The Magicians (TV Series)

The Rattening (2017)

Mackenzie Astin: Richard

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• Quentin Coldwater : Oh, my God, Julia! I - I got a strike.

  Richard : [Whispers to Julia]  The thing about the Underworld is, the first week, it's always a strike.

  Julia Wicker : Let him have this one.

  [Cheers] 

  Julia Wicker : Whoo! Go, Q!

• Richard : Gods. We were right about them being real. Hades created the Underworld, runs it with his wife, Persephone. They live in a big house way over here. It's a beautiful area called Elysium.

  Menolly : Apparently, they used to come and go like clockwork every fall and spring, but a while back, they just disappeared.

• Richard : The underworld is massive. There's every ecosystem. Nearest we can tell, about 2,000 islands built to look like Hawaii.

  Quentin Coldwater : And you went with a bowling alley?

• Senator John Gaines : So they're taking your orders now?

  Reynard : Have been for a while. I controlled their minds. Just like you have many, many times.

  Senator John Gaines : I don't know what you're talking about.

  Reynard : You know you have that power. You've been using it your whole life.

  Senator John Gaines : I always thought I had some kind of god-level good luck.

  Reynard : True, you've only used it instinctively, but I'm here now. I can teach you how to use it at will. Easy. And once you've mastered it, that's how you get Cowden's vote.

  Senator John Gaines : I don't know that I want to do that. It feels like cheating.

  Reynard : They all don't cheat? Everyone uses whatever they've got, John, and the bad ones don't hesitate. So someone like you, someone who wants to do some actual good in the world, how can you not?

• Senator John Gaines : So it's all true. Those poor women.

  Reynard : [Scoffs]  Those women were hardly victims.

  Senator John Gaines : They said they were just trying to summon a little help from some kind of goddess-...

  Reynard : [Yells]  They were summoning an evil bitch!

  [Continues bitterly] 

  Reynard : You looked me up, says trickster. See, that's honest. Yes, I fuck with the weak. You know what that does? Improves the herd. I help the same little creatures you want to help. It's not surprising, you're my son, how else could it be but her? The benevolent "Our Lady Underground". It is all about her. Power, attention, grinding men and gods into the fucking dirt and then she leaves!