Sound of Freedom (2023)

Jim Caviezel: Tim Ballard

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• Tim Ballard : God's children are not for sale.

• Vampiro : [about the kids singing and clapping after being rescued]  Do you hear that? That's the sound of freedom.

  Tim Ballard : Amen.

• Tim Ballard : [about child sex trafficking]  It's already surpassed the illegal weapons trade, and soon it will surpass the drug trade. Do you know why? You can sell a bag of cocaine once. A 5-year-old child, you can sell them 5-10 times a day, for 10 years straight.

• Tim Ballard : Do you know there are 22 million new images of child porn on the Internet? That's up 5,000% from just 5 years ago. 5000%.

• Tim Ballard : [speaking Spanish]  Miguel, I'm guessing you must be about 7 1/2, right?

  Miguel : Is this April?

  Tim Ballard : No, it's July, July 12th. Why?

  Miguel : Then I'm 8.

• Tim Ballard : It's funny because we all read history and we think, "Oh, I would have risen up, I would have fought, I would have been an abolitionist and tell them." No, you wouldn't have.

  Tim Ballard : If you would have, you'd be doing that right now.

  Tim Ballard : You know trafficking exists, you've heard of it, but you don't want to look.

• Vampiro : I think I may have to expand your mind to an entirely new reality.

  El Calacas : Okay?

  Vampiro : These gentlemen want to build a one-of-a-kind members-only club in Cartena. Annual fee: one hundred grand per member.

  [which immediately intrigues El Calacas] 

  Vampiro : They take care of the facility, we take care of the talent. And the members? They get a world-class resort with full access to models, 24/7, all you can eat, live-in models, young ones.

  El Calacas : How young?

  Tim Ballard : [enters]  Shock me. Which one is this?

  Vampiro : El Calacas.

  [they laugh] 

  Vampiro : He used to deliver escorts for Escobar. He sold me a chicken last year, nine years old.

  El Calacas : And she was...

  [makes appreciative gesture by kissing the tips of his fingers] 

• Chris : Let me ask you something. How many pedophiles you caught?

  Tim Ballard : As of today, 288, not so bad.

  Chris : How many kids you found?

  Tim Ballard : It is a high probability that most of those kids are outside of the US, Chris. So our jobs, is to get the pedophiles. And that's it.

  Chris : It's a messed up world, right?