Jonathan Goldstein

He was fired from his job at the Truman Museum.

He eventually found work clerking in a bookstore and making wedding videos.

While this was the first time a lie of Quincy's had been so brutally exposed, he admits that the lying itself was something he'd been leaning on since his teen years.

For Quincy, lies became a beautiful wall between himself and everyone else.

Lies protected him, but also isolated him.

It took the collapse of the messenger to finally get him to stop.

When Quincy is done sharing the effects The Messenger had on his life, Michael shares the role it played for him.

It's Quincy and the messenger that inspired Michael's career.

But it isn't just that Quincy gave him a professional life.

He gave him a life.

Quincy just assumed anyone involved with the messenger would still be furious with him.

And so, a few weeks back, when he saw Pat Croce's name pop up on his phone, he says he almost felt too scared to pick up.

But when they spoke, instead of yelling at him, Pat told him it was time to let it go.

Recently, I got to share in that life.

One day, leaving our New York studio, Michael says he's off to meet his wife, Katie.

Her crew is filming just a few blocks away, and Michael asks if I'd like to come, and I say, sure.

On the corner of 20th Street and 7th Avenue, shooting is in full swing.

The movie stars John Turturro as an aging pickpocket who ends up with a thumb drive containing a crypto wallet on it.

Michael and I are waved past the protected perimeter, and Katie gives me a pair of small headphones.

As I watch take after take of John Turturro slamming down a payphone and screaming, fuck, in fake fury, I feel like a 10-year-old on a field trip.