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

A Midnight Dreary (2023)

Carl Lumbly: C. Auguste Dupin

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• Roderick Usher : Cognac?

  C. Auguste Dupin : No, thank you. Listen, I'm sorry... for your loss. Your... your losses, rather...

  Roderick Usher : Henri IV Dudognon Heritage Cognac Grande Champagne. Most expensive in the world. This bottle was four million Euros at auction. Produced since 1776. Aged in barrels for more than a hundred years. And the bottle itself dipped in 18 karat yellow gold, inlaid with 4,100 high-quality diamonds. You know, a single pour... it probably cost twice your annual salary. Have a glass. See what a few years of your worth tastes like.

• C. Auguste Dupin : This is Assistant U.S. Attorney C. A. Dupin, sitting with Roderick Usher. November 20, 2023. Mr. Usher has waived his right to have an attorney present.

  Roderick Usher : And Mr. Dupin has waived a glass of Henri IV, so which of us is crazier?

  C. Auguste Dupin : Just warming it up.

  Roderick Usher : This is indeed Roderick Usher. We're in my childhood home. Yeah, this is where I grew up. Kept it all these years. The whole neighborhood... actually. So I could watch the paint peel. The weeds grow. And smell the rot if I needed a pick-me-up.

  C. Auguste Dupin : And what exactly are you confessing to? You mentioned Title 18, Section 371. That's defrauding the U.S. government...

  Roderick Usher : All of it.

  C. Auguste Dupin : All of it?

  Roderick Usher : The whole thing. You brought, what, 73 charges? All of them, everything, all yours, right now. And I'll throw in a... a bonus. I'll tell you how my children died.

  C. Auguste Dupin : I know how they died, Roderick. Everybody knows.

  Roderick Usher : Believe me, Mr. Dupin, when I tell you, you don't know a thing.

• C. Auguste Dupin : The House of Usher has weathered every storm, sling and arrow and stands higher, stronger and darker today than ever before.

• C. Auguste Dupin : You know, I read somewhere about high-powered negotiation tactics. How some truly brilliant business people will plant these moments into high-stakes conversations. Force a reaction, no matter how trivial. Talk softly to make an adversary lean in. Make them repeat themselves. Throw your eyeline behind them. Make them... turn around. Just something to assert a little control. I'm not going to turn around, Roderick.