But there isn't much parents, good or bad, can do with a pathological criminal.

• Mitch Guthrie : What's with this Ernie, anyway? Is he nuts or somethin'?

  Detective Sgt. Van Anda : Do you mean is he insane?

  Mitch Guthrie : Well, no, that's not quite what I meant.

  Detective Sgt. Van Anda : Why not? Why, because he doesn't rant and rave or foam at the mouth? Look, Mitch, in every society there are a certain number of people born who are pathological criminals. I'd say less than one percent. Something is missing in their minds. A thing called conscience that teaches us to distinguish right from wrong.