The killer would've wanted Gould to take his time to sit and decide which cut to make first. Imagine it.
8 seconds sound clip from the Se7en (1995) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:38:29.575 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Hey, look at this. Gould was bound, right arm almost free. He was handed a butcher's knife.
- Yeah.
- One pound of flesh, no more no less. No cartilage, no bone, but only flesh. Merchant of Venice.
- This task done and he would go free.
- I'm telling you that chair was soaked through with sweat.
- There's a gun in your face. Which part of your body is expendable?
- What about the love handle? Cut along the side of his own stomach.
- All right, let's take a fresh look at these.
- Even though the corpse is there, look through it. Edit out the initial shock.
- Trick is to find one item, one detail and focus on it until it's an exhausted possibility.
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