The Fall (TV Series)

The Hell Within Him (2016)

Jamie Dornan: Paul Spector

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• 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?

• Kiera Sheridan : Have you thought any more about what death means to you?

  Paul Spector : What I think can only disappoint you.

  Kiera Sheridan : That doesn't matter.

  Paul Spector : I think that, just as I didn't exist before I was born, I simply won't exist after I die.

  Kiera Sheridan : I can't agree. Do you believe that you did the things they say you did?

  Paul Spector : Do you? If I did, then I wasn't arrested. I was rescued.

• Paul Spector : [in his journal]  "I don't believe in love. At least, I believe in love, but not in happiness. The only love that lasts is unhappy love."

• [last lines] 

  Bailey : [appearing at his cell door]  I'm Mark Bailey. Who are you?

  Paul Spector : I'm told I'm the Belfast Strangler.

  Bailey : Are you?

  Paul Spector : Maybe. Right now I don't remember.

  Bailey : Wasn't well. Better now.

  [walks away repeating] 

  Bailey : Wasn't well. Better now. Wasn't well. Better now.