Lessons

The Wire 1×8

Deputy Commissioner for Operations Ervin H. Burrell: I ask you to put a charge on a drug dealer, Lieutenant. That's all I ask. Now I got wiretaps, pager clones, affidavits coming out of my ass. And you? You're in people's shit where you're not supposed to be.

Lt. Cedric Daniels: We're done. I go past Friday and I'm buried. He told me that.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: He's gonna bury you? For what? You're doing your fucking job.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: You think the job is gonna save me? You think it's gonna save you? Chain of command, Detective. That's all I got from the deputy.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Chain of command? Did you tell your Major about the senator's driver? Or the Colonel? No? Then where's your chain of command? What's the shift Lieutenant doing going up the back stairs to the Deputy ops?

Lt. Cedric Daniels: He asked for a charge on Barksdale. That's all he asked for.
Marla Daniels: This thing with the legislative aide, who could've foreseen it?
Lt. Cedric Daniels: He saw it. Burrell. See, this is the thing that everyone knows and no one says. You follow the drugs, you get a drug case. You start following the money, you don't know where you're going. They don't want wiretaps or wired CIs or anything else they can't control. Because once that tape starts rolling, who knows what's gonna be said?

Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: Ask me a question. Any question.
Det. Ellis Carver: I thought you weren't gonna study.
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: This job is common sense. Ask me a question, dickless. See how I do.
Det. Ellis Carver: "According to Q1..."
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: Whoa, whoa. Hold up, help me out here. You have to know them by the numbers?
Det. Ellis Carver: It helps. Makes it sound more professional that way. "According to Q1, the general order covering sexual harassment, in the event a female officer in your squad complains that her side partner has sexually harassed her, you should - A, notify the commanding officer. B, notify the shift lieutenant. Or C, notify the ranking female officer."
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: I go with D.
Det. Ellis Carver: D?
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: Bitch-slap the side partner for dipping into my private stock, then take missy home and fuck her till she smiles.

Omar Little: Listen here, Bey. You come at the king, you best not miss.

Omar Little: If I was coming after certain people, I definitely wouldn't want to give y'all fine people any cause for concern. There are some rules here, right?
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: Rules?
Omar Little: Yeah. No mistakes, no bystanders. No taxpayers getting caught up in the mix. Just get in close and hit the right nigger. And lose the gun afterward, that'd be a rule, too, I think.

Omar Little: I got a bounty on my head.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Yeah, we saw the van.
Omar Little: I do what I can do to help you all, but the game is out there. And it's either play or get played.

Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: Lester, are we still cops?
Det. Lester Freamon: Technically, I suppose so.
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: I was just checking.

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Hey, Bunk, I'll give you that burning trace evidence makes sense. What the fuck did you plan to wear home?

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Chapter One: The Hellfire Club

Stranger Things 4×1

Eleven: 'Some exciting news. Joyce got an amazing new job. She gets to work at home...'
Joyce Byers: Yeah, I'm… I'm not a robot. You do realize that, don't you?
Eleven: 'She says she loves the "freedom."'
Joyce Byers: Prick!

Robin Buckley: It's not the same thing. Okay?
Steve Harrington: Well…
Robin Buckley: You ask out a girl and she says no. Big deal. Nothing happens. Maybe your ego's a little bruised. I ask out the wrong girl, and bam, I'm a town pariah.
Steve Harrington: I'd buy that, except Vickie is definitely not the wrong girl.
Robin Buckley: We just don't know that, do we?
Steve Harrington: She returned Fast Times paused at 53 minutes, 5 seconds. Know who pauses Fast Times at 53 minutes, 5 seconds?... People who like boobies, Robin.
Robin Buckley: Ew! Gross. Don't say boobies.
Steve Harrington: Boobies. Not a big deal, okay? I like boobies. You like boobies. Vickie likes boobies. Definitely. It's boobies.

Eddie Munson: What's your class and level? Level one dwarf?
Erica Sinclair: My name is Lady Applejack. And I'm a chaotic good half-elf rogue, level 14. I will sneak behind any monster you throw my way and stab them in the back with my poison-soaked kukri. And I'll smile as I watch them die a slow, agonizing death. So, we gonna do this, or we gonna keep chitchatting like this is your mommy's book club?

Dustin Henderson: I say we fight. To the death.
Max Mayfield: To the death.
Erica Sinclair: To the death.
— To the death. To the death! To the death!

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Elvis (2022)

Colonel Tom Parker: It don't matter if you do ten stupid things, as long as you do one smart one.

Colonel Tom Parker: As an orphan, I ran away to the carnival, where I learned the art of the "snow job," of emptying a rube's wallet while leaving them with nothing but a smile on their face. But a carnival act that would get you the most money, the most snow, had great costumes and a unique trick, that gave the audience feelings they weren't sure they should enjoy. But they do.

Colonel Tom Parker: Now, I don't know nothin' about music... But I could see in that girl's eyes, that she was having feelings she wasn't sure she should enjoy... He was a taste of forbidden fruit. She could've eaten him alive. It was the greatest carnival attraction I'd ever seen.

Gladys: I don't know how to explain it. But I saw it in that girl's eyes. It's something beyond us, but I know that whatever it is, it's something that... It's something that can come between us.
Elvis: Oh, no, mama, no. Hey. Ain't nothing ever gonna do that. You're my girl. My satnin. You'll always be my bestest girl. ... I will call you every night.
Gladys: Will you promise me, booby?
Elvis: I promise. I promise. I promise, I promise.

Colonel Tom Parker: A snowman is only as good... as his attraction.

Colonel Tom Parker: Creatures of the carnival. And I am one myself. It's where I learned the art of the snow job.
Elvis: Snow job?
Colonel Tom Parker: Yes. It's like the trick you do with the wiggling, getting all the girls hyped up, empty their wallets and leave them with nothing but the smiles on their faces.
Elvis: I'm no trickster.
Colonel Tom Parker: Oh, yes, you are. All showmen are snowmen.

Vernon: "I hate Elvis." Huh?
Gladys: I hate Elvis.
Colonel Tom Parker: In my way of thinking, "I love Elvis," that's an easy sell. Those who hate your son will do so whether we profit from it or not. After all, what is hate worth if it's free?

Colonel Tom Parker: What song are you going to sing tonight?
I've made no decision. I'll feel it.

Elvis: A reverend once told me... "When things are too dangerous to say... sing."

— Well, before the army, we found no record of you at all. No passport, no residency. You were never a colonel. Never a Tom. You weren't even a Parker. Why did you flee Holland, Andreas Van Kuijk?

Priscilla: Do you still love me?
When you're 40 and I'm 50, we'll be back together. You'll see.

Colonel Tom Parker: Oh, you see, my boy, the... truth about the rock of eternity... It is forever just beyond our reach.

Elvis: I'm gonna be 40 soon, 'cilla. Forty. And nobody's gonna remember me. I never did anything lasting. I never made that classic film that I could be proud of...

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Black Shirt

Peaky Blinders 6×2

Lizzie: No escape.
Tommy: We will escape, Lizzie. One last deal to be done...

Tommy: It'll be difficult. Difficulties are to be expected. This is why I must move from item to item.

Lizzie: Do you feel that? Do you feel anything? You know, you talk as if you're watching everything on a screen.
Tommy: When we go home. When we go home, we'll give the kids to Frances, and then you and me will go to bed.
Lizzie: And I will be the next item. That's how it feels now, Tommy.

Tommy: It is four years... one month and six days since I had a drink. My head is clear. I am myself.

Tommy: We're going to keep going till the Boston business is done. Then we rest. Then we Peaky Blinders fucking rest.

Laura McKee: You both have reasons to hate me and to want to seek revenge for the killing of--
Arthur: Sh. Gypsy tradition. We do not mention the name of the dead in company.
Tommy: Laura McKee, in the Shelby family, business comes before issues of vengeance. Our beloved departed would understand and approve.

Laura McKee: ... I heard from many reliable sources that you have a reputation for moral turpitude.
Tommy: "Moral turpitude"... It's a good name for a racehorse.
Laura McKee: You don't know what it means?
Tommy: I know what it means. It means you fuck people. Fuck people over. Don't give a fuck. It means you covet and steal and burn all principles for the sake of self-interest.

Tommy: Jack Nelson's coming to London. Officially, he's coming to buy liquor import licenses. Unofficially, he's on a fact-finding mission. He's come to measure the strength of support for fascism in Britain. He'll report back to the President.
Laura McKee: And how does that help us?
Tommy: In this letter to his son, Jack Nelson expresses strong support for fascism. In this letter to a friend in Berlin, he says some, erm, interesting things about Jews... He's not coming to Europe to find facts. He's coming to find proof that fascism will prevail. ...

Laura McKee: I thought you were a socialist.
Tommy: Well... since I've entered politics, I've learned that the line doesn't go out from the middle to the left and the right. It goes in a circle. I'll show you...

Tommy: You go far enough left, eventually you'll meet someone who has gone far enough right to get to the same place. Working-class socialists like me, working-class nationalists like you. The result? National Socialism. And that's me, in the middle. Just a man trying to make an honest living in a very dark world.

Tommy: When Jack Nelson comes to London, I can give him access to Oswald Mosley and to Fascist sympathisers in the House of Commons and the House of Lords, on both sides of the divide. Fascism is quite the thing... among the very best people. And with your help, I can also offer him Dublin.
Laura McKee: And you think this will allow us to ship our merchandise to Boston?

Tommy: All you have to do is sit with Jack Nelson and talk to him about a new "golden age" and let him put a pin in the map of Ireland for the President of the United States.

Tommy: So, Laura McKee... are you going to help me change the world?
Laura McKee: Mr Shelby, this meeting is not what I expected.
Ada: Never is.
Tommy: Is that a yes or a no?
Laura McKee: My answer's yes.
Ada: The answer's always yes.

Tommy: Polly would approve. Beneath all the gold and diamonds, and fucking, fucking mink and lace, she was a solid Socialist.

Ada: Fuck, opium and presidents!
Tommy: Ada, if you don't want to help me carry the bucket... then I wouldn't blame you. But this is my mission. And I will have no limitations.

Ada: Where are you, Tom? Hm? My big brother? You know you used to stop sometimes and laugh. Do you even remember this place? You walk into the Garrison like a stranger and you sip fucking water.
Tommy: But I'm alive, Ada.
Ada: Yeah... And you're still looking for trouble big enough to kill you. Well... I think you might have found it.

Alfie: I always thought that opera was just fat people fucking shouting.
Tommy: Yeah. What do you think now?
Alfie: I think the sound of a tenor in full passion reminds me of the crying out of Italian soldiers when they had my bayonet inside them. Ever since my own death, I have been somewhat haunted by it.

Tommy: What I was told, Alfie... is that you have withdrawn and that you spend your days alone... obsessing about opera singers.
Alfie: Opera's not fucking singing, is it? It's not singing. It is the sound that people make before words.

Alfie: What, do you sense weakness in the Israelite?
Tommy: Not a sense of weakness, no, Alfie... A certain knowledge of it.

Alfie: Why would you sell?
Tommy: The Irish are being difficult. The Italians are not an option. Also, Alfie, you are my friend...
Alfie: Pay you with credit?
Tommy: No.
Alfie: Oh.
Tommy: I will take property. You own half the warehouses in Camden. I would take them and knock them down, build houses for the needy and the deserving.
Alfie: Oh.

Alfie: The Irish have always been difficult, Tommy, ain't they? For about fucking 700 years... You know that I once saw an Irishman arguing with the statue of Oliver Cromwell in Parliament Square. The argument went on for quite a while, actually. It went into the night and his little voice echoed all around the Houses of Parliament as he got more and more angered at Oliver Cromwell's reluctance on what to answer his legitimate questions. So angered, in fact, that eventually he punched the statue on the nose and broke his fucking hand... And there it is, y'know. The Irish question, innit. How come you can remember so much about what happened 200 years ago, but you just can't remember what fucking happened last night?

Gina: ... And don't worry about Tommy Shelby. I have no interest in a dead man.

Gina: Because we trust each other. Hm.

Diana Freeman-Mitford: Ladies and gentlemen, tonight he has truly earned your adulation. The future Prime Minister of this great country, Sir Oswald Mosley!

Tommy: Officially Jack Nelson is in London to buy import licences.
Oswald Mosley: And unofficially, he's Roosevelt's envoy.
Tommy: Well, as you can see from this private letter, he is far from a neutral point of view... Look at the bottom of the second paragraph.
Diana Freeman-Mitford: "Individually Jews are fine but as a race they stink." Hm. Elizabeth, do you even know why the bridge to President Roosevelt is so important?

Jack Nelson: What made you angry?
Tommy: Slowness in anything. I wanted to have everything already.

Jack Nelson: First man I killed was a priest. You?
Tommy: A Prussian boy with green eyes, he was already underground.
Jack Nelson: When did you last kill a man, Mr Shelby?
Tommy: Four years ago. His name was Tommy Shelby. He drank whisky.

Tommy: I recently read a report by the Vatican, actually, which said that whisky disproportionately kills more of our Catholic brothers and sisters, whereas opium is the sedative more often chosen by Protestants and atheists.

Jack Nelson: You are a brave man, Mr Shelby. A war hero, I hear. Every war hero I ever met, they're just someone who wanted to get themselves killed...

Tommy: Madonna, put me through to the number I gave you for Esme Shelby Lee.

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One Arrest

The Wire 1×7

Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: How y'all hear it so good? Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: "Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton      fields sold in a market down in New Orleans."
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: What the fuck is that?
Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: Rolling Stones. First two lines to Brown Sugar. I bet you've heard that song 500 times, but you never knew, right? I used to put my head to the stereo speaker and play that record over and over.
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: That explains a lot, actually.

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: It's a career case, Your Honor.
Judge Daniel Phelan: Look here, Jimmy, you misspelled "culpable" and you're confusing "then" and "than". T-H-E-N is an adverb used to divide and measure time. "So... Detective McNulty makes a mess and then he has to clean it up."
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Great that you're going through every word...
Judge Daniel Phelan: Not to be confused with T-H-A-N, which is most commonly used after a comparative adjective or adverb, as in, "Rhonda is smarter than Jimmy."

Madame LaRue: It's Saint Anthony who wants to help you.
Detective Michael 'Sanny' Santangelo: He does?
Madame LaRue: Very much.
Detective Michael 'Sanny' Santangelo: Ain't he the guy you call when you lose something? You sure that's Anthony?
Madame LaRue: Go to the victim's grave, bury the statue, wait an hour, a full hour, no short cuts. Then dig it up. Go straight home. When you go to bed, hold it to your ear.
Detective Michael 'Sanny' Santangelo: And he tells me who did it?

Deputy Commissioner for Operations Ervin H. Burrell: 500-a-plate fundraisers for a police lieutenant? Even in this city, that constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. Which member of the ticket has so energized you? The Mayor? Council President? The Registrar of Wills, maybe?
Lt. Cedric Daniels: The Mayor, I might recognize if I saw him. For the rest, I'd pretty much need B of I photos.
Deputy Commissioner for Operations Ervin H. Burrell: You're not wrong. In this state, it's a thin line between campaign posters and photo arrays.

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: You know why I respect you so much, Bunk?... It's not 'cause you're good police. 'Cause, you know, fuck that, right?
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Fuck that, yeah.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: It's not 'cause when I came to Homicide, you taught me all kinds of cool shit about... I don't know, whatever.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Whatever.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: It's 'cause when it came time for you to fuck me... you were very gentle.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Damn right.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: You could've hauled me out of the garage and just bent me over the hood of a radio car. But, no, you were very gentle.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: I knew it was your first time. I wanted to make that shit special.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: It was, man. It fucking was.

Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: So, why'd you step up on this?
Omar Little: Bird trifling, basically. He killed an everyday working man and all. Don't get it twisted, I do some dirt too, but I ain't never put my gun on nobody who wasn't in the game.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: A man must have a code.
Omar Little: No doubt.

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: They're gonna do me, Ronnie. I love this fucking job, and they're gonna do me.

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The Wire

The Wire 1×6

Johnny Weeks: If you ain't got dreams, Bubbs, what the fuck you got?

Det. Lester Freamon: How do you log that non-pertinent? "Non-pertinent"?
Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: No drug talk.
Det. Lester Freamon: They use codes that hide their pager and phone numbers. And when someone does use a phone, they don't use names. And if someone does use a name, he's reminded not to. All of that is valuable evidence.
Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: Of what?
Det. Lester Freamon: Conspiracy.
Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: Conspiracy?
Det. Lester Freamon: We're building something here, Detective. We're building it from scratch. All the pieces matter.

Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: That boy ain't got no luck...

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Pancake Sunday and Textbook Flirting

Young Sheldon 6×10

Georgie: Uh, do I have to pretend I didn't spend the night here, or...? I don't know how this works.
Dale: It's fine, uh... you could've said nothing, but now I know.

Meemaw: Who's at the door?
Dale: It's Mary! She knows I slept with you.

Georgie: I'm supposed to go to dinner with Amber, that's the new girl, and Mandy says she's okay with it, but I'm worried it's a trap.

George: Georgie, you can't live your life afraid that women are gonna get mad at you. It's just what they're born to do.

Mandy: Look... I have enough going on here without worrying about being in some relationship. Plus, Georgie deserves to have a life.
Meemaw: So y'all are good, and I don't have to be mad at anybody?
Mandy: Right.
Meemaw: Huh. I'm gonna go call Dale and pick a fight.

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Black Adam (2022)

Adam: Let someone else be the hero... The graveyards are full of them. Stop dreaming and go back to work.

Amon: You're not my mate. No, what you are is a Neo-imperialist enforcer, from halfway around the world, sent here to steal my country's natural resources, strip-mine our sacred lands, pollute our water, oppress our heritage, and make us wait in lines all day.

Adrianna: You want to be a hero, huh?
Amon: I do, yeah.
Adrianna: Go home, do your homework.

Cyclone: So what's the op?
Hawkman: We're headed to Kahndaq to apprehend and contain a Class-A rogue metahuman.
Atom Smasher: I didn't bring a passport.
Dr. Fate: We don't need passports. We're the Justice Society.

Adrianna: "Life is the... only path to death."
Karim: No shit.

Black Adam: I'm no hero.
Amon: What? Superman, Batman, Aquaman... You're way more stacked than any of them. And they're not coming to Kahndaq to save us.

Hawkman: We're the Justice Society. Our mission is to protect global stability. We're here to restore peace to Kahndaq. And we will use force if necessary.
Black Adam: Force is always necessary.

Adrianna: They only want to talk.
Black Adam: They can talk. I won't listen.

Hawkman: We're here to negotiate the terms of your peaceful surrender.
Black Adam: I'm not peaceful. Nor do I surrender.

Karim: How bad is it, doc? Am I dying?
Dr. Fate: I'm not that kind of doctor. But don't worry, I can see the future. This isn't how you're going to die.
Karim: How do I die, then?
Dr. Fate: Just stay away from electricity.
Karim: Wait, what? I'm an electrician. How the hell am I supposed to do that?

Dr. Fate: You were blaming yourself for trusting Ishmael. Your thoughts are better spent on the things you can change, not those you can't.

Black Adam: I've learned that in this modern world, we shouldn't hurt our prisoners. We should treat them with dignity, respect... Let's start with just one simple question. Can either of you fly?

Hawkman: I hope you can be a team player.
Black Adam: I love teams.
Dr. Fate: That was sarcasm again, yes?
Black Adam: Very much so.

Adrianna: We were wrong about you. The world doesn't always need a white knight. Sometimes it needs something darker.

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Black Day

Peaky Blinders 6×1

Lizzie: You're not even a soldier any more, Tommy. You didn't check your weapon. You're not a soldier, you're a coward.

Captain Swing: ... Also, you should know that saving Mosley's life wasn't our only intervention last night. We've made some changes to the structure of your organisation...

Captain Swing: Please be aware, Mr Shelby, that the deaths of your people... are your own responsibility... because you consistently fail to understand your own limitations.

Bartender: You want a drink?
Tommy: I'll have a glass of water, please.

Tommy: No. I ordered water because I no longer drink alcohol of any kind.

Tommy: Before this goes any further, please let me explain... I will not drink your toast cos four years ago, I forswore alcohol... Since I foreswore alcohol, I've become a calmer and more peaceful person. Sometimes, in moments of personal conflict... I can resort to me old ways. If this were to happen now, it would indeed be a black day in Miquelon.

Tommy: You know, Michael, when you're dealing with a very powerful enemy, taking revenge sometimes requires time. You have to... pick your moment. That moment will come.

Tommy: Gentlemen, today is the last day of prohibition. But rather than see it as the end of something, I believe that, for men like us, it can present... a new beginning. A new opportunity.

Tommy: ...now that whisky is about to become legal, the trade will fall back into the hands of capitalists from New York, Boston and Toronto. But... when one door closes... another one opens. We can take advantage of the systems that are in place on Miquelon Island and offer selected boat crews the opportunity to carry on working. But this time with a different cargo...

Tommy: You know, since we last met, Michael... well, I've become a better man. I now realise that whisky is just fuel for the loud engines inside your head.
O'Donnell: Catch yourself on! What is this guy, a fuckin' poet? Eh?
Tommy: Oh, I do read poetry, but I don't yet write it.

O'Donnell: Good boy... Now, give us all a poem before we go.
Tommy: Want to hear a poem?.. Want to hear a poem?.. What about you, Brainbox?

Tommy: I was angry with my friend
     I told my wrath, my wrath did end
     I was angry with my foe
     I told it not... my wrath did grow.
It's from The Poison Tree by William Blake. You won't have heard of him.

Tommy: Beware the man with a bleeding heart tattoo with "Maria" written in red... Have a good day, gentlemen.

Ada: Come on, Lizzie, he'll be on holiday. Being away might change him.
Lizzie: Even on holiday, Ada... even on top of a rocky mountain, he'll be the same way he's been since Polly died. No more Polly, no more whisky, no more Tommy.

Tommy: He's a very powerful, very impressive man. I've only seen photographs - when he was young, police mug shots, and, more recently, in high-society magazines. I think this represents progress.

Gina: Go home, boy. Bye-bye, Mr Shelby.

Tommy: ...then I'll get this business done, you get here with the children, and then no more. And it'll just be us and the clean air out in the west. I've found a place in the mountains. There'll be snow. Tell Ruby, tell Ruby I'll build her a snowman.

Lizzie: When she was delirious, she kept saying these Gypsy words, er... "Tickner maura, tickner maura, o beng, o beng," over and over again.
Tommy: What? Lizzie, what...? What did you say? What did Ruby say?

Tommy: All right, I'm coming home.

Michael: So, you didn't learn. When my mother died at the hands of your ambition, you didn't learn your limitations.
Tommy: I have no limitations.

Tommy: According to Jack Nelson's personal accounts, he bought passage for five people from Boston to Liverpool. Five people, his wife, his mistress, President Roosevelt's son, himself... and Gina Gray. Gina's coming to London, Michael... where I will be happy to show her the sights.

Tommy: Spirits, Boston Irish and Uncle Jack... I'm ready for the conversation.

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The Pager

The Wire 1×5

Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: How complex a code can it be if these knuckleheads are using it? Then again, what does it say about us if we can't break it?

Russell 'Stringer' Bell: When you're not happy, they ain't gettin' paid. Feel me?
D'Angelo Barksdale: But you don't pay a nigger, he ain't gonna work for you.
Russell 'Stringer' Bell: You think a nigger's gonna get a job? These niggers gonna be like, "Fuck it, let me quit this game here and go to college"? They gonna buck a little, but they not gonna walk. And in the end, you gonna get respect.
D'Angelo Barksdale: Yeah.
Russell 'Stringer' Bell: And when that money run out, they'll come up to you and roll on you and ask you for an advance and shit, when they flat-ass broke. Them the niggers that you strike off your list. But that nigger that stay eatin', the nigger that steady rollin', ain't askin' you for shit, that's the nigger I want to hear about. Understand?
D'Angelo Barksdale: Yeah, man. Shit, you know how to play a nigger into a corner, String.

Det. Ellis Carver: First, I go in, play nice. Then you come in, play bad.
Det. Thomas 'Herc' Hauk: I ain't playin'.

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The Bones of St Nicholas

Inside No. 9 (8×1)

Jasper: You must be Dick?
Dick: Oh, call me Dick. Everyone does.

Dick: Champing — camping in a church. That's what we call it. Though it does have unfortunate connotations of someone eating with their mouth full.

Jasper: I just want to spend a peaceful night here alone with my thoughts and memories.
Dick: Oh, I'm sure you won't be alone... Merry Christmas, Jasper. And God bless us, every one.

Pierce: Hey, watch this... Our lager which art in barrels, hallowed be thy ale. Thy kegdom come, I will be drunk, at home, as in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillages, as we forgive those who spill against us. Deliver us not into inebriation, for thine is the stout, the bitter, and the lager, forever and ever, barmen!

Jasper: It's St Nicholas. The original Santa Claus.
Posy: You mean the Coca Cola one?
Jasper: Uh, a little before that, I believe.

Dick: Well, I never!... Merry Christmas.

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Safe

The Handmaid's Tale 5×10

Lucas Bankole: I hate this world. I love you, though.

Commander Lawrence: She had a choice, Commander. She had 1,000 choices.
Nick Blain: She's fighting for her daughter.
Commander Lawrence: Yeah? This is what happens in a fight. Everyone gets bloody. Everyone. That you know to be true, Commander.

Mark Tuello: I will do everything I can.
Nick Blain: That's not good enough. Gilead wants her to suffer. They'll keep coming for her, then her family... and they won't stop. So I need to know that you'll protect her. I need to know you'll keep her safe.
Mark Tuello: I will do everything I can.

Naomi Putnam: ... And remember. Angela's my daughter. To say anything else, to suggest, is heresy. You could lose your tongue.
Janine: I only wish to serve, Mrs. Putnam.
Naomi Putnam: And remember, this is a trial period.

June Osborn: Luke... We have to run.

June Osborn: We waited last time, and we waited too long. And we didn't see how much they hated us. I lost you. And then we lost Hannah.

June Osborn: It's changing. Luke... this country is changing.
Lucas Bankole: No. Canada's not Gilead.
June Osborn: America wasn't Gilead, until it was and then, it was too fucking late. Luke, we have to go. We have to run. Now.

Lucas Bankole: I love you, June Osborne.

Rose Blain: You will never let go of her, will you?
Nick Blain: I try. I really... tried. But I can't.

June Osborn: We're going on an adventure... You know that? We're going to a beautiful island where the sky is blue and the water is clear. It's called Hawaii. It's your country and you're gonna love it.

Serena Joy Waterford: Hi, June.
June Osborn: Hi, Serena.
Serena Joy Waterford: ... You got a diaper?

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Allegiance

The Handmaid's Tale 5×9

Commander Lawrence: Okay. So, basically, it's a quid pro quo. You need security. I need to represent traditional Gilead values. So you can move in here with the kid if you want.
Naomi Putnam: ....
Aunt Lydia: As his new Wife and child. A sacred union, of course.
Naomi Putnam: This is a marriage proposal?
Commander Lawrence: Yep. Yep. So, what do you say?
Naomi Putnam: I have a choice?
Commander Lawrence: That's hurtful.

Aunt Lydia: Mrs. Putnam, a Wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry whom she chooses. Only in the Lord. First Corinthians.
Commander Lawrence: And who doesn't love Corinthians? Especially First Corinthians.

June Osborn: Why would you let me do that?
Commander Lawrence: Hannah's a symbol now. And like it or not, so are you. So after last night, it would be even more effective if June Osborne chose to return to Gilead...

June Osborn: Then go fuck yourself!

Alanis Wheeler: Who do you think you are?
Serena Joy Waterford: I am Mrs. Fredrick Waterford.
Alanis Wheeler: To me you're just a whore.

June Osborn: Fuck them. Fuck them, Mark. You know how we honor those soldiers? We do not stop fighting. No matter what they throw at us, we don't stop. Not for one fucking second. So what's next? What do we do now?

Serena Joy Waterford: My late husband and I, God rest his soul, we tried for many years to conceive. There was a lot of heartache and disappointment. So I do understand the yearning for a child. But Gilead helped a lot. Clean water, clean air, scrubbing all of those horrible toxins out of the environment, and above all, a devotion to God. And living by the highest of moral standards. So, you follow Gilead's path in Toronto, then perhaps you too could be blessed with a child of your own.

June Osborn: Well, this is a fine mess, isn't it?
Nick Blain: And the world's a mess.
June Osborn: Yeah. You know what I wish, though? I wish the world would just go away. Just for a little bit.

Commander Dupar: ... Not to mention, we've strengthened our alliances. The ambassadors from China, Russia and North Korea have all congratulated us for sticking it to the Americans.
Commander Mackenzie: Well, I guess we're playing with the big boys now.
Commander Lawrence: Yeah, what's the old saying? "Any club that would have me as a member..."

June Osborn: Hi, Emma. Can I help you? Say it with me? Okay. Ready? "I pledge allegiance to the Flag..."
— "Of the United States of America..."
June Osborn: "...and to the Republic for which it stands..."
— "One nation under God, indivisible..."
June Osborn: — "With liberty and justice..."

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

Steven Murphy: Nice watch.
Matthew Williams: Thanks.
Steven Murphy: What's the water resistance?
Matthew Williams: 200 meters.
Steven Murphy: And it's got a date display?
Matthew Williams: Yes, it does.
Steven Murphy: I might have gone for a metal strap instead of a leather strap.
Matthew Williams: Really?
Steven Murphy: Yes. I think I'd prefer a metal strap. I've had this one for years. It's as good as new.
Matthew Williams: What's the water resistance?
Steven Murphy: 100 meters.
Matthew Williams: How long have you had it?
Steven Murphy: Nine years. A little bored of it, actually. I've been thinking of getting a new one for quite a while now.

Kim Murphy: When did you start smoking?
Martin: About eight months ago. I was over at a friend's place. It was a party, actually. And this girl offered me a cigarette and I said, "Why not," and lit up. That was a mistake. I regret it. But it's too late now. I'm addicted.
Bob Murphy: Can you show me the hair under your arms?

Martin: Bob will die. Kim will die. Your wife will die. They will all get sick and die. One: paralysis of the limbs. Two: refusal of food to the point of starvation. Three: bleeding from the eyes. Four: death. One, two, three, four. Don't worry, you won't get sick. You've just gotta stay calm, that's all.

Martin: Uh, one more thing. I'll be very quick. You only have a few days to decide who to kill. Once stage three kicks in, you remember what stage three is? It's bleeding from the eyes, that's stage three. Once the bleeding happens, it's only a matter of hours before they die. Okay, there. I have nothing more to say. Unless you've-- Unless you've any questions.

Steven Murphy: A surgeon never kills a patient. An anesthesiologist can kill a patient but a surgeon never can.

Martin: I don't know if what is happening is fair, but... it's the only thing I can think of that's close to justice.

Anna Murphy: Can it be considered his mistake?
Matthew Williams: Yes. It wasn't mine, that's for sure. You know an anesthesiologist is never to blame for the bad outcome of an operation. The surgeon is always responsible.

Anna Murphy: You have beautiful hands. I never noticed before. Everyone's been telling me lately what beautiful hands you have, and now I can see for myself. Nice and clean. But so what if they're beautiful? They're lifeless... Sometimes, Steven, you're just an incompetent man who goes on and on saying stupid things like “Let's do a scan. Let's do an ultrasound. Let's wear brown socks. Let's make mashed potatoes. Let's go to the beach house."

Steven Murphy: So, what do you suggest? Tell me. No, wait. I know, I've got it. There is a way we can put a stop to all this. All we need to do is find the tooth of a baby crocodile, the blood of a pigeon and the pubes of a virgin. And then we just have to burn them all before sunset. Let me see. Do we have any spare teeth lying around? Teeth? Pubes? No, nothing here!...

Martin: Sometimes, I think you're naive. But you can't be naïve. You're a man of science. You can't be an idiot. But, if I'd only just met you, I would seriously question your depth of judgment.

Steven Murphy: Do you especially like one of them more than the other? If you had to choose between them, which would say is the best?

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Frame Toby

The Office 5×8

Michael Scott: Brownies! I'm taking two, so I can parcel them up and eat them at my leisure later on. Much healthier.

Toby Flenderson: Hi, Michael.
Michael Scott: No! God! No, God, please, no! No! No! No!

David Wallace: Michael, you texted me, "911, call me."
Michael Scott: Yes.
David Wallace: All in caps. Do you know what "911" means?...
Michael Scott: I learned a while back that if I don't text "911," people will not return my calls. But now people always return my calls, because they think that something horrible has happened.

Oscar Martinez: "To whoever made the microwave mess. The microwave is a shared kitchen appliance. By not cleaning it up, you are basically telling whoever follows that their time is less valuable, as they will have to scrub out your disgusting splatter. Sincerely, Disappointed."
Andy Bernard: That is just obnoxious.
Oscar Martinez: No kidding.
Angela Martin: Yeah.
Pam Beesly: Wait, what? The mess or the note?
Oscar Martinez: The note. So "holier than thou."

Michael Scott: I tried. I tried. I tried to talk to Toby and be his friend, but that is like trying to be friends with an evil snail. I feel like I'm dying inside.

Michael Scott: That's it. That's it, perfect. We will get him to hit on somebody, and then we'll catch him in the act.
Dwight Schrute: I love catching people in the act. That's why I always whip open doors.
Michael Scott: Me, too.

Michael Scott: I've never framed a man before. Have you? ... It just seems awfully mean. But sometimes, the ends justify the mean.

Dwight Schrute: Wait, officers, are you sure you don't want to interrogate him? You have laws that protect you in any kind of interrogation. Why don't you use them?

Michael Scott: You must feel pretty good about yourself right now.
Toby Flenderson: I didn't put Caprese salad in my drawer, Michael. Did you?
Michael Scott: Since when is it illegal to put Caprese salad anywhere?

Toby Flenderson: You know, the police could have been out there, catching real criminals, instead of here, searching my stuff.
Michael Scott: Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? That's what you're worried about? You're worried about the cops' time. You think I framed you and you're worried about the taxpayer? God!

Michael Scott: Welcome back, jerky jerk-face. You said you were leaving, and you made liars out of all of us.
Toby Flenderson: I did leave.
Michael Scott: Yes, you did. And then you came back. Which makes you the biggest liar of history.

Michael Scott: Do you want to hear a lie?
Toby Flenderson: What?
Michael Scott: I think you're great. You're my best friend.

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Old Cases

The Wire 1×4

Sgt. Jay Landsman: Where's the love, McNulty? Show me some fucking love.

Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: No-Heart Anthony?
Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: Miss Kima, do not tell me you don't remember No-Heart Anthony... Damn, girl. What town you been policing at all these years? And right now, I am personally ashamed to be your snitch.

Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: Thin line between heaven and here...

Det. Lester Freamon: Detective... When they ask you where you wanna go, and they are gonna ask you where you wanna go, do yourself a favor. Keep your mouth shut.

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Business Trip

The Office 5×7

Michael Scott: I am jetting off on an international business trip.
Jim Halpert: Where are you going?
Michael Scott: To Canada.
Jim Halpert: Where is it?
Michael Scott: Canada.
Jim Halpert: Okay.

Michael Scott: Meredith, I would like you to pretend that you are from Abu Dhabi.
Meredith Palmer: Hello.
Michael Scott: I am ashamed at your naked face. I must cover it with my jacket. You are now sexy in your culture.

Michael Scott: A concierge is the Winnipeg equivalent of a geisha. This is a woman who has been trained in the fine art of fanciness and pleasure, and when you meet one, it is intoxicating.

Jim Halpert: I thought you were good at Flash.
Pam Beesly: I was. And then they switched to Acrobat just as I was learning Quark. I hate computers!
Jim Halpert: Okay, okay, it's no big deal. So you're not a computer geek.
Pam Beesly: I have to stay and retake it.
Jim Halpert: Wow. Um... Well, okay.
Pam Beesly: That means another 12 weeks.
Jim Halpert: .....

Michael Scott: Everybody's going to end up dying some day, and I think it's better to die with some people that you like, like Oscar and Andy and Concierge Marie, than to know that there's somebody out there that you love that you're not with.

Oscar Martinez: I've sat next to Angela for a very long, very long time.
Andy Bernard: Right-oh.
Oscar Martinez: How could anyone stand that woman?
Andy Bernard: What?
Oscar Martinez: What do you see in her? What do you see in Angela?

Andy Bernard: Oh, man, she is so pissed. She's taking us back to first base.
Oscar Martinez: What's first base with Angela?
Andy Bernard: I get to kiss her forehead.

Michael Scott: Why have I stayed at Dunder Mifflin for so long? Certainly not because of the paycheck 'cause I could be making more money as a doctor or a professional athlete... I think it's because they respect me. A boss that will not fire you even though you just tell him off right to his face over the phone, that's respect.

Ryan Howard: We're back together again, baby. We're back.
Kelly Kapoor: They tried to keep us apart, but they couldn't. It was like destiny.
Ryan Howard: I realized that, for whatever reason, I just couldn't do better than Kelly.

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The Buys

The Wire 1×3

Lt. Cedric Daniels: If I tell you yes, I screwed up. If I tell you no, I'm putting my men in the jackpot. Do you still want me to answer?... I screwed up, sir.

Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: So how do you get to be the king?
D'Angelo Barksdale: It ain't like that. The king stay the king, all right? Everything stays who he is, except for the pawns. If a pawn make it all the way down to the other dude's side, he get to be queen. And like I said, the queen ain't no bitch. She got all the moves.

Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: All right, so, if I make it to the other end, I win?
D'Angelo Barksdale: If you catch the other dude's king and trap it, then you win.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: But if I make it to the end... I'm top dog.
D'Angelo Barksdale: It ain't like that. The pawns, man, in the game, they get capped quick. They be out the game early.
Preston 'Bodie' Broadus: Unless they're some smart-ass pawns.

Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: You must've been fucking around. I'm just saying.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: You're right. Always the case. When a woman wants to get even, there's something extra there.
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: How come you got all this wisdom and your life's so hard?
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I've been wondering on that myself.

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: How about you? You ever been married?
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: What'd I say?
Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: If you ain't gonna say anything, I am... If you're a dog, you barking at the wrong pussy.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: So I'm a dog now?
Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: Meow.
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: Bubbs... I date women.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Something in common. I date women, too.

Lt. Cedric Daniels: Look, the man upstairs wants to see a circus. A couple of days from now, I got to show him three rings.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Christ.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: I'm sorry. We gotta jump.

Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: We're gonna be here all fucking night.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I'm not.
Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: Where the fuck you got to go?
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I mean I can't. I'm not gonna help them gut the case. I'm sorry. He's your lieutenant. You gotta do what you gotta do. But I can't swallow this shit any more.

Lt. Cedric Daniels: Get your vest on.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: No. I got police work to do.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: If you felt this way, why didn't you call in sick?
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I'm not sick.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: Yeah, you are. Give me a 95 on why you are physically unable to participate in today's action.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I'm gonna lie so you can save face?
Lt. Cedric Daniels: Write it up. "I can't jump out with my unit because my tummy hurts."
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I'm not gonna help you gut this case. If you want to pretend to be a police, you go ahead.

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Customer Survey

The Office 5×6

Dwight Schrute: Wait, is this a joke? I'm getting that queasy feeling that sometimes accompanies jokes.
Michael Scott: Do I look like I am joking?
Dwight Schrute: No, but that's sometimes part of it.
Michael Scott: If I were joking, you'd be laughing.
Dwight Schrute: Do you look like you are laughing?
Dwight Schrute: Impossible to say, I can't see myself.
Michael Scott: You're not.

Pam Beesly: Describe him exactly. What color mustard is his shirt, yellow or Dijon?
Jim Halpert: It is spicy brown, actually.

Michael Scott: Here's what's going to happen, I am going to have to fix you. Manage you two on a more personal scale, a more micro form of management. Jim, what is that called?
Jim Halpert: Micro-gement.
Michael Scott: Boom. Yes.

Dwight Schrute: The reason that I got bad customer reviews is because I didn't. There is a massive conspiracy going on here, and I know you're involved.
Kelly Kapoor: Dwight, get out of my nook!
Pam Beesly: That's what she said. That's what she said! That's what she said!
Jim Halpert: Good one.

Michael Scott: Kelly...
Kelly Kapoor: I was raped.
Michael Scott: You cannot say "I was raped" and expect all your problems to go away, Kelly. Not again. Don't keep doing that.

Michael Scott: I have an enormous amount of trouble trying to get people to come to my place. And I hate it. I can't tell you how much leftover guacamole I have ended up eating over the years. I don't even know why I make it in such great quantities. Here's what we're going to do...

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Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

Star Trek: First Contact (1996) <<

Picard: Do you know Gilbert & Sullivan?
Worf: No, I've not had a chance to meet all the new crew members.
Picard: They're composers, from the 19th century. Data was rehearsing "HMS Pinafore" just before he left.
     ♪ A British tar is a soaring soul ♪
     ♪ as free as a mountain bird ♪
     ♪ his fist should be ready to resist ♪
     ♪ a dictatorial word ♪
Sing, Worf.

Sojef: It's not our custom to hold anyone against their will. The android told us they were our enemies, and that more would follow. Are you our enemy?
Picard: Non-interference in other cultures is my people's prime directive.
Sojef: Your directive apparently doesn't include spying on other cultures.

Sojef: Not applying our technological abilities is a matter of choice. Creating a machine to do man's work takes something away from man. At one time, we explored the galaxy, just as you do.
Picard: You have warp capability?
Anij: Capability, yes.
Sojef: But where can warp drive take us except away from here?

Picard: It is a holographic projection... This is a computer-driven image created by photons and forcefields.
Anij: I know what a hologram is.

Anij: Let me ask you a question: Have you ever experienced a perfect moment in time? When time seemed to stop, and you could almost live in that moment?

Anij: Nothing more complicated than perception.

Admiral Dougherty: Jean-Luc, we're only moving 600 people.
Picard: How many people does it take before it becomes wrong? 1,000? 50,000? A million? How many people does it take?

Artim: Do machines ever play?
Data: I play the violin. My chess is quite advanced.
Artim: No, I mean play for fun.
Data: Androids do not have fun.
Artim: If you want to know what it's like to be a child, learn to play.

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The Detail

The Wire 1×2

Deputy Commissioner for Operations Ervin H. Burrell: You got to pull McNulty off this. Who caught the murder case?
Major William A. Rawls: Bunk Moreland, McNulty's partner.
Deputy Commissioner for Operations Ervin H. Burrell: You'd have to pull him, too.
Major William A. Rawls: No, we pull McNulty up, the judge will bring the press into this. I can see that a mile away. No, we're gonna sit tight, let McNulty take his best shot and hope like hell he comes up short.

Det. Shakima 'Kima' Greggs: Twenty dollars? You gonna spoil him with that shit.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I respect the work.

Lt. Cedric Daniels: Why?
Det. Roland 'Prez' Pryzbylewski: He pissed me off.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: No, Officer Pryzbylewski, he did not piss you off. He made you fear for your safety and that of your fellow officers. I'm guessing now, but maybe... he was seen to pick up a bottle and menace Officers Hauk and Carver who had already sustained injury from flying projectiles. Rather than use deadly force in such a situation, maybe you elected to approach the youth, ordering him to drop the bottle. Maybe when he raised the bottle, you used a Kel-Lite, not the handle of your service weapon, to incapacitate the suspect... Go practice. You fuck the bullshit up when you talk to Internal, I can't fix it, you're on your own.

Marla Daniels: Get out of it.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: How do I do that?
Marla Daniels: I don't know. But you can't lose if you don't play.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: I always heard it that you can't win if you don't play...

Marla Daniels: The department puts you on a case it doesn't want. You're given people that are useless or untrustworthy.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: Correct.
Marla Daniels: If you push too hard and any shit hits the fan, you'll be blamed for it.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: Correct.
Marla Daniels: If you don't push hard enough and there's no arrest, you'll be blamed for that, too.
Lt. Cedric Daniels: Correct.
Marla Daniels: The game is rigged. But you cannot lose if you do not play.

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Employee Transfer

The Office 5×5

Pam Beesly: So apparently no one dresses up for Halloween here. I wish I had known that before I used greasepaint for my mustache, and I can't even take off my hat because then I'm Hitler.

Michael Scott: No, no, no. It's going to work. It'll be fine.
Holly Flax: Michael, we've only been dating each other for a few weeks.
Michael Scott: Listen to me, I like you so much.
Holly Flax: I like you, too.
Michael Scott: And I've dated almost four women in the last...
Holly Flax: I dated four guys last year, too.
Michael Scott: Not last... No, in, like, the last 10 years I've dated almost four women, and you are so far above them, it is stupid.

Holly Flax: Michael, no, don't. It is... Don't make it harder than it has to be. I'm...
Michael Scott: That's what she said.

Michael Scott: Holly thinks that this relationship is over. Well, you know what? I am not going to give up that easy. I'm going to make this way harder than it needs to be.

Michael Scott: Here's my wish, I want you to meet a great guy and I want you to be happy.
Holly Flax: Thank you.
Michael Scott: My wish has come true, incidentally, because you've met me and you are happy.

Andy Bernard: I called admissions and it looks like I will be conducting your university interview.
Dwight Schrute: That's a conflict of interest.
Andy Bernard: Yeah. Big one. So should I not let you in now? Or do you want to do the interview and then I won't let you in?
Dwight Schrute: Interview.
Andy Bernard: Excellent. When the hour glass strikes 3:00, then in the room whence employees confer.
Dwight Schrute: What?
Andy Bernard: The conference room.

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Motherland

The Handmaid's Tale 5×8

Moira: So many more of 'em now.
Lucas Bankole: Is this ever gonna end?
June Osborn: No. It's only gonna get worse.

Commander Lawrence: There's no little America without little Americans.

Commander Lawrence: Think of it as our Hong Kong. One country, two systems... Gentlemen, I believe that Gilead will replace the United States at the United Nations. But until that day, the greatest threat to our regime is the persistent fantasy of democratic values in the world it almost destroyed. New Bethlehem neutralizes that threat.

Serena Joy Waterford: I know I acted brashly. And it was just... the pressure, and, um, and the pregnancy.
Alanis Wheeler: That's right. The hormones, they'll make you crazy.

Alanis Wheeler: Stubborn little creature cries all day and all night. He refuses to eat. We've been doing the "cry it out" method for weeks, and he just continues to resist.
Serena Joy Waterford: Well, maybe he just needs to be held. He... He needs to be hugged. So that he knows that somebody is there for him.
Alanis Wheeler: That's not how "cry it out" works, Serena. It requires a certain amount of mental toughness.
Serena Joy Waterford: Mental toughness, huh?

Lucas Bankole: When we first got here, they welcomed us with open arms.
Moira: Naw, you see, you got here before I did. When I showed up, they were still polite, but they were starting to get annoyed. It was nothing like this though.

Commander Lawrence: Lovely weather in Toronto this time of year. Got a minute?

Commander Lawrence: America is dying. It's an idea that has outlived its usefulness. ... You need to understand that everything you value, all the things you're clinging to,democracy, liberty, justice, all that feel-good crap defined by a bunch of slave owners talking about how all men are created equal. All of that collapsed under the weight of late-term capitalism and rampant consumerism. It broke our pretty little planet, almost ended the human race. And Gilead, for all of our faults, we fixed that particular problem. We're having babies again.

Commander Lawrence: Unfortunately, I had to use religious nut-jobs as a delivery system, and I underestimated their depravity, but, uh, it was triage, and it worked.

Commander Lawrence: So now, with our success, we can afford to let up a little.
June Osborn: Are you gonna let Hannah out?
Commander Lawrence: No, I can't. But I can let you in.

Commander Lawrence: New Bethlehem. A new island settlement. No Handmaids, no hangings. Hell, you can read a novel, you can keep a diary if you want. A place where refugees can get amnesty and return to the Motherland.
June Osborn: Uh, are you fucking serious?
Commander Lawrence: Where one might visit their grown children running their own houses...
June Osborn: Are you talking about Hannah?
Commander Lawrence: I am.

June Osborn: Of course you don't understand how I feel. Of course you don't understand. Look what you did to Serena and her baby...

Lucas Bankole: June. Just... Just let me protect you sometimes, okay? Please.
June Osborn: The thing is, I don't need your protection. I don't need it... Hannah does.

Serena Joy Waterford: I'm not gonna be used by you, or Gilead, or the Wheelers.
Commander Lawrence: Who have, need I remind you, legal status to care for your baby. Which you, Serena, on the other hand, do not... It's the only way.

Commander Lawrence: Come on, Serena. You wanna be with your baby? Serena, come on.

Commander Lawrence: Where's the maternal instinct? Do you want to be with little Noah?
Serena Joy Waterford: I'm not gonna live in the same house as my child's kidnappers.
Commander Lawrence: Do you have an irony deficiency?
Serena Joy Waterford: I don't give a damn. I'm not a Handmaid.
Commander Lawrence: ...

Mark Tuello: Even if Lawrence is a Gorbachev trying to open the country up, he'll be succeeded by Putins.

June Osborn: There is nothing you can do for us. And Lawrence is offering us Hannah.

Mark Tuello: I'm asking you to just trust us. Please just trust in your country.
June Osborn: What country?

Serena Joy Waterford: Look, you can dismiss it all you want, but you were there with me in that barn. You and I, we have a bond. We have been through so much together.
June Osborn: Yeah... I turned the other cheek. Turns out, after all this, I... I guess I'm a better Christian than you.

Serena Joy Waterford: How? How do you go and live in a house with a woman who's trying to steal your baby?
June Osborn: Are you seriously asking me that?
Serena Joy Waterford: How did you ever... How did you ever live with me?
June Osborn: Um... Here's what you're gonna do. Okay? You're gonna go back in there, and you are gonna act like a Handmaid. But the entire time, you will be plotting against them and planning your revenge.
Serena Joy Waterford: Is that what you did?
June Osborn: Look at what happened to Fred. And look at you now.

June Osborn: Listen to me. You cannot help your child if you're not with them.

Commander Lawrence: You think I don't know the misery that I've caused? You think... You think I'm unaware? I was trying to save humanity. And, you know, I did. I fucking did it! Then it got away, away from me. It went septic. You think I wouldn't take it back? I would take it all back. I'd let the whole fucking human race just die out, just so I wouldn't have... have Gilead on my conscience.

Commander Lawrence: Countries modernize. Countries can get better. I've seen it. We start in New Bethlehem. And with those reforms and success, five years, ten years, all of Gilead could be like that. A place that doesn't trample on human rights a place that will let you leave. Singapore of yore, with any luck. June, I need you. Come help me fix it.

June Osborn: I'm gonna have to go.
Come help me make more of a difference in Gilead than Mayday ever will.
You really believe you can fix it?
I have to. I have to believe it. I have no choice. It's either that or, or yeah... kill myself, like Eleanor, y'know. One or the other.

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