The Fall (TV Series)

Their Solitary Way (2016)

Aidan McArdle: Healy

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Paul Spector : I'd worked that day, in a Caribbean restaurant. It was a warm day. There was thundery rain. David and I went out after work, went out drinking. We went to a local club, I can't recall the name. We met Susan Harper there. She invited us to her house. I think she shared a house, but there was no one there. We went up to her room.

  Healy : The three of you?

  Paul Spector : Yes.

  Healy : What happened?

  Paul Spector : She and David had sex.

  Healy : And you?

  Paul Spector : I watched.

  Wallace : What sort of sex?

  Paul Spector : Ordinary sex.

  Wallace : What happened then?

  Paul Spector : David left. He went out to find more drink. He left us together.

  Healy : Go on.

  Paul Spector : We, um... I invited her to try something a bit different.

  Wallace : What?

  Paul Spector : A sex game. What happened was an accident.

  Healy : A consensual game?

  Paul Spector : Yes.

  Healy : Then how did this David Alvarez individual come to be found guilty if he wasn't even there? And why murder, why not manslaughter?

  Paul Spector : It's complicated.

• Paul Spector : You know, I've been told a lot about Paul Spector, since I was shot. At first I was horrified, but then, I must admit little by little, he's started to intrigue me.

  Healy : Paul, please stick to the facts surrounding the death of Susan Harper and avoid speculating about things you can't remember.

  Paul Spector : The speculation intrigues me. I'm told that I laid out Sarah Kay's underwear on her bed, in the shape of her body. That's what I used to do as a child. Lay out my mother's clothes on her bed, in her shape, imagine she was there. It aroused me. When I was a wee bit older - 12, 13 - whenever I could, I would obtain female underwear. I'd use it to masturbate. Is that perverse? Was that the start of something that led me here? Or was it earlier? Gortnacul? Or earlier still, my mother's death? I want to know. I want to know the real me.

  DSI Gibson : Then stop hiding behind the mask of amnesia.

  Paul Spector : We're all wearing masks to some extent. You certainly are. There are memories, thoughts that feel like memories that are starting to come back to me.