"The Fall of the House of Usher" The Masque of the Red Death (TV Episode 2023) - Carl Lumbly as C. Auguste Dupin

C. Auguste Dupin : Was it ever going to be enough? Over the years, I've talked to a lot of people who have taken your drugs. Soccer moms with headaches. Accountants with carpal tunnel. Kids with sports injuries. Their docs prescribe them Ligodone, pitch it like extra strength Tylenol. Fast forward a year, they're shooting up heroin behind dumpsters. Or they're dead.

Roderick Usher : Don't be naive. I'm not responsible if people abuse Ligodone. This is an old and boring argument. Do you know how much Ligodone my wife takes every day? She's fine

C. Auguste Dupin : Wasn't your wife a heroin addict before you met?

Roderick Usher : She is a success story from every angle, I agree.

C. Auguste Dupin : You knew the extended release formulation created abuse potential. You knew it was highly addictive. You marketed it non-addictive anyway because you wanted more than the hundreds of millions you were pulling before Ligodone hit the market. That wasn't enough for you, so that's my question. Was it ever going to be enough? How much money would make you say, "We did it"? Does that number even exist?

Roderick Usher : That's an idiot question. Course not.
C. Auguste Dupin : Come on, nobody holds anybody to account, you know that. The people in charge of making us healthy make us sick. We cheat the dying. We fleece the poor. Promote the racist. Let the demons run amok. This world needs changing.

Carl Lumbly: C. Auguste Dupin