The Fall (TV Series)

Insolence & Wine (2013)

Gillian Anderson: DSU Stella Gibson

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• Stella Gibson : That's what really bothers you isn't it? The one-night stand? Man fucks woman. Subject man, verb fucks, object woman. That's okay. Woman fucks man. Woman subject, man object. That's not so comfortable for you is it?

• Stella Gibson : What if he kills a prostitute next? Or a woman walking home drunk? Late at night in a short skirt? Will they be in some way less innocent therefore less deserving? Culpable. The media loves to divide women into virgins or vamps, angels or whores. Let's not encourage them.

• Garrett Brink : I've been on to HQ. We have a list of operational names.

  Garrett Brink : Eden.

  Stella Gibson : A place where the woman gets the blame.

  Garrett Brink : Top Hat.

  Stella Gibson : Too posh.

  Garrett Brink : Alamo.

  Stella Gibson : Too Texan.

  Garrett Brink : Musicman.

  Stella Gibson : Too male.

  Garrett Brink : Genesis.

  Stella Gibson : My least favorite band. Well, aside from U2.

  Jerry McElroy : Hey, steady on.

  Garrett Brink : Ashdown?

  Stella Gibson : Too foresty.

  Garrett Brink : What?

  Stella Gibson : Reminds me of shallow graves. Seriously, gentlemen...

• Stella Gibson : [morning briefing]  Think of it as an addiction. There's a law of diminishing returns. The serialist, like the heroin addict, is always seeking that elusive first high, and he's doomed to fail. That's why the cooling off periods get shorter, and the crimes become more elaborate. And he will carry on feeding that killing habit. unless we stop him.

• Stella Gibson : [Speaking to her investigative team]  He clearly has a victim type. They are not victims of chance. They are victims of choice. They don't know him but he knows them.

• Stella Gibson : [morning briefing]  There is only one of him. You'd think that gives us the advantage. But it doesn't. He moves around on his own, in darkness. And we operate under the glare of media lights. Now let's make sure that we don't let anything slip through the cracks. The Devil, quite literally, ladies and gentlemen. is in the detail. Detail, detail, and detail again.

• [first lines] 

  Jim Burns : So who are you thinking of for deputy SIOs?

  Stella Gibson : I'm not exactly spoiled for choice.

  Jim Burns : Just answer.

  Stella Gibson : Brink. And McElroy.

  Jim Burns : McElroy? Good. That's good.

  Jim Burns : [mobile rings]  Burns. We'll be right there.

  Jim Burns : [to Gibson]  There's been a fatal shooting. A police officer. We should get you issued with a firearm. Book yourself in at the range.

  Stella Gibson : I don't have time.

  Jim Burns : This is Belfast. Make time.

• [last lines] 

  Stella Gibson : It's all part of the fantasy. The fantasy that sustains him between killings. It's about power, and control. And the thrill. It thrills him to stalk these women. To break into their houses, to take their underwear. It's about intimacy. What could be more intimate than. squeezing the life from another human being? Having their dead body at your disposal.

  Stella Gibson : We've all seen more degrading crime scenes. Bodies with objects left inside them. This is different. It's like an art form to him. I'm certain he takes photographs. After they're dead. They're playthings to him. He treats them like objects. He paints their nails. He uses them like dolls. He's creating his own pornography.