Certain books are flagged. Books on, say, nuclear weapons and, well, Mein Kampf. Anyone who checks out a flagged book has his library records fed into the FBI's computers then on.

William Somerset (Morgan Freeman)

12 seconds sound clip from the Se7en (1995) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:06:17.616 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- It's probably nothing, but even if it is, it's no skin off our teeth.

- The guy in the pizza parlor is a friend from the Bureau.

- Who, stinky man?

- See, for years the FBII's been hooked into the library system, keeping records.

- Mm-hm.

- Assessing fines?

- No, monitoring reading habits.

- Look.

- What?

- Certain books are flagged. Books on, say, nuclear weapons and, well, Mein Kampf. Anyone who checks out a flagged book has his library records fed into the FBI's computers then on.

- Hey, wait, wait, wait, how is this legal?

- Oh, legal, illegal. These terms don't apply.

- You can't use the information directly. It's just a useful guide.

- It might sound silly, but you can't get a library card without an ID and a current phone bill, see?

- So they run a list.

- Precisely.

- If you wanna know who's reading Purgatory and Paradise Lost and Helter Skelter, the FBI's computers will tell us. It could give us a name.

- It could.

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