The Alienist (TV Series)
Angel of Darkness: Gilded Cage (2020)
Douglas Smith: Marcus Isaacson
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Quotes
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Laszlo Kreizler : The events earlier this evening were simply a distraction. There's a phenomenon common in visual perception that when something is drawing the eye's attention, an object, a source of light, we become almost blind to surrounding objects.
Marcus Isaacson : The human eye cannot help but fixate on certain stimuli.
Lucius Isaacson : And in such cases the person isn't even aware that their perception is limited, so subtle is the effect.
Laszlo Kreizler : The same can be true of the mind. And so it is with us we have gone off-course.
