- Perry Usher: Who are you?
- Verna: I thought you'd never catch up.
- Perry Usher: Well, you don't make it easy.
- Verna: Hmm. Nothing worth having is ever easy.
- Perry Usher: You didn't answer my question. Who are you? I know everybody here. I chose this guest list very carefully and I have no idea who you are.
- Verna: You can take off your mask, Prospero.
- Perry Usher: You know my name.
- Verna: I know everyone here. It's my kind of party. It's yours too, isn't it?
- Perry Usher: You like it?
- Verna: I do. Mmm. The music. The lights. The beautiful flesh. So pretty and soft. But the smells of it. All that sweat, the perfumes, the lotions, the musk. Sex, yes. But with a dash of Rome. Tell me, and don't lie. Is it everything you wanted it to be?
- Perry Usher: Not yet. Almost.
- Verna: Nearly realized is the sweetest. It's better, I promise, in the moment just before than in the moment after. That is the truth of this world. But you did it. And it's everything you imagined. And there's still time.
- Perry Usher: To what?
- Verna: To stop it. Things like this, all things, in fact, have consequences.
- Perry Usher: Not this. I mean... .that's the whole point. You didn't read the invite?
- Verna: There are always consequences. Take you, for instance. Someone, a long time ago, made a little decision, and then another, and then a big one, and then one of absolutely no importance. And then by and by, you were born. On that day, you were the consequence of a harmless choice made by someone in a moment where you didn't even exist. And that choice defined your whole life. You are consequence, Perry. And tonight, you are consequential.
- Perry Usher: Oh, you are one crazy, trippy, hot bitch. Aren't you?
- Verna: We could have had fun, you and me.
- Perry Usher: Well, the night's young. We can have all the fun you want.
- Verna: I've always liked the bad boys. Got a weakness, I suppose. And you bad boys... you always just loved me.
- [chuckles]
- Verna: You are a pretty, pretty little thing.
- 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.
- Young Madeline: Roddy. fuck that tiny little man in his big office with his tiny little ideas. We are going to change the goddamn world,
- Perry Usher: It's harder for me. You know that. But the rest don't. It's hard enough for the bastards, But it's harder for me for some reason. Like I'm extra bastard. Like I'm the fucking bastard's bastard.
- 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.
- Perry Usher: Come on, man, I don't ask for much.
- Leo Usher: You want a little Molly, a little coke, a little pick me up, or a check me out, yeah I'm your guy. But, I'm not a fucking cartel, I can't supply your whole fucking rave.
- Perry Usher: But you know people who can move that kind of weight, don't you?
- Leo Usher: Move that kind of weight? What? Have you been watching fucking Narcos or something? Cause you should if you haven't. It's brilliant.
- Perry Usher: Okay, what about Viagra?
- Leo Usher: Mmm. Yeah, I've got a stash out back.
- Perry Usher: You do?
- Leo Usher: No, I don't. Because I'm a stallion in my fucking prime. And why the fuck do you need Viagra? You're in your twenties. You're... you're basically 80% cum, I can fucking smell it on you.