A Cure for Wellness

Lockhart: [on the phone] No, we can not touch the munis, we use them as collateral for a leveraged equity position in Cisco. Never mind, take everything out of First National, move it over to Banyon. Josh: Wait, you mean Delaware, I thought that was dead. Lockhart: That's resurrected, we need to clean up the Reynolds account in case those fucks at AML decide to do their job. Josh: Are you sure about that? Lockhart: Nothing on email. Move everything back on Monday... You paying attention? Josh: Yeah, yeah, I am. Conductor: Tickets?

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Pembroke: Is that why this came all this way? Ambition? Then you have it worse than any of us. Lockhart: What's that? Pembroke: The sickness. Your father saw the truth long before the rest of us. The pointlessness of the entire endeavor. We've all done terrible things. So many terrible things... [submerging into the pool water]

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Volmer: You're quite right... the water is toxic unless it's purified properly, that Baron's only problem was using unwilling subjects... we've come along way in the past two hundred years, now we have plenty of willing volunteers seeking to cure themselves of the ills of the world. Pembroke: [brainwashed] I've never felt better in my life. Volmer: [to Lockhart] You see... Why would anybody want to leave?

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Pembroke: To my fellow-members of the Board. A man cannot unsee the truth. He cannot willingly return to darkness, or go blind once he has the gift of sight, any more than he can be unborn. We are the only species capable of self-reflection. The only species with the toxin of self-doubt written into our genetic code. Unequal to our gifts, we build, we buy, we consume. We wrap us in the illusion of material success. We cheat and deceive as we claw our way to the pinnacle of what we define as achievement. Superiority to other men. There is a sickness inside us. Rising like the bile that leaves that bitter taste at the back of our throats. It's there in every one of you seated around the table. We deny its existence until one day the body rebels against the mind and screams out, "I am not a well man." No doubt you will think only of the merger. That unclean melding of two equally diseased institutions. But the truth cannot be ignored. For only when we know what ails us can we hope to find

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Lockhart: [waking up in hospital bed] I need to call to New York. Volmer: I took the liberty of informing your office of the accident, if that's you concern. They agreed with me that business can wait, and your health cannot. Lockhart: Hank Green said that?

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Hannah: You here for the cure? Lockhart: No. Actually, I was just leaving. Hannah: No one ever leaves.

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