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Macaffery: No one is to leave the premises. Until further investigation, everyone is considered a suspect!
Dick: Everyone? S-surely you don't mean... everyone?
Macaffery: Given the right circumstances, anyone is capable of murder!
Dick: But not everyone.
Macaffery: Yes, everyone.
Dick: But not anyone.
Macaffery: Yes!

This Spy has already breached our defenses. You've seen what he's done to our colleagues! And worst of all... he could be any one of us! He could be in this very room! He could be you. He could be me! He could even be-
BLU Spy, Team Fortress 2

Lisa: Everyone in Springfield had a reason to shoot Mr. Burns. Even us. (everyone groans in agreement) Bart, he broke your dog's legs. Grampa, he destroyed your home. And Dad, well, you kinda went berserk when he couldn't remember your name.
Homer: BERSERK IS RIGHT!!!!!!!!! May I have some iced tea, please?
Bart: Aren't we forgetting someone, sister suspect?
Lisa: Hehehe... yeah, I was just getting to me. Because of Mr. Burns, they cancelled my jazz program, and my friend Tito Puente got fired!

"Deputy Standall, here's the thing about the kids at Liberty High. They're connected by their secrets. Connected and forever changed. The truth is, given the right circumstances, the right motivation... anyone could have done this."

"I suspect foul play, and I have eliminated no suspects."
Benoit Blanc, Knives Out

Captain Marty Lee: You got any hard suspects?
Dave Toschi: Uh, about 90 an hour. I'm up to about 500.

Stu: You know who I think it is? I think it's her father. I mean, why can't they find her pops, man?
Randy: Because he's probably dead. His body will come popping up in the last reel somewhere! Eyes gouged out, fingers cut off, TEETH KNOCKED OUT! You see, the police are always off-track with this shit! If they watch Prom Night, they'd save time! There's a formula to it! A VERY! SIMPLE! FORMULA! EVERYBODY'S A SUSPECT! I'm telling you, the dad's a Red Herring, it's Billy.
Billy: (standing right behind Randy) How do we know you're not the killer? Huh? Huh?
Randy: (nervously) Hi, Billy.
Billy: Maybe your movie-freak mind lost its reality button, you ever think of that?
Randy: You're absolutely right. I'm the first to admit it. If this were a scary movie, I'd be the prime suspect.
Billy: That's right.
Stu: And what would be your motive?
Randy: It's the millennium. Motives are incidental.

"Innocence proves nothing."
Imperial Inquisition motto, Warhammer 40,000

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