Rabbit Hole
Sundays on Paramount+Rabbit Hole Season 1 Episode 3: "The Algorithms of Control" Quotes
John: My mom, your wife, she ran out of places to go. She died because of you.
Ben: She knew, John.
I always thought she drank because he died. Maybe she drank because she knew he didn't.
John
He keeps going on about this guy named Crowley and some new world order that's set up to hijack governments and take over the world. I mean, real Manchurian Candidate shit. He thinks he's some kind of super spy. It's insane.
John
Ben: He's got so much money. It's not about that anymore. He wants power. He wants power. He wants a regime of his own, and he wants it right here.
Miles: Oh, come on. How do you know that?
Ben: Because I wrote the book. Chapter one. Undermine people's faith in the media so we can dig out the bloody nature of the truth. Chapter two. Polarize factions in society. When people stop seeing the other side as human, then human rights cease to be an obstacle. Chapter three. Marginalize the intelligencia. People stop listening to experts, and they become malleable, hm? That sound familiar? Chapter four. Now you're gonna need chapter four. Elect candidate under the guise of restoring order. Someone smart, someone charismatic, but someone who can be controlled.
John: What's chapter five?
Ben: Oh, there's no chapter five. Now, the country's yours.
Ben: I don't know how you can be so goddamned stupid.
John: I don't know why you can't just let it go. I like the taste of turkey bacon. It's not some big political thing. I just like it.
Ben: Oh, come on, John. It's disgusting. Turkey bacon. It tastes like salted asshole.
