The Good Place (TV Series)
The Answer (2019)
William Jackson Harper: Chidi Anagonye
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Quotes
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Chidi Anagonye : Can I ask you a question? Soulmates aren't... real, are they?
Michael : Chidi, in all honesty, I don't know. But I don't think so. I knew what you expected to find when you got here: answers. Also, if I recall from your file, a magic blackboard?
Chidi Anagonye : One that anticipates your lesson flow. That's the dream.
Michael : But mostly you wanted answers, the soulmate one in particular. So I used it to torture you... which, again, sorry.
[beat]
Michael : If soulmates do exist, they're not found, they're made. People meet, they get a good feeling, and then they get to work building a relationship. Like your parents. They didn't magically stay together because you proved they should.
Chidi Anagonye : [shakes his head] It wasn't my logic or my presentation, it was... the feeling they got watching me, this scared little kid telling them that he needed them.
Michael : And it was also what you made them remember: they loved each other. Sometimes people forget. You reminded them of what they already had. It convinced them to go to counseling.
Chidi Anagonye : [slight laugh] I never knew they went to counseling.
Michael : Yeah, kids are idiots. If they knew half the stuff their folks were up to, they'd lose their minds.
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Chidi Anagonye : Turns out life isn't just a puzzle to be solved one time and it's done. You wake up every day and you solve it again.
Michael : [wryly] Terribly inefficient.
Chidi Anagonye : What a time to learn.
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[last lines]
Chidi Anagonye : Hey, uh, Janet? Can I have my note, please?
Janet : If you know that you wrote a note, then you remember what it says.
Chidi Anagonye : I do, uh, but I'd still like to see it again, please. I think it might be some of the best writing I've ever done.
[Janet returns Chidi's note; Chidi unfolds it, reads it silently, and smiles]
Chidi's Note : There is no "answer". But Eleanor is the answer.
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Esmeralda : [playing charades] Blood. Seas of blood. Enemies. 1000 years of darkness.
Chidi Anagonye : Uh... nightmares.
Esmeralda : Blood. Ennui. Lamenting the unanswerable passage of time! Fire and blood!
[buzzer sounds]
Esmeralda : Ugh, you fool! It was "birthday parties".
Chidi Anagonye : [frowns] Birthday parties?
Esmeralda : These trivialities demean me. I must away and tend to my ravens.
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Michael : [getting ready to erase Chidi's memories] You sure you want to do this?
Chidi Anagonye : I finally make up my mind about one damn thing and you try to talk me out of it?
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Chidi Anagonye : So, what do you think?
Professor Thomas Radja : I think it's 3,600 pages. I have a job, Chidi. I have a family. Until I had to read this, I had a will to live. This work is an insane, entangled web of inscrutability!
Chidi Anagonye : In the fun, grad students will analyze this for centuries way?
Professor Thomas Radja : No, in the Unabomber way.
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Chidi Anagonye : I understand. I do. So I'm going to go home and compose a short paper for you... arguing that I should continue working on this longer paper.
Professor Radja : [the professor pushes Chidi out of his office] Shut up!
