# Prodigal Son (TV series)

Prodigal Son (2019-2021) is an American television series, that aired on FOX, about Malcolm Bright, one of the best criminal psychologists around, who uses his twisted genius to help the NYPD solve crimes.

## Season 1
### Pilot (1x01)

    Martin: See, they were stolen. I've been robbed. This is an outrage!
    Malcolm: Three women have died.
    Martin: Sure, yeah. That's an outrage too. There can be multiple outrages.

### Fear Response (1x03)

    Martin: You're stunning.
    Jessica: Burn in hell.

### All Souls & Sadists (1x06)

    Martin: I missed you.
    Ainsley: You don't even know me.
    Martin: Why don't we remedy that. Tell me something. Anything.
    Ainsley: I’m not here to talk about me. I came, to ask for an interview.
    Martin: An interview. Seems a little exploitative. Then again I've been exploiting others my whole life.
    Ainsley: As a serial killer.
    Martin: No, as a white man, we're terrible.
    Jessica: Thinking you are more clever than Martin Whitly, that's the worst mistake you can make. He'll exploit you. He'll find a way to come off sympathetic, and you will be left sitting there like ...
    Ainsley: Like what?
    Jessica: His accomplice.

### Q&A (1x07)

    Jessica: I'm shocked. Truly.
    Malcolm: Please enjoy your I told you so, but even you could not have foreseen this
    Jessica: This is what he does, Malcolm. He draws people in, gains their trust, makes them love him, and then when he has all the power? He ruins them.
    Malcolm: Yes, I know that story.
    Jessica: Yes, he ruined your childhood, but he did not ruin you. You are made of tougher stuff.

### Family Friend (1x08)

    Eve: I'm concerned about her. She was drunk in the middle of the day.
    Malcolm: Oh that's not unusual.
    Eve: And she was waving a gun around.
    Malcolm: Okay, that part is unusual

### Alone Time (1x11)

    Jessica: What happened? Are you okay?
    Malcolm: I'm alive.

### Internal Affairs (1x12)

    Simon: And why were you so eager to help with the investigation?
    Jessica: Lieutenant Arroyo is a friend, and I love when my friends are indebted to me.

### Wait & Hope (1x13)

    Dani: Your dad seems... nice.
    Malcolm: He's not.
    Malcolm: Wow. You look amazing.
    Dani: That is the first smart thing you said all day.

### Eye of the Needle (1x14)

    Malcolm: You're here to kill him.
    Martin: I'm sorry, what's that now?

### Scheherazade (1x18

    Gil: Am I imagining things or did you just speak ballet?
    Malcolm: If you must know my mother made me take ballet class. For five years. I showed great promise.
    Martin: To save your friend's life, you're going to cut a deal with me? A serial killer? I'm not exactly a good man.
    Sophie: You don't get it. I know worse.

### The Professionals (1x19)

    Jessica: What is wrong with me? What is it about me that I attract these horrible men?
    Gil: There is nothing wrong with you, and there are good men out there too.
    Jessica: I had a chance with a good man. I screwed it up.
    Gil: We both did.
    Jessica: Gil, we didn't miss our window. I slammed it shut.
    Gil: You were right to. I met Jackie. Had a whole life. We moved on, Jess, no regrets.
    Jessica: I have regrets. I do. I told you we were from different worlds.
    Gil: We are.
    Jessica: That's not why I ended things. I was scared. You were the one good thing in my son's life. I let you believe that you weren't good enough for me because it was easier than admitting that I would never be good enough for you.
    Gil: You're good enough, Jess. You have always been good enough.

### Like Father... (1x20)

    Dani: Sorry for doubting you.
    Malcolm: I doubt myself all the time.
    Dani: We're going to get you out of this, Bright.

## Season 2
### Bad Manners (2x05)

    Jessica: You are a cancer, Martin. And the closer they get to you, the more they become you.
    Martin: You know that's not how cancer works, right?
    Malcolm: Ainsley, you're being reckless.
    Ainsley: Oh my God, are we not going to talk about the crazy hypocrisy of you lecturing me about being reckless. Someone needs to catch this killer. It might as well be me.

### Ouroboros (2x08)

    Simon: I can't die in Brooklyn. Don't you carry a gun?!
    Malcolm: Don't you?!
    Simon: I'm British!

### The Last Weekend (2x13)
## Cast

* Tom Payne - Malcolm Bright
* Lou Diamond Phillips - Gil Arroyo
* Halston Sage - Ainsley Whitly
* Aurora Perrineau - Dani Powell
* Frank Harts - JT Tarmel
* Keiko Agena - Edrisa Tanaka
* Bellamy Young - Jessica Whitly
* Michael Sheen - Martin Whitly
* Michael Raymond-James - John Watkins
* Armando Acevedo - Hector
* Dermot Mulroney - Nicholas Endicott
* Christian Borle - Friar Pete (season 2)
* Catherine Zeta-Jones - Vivian Capshaw (season 2)

## External links

* Prodigal Son (TV series) quotes at the Internet Movie Database
* Official website
https://www.tvfanatic.com/quotes/shows/prodigal-son/