The Magicians (TV Series)

The Strangled Heart (2016)

Mackenzie Astin: Richard

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• Richard : The reason you treat magic like a drug, is because the people that taught it to you act like drug dealers. They buy it and they sell it, and they fight and they fuck for it. Well, that's not the only way to live.

  Julia Wicker : That's the only way I've ever seen.

  Richard : I'm a very good Magician and I do this. There are good people out there, Julia. People trying to learn about the world and make it a better place. Now, you can be one of those people, you can be a dealer, you can stay here and be nothing. You get to choose.

• Richard : Look, you think magic is some terrible vice, so bad that you need rehab to get clean, it's not. Magic isn't heroin, Julia. It's a gift.

  Julia Wicker : Oh, god, please. Don't say from God.

  Richard : I'm not the guy outside of YMCA yelling at people to repent.

  Julia Wicker : Then what are you, Richard?

  Richard : Okay, what we call magic is, a set of tools. Leftover from Creation.

  [Julia scoffs] 

  Richard : Think about it. The power to bend reality, to make and unmake.

  Julia Wicker : Won't God be pissed we touched His tools without asking?

  Richard : God - gods, really, they don't do things by accident. The tools were left for us to find.

• Julia Wicker : What was that? That you gave me?

  Richard : Did it work?

  Julia Wicker : It didn't feel like I was doing a casting, it felt like a casting was being done on me.

  Richard : It's because it's not a spell, it was a prayer.

  Julia Wicker : To what?

  Richard : Local harvest deity. Friendly, but a little one-trick. You're lucky she answered. She's pretty shy.

  Julia Wicker : It's like touching a bare wire. More energy than I've felt.

  Richard : It felt good.

  Julia Wicker : It felt dangerous.