The Fall of the House of Usher (TV Mini Series)

Goldbug (2023)

Mary McDonnell: Madeline Usher

Quotes 

• Madeline Usher : Look at the address.

  Roderick Usher : Doesn't make any sense.

  Madeline Usher : We're past that now. Look. You can't deny your own eyes.

  Roderick Usher : I watched Vic commit suicide with my own eyes. Was there anything in her system? Any drugs whatsoever? There was no one else in the apartment.

  Madeline Usher : Look at the fucking file. She was there at every turn.

  Roderick Usher : What do you expect me to do? Huh? I mean, Arthur? What do we have on this woman? Some pictures, a bogus address, but what did she do to them?

  Arthur Pym : I don't know. Yet. But you need to bear with me. I tracked down that bar you mentioned, Madeline. Only the location isn't a bar. It was never a bar. And it's been vacant since 1975.

  Madeline Usher : I must have the address wrong. It's been 40 years.

  Arthur Pym : Now, you two said you walked to this bar from Fortunato that night?

  Madeline Usher : We did.

  Arthur Pym : Seems unlikely you'd walk more than five miles.

  Madeline Usher : Five minutes, more like.

  Arthur Pym : I've looked at every bar in a five-mile radius of Fortunato going back to 1975. I accounted for every female bartender at every bar that fit that criteria, and nothing. I've also been running her images through a facial recognition sweep. No hits on law enforcement.

  Roderick Usher : See? This is going nowhere.

  Arthur Pym : But I tapped into Madeline's technology department, brought in their research algorithm, combed the Internet, massive image search, and, in conjunction with our facial recognition...

  Madeline Usher : Oh, wait, that's...

  Arthur Pym : David Koch. Seven years ago.

  Roderick Usher : Wait, she... She works for the Toxic Twins? I always got along with those fuck-nuts. And Zuckie too? That's Gina.

  Arthur Pym : Gina Rinehart. Mining magnate.

  Roderick Usher : Climate Denial Dundee. You remember when she tried to make a case for $2-a-day pay, no? She's a trip. She's a great singer, too.

  Arthur Pym : These were taken in 2011.

  Roderick Usher : So she's a stalker. She stalks important people. Oh wait. This is from the '80s.

  Arthur Pym : Gettys. That's Prescott Bush, 1944. Randolph Hearst. Rockefellers. Doherty. Vanderbilts. And this one. That's John Francis Queeny. He founded Monsanto. In 1901.

  Roderick Usher : Bullshit. This is bullshit.

  Madeline Usher : Roderick.

  Roderick Usher : It's Photoshop. She sprinkled bogus images of herself online. She knows we're looking. It's a prank.

  Madeline Usher : Roderick, stop it.

  Roderick Usher : Oh she's... Stop. It's a goose chase. She's spinning your wheels. I could make a hundred photos just like that. Give me three minutes, I'll give you a photo of Pym blowing Elon Musk.

  Madeline Usher : Don't be such a fucking child. This is the same woman, Roderick. Remember what happened that night. Remember what she said.

  Roderick Usher : You're the COO of a Fortune 100 corporation and you're talking like a crazy person.

  Madeline Usher : You remember that conversation, I know you do.

  Roderick Usher : We were out of our minds that night, Madeline.

  Madeline Usher : Maybe. Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled as to whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

  Arthur Pym : If I may. The metadata confirms these images have been online for years. So for someone to fake these photographs, we're looking at deep state, black-ops level cyber manipulation. I've never seen anything like this. CIA, NSA. No, it seems impossible, so obviously they want us to think it is. They want us to have this exact conversation. The question is, why?

  Madeline Usher : Or it is exactly what it looks like.