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"Confront Evil." That's what they told me. For fifty years, that's what I've done. And the world is no better. The world has become more perverse on its choice of evils. And I don't even know why. 
So I have no further use for you. Goodbye, Gat!
I guess that's why we gotta split, Moonface. You got no questions and I got nothing but questions. Time to face the music. Time to find out what my final judgment is.
Besides, you know my methods, Lt. Burke. I'm a ghost. I'll be around, but you won't know it. If you carry the case, I'll fade away. But if you miss something, I'll find it. Simple as that.
It started that night, as it does most nights, with someone being murdered.
Back in the Twenties, back when I was just starting out as a detective... there were these two women see? A mother and a daughter. I got in over my head. I got burned... especially with the daughter... I killed her.
I think I just killed God.
"Confront Evil." That's what they told me. For fifty years, that's what I've done. And the world is no better. The world has become more perverse on its choice of evils. And I don't even know why.
As for guilt... hey, that's for the courts or God to decide... the courts if they come quiet and God if they don't.
And so I died... encased in cement and thrown into the river. So I was born, for that which ended my mortal existence began my true life, my afterlife, as the Spectre.
So don't tell me just to roll over and give up. I ain't made that way! So come here, you moon-faced son of a bitch! Come to papa!
I heard absolute power corrupts absolutely. Does that mean God is corrupt?
You try it, you pasty-faced son of a bitch, and I'll pound you like a nail!
Don't bother hissing at me, you pasty-faced son of a bitch!
I should be driving toward Clarice's party -- but this tip is too important to pass up!
Aah, a nice warm grave! I yearn for its everlasting peace... but evil will not allow me my rightful rest!
That's another thing I'm sorry about -- the engagement is off!
YIPPEEE!! I've been accepted as a candidate for officer's training school! Boy oh boy, what a break for me!
I am Lt. James Brendan Corrigan--! And what I want is vengeance--!
Now that we have a chance to talk-- where have you been for the past 20 years? Why didn't you ever appear before today?
You will leave only when the money is in the bank's custody... and you are in mine!
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