Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story
Tuesdays 10:00 PM on USA NetworkDirty John: The Betty Broderick Story Season 1 Episode 1: "No Fault" Quotes
Dan: You're starting to get it now, aren't you?
Bob: Get what?
Dan: Betty.
I would LIKE to say that I'm not the crazy one. He is.
Betty
I'm a woman getting divorced in America. I have no rights. I'm an obstruction. I am! A judge said so.
Betty
Bob: Bifurcation means you get officially divorced now and work out the property settlement later.
Betty: What? When?
Bob: I don't know, but that's what it means.
I know you think if you don't play, you can't lose, Betty. But you can. You're losing already.
Bob
Hi. My name is Elizabeth Ann Broderick, and I'm about to be railroaded by my husband and his attorney. They sold my house, proposed some confusing settlement. I've been robbed of my children. I desperately need qualified counsel before the 16th.
Betty
Betty: Divorce is the closest most people will come to war in their lives. And that is what war is, who controls who. If you don't control them, they control you. I never hated him, you know. I hate what he did, but I don't hate him. Maybe inside I still think he'll see reality for what it is. But what are you doing to do? I can't make him do that. I can't make him wake up.
Detective: You can't because he's dead, isn't that right?
Betty: Yes, no, that's right.
Detective: You gave us a statement. Do you remember doing that?
Betty: I do, I know. I just. I think I just, I. I'm amazed it only took one bullet to kill Dan Broderick.
