Episode

Episode 1

by Sarah Treem, Audrey, Sarah Ramos, Alison Newman, Moira Buffini and 39 others

In 1977, frustrated FBI hostage negotiator Holden Ford finds an unlikely ally in veteran agent Bill Tench and begins studying a new class of murderer.

(7 total)

Characters

Holt McCallany (6)Joe Penhall (6)Bill Tench (6)Sarah Treem (1)Audrey (1)Sarah Ramos (1)

“[last lines] Bill Tench: [squabbling about their differing methods] Let me ask you something else. Do you have a girlfriend? Holden Ford: I do now, Bill, as it happens. Bill Tench: OK. So next time you're a long way from home and you flip your shit, you find a pay phone and you tell it to your girlf…”

— Joe Penhall, Bill Tench, Holt McCallany, imdb.com

Tagged: instructors, methodists

“Iowa Reporter #1: The woman and her little boy. Bill Tench: We're instructors. Iowa Reporter #2: Are you from the Methodist church? Bill Tench: Do we look like we're from the Methodist church? Iowa Reporter #1: Yes? Bill Tench: Make a hole. Good to see ya...”

— Joe Penhall, Bill Tench, Holt McCallany, imdb.com

Tagged: instructors, methodists

“Bill Tench: Smoke? Holden Ford: Oh, uh I don't smoke when I eat. Bill Tench: Want to go outside? Holden Ford: I don't smoke when I don't eat, either.”

— Joe Penhall, Bill Tench, Holt McCallany, imdb.com

Tagged: smoking, eating

“[to reporters asking about local murder] We're here for something else.”

— Joe Penhall, Bill Tench, Holt McCallany, imdb.com

Tagged: Reporters, Murder

“Holden Ford: You get onto a crowded elevator, and you face the opposite direction, the back of the elevator, and everybody freaks out. They're uncomfortable for reasons they can't even articulate. But if you turn around and face the front, everybody relaxes. Bill Tench: OK. Well, how do we do that?…”

— Joe Penhall, Bill Tench, Holt McCallany, imdb.com

Tagged: crowded elevator, relax

“The question is not only why did the killer do it, but why did the killer do it this way?”

— Joe Penhall, Bill Tench, Holt McCallany, imdb.com

Tagged: Murder, murder methods

“What you don't seem to understand about women in general is that we feel unsafe all the time. At class, at parties, job interviews, getting into an elevator, parking our cars, walking down the street at night... I don't need you to push me out of my comfort zone when I've never been inside one.”

— Sarah Treem, Audrey, Sarah Ramos, imdb.com

Tagged: Sexual Assault, How It Feels To Be A Woman, Safety, Comfort Zone