Shovels and Keys

Taboo 1×1

& Thorne: What extra shilling?
    Thoyt: To bury your father deeper in the ground. Resurrectionists pay extra to be buried two feet deeper than the rest. That way, the grave-robbers can’t dig down to their meat before the sun comes up.

& Delaney: Forgive me, Father... for I have indeed sinned.

& Thoyt: Well, it’s a small... strip of coastline, directly on the other side of the world, which your father held by treaty with the Nootka tribe. A wasteland. If America were a pig facing England, it is right at the pig’s arse. Just rocks and Indians.

& Sir Stuart: Now, the issue today is old man Delaney. May he rot in hell.

& Sir Stuart: Yeah, year end record too. My God! Corporal James Keziah Delaney... «Exceptional. Exceptional. Exceptional. Musket, shipcraft, leadership. Exceptional.»

& Sir Stuart: What are the rumours?
    Pettifer: Awful, and unnatural, and, I’m sure, untrue.
    Sir Stuart: What. Fucking. Rumours?

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& Brace: See, when you live alone with a madman, you— You become half mad yourself.

& Delaney: People who do not know me soon come to understand... that I do not have any sense.

& Geary: Why does a soldier know that a nigger bowing low has a dagger in his shoe and is reaching for it?.. Delaney is nothing more than a nigger now. You know that, don’t you?

& Delaney: Today, I have work to do.

& Delaney: No-one is listening.

& Zilpha: Half-brother.

& Delaney: Please understand— hypocrisy I hate most.

& Delaney: .... And because of the strategical position of Nootka Sound, whoever owns it has legal entitlement to the entire island of Vancouver, which is... Well, which is the gateway to... to China. Hmm?

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