The Fall (TV Series)

What Is in Me Dark Illumine (2014)

Gillian Anderson: DSU Stella Gibson

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• Stella Gibson : A woman, I forget who, once asked a male friend why men felt threatened by women. He replied that they were afraid that women might laugh at them. When she asked a group of women why women felt threatened by men. they said, We're afraid they might kill us.

  Stella Gibson : He might fascinate you. I despise him with every fiber of my being.

• Stella Gibson : Were your fantasies always sexual in nature?

  Paul Spector : Aren't everyone's?

• Paul Spector : Once a man has achieved contempt for himself, he achieves contempt for all man-made laws and moralities and is truly free to do as he wills.

  Stella Gibson : You're under arrest, you're going to prison. In what sense are you free?

  Paul Spector : I live at a level of intensity unknown to you and others of your type. You will never know the almost God-like power that I feel when that last bit of breath leaves a body. That feeling of complete possession.

  Stella Gibson : Yes, you felt empowered. Invincible even. But you're under arrest. Maybe you did possess your victims, but you couldn't keep them, and now they're gone and you're alone.

• Jim Burns : He's not a human being, he's a monster.

  Stella Gibson : Stop, Jim. Please, just stop.

  Jim Burns : What?

  Stella Gibson : You can see the world in that way if you want, you know it makes no sense to me. Men like Spector are all too human, too understandable. He's not a monster, he's just a man.

  Jim Burns : I'm a man. I hope to God I'm nothing like him.

  Stella Gibson : No, you're not. But you still came to my hotel room uninvited and mounted some kind of drunken attack on me.

• Paul Spector : You're a very self-aware person, Stella. You spend a lot of time observing yourself. You have sex in the head. I doubt you've ever fully given yourself to anyone. I doubt you ever truly lose yourself.

  Stella Gibson : And you have?

  Paul Spector : The thoughts, the feelings that I experience are way beyond anything that you could call fantasies. Sounds and colours are more vivid, odours more intense. My skin becomes sensitive to even the slightest of pressure. The outside world means nothing, only the interior world is real. It is utterly compelling, compulsive. Nothing can pull you back from the edge. Not laws or threats of punishment, morality, religion, fear of death. All of those things are as meaningless as the life that you're about to extinguish.

• Paul Spector : [in visitors room]  Watching you grow up has been the best thing that ever happened to me. I'm sorry for all the times that you needed a cuddle and I wasn't there. I'm sorry that the projects in my life took up so much time. I should have cherished every moment with you. I've heard you say that you want to be a doctor, and a pizza maker, and a pilot, and a princess when you grow up. I just hope that one day, despite everything, that you can be happy.

  Olivia Spector : When are you coming home?

  Paul Spector : Not for a while. I've got work to do here.

  Olivia Spector : Do you work for her?

  [Gibson] 

  Paul Spector : Sort of.

  Stella Gibson : And we have work to do. It's time for Olivia to go.

  Paul Spector : [hugging]  I love you, little one.

  Paul Spector : I love you best in the whole wide world, Daddy.

• Stella Gibson : She's chilled, Ged, but she's not stone-cold.

  [Rose coughs] 

  Stella Gibson : Jesus Christ, she's alive!

  Stella Gibson : [into the radio]  She's alive.

  Paul Spector : Unexpected.

• [last lines] 

  Stella Gibson : We need an ambulance! Shit! Don't move, stay still. I need something to tamp the blood!

  [helicopter whirrs overhead] 

  Stella Gibson : We need help! Can nothing land?

  Ged Green : We've got three men down here. We need urgent medical backup!

  Helicopter Pilot : I can't land. The trees are too dense. Repeat. I cannot land. Jesus Christ. The trees are too dense.

  Ged Green : Get a medic up here now! Go, go, go, go, go!

  Stella Gibson : [pressing Spector's wound]  Oh Oh, we're losing him! We're losing him!

• Jim Burns : I've been face to face with pure evil, Stella. Jensen. Spector is from the same cloth. He is not a human being, he is a monster.

  Stella Gibson : Stop, Jim, please. Just stop.

  Jim Burns : What?

  Stella Gibson : You can see the world in that way, if you want. You know, it makes no sense to me. Men like Spector are all too human, too understandable. He is not a monster, he is just a man.

  Jim Burns : I'm a man. I hope to god, I am nothing like him.

  Stella Gibson : No, you're not. But you still came to my hotel room uninvited and mounted some kind of drunken attack on me.

  Jim Burns : It wasn't an attack. That's unfair. I was... I just wanted...

  Stella Gibson : What did you want?

  Jim Burns : I don't know.

  Stella Gibson : To fuck me? Nail me? Bang me? Screw me?

  Jim Burns : I wouldn't use those words upon you.

  Stella Gibson : I was saying no, Jim, quite clearly. You ignored me and carried on.

  Jim Burns : It's not the same.

  Stella Gibson : No, it's not the same. But you still crossed the line.