The Good Place (TV Series)

The Answer (2019)

Ted Danson: Michael

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• Michael : If soulmates do exist, they're not found, they're made. People meet, they get a good feeling, and they get to work building a relationship.

• Chidi Anagonye : Can I ask you a question? Soulmates aren't... real, are they?

  Michael : Chidi, in all honesty, I don't know. But I don't think so. I knew what you expected to find when you got here: answers. Also, if I recall from your file, a magic blackboard?

  Chidi Anagonye : One that anticipates your lesson flow. That's the dream.

  Michael : But mostly you wanted answers, the soulmate one in particular. So I used it to torture you... which, again, sorry.

  [beat] 

  Michael : If soulmates do exist, they're not found, they're made. People meet, they get a good feeling, and then they get to work building a relationship. Like your parents. They didn't magically stay together because you proved they should.

  Chidi Anagonye : [shakes his head]  It wasn't my logic or my presentation, it was... the feeling they got watching me, this scared little kid telling them that he needed them.

  Michael : And it was also what you made them remember: they loved each other. Sometimes people forget. You reminded them of what they already had. It convinced them to go to counseling.

  Chidi Anagonye : [slight laugh]  I never knew they went to counseling.

  Michael : Yeah, kids are idiots. If they knew half the stuff their folks were up to, they'd lose their minds.

• Chidi Anagonye : Turns out life isn't just a puzzle to be solved one time and it's done. You wake up every day and you solve it again.

  Michael : [wryly]  Terribly inefficient.

  Chidi Anagonye : What a time to learn.

• Michael : [getting ready to erase Chidi's memories]  You sure you want to do this?

  Chidi Anagonye : I finally make up my mind about one damn thing and you try to talk me out of it?