Mindhunter (TV Series)

Episode #1.1 (2017)

Jonathan Groff: Holden Ford

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Quotes 

• Bill Tench : Smoke?

  Holden Ford : Oh, uh I don't smoke when I eat.

  Bill Tench : Want to go outside?

  Holden Ford : I don't smoke when I don't eat either.

• Debbie : You look like a Mormon. You look like my dad.

  Holden Ford : Is he a Mormon?

  Debbie : No, but he looks like one.

  Holden Ford : So does mine. He bought me this suit, as a matter of fact.

  Debbie : Did he buy you those nice shiny shoes?

  Holden Ford : Yes. I have one brown pair and one black pair. I've got sneakers, but I had to buy those myself.

  Debbie : What kind of grown-up lets their parents choose their clothes for them?

  Holden Ford : Are you coming on to me?

  Debbie : How do you like my approach?

• Cody Miller : [shouting across the parking lot with his pants down]  Can you see me?

  Holden Ford : Oh God. Yes, I can see you.

  Cody Miller : What do you see?

  Holden Ford : I can see that you're naked.

  [pause] 

  Holden Ford : I can see that you're *cold*.

• Holden Ford : Somebody demands the impossible, you can't just shoot him.

  Trainee Mike : Then why have so much firearms training?

  Holden Ford : Well, because that is a tactical response for when all else fails.

  Trainee Mike : But if local law enforcement can't shut something down, then it has required a tactical response.

  Holden Ford : Okay, but wouldn't you like to try something different? Or would you rather use firearms all the time?

  Trainee Mike : I'd kind of rather use firearms.

  Holden Ford : Why?

  Trainee Mike : Seems safer?

• Holden Ford : I've been warned to watch out for women like you.

  Debbie : [handing him a pipe]  You mean normal ones?

• Holden Ford : You get onto a crowded elevator, and you face the opposite direction, the back of the elevator, and everybody freaks out. They're uncomfortable for reasons they can't even articulate. But if you turn around and face the front, everybody relaxes.

  Bill Tench : Okay. Well, how do we do that?

  Holden Ford : What do we have in common? What unites us? What keeps us all awake at night?

• [last lines] 

  Bill Tench : [squabbling about their differing methods]  Let me ask you something else. Do you have a girlfriend?

  Holden Ford : I do now, Bill, as it happens.

  Bill Tench : Okay. So next time you're a long way from home and you flip your shit, you find a pay phone and you tell it to your girlfriend. Okay?

  Holden Ford : Okay.

  Bill Tench : How's that sound?

  Holden Ford : It sounds okay, Bill.

• Debbie : Durkheim says all forms of deviancy are simply a challenge to the normalised repressiveness of the State.

  Holden Ford : So he's an anarchist.

  Debbie : No. He was the first person to suggest that if there's something wrong with our society, then criminality is a response to that.

  Holden Ford : Well, maybe one of the things wrong with our society, is all the criminality.