Chance
Wednesdays on HuluChance Season 2 Episode 9: "A Madness of Two" Quotes
Frank: When something feels that good, does a person ever just do it once?
Chance: No. Especially if it's part of a shared psychosis.
Frank: I'm sorry. What'd you call me?
Chance: Folie a deux. Madness of two people. One individual is psychotic, is dominant. The other one is suggestible, susceptible. They're both operating under the same delusion. Winter's madness drove him, but you exploited it, you captialized on his trauma for your own purposes. He wanted to get out of it, but you made sure that he wouldn't. Couldn't. All the way to the end.
Frank: Why would I do that? Hmm? Why would I do any of that?
Chance: Because you wanted to. Because you like it. Because you're entire neural network is conditioned to that now. When you were entrenched with Winter, your reactions, sexual and psychological, were all responses to power and terror. Now he's gone. So you're alone with you desires, your responses. You're going to be staring down the barrel of the rest of your life without anyone to help you achieve them. What a thing it is, in life, to find even one person who understands your darkest heart, let alone two.
Frank: You're right. He is gone, but I'm not alone. I wouldn't do that to myself. Come on, Doc. You think I don't know how to plan for contingencies? You know, if there's one thing that I've learned from my job, it's how to prepare. It's how to play the long game, right? He is gone, but I'm not alone.
Christina: We don't know where [Nicole] is. And you just got out of jail?
Chance: Well, I think maybe I understand what she might be thinking right now.
Christina: Right, no, you understand. You keep telling her that the dangerous, furious way that she's acting is -- it's natural. It's chemical, it's not even her fault, because... she's exactly like you.
Chance: Besides the occasional lapse in judgement, I think you could really help people. You deserve that. I think you should go back to school, you should get your degree and get out there, and you can be for patients what you've always been for me.
Lucy: Yeah, okay, I will.
Chance: Good.
Lucy: And I want you to figure out how to be in the world in a way that doesn't hurt you. You deserve that.
D: My name is Darius Pringle.
Lorena: Apology accepted.
Chance: Honestly, I don't regret it. I don't regret what I've done or what I've asked you to do on my behalf. I'm guilty of it. I'm going to take responsibility for it. That's probably the best thing I can do for Nicole right now.
D: Pretty stupid, getting locked up and leaving her over a fuckin' moral abstraction.
Chance: Is it? An abstraction, I mean. Because it feels real to me. I felt guilty because I wasn't able to do more. So, I did more. And I reinforced the cycle of fallout that we're all trapped in because I wanted to have control. But I didn't have control because no one has control.
D: So, why you did it doesn't matter? All intents and purposes, you and Matty Willis are the same? And Wade Pardo and Lambert? Because you're not.
Chance: Everyone's got to take responsibility for what we're doing, for what we've done to each other. I can't ask of other people something that I won't ask of myself.
Lorena: This is crazy, you and me, whatever. I don't even know what this is. It feels like a story or something, it's not even real.
D: It's as real as it gets.
