Mindhunter (TV Series)

Episode #1.5 (2017)

Jonathan Groff: Holden Ford

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Quotes 

• Wendy Carr : Psychopaths are extremely skilled at imitating human emotions. It's how they manipulate other people, or how they gain power over their environment.

  Holden Ford : How do they understand emotions if they don't have them?

  Wendy Carr : Well, they have emotions. They just don't believe other people have them. Or, more specifically, they don't believe that other people have interior lives.

• Holden Ford : [brushing his teeth]  Here's a question, if it is Benjamin or some other boyfriend who freaked out on her, does the case merit our involvement? We still can't rule out a sequence killer, but if the perpetrator was a townie, then the crime is random, and there's no expectation that he'll be repeating it.

  Bill Tench : Here's *my* question, shouldn't our funding cover separate rooms?

  Holden Ford : You don't like my company?

  Bill Tench : We'll get connecting doors.

  Holden Ford : The mutilation of her body alone justifies our involvement.

  Bill Tench : Would you mind sitting on your own bed, please?

• [first lines] 

  Detective Ocasek : His given name is Benjamin Barnwright, but everybody calls him Benji. He came back to town, just like I told you he would.

  Holden Ford : Benji was home watching TV the night Beverly Jean was killed?

  Detective Ocasek : That's what he told us and I believe him. He let us search his car, no warrant. And we didn't find a thing except for some of Beverly Jean's hair, but in the passenger seat, like you'd expect it.

  Bill Tench : Passenger seat's not the best way to transport a corpse, I'll give you that. But you said he was home alone watching TV? That's not much of an alibi.

  Detective Ocasek : Why? Isn't that what most people do most nights of the week?