The Fall of the House of Usher (TV Mini Series)

The Black Cat (2023)

Bruce Greenwood: Roderick Usher

Quotes 

• Roderick Usher : The thing about denial is sometimes problems do just go away on their own, so it makes it feel like denial works. The placebo effect.

• Roderick Usher : We're at battle stations, I'm the commanding officer, I don't wanna hear anything but, "Sir, yes, sir." You get me?

  Frederick Usher : Sir, yes, sir?

• Roderick Usher : Enhance.

  Arthur Pym : That also isn't really a thing.

  Roderick Usher : You can't enhance this image? You see it all the time on TV. They hit a button, it enhances it.

  Arthur Pym : You can zoom in, but that doesn't enhance it.

  Madeline Usher : Well then, please zoom in, Arthur.

• Roderick Usher : I respect you, Auggie. I do respect you. I always have.

  C. Auguste Dupin : You've had a funny way of showing it over the years.

• C. Auguste Dupin : A lot of people are having a hard time recalling a lot of things. What do they do to you all over there? Everybody at Fortunato's concussed or something.

  Roderick Usher : I'm sorry.

  C. Auguste Dupin : You're a lower rung guy, I know that much. Me too. We both got a boss, don't we? And I get it, you say the wrong thing, or she says the wrong thing, it could knock you right off that rung. Out of the job even. I see that baby. I see those homemade toys. Someone knit those dolls, carved that train. You guys go hand to mouth. Just like me. You've got another child. Older boy by the look. Sleeping I'm guessing, and I don't count a lot of bedrooms, so I figure they sleep with you. Jar of honey up there on the counter's almost gone. Dried honey on the table and floors. That's a home remedy for the older one. And I see the elderberries, echinacea. You're throwing a lot at it. And he's sleeping now, because he was up all night. Coffee mugs by the sink says one of you was up all night with him. Trying to make him take the honey. That many mugs, I think both of you were up. Shifts, probably. You're good parents who can't afford the medicine, so, yeah, you're smart not to recall. Don't want to risk it. Can't afford to say the wrong thing. Hard to say the wrong thing. Even harder to do the right thing.