The Fall (TV Series)

The Hell Within Him (2016)

Gillian Anderson: DSU Stella Gibson

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• [first lines] 

  Father : Rise and shine. Time to get up. Stella, for star.

  Stella Gibson : Five more minutes, Daddy, please.

• Stella Gibson : [interview being replayed]  Tell me about the first time. What was it like?

  Paul Spector : It made me sick. The smell disgusted me. The first was the worst and hardest to get over, but a switch had been flicked, a line crossed. Something was done that couldn't be undone. Something that separates you from the common herd. I was ill for four days after. You're in a state of existential shock, but then you find yourself unchallenged by divine and secular power. Okay. So why not do it again but better?

• Stella Gibson : [about Spector]  He's in hospital, he's incapacitated, and yet he's still infecting the lives of every person he comes into contact with. Everyone who fucking crosses his path. He's a contagion.

• Stella Gibson : I've sometimes wondered if he breathed air into his dying victims to prolong their lives so that they could see clearly that he was going to kill them.

  Dr. Larson : When young children are abused, they experience fear and anxiety. They then attempt to contain those feelings by acting out sadistically. If a person is able to do to others what he fears may be done to him, he may no longer be afraid.

  Stella Gibson : You assume he was abused?

  Dr. Larson : He was in Gortnacull, I think?

  Stella Gibson : Doctor, I understand that for you he's a patient, an abused child, someone who deserves understanding and compassion, even. But to me, he's a... He's a sexual predator, and it's my job to protect the potential victims from the threat that he poses.

  Dr. Larson : Viewed from a psycho-dynamic perspective, even the most apparently insane violence has meaning in the mind of the person who commits it. I have to try to understand that meaning and learn from it in the attempt to prevent further violence.

  Stella Gibson : Yeah. Just don't underestimate the threat the danger that Paul Spector represents.

• Dr. Larson : Psychiatry needs feedback from patients. It's realized in interpersonal contacts, so trust is essential. It is not my place to judge him for what he may or may not have done, but I will try to get to the truth of the matter for the courts and for you.

  Stella Gibson : He *is* going to prison.