Altered Carbon (TV Series)

Force of Evil (2018)

Renée Elise Goldsberry: Quellcrist Falconer

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• Quellcrist Falconer : Focus on what you care about most in this world, with every atom of your existence. Rip yourself open, and you can rip a hole in the virtual world. That is how you get back to the real. That is how you get to the next screen.

• Quellcrist Falconer : Let him believe you are weak - until the moment he discovers you are not.

• Quellcrist Falconer : The program pulls subliminal memories of trauma. Someplace you felt trapped. First step is how we experience helplessness. What do you do when you can't get out?

  [Al takes out each of his attackers] 

  Quellcrist Falconer : Now what? They control the construct. They just send more and you're still here. You have to beat the player, not the game. There are some things you can't kill your way out of.

• Quellcrist Falconer : If they catch you, they will torture you. But virtual is like everything else. Assume nothing. Only then can you truly see what you're dealing with. Understand there is no conditioning that can prepare you for having cigarettes stubbed out in your eyes - for being burnt to death - being raped, drowned, suffocated, over and over and over. DHF made it possible to put someone in virtual, torture them to death and then start again.

  O. G. Kovacs : But it's not real. Even Kovacs can handle it.

  Quellcrist Falconer : To the mind, pain is pain. Torture, die, repeat. Eventually, you'll break. And if it doesn't stop, you'll go insane.

  Female Trainee : So what do we do?

  Quellcrist Falconer : The mind does interesting things under extreme stress. Hallucination. Displacement. Retreat. As Envoys, we learn to use those things, not as blind reactions to adversity, but as moves in a game.