Mindhunter (TV Series)

Episode #1.3 (2017)

Anna Torv: Wendy Carr

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Holden Ford : So what are you teaching?

  Wendy Carr : Um, I'm teaching a class on the intersection of sociopathy and fame. People like, um, Andy Warhol, Jim Morrison. Their celebrity becomes the only thing they need to sustain their ego.

  Bill Tench : Nixon was a sociopath.

  Wendy Carr : Very similar.

  Holden Ford : How do you get to be president of the United States if you're a sociopath?

  Wendy Carr : The question is, how do you get to be president of the United States if you're *not*? That's why this work is so vital. It goes so much further than the FBI.

  Bill Tench : All the way to the White House.

  Wendy Carr : Perhaps, yeah.

• Wendy Carr : Imagine, like truly imagine what it takes to bludgeon someone to death. The lust for control, the feeling of arousal, the decision to rape the severed head of your victim, to humiliate her corpse. How could you possibly get that from an ordinary police report? You know why it took me nearly a decade to publish my book? Because narcissists don't go to the doctor. Psychopaths are convinced that there is nothing wrong with them. So these men are virtually impossible to study. Yet you have found a way to study them in near perfect laboratory conditions.

• Bill Tench : So you're saying you don't think this, us interviewing these killers, is crazy?

  Wendy Carr : Just the opposite. I mean, crazy in the way that anyone with a truly new idea is crazy. But no.

  Bill Tench : Wow, okay. That's a relief.

  Holden Ford : That hasn't really been the feedback we've gotten so far. Actually, this is the *only* feedback we've gotten so far.