This guy's the Wren.
The what?
He's the wren. The bird of Attica. Flew the coop on six major prisons.
Seven.
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Page 2 of 3Why put people in it?
Because it's here. You have to use it, or you admit it's pointless.
But it is pointless!
Quentin, that's my point.
You could try and help me out here, buddy.
No I couldn't.
Holloway, you don't get it.
Then help me, please. I need to know.
This may be hard for you to understand, but there is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan. Can you grasp that? Big Brother is not watching you.
Do you think we matter? We don't.
Every day I mop up after your bleeding heart. The only reason you even exist is because I keep you!
God help you, Quentin. Did you hit your kids too?
I don't wanna die, I'm just being realistic. You think they'd go to all the trouble to build this thing if we could just walk out?
I know your type. No kids, no man to **** you. So you go around outraged, sticking your nose up other people's assholes, sniffing their business!
I looked through the walls. I dreamed him, at his desk, designing everything. He can't let you solve the puzzle, see, because there is a purpose.
I mean, nobody wants to see the big picture. Life's too complicated.
I mean, this is an accident, a forgotten, perpetual public works project. Do you think anybody wants to ask questions? All they want is a clear conscience and a fat paycheck.
I'm just a guy. I work in an office building, doing office building stuff.
I'm not dying in a **** rat maze!
It's all the same machine, right? The Pentagon, multinational corporations, the police! You do one little job, you build a widget in Saskatoon and the next thing you know it's two miles under the desert, the essential component of a death machine!