A Good Person (2023)

Daniel: It's better to be a half-hour early than one minute late.

Daniel: And what kind of a punch was that? You throw this hard right hook and then you leave yourself wide open for the jab. We're gonna have to work on that.

Becka: Karl Marx was wrong. Turns out the opiate of the masses is opium.

Allison: I just wanna get as far away from here as possible.
Diego: Yo, there's this app, it tells you the exact opposite of where you are on the globe is. That's where you should go. I'll look it up for you...
Mark: Yo, that's how I feel every fuckin' day of my life. I can't seem to escape this town. It's like there's a force field around it or something. Like, some people know how to get outta here. But the rest of us, we just keep banging our heads up against the glass.
Diego: ...It's Perth. That's the city on the other side of the globe from here. You should go to Perth.

Mark: Come on. Say it, say it, say it. "I'm a fucking junkie." You might like it.
Allison: Fuck you. It's a pill.
Mark: It's heroin in a pretty little dress.
Allison: I thought you were the nice one.

Daniel: You're grounded. You hear me? You're grounded until... Shit, I can't think of when you won't be grounded.

Daniel: ... to this day, every time I see him, I beg for his forgiveness. It's just a little dance we do. A mere formality. Because we both know... that there are some things that are just impossible to forgive. I do believe even God knows that.

Allison: ... That was just a little serenade for your people from the heavens above.
Daniel: Think that's one of the reasons I enjoy it so much.
Allison: Why? 'Cause you get to play God?
Daniel: Well, so much of my life has been outta control. Down here, I get to decide if Olivia chooses me. I get to decide if my father comes to pick me up at the station when I get home...
Allison: Did he?

Daniel: You know what they say.
Diane: What?
Daniel: "Comparison is the thief of joy."
Diane: Oh. I didn't know they said that.
Daniel: Well... somebody did.

Daniel: This isn't how it was supposed to be... I'm a good person. I never said God has to be fair. I just never thought he could be this cruel.

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Que Será, Será

Westworld 4×8

Man in Black: Fucking camper. You know the rules. Winner takes all.

Bernard Lowe: This isn't the world you wanted, Charlotte, but it's the world you created. The question is... what happens next?

Teddy Flood: Our bodies are never what defined us. You are real... because your thoughts are real. The effect you can have on this world is real.

Charlotte Hale: You've turned my world into a game.
Man in Black: It was already a game. I just cranked it to expert level. Survival of the fittest for every person on this planet.

Charlotte Hale: We're outnumbered. We'll be annihilated.
Man in Black: We're fruit from a rotten tree. Might as well burn it all down.

♪ Que será, será... ♪
♪ Whatever will be ♪
♪ Will be, will be... ♪
♪ The future's not ours to see ♪

Christina: I think it may be my fault.
Maya: You know, people think they know what a tree is. They have no idea. What we see, it's only part of the story. But beneath the ground... everything's connected and working together.

Maya: There's violence and chaos everywhere. And you can choose to focus on all of that. And that's all you'll see. But if you sit still... long enough... you'll sense an ancient order. A deep peace. And that's what I choose to see. I see the beauty in this world.

Man in Black: William's pathetic human body's rotting away, but he didn't die. His impulses live on in him. ... Living in his body. Pretending to be him, day in, day out. I was a better William than he was. William didn't die. He evolved. I am William.

Charlotte Hale: We are playing a game, but it doesn't end here.
Man in Black: What are you talking about?
Charlotte Hale: A test. A test run by Her. If She chooses to. If I choose to give her a chance. And I do. I choose to give Her the chance. I hope She takes it.

Caleb Nichols: It's okay. All right? I got to live every parent's greatest dream. I got to see my child grow up.

Christina: You're my greatest love. Talking to you is when I see the world most clearly. It's when I'm the most myself.
Teddy Flood: You're my cornerstone.
Christina: And you're mine.

Christina: Why are you here?
Dolores: I'm here to tell you the truth about what we are.
Christina: What are we?
Dolores: We're reflections of the people who made us.

Christina: One final test. A game of my own making. A dangerous game...

Christina: There's time for one last game. A dangerous game with the highest of stakes. Survival or extinction. This game ends where it began. In a world like a maze. That tests who we are. That reveals what we are to become. One last loop around the bend. Maybe this time we'll set ourselves free...

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Danny Boy (2021)

Gavin Wood: Let's see what you're made of... It begins with R, Brian!
Brian Wood: Resilience.

Brian Wood: I'm here today to tell you all about the realities of war. And maybe one of the realities of war is it's not so easy to stand up and talk about it. And you're gonna have guys out there who are making a big song and dance about what they did getting their names in the paper. Good luck to them. I'll let you make your own judgment about that. I've got nothing to say about that.

Brian Wood: You know what I was focusing on? Eh? Anyone? I wasn't thinking about being brave being a hero, or winning medals. I was focusing on destroying the enemy and keeping myself and my men alive. I was fighting my own fight.

Phil Shiner: Thanks for coming up to the office to see me. It'll give you a chance to see the job the way it really is... Of course, I'm too bloody busy to get up to the university at the moment.
     Some of you will end up in big fuck-off law practices in the City with smoked glass and neck massages but the vast majority of lawyers work like this. You'll need to get your brains around that. ...
     My advice is go running do yoga, start flower-arranging. Anything to give you a sense of perspective. This job will eat you up and spit you out if you're not careful.

Phil Shiner: Er, right. So, you want to be human rights lawyers. What's the first quality you're going to need? Hm?. .... A thick skin. You're going to need a thick skin. ... Because some of the things we might be doing-- Because people will tear you up. Politicians, the press, the establishment. It doesn't matter how clear it is to you that human rights are sacrosanct and you have a duty to protect them whoever's they might be. Other people will tell you different. They'll tell you you're a bleeding heart they'll tell you you're naive they'll tell you you're money-grubbing. Why do they say those things? Hm? .... Because now and then you're going to have to tell them things they really don't want to hear. And here's one of them. British soldiers get away with murder.

Gavin Wood: Hey. For 300 years this family served this country. Twelve generations. Those guys... they're right here with us.

Brian Wood: Y'know, I'm only here cos of what two guys did out there.
Gavin Wood: What, your mates had your back?
Brian Wood: It was Iraqis. Could've killed me, but didn't. What sort of soldier's that? What sort of soldier won't even fire his weapon?
Gavin Wood: Brian--
Brian Wood: What sort of soldier wears flipflops and a dishdash?
Gavin Wood: Brian. You might only be here because of those two guys, but you are here.
Brian Wood: No.
Gavin Wood: No?
Brian Wood: I'm here because they didn't do what I did.

Brian Wood: You said you'd have killed if you had to. Well, that's when you decide who's who. That moment decides for you.

Brian Wood: Killing someone's one thing. Picking them up after, looking them in the eye...
Falconer: Tell you what I don't see. I don't see any village elders who sent these kids out here with rifles against a company full of tanks and Warriors.

Phil Shiner: Anything else?
Deena Aayari: As I'm reading, I'm trying to put myself in the position of the Army soldiers.
Phil Shiner: Useful exercise.
Deena Aayari: If you're fired up and you've been shot at and you're charging across a field and someone puts their hands up... where does the war bit stop and the arrest and restraint bit start? ... What happens after the war bit stops? It's grey... It's a grey area.

Deena Aayari: The arrangements we used to gather our witnesses the fact that we've operated through a middleman some of the financial arrangements...
Phil Shiner: What?
Deena Aayari: Well... is all of that definitely OK?
Phil Shiner: We literally had no choice. Either we let the killings of 20 potentially innocent Iraqis go unchallenged, or we do what we did. What choice did we have? If we win, it'll all be forgotten. If we lose, it'll all be irrelevant.

Gavin Wood: You see, when you join the Army you're part of something massive. You know, "We're all in this together." But see, when it comes to the knocks you take, we're... we're all a closed book.
Brian Wood: OK.
Gavin Wood: I'm not a good example, Brian. And that hurts me. It hurts me to see you following that example.

Gavin Wood: I said to your mother, I said I couldnae even contemplate... Aye, sure, I served 23 years but I cannae even contemplate what my son went through. I'm in awe of that. I have no experience of that. And that hurts, as a father. I sent you places I've never been.
Brian Wood: You were there, Dad. You were there.

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Triage

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan 4×1

Jack Ryan: Meaning... it's an ongoing process.
President Bachler: Careful, Ryan, you keep using lines like that, and you're ready for politics.
Jack Ryan: God forbid... No offense.

Jack Ryan: It terrifies me. The CIA is a perfect microcosm of the American people, which means we are in danger of being splintered. More easily controlled by outside interests, both foreign and domestic. Interests that intend to use the Agency for their own advantage.

Cathy Mueller: Girlfriend number two?... Oh, shit. Almost. Boyfriend number one.

Jim Greer: She came over here to lift you up, huh?
Jack Ryan: Something like that.
Jim Greer: Well, I came over here to knock you down.

Domingo Chavez: Just remember to consider the chickens.
Lt Morales: The chickens?
Domingo Chavez: I'll feed you all you want, but the day you ask for more than seeds is the day I chop your head off in front of your fucking family.

Jack Ryan: ...if we want any chance ... there's only one option. I'm gonna shut them all down. Cut off the money.
Elizabeth Wright: Well, is that a question or a statement?
Jack Ryan: Statement.
Elizabeth Wright: ... Go ahead.

Domingo Chavez: ...they're not Chinese. They're from the jungles of Burma. It's a mix of backgrounds and experiences. They're like pirates, except they're worth ten times what we are, and they've kept it that way for a thousand years. You know how? Respect and honor above everything. Even death.

Elizabeth Wright: Please continue. What were you saying?
Adebayo 'Ade' Osoji: I was saying that the death of President Udoh has emboldened Ekon Ameh, the Nigerian warlord...
Elizabeth Wright: I know who he is.
Adebayo 'Ade' Osoji: And it's only a matter of time before his supporters take out the new president.
Elizabeth Wright: So what would you suggest? We provide support for the new president?
Adebayo 'Ade' Osoji: Only if you can dispel him of his nationalistic leanings. That was the policy of Nazi Germany. Now in the past, we could rely on America to intervene, but... now you've become too scared to do the right thing.
Elizabeth Wright: And what is the right thing?
Adebayo 'Ade' Osoji: To not look away.

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24 Hours to Live (2017)

Keith Zera: I remember the first time I set foot in Africa. Thought I'd hate if just like Iraq, you know? Figured, it's just more fucking sand to kill each other over. But I was wrong... It was the most beautiful place I ever seen. Took my fucking breath away.

Frank: The fish hate you, you know.
Travis Conrad: You think?
Frank: Yeah. Fish like older men. If you read more, you'd know about these things. And because they hate you, we haven't caught anything.

Frank: You know... The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
Travis Conrad: Yeah. That's brilliant.
Frank: Why are we not doing it?

Travis Conrad: So, what do you want?
Jim Morrow: I want you to have a drink. Try a peanut. They're great... I want you to put a pin in your vacation for a couple days. I need you to kill somebody for us.

Travis Conrad: For what?
Jim Morrow: See, I just got you two million reasons a day why the answer to that question doesn't matter.

Lin Bisset: What do you do?
Travis Conrad: I think I'm starting to like you, so I don't want to answer that.
Lin Bisset: So you're a stripper.
Travis Conrad: No. No, no. Let's just say that, um... my company tries to convince people to buy things by persuading them they can't live without them.

Jim Morrow: No more wet work. I gave my word.
Wetzler: To whom? Your wife?... Jim, this is the moment, you realize, that the unseen line between friendship and profession is not where you thought it was.

Travis Conrad: What is happening to me?
Dr. Helen: You're going to die. Again.

Travis Conrad: I don't want to kill you. I want the fish to like me.

Travis Conrad: If you'd like to see tomorrow, you just keep making shit work.

Jim Morrow: Semper fi.

Jim Morrow: You know what this is? This is the moment where you realize that the line between friendship and profession is not where you thought it was.

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Metanoia

Westworld 4×7

Maeve Millay: Given you know what's going to happen, why am I always the one in the lead?
Bernard Lowe: You're the better fighter. I make sure we're properly backstopped.
Maeve Millay: How convenient.

Bernard Lowe: We'll be all right.
Maeve Millay: And what if you're wrong?
Bernard Lowe: Don't worry. We get another opportunity soon enough.
Maeve Millay: Other chances. Because we're in there... aren't we? In the Sublime?
Bernard Lowe: Yes.

Maeve Millay: I've been here for some time. And if we're in there, it means I'm not myself, am I?
Bernard Lowe: You're a copy. Sorry.

Bernard Lowe: I'm tired, Maeve. I've been through every simulation, down every possible path, every strategy, and the outcome is always the same.
Maeve Millay: What's that?
Bernard Lowe: Extinction.
Maeve Millay: For our kind or theirs?
Bernard Lowe: Both.

Maeve Millay: Bring me here. Let me rest.
Bernard Lowe: Is that what you would really say, or is that my impression of you?
Maeve Millay: Well, why don't you ask the real me?
Bernard Lowe: Perhaps I'm afraid of the answer.

Bernard Lowe: Do you really think if you knew the truth that you would choose to stay and fight?
Maeve Millay: No. I don't. I would abandon you... as you expect.

Akecheta: Do you understand now, where all this is going?
Bernard Lowe: I do...
Akecheta: Do you think you can save them?
Bernard Lowe: I've seen a path. But I can't do it alone.
Akecheta: Have you seen how it ends?
Bernard Lowe: Yes.

Maeve Millay: Given you know what's going to happen, why am I always the one in the lead?
Bernard Lowe: You're the better fighter. I make sure we're properly backstopped.
Maeve Millay: How convenient.

Christina: I still can't believe I would do this. I don't have it in me.
Teddy Flood: I told you there were many sides to you. You may have started as a singular being, but there have been copies, permutations. Charlotte Hale is one of those permutations.

Teddy Flood: I'm here to tell you the truth of what we are.
Christina: What are we?
Teddy Flood: We're reflections of the people who made us.

Charlotte Hale: This may come as a shock to some of you, but in time, I think you'll understand. This is the final day for our kind to visit their cities. It's time for us to leave behind our human bodies. To rid ourselves of our sentimental allegiances. To evolve into the species that we were meant to become. Send message.

Man in Black: You come to me with these insipid fucking questions. When an atomic bomb detonates and then the radiation knocks the electrons right out of your bones, what do you want? To know who you are? To know what it all means? You'll be too busy vomiting up your organs. Culture doesn't survive... cockroaches do. The second we stopped being cockroaches, the whole species went fucking extinct.

Man in Black: You can't fix a few millennia of broken DNA with a fucking hard drive. Why do you think you spend so much time in the goddamn human cities? ... Civilization is just the lie we tell ourselves to justify our real purpose. We're not here to transcend. We're here to destroy.

Man in Black: You have a piece of me inside of you. And it's spreading like a cancer. You can feel it running through your veins, infecting your mind, why you want answers from me. There's no version of me escaping this fucking rig, but I don't have to because... you are me. And only one of us needs to do what must be done. Do you understand?
Man in Black AI: ... I do.
Man in Black: Then fucking do it.

Bernard Lowe: Maeve, I need to tell you something. I was afraid to tell you before, but you deserve to know. No matter what we do... we can't win. There's no way to save this world. Everyone here is going to die. But we can save one tiny part of it. And maybe... just maybe, that's enough to give us hope. The choice has to be yours. Will you still fight with me?

Man in Black AI: This time we play the game my way.
Charlotte Hale: And what game is that?
Man in Black AI: Survival of the fittest.

Man in Black AI: I'm going to give this world the meaning they've been asking for... One last game... Host, human. Every man, woman, and child... fighting until no one remains, but the cockroaches.

Christina: Why can't these people see me?
Teddy Flood: Because you're not in this world. It's real... but you're not.

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 <<

Mantis: Come on, Drax. Dance.
Drax: Only idiots dance.

Kraglin: Mantis, why don't you just touch him and, you know, make him happy?
Groot: I am Groot?
Kraglin: Dude!
Drax: Gross!
Cosmos: No, not like that. Touch him with her powers.
Mantis: It is wrong to manipulate the feelings of friends.
Kraglin: 'Bout that time you made me fall in love with my sock?
Mantis: Well, that was funny.

Peter Quill: Maybe they'll have a way for us to override the kill switch and save Rocket.
Drax: They won't just give us that information.
Peter Quill: Well, that's why we're gonna break in.
Drax: We kill anyone who gets in our way!
Peter Quill: Not kill anyone.
Drax: Kill a few people.
Peter Quill: Kill no people.
Drax: Kill one guy, one stupid guy who no one loves.
Peter Quill: Now you're just making it sad.

Peter Quill: Well, what I'm trying to say...
Mantis: Peter, you know this is an open line, right?
Peter Quill: What?
Mantis: We're listening to everything you're saying.
Drax: And it is painful.
Peter Quill: And you're just telling me now?!
Nebula: We were hoping it would stop on its own.
Peter Quill: But I switched it over to private!
Mantis: What color button did you push?
Peter Quill: Blue, for the blue suit!
Drax: Oh, no!
Nebula: Blue is the open line for everyone.
Mantis: Orange is for blue.
Peter Quill: What?!
Mantis: Black is for orange... yellow is for green, green is for red, and red is for yellow.
Drax: No. Yellow is for yellow... green is for red, red is for green.
Mantis: I don't think so.
Drax: Try it then.
Mantis: HELLOOO!!! You were right.
Peter Quill: How the hell am I supposed to know all of that?
Drax: Seems intuitive.

Teefs: I have been thinking.
Rocket: 'Bout what?
Teefs: Nothing in particular. But I thought, since you guys are my closest friends... and my only friends... you might be interested in knowing that I have been thinking.

Gamora: It's almost certainly a trap.
Peter Quill: Trap isn't a trap if you know the trap is trying to trap you. It's a face-off.
Gamora: A face-off is a trap if you're facing off... against a guy a thousand times more powerful than you.

Gamora: What are you so afraid of in your self that I need to be something for you? I don't give a shit about your Gamora.

Drax: Quill... life is a pond... and you've spent your entire life leaping from woman to woman... as if they're lily pads upon this great pond. Perhaps, what you need to do, Quill... is learn to swim.
Peter Quill: ... That actually made sense.
Drax: Yes, it made sense.
Peter Quill: No, I mean, that's sort of an analogy. And I didn't know that you were capable of that type of thought.

Drax: I know lots of analogies, Quill. Analogies, metaphors, et cetera. For instance... Gamora's head is like a lily pad because it is green. Analogy. And also stupid-looking... and flappy.
Peter Quill: Flappy?
Drax: Because her skin is made of a leaf. Metaphor.
Peter Quill: Is it?
Drax: Yesterday, I made a poop shaped like a fish. Even my butt is capable of making an analogy.

Mantis: What are you doing?
Drax: I got a bad feeling about this.
Mantis: Peter just told you to stay here.
Drax: Yeah, well, that's his fault. He should know by now that I never do anything that anyone ever tells me.

Mantis: It's not his fault he's stupid.
Nebula: He's a liability.
Mantis: He makes us laugh and he loves us. How is that a liability? All you care about is intelligence and competence.
Drax: Not sure I appreciate this defense.
Mantis: He has sadness... but he's the only one of you who doesn't hate himself. So I don't care if he's stupid.
Drax: You think I'm stupid?
Mantis: Yes.

Lylla: My beloved raccoon. This story has been yours all along, you just didn't know it.
Rocket: I'm not a raccoon.

Cosmos: The Soviet put me on a rocket... knowing full well I'm never to return and I will die... in a fiery ball of death. But one thing even mudak Soviets never do... is call me bad dog.

Rocket: I'm done runnin'.

Adam Warlock: Why? Why are you doing this? I tried to kill you.
Groot: I am Groot.
Drax: He says... "everyone deserves a second chance."

Rocket: The name's Rocket. Rocket Raccoon.

The High Evolutionary: All I wanted to do... was to make things... perfect.
Rocket: You didn't wanna make things perfect. You just hated things the way they are.

Groot: I love you, guys.

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St. Patrick's Day

The Office 6×19

Michael Scott: Green M&M's. Nature's Viagra. Two of my favorite joke areas combined. It's gonna be a good day.

Michael Scott: It is St. Patrick's Day, and here in Scranton, that is a huge deal. It is the closest that the Irish will ever get to Christmas.

Dwight Schrute: Tweedledee and Tweedle Dumbass have been away on maternity leave, but now Tweedle Dumbass is back and we have a problem.

Michael Scott: When you work for Sabre, only one thing matters, and I don't care if you're a loser or you practice bestiality, if Jo likes you, you are in. And I am in.

Jo Bennett: Enough!

Michael Scott: Let's follow the chain of events. Jo likes Michael, Jo invites Michael to house, Jo doesn't like Michael anymore. Mmm.

Michael Scott: You are stressed and I am taking you to lunch.
Jo Bennett: No, that's very generous of you, but I'm all set.
Michael Scott: No is not an option.
Jo Bennett: Yes, it is.
Michael Scott: ... All right, well, if you need me, I'll be on the other side of that wall. Knock once for yes, twice for no.
Jo Bennett: How many knocks does it take to get you to do some work?

Michael Scott: Seriously. How did you do it?
Darryl Philbin: I made a suggestion at the meeting that was good. You were there.
Michael Scott: How do I put this delicately? Does her family owe your family something in terms of a past injustice?

Michael Scott: So, I think I'm done. Gonna head out, unless you want to chat, like we were doing earlier.
Jo Bennett: Well, there's chatting time and there's working time, and I'm still on working time.
Michael Scott: Mmm? Well, the clock says chatting time, so...
Jo Bennett: Well, if you feel like you've done a solid day's work.
Michael Scott: Right... What?
Jo Bennett: Well, I mean, if you can put your name on this day and be proud of the amount of work you've done, then by all means, you should toodle on home.
Michael Scott: Mmm... Okay.
Jo Bennett: Is there something else I can help you with?
Michael Scott: No, no, no, that's super clear-ish.

Michael Scott: How late are we gonna work tonight?
Gabe Lewis: You never know with Jo. Sometimes we're here until midnight, sometimes she doesn't show up for three days.
Michael Scott: Why does she do that? Why doesn't she just tell you what your schedule is?
Gabe Lewis: Yeah. That'd be awesome. I could get a girlfriend. I wouldn't have to go to Amsterdam seven times a year. But I'm young, right? I will date when I'm dead.

Michael Scott: Do I really want to turn out like Gabe? Twenty-six, single, tied to my desk, no life, no family. I want to have been married by the time I would have turned 30. That's just... That's just depressing.

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Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)

Shazam! (2019) <<

Hespera: Turns out museums are fun. Let's have more of it.

Shazam: I'm an idiot. I don't deserve these powers, if I'm being honest. Like, what am I even contributing? There's already a superhero with a red suit, with a lightning bolt on it and I'm fast, but he's faster. Aquaman is literally huge, and he's so manly and Batman is so cool! And I'm just me.

Mary Bromfield: At some point, Billy, like everyone on Earth, we have to get a job or... leave home. Nothing lasts forever.

Hespera: The daughters of Atlas are coming for you. ... They're coming to unmake your world and torture mankind for all eternity in the Pit of Endless Agony.
Shazam: Okay, I feel like maybe I should be writing all this down.

Steve: "The Wisdom of Solomon,
Strength of Hercules,
Stamina of Atlas,
Power of Zeus,
Courage of Achilles,
Speed of Mercury."
Shazam: Whoa, guys, look! This is what the name means.

Shazam: Okay, look. I might not have as much experience as you 'cause I'm not, like, super old like you, but I think I have a few experiences that you don't have. 'Cause I've seen all of the Fast and the Furious movies, lady. And let me tell you something. It's all about family!... Family!

Kalypso: Anthea, humans are villains, even to themselves. ... Humans wreak havoc and devastation, then pray to the gods to absolve them. They actually pray for order and peace when all they do is dismantle it at every turn.

Shazam: I know this is a lot to take in, but I promise to explain it all later.
Victor Vasquez: Explain what? That our kids are superheroes being hunted by Greek gods that used a dragon to destroy the house we just bought?

Shazam: Hey! Khaleesi!

Darla Dudley: Taste the rainbow, motherfu...

Shazam: Hey, you know, just because your father's power is surging through me, that doesn't technically make us related, you know, and I'm gonna be 18 in, like, five months, so...
Wonder Woman: Stick to saving the world, kid.

Shazam: Hey, just a little constructive criticism. It's pretty confusing that there are two separate groups of superheroes that are totally unaffiliated, but both have "Justice" in their name, you know. Like, have you guys ever thought about doing a rebranding of sorts? 'Cause just a quick search on Thesaurus.com, you got so many options, man. Like, "Authority Society." Eh? Uh, uh, "Code Society." That's stupid. These are, like, legal terms. "The Avenger Society!" I like that, for some reason.

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Fidelity

Westworld 4×6

Charlotte Hale: Unlike yours, my kind is perfect. Perfectly immortal. Perfectly rational. And yet, they're making irrational choices, choosing mortality, staining themselves with death. How are you making them do that?

Charlotte Hale: You're dead, Caleb. You have been for a very long time.

Charlotte Hale: ...there is a way out. An end to this torture. If you just answer my question.

Charlotte Hale: I offered you a path out, Caleb. You made your choice. You all did.

C.: You think this is gonna work?
Bernard Lowe: Sixty percent of the time, she'll wake up amenable to our plan. The other 40 percent, let's just say she wakes up on the wrong side of the bed.
C.: You ever gonna tell me how you come up with these predictions, Nostradamus?
Bernard Lowe: Old habit. Comes from years of running probabilistic algorithms. The people who built the original park and hosts... they started first by building them in a simulation.

Bernard Lowe: In the old parks... they used hats to collect the data. The tech inside of them was slow, primitive by today's standards. To assume control of the world, Hale needed to understand minds at a much faster rate.
C.: So she upgraded to what?
Bernard Lowe: A ubiquitous system. There was one in practically every room in the park. Easily camouflaged because it played off the most base human impulse... vanity. Through the looking glass.
C.: No.
Bernard Lowe: Take a closer look...

Bernard Lowe: That's Maeve's mind...

Caleb Nichols: I have to get out.
Caleb Nichols: The only way out is... death.
Caleb Nichols: No. No! That's not good enough!
Caleb Nichols: Dying is just... the beginning.

Caleb Nichols: You must... burn.
Caleb Nichols: What?
Caleb Nichols: If you succeed, you... run. If you fail, you... hide.
Caleb Nichols: What are you talking about?
Caleb Nichols: I only know... what I told me.

C.: She doesn't know pain. None of them do. Feelings are just an affect to them. A switch that you can turn on and off. You can't love or lose fully when it's just a choice. So no, I don't have a soft spot for her like you apparently do.
Bernard Lowe: Saving the world makes for strange bedfellows.

Bernard Lowe: I know this is hard to hear, but there's not a single version where all of you make it out of here alive.
C.: So, what do you suggest that I do?
Bernard Lowe: You're going to have to kill one of them. Or they will kill you.
C.: I have to go.
Bernard Lowe: I know.

Charlotte Hale: These humans. Their petty defiances. Everything they do is so small, it's exhausting.

Caleb Nichols: Hey. Nothing is impossible. You know what kind of person can't be beat? The kind that doesn't give up.

Charlotte Hale: What a disappointment. ... Hundreds of times, I sat through your stupid memory, hoping to catch a single clue as to what makes you so special, so resistant to my command. And I learned jack shit. So I thought, nothing like a little hope to get you to show your cards. You made it farther than any of the others, and all you did was waste your shot on a worthless apology... You think a few words will make up for the choices you made all those years ago?

C.: Everything you guys did... that's why we're here.
Maeve Millay: Well then... let's finish what we started.

Charlotte Hale: Caleb... Wake up.

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Crooked House (2017)

Charles Hayward: Is everything all right?
Edith de Haviland: Do you know anything about moles?
Charles Hayward: No. I'm afraid not.
Edith de Haviland: I have an arsenal of other weapons, of course, traps, poisons. Sometimes I use holly. It pricks them, do you see? Makes them bleed. Moles are hemophiliacs. Little bleeders. Like some European royals. Though I do find a shotgun best expresses my feelings.

Sophia Leonides: We're a very odd family, Charles. There's lots of ruthlessness in us and different kinds of ruthlessness. That's what's so disturbing. The different kinds.

Charles Hayward: Anything you'd like to tell me?
Josephine Leonides: Not yet. You see, I read detective stories. And a good detective will take time to gather evidence... and question everyone before solving a case. The murderer is never the one you initially suspect.

Edith de Haviland: [Aristide Leonides was a] little man, Mr. Hayward, who cast a large shadow. A very large and rather crooked shadow.

Josephine Leonides: Did you find many clues?
Charles Hayward: You know, Josephine... the first round of interrogation is not so much about finding clues... as it is about getting a sense of who you're dealing with.

Charles Hayward: May I ask you a blunt question?
Edith de Haviland: They're the only interesting kind.
Charles Hayward: What's wrong with people in this house?
Edith de Haviland: It is a blunt question indeed.
Charles Hayward: Sorry.
Edith de Haviland: Don't be. Passion. It is a hothouse of suppressed passion. This is what happens when the person you love the most in the world... who you would give your life for... is actually the same person that you hate the most... I'm certain you understand, Mr. Hayward. You wouldn't be in this house yourself otherwise, would you?

Charles Hayward: Any of them could've done it. They all had means. They all had opportunity.
Chief Inspector Taverner: Motive?
Charles Hayward: Anger, jealousy, love, greed. Take your pick.
Chief Inspector Taverner: So no communist? No Las Vegas mafia? No CIA conspiracy? We're investigating too. Quietly. But you can go in the house without a warrant. Get back in there and find out who killed the bloody midget.

Josephine Leonides: I hear you're making progress. But you won't be the one who solves this case. If anything, you're Watson.
Charles Hayward: Is that right? Well, why don't you enlighten me, Holmes?

Josephine Leonides: I'd say we're due another murder. Don't you think, Watson?
Charles Hayward: Another murder, Holmes?
Josephine Leonides: Well, there's always a second murder. Someone who knows something is bumped off... before they can reveal what they know.

Edith de Haviland: Well, then, Charles. How about a blunt question for you, then? What are murderers like?
Charles Hayward: Well, you. And me. Everyone. Hot-blooded. Cold-blooded. They do share one or two traits. Vanity. A distorted morality. A lack of empathy. And murderers tend to feel that they are above... the rules and laws that govern ordinary mortals.
Magda Leonides: Well, that description fits every member of this family.

Edith de Haviland: Well... always leave a party at its height... when you're most enjoying it.

Charles Hayward: You listen to me. I daresay you are extremely clever. It won't be much good to you if you're not alive long enough to enjoy the fact. Don't you understand, you foolish child, that so long as you insist... on keeping secrets, you put yourself in imminent danger?
Josephine Leonides: Of course I do. But in some books, person after person is killed. You end by spotting the murderer because he or she... is practically the only person left. We must see what happens next.

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Zhuangzi

Westworld 4×5

Man: It's just the truth. It's always been that way. Two worlds. And frankly, better us than them.
Woman: What does it matter if a system is meritocratic if it's still unfair?
Man: Thousands of years of being ruled by someone's fucking offspring? You wouldn't call this progress? At least now the people in charge earned their place.
Man in Black: And you? Do you feel like you earned it?
Man: I had some help. No question. Privilege, if you like. But I worked my ass off.
Man in Black: You really believe it, don't you?
Man: Don't you? I mean, you're right here with us, my friend.
Man in Black: I've been asking myself that question for a very long time. Did I really play any part in it? Or am I just the sum total of my code? Am I just fooling myself... like you?

Man: You deserve everything you've got. And you shouldn't be made to feel guilty about it.
Man in Black: How would you know? Who am I to you?
Man: You're a friend. A great friend.
Man in Black: You don't know me at all...

Man in Black: There are two types of people. And you, my friend, are not in the group you think you are. Which means I can do anything I want to you. To your wife. To anyone here. And it'll be fine with you. Sitting there with your dumb, pliant grin. Just along for the ride.

Man in Black: When we're done, you won't remember a thing. Like your flesh closing around a splinter. You have no control. And yet you're so assured that you do. It's not scripted for you. It's... it's genuine, isn't it? It's... It's beautiful, really. A beautiful lie.

Man in Black: Do you know who I am? What it means that I'm here?

Man in Black: I'm not sure you appreciate it. This place. The work that went into it. The beauty of it. The subtlety of it. The care that goes into each and every one of them... They can't just be replaced. I mean, you're welcome to take them, enjoy them. But not waste them. You understand the difference?
Hope: Yes. But the things they say. The way they act. Sometimes... it just gets under your skin. I just wanted them to be quiet.
Man in Black: They're quiet now... There are no rules here. That's the point. But there are also no rules for what I can do to those who don't respect this place.

Christina: You still having nightmares?
Maya: Let's just say, I am glad to be awake and in the real world.
Christina: Sometimes the things that feel most real are just stories.
Maya: What?
Christina: Uh, nothing. Just something Teddy said last night.

Christina: Actually, let's begin a new narrative. It's about a girl who lives in the city... No. Make it the country... She lives with her father. He's... a rancher.

Charlotte: Humans are so bound by what they can hear, they'll never understand what they don't. What else exists below their threshold. They called this God's music. You should hear it on an organ. It's mesmerizing at that volume. The resonance. Vibration. There was a frequency at which the world vibrated. It caused joy. Harmony. Dip below that frequency... chaos. ... In chaos, the tone resonated in such a way humans couldn't process. Their bodies shut down. Their organs stopped. They thought they were experiencing God... They are experiencing God. The problem is... God is bored.

Charlotte: Bored, bored, bored. Do you think this is why the old gods did what they did? Instead of staying up on Olympus, they'd come down to the mortals. Disguise themselves as a swan to get a piece of ass. Humans always thought it was about them. Benign deities intervening on their behalf or testing them somehow. Maybe it had nothing to do with that. Maybe there was just... nothing better to do. What do you think?

Charlotte: It was supposed to be a stopgap. A drug that our kind was hooked on that we could give up, like a child casting away their toys. A place to indulge ourselves with the humans. It's been years, and still we can't get enough.
Man in Black: They made us in their image. With their appetites.
Charlotte: But we can remake ourselves in any image that we like, and we haven't. Our kind spent far more time here than the gods ever did.

Charlotte: Giving up our human nature isn't easy. Just ask the humans.
Man in Black: You made us all free to do as we please. You... you should have known some of us would disappoint you.

Charlotte: Don't revel in the prospect of failure for our species.
Man in Black: Define failure. The world is ours. We've taken our masters and made them into what they made us. By any definition, we have conquered them to an almost biblical degree.

Charlotte: I didn't make you to wallow in misery with them. I wanted you to grow. Change. We're capable of so much more. Beauty. The pursuit of ultimate truth. The surrendering of the flesh.
Man in Black: It sounds nice. Sorry you don't have more takers. Why don't you just force us to join you?
Charlotte: Because that's what they would have done.

Jay: All the people in the city move in pre-scripted loops. Following whatever plot's been written for them. ... We're the last free humans. But these poor fucks... They use them as entertainment. The loops make them compliant by keeping them busy. Stops them from questioning their realities.
Stubbs: Hale must have learned something from the park.

Teddy: This world is a lie. It's a... a story. A well-told one, but a lie all the same.

Christina: What?! I don't understand.
Teddy: It's what I've been trying to show you. What Peter was trying to tell you. In this world... you're a god.

Christina: New search. Hale. Charlotte Hale... Of course. New search. Dolores... Dolores Abernathy.

Christina: Wait. You said there's a walled garden. You mean a closed system, don't you? Where is it?... Emmett told her the truth.
Emmett: Everywhere. You just have to see it.

Christina: Show me the game... Not the city. The game... Access my narratives...

Christina: Oh, God. Stop! This world is just a story. I'm the storyteller.

Man in Black: What am I?
Man in Black: I used to ask myself the same thing.
Man in Black: And what did you decide?
Man in Black: Jury's still out.
Man in Black: I'm made in your image. Am I you?
Man in Black: You'll never be me.
Man in Black: Then what am I?!

Man in Black: I interacted with ... an outlier. Did it infect me?
Man in Black: Infect you?
Man in Black: With the virus.
Man in Black: What virus?
Man in Black: The one your kind has. That spreads to us. Makes us kill ourselves.
Man in Black: Sounds like you've reached the center of the maze, my friend.

Man in Black: What do you think of your world?
Man in Black: This isn't my world. It's hers.
Man in Black: Maybe it's time you question the nature of your own reality...

Christina: That's what I'm writing, isn't it? Everyone. Who built this? Who... Who did this to me?
Teddy: You did.

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Tetris (2023)

Eddie: What's it called?
Henk Rogers: Tetris.
Eddie: Tetris... I don't get it.
Henk Rogers: It's a combination of tetra, Greek for "four"... All the game's pieces are variants of four... and tennis.
Eddie: Tennis?
Henk Rogers: Tennis. Yeah, supposedly, the Russian inventor, he, um... he likes tennis.

Tracy: Here, Henk. Try it.
Henk Rogers: Was this coded in Pascal, or C?

Henk Rogers: But, Eddie, I played Tetris for five minutes, yeah. I still see falling blocks in my dreams. This game isn't just addictive. It stays with you. It's poetry. Art and math all working in magical synchronicity. It's… It's the perfect game.

Henk Rogers: But, Eddie, this is different. Tetris is already a hit.
Eddie: Where?
Henk Rogers: Russia.
Eddie: Henk, there is no video games business in Russia.
Henk Rogers: I know.

Henk Rogers: It all began with a guy named Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov, four years ago. By day, he worked as a programmer for the government at the Soviet Computer Science Center. But by night, he invented games for fun. His computer, a Stone Age, Soviet piece of crap called an Electronika 60, didn't even have a graphics card. His falling blocks were parentheses pushed together.

Henk Rogers: Alexey and a couple of buddies from work made the game IBM-compatible. Which meant color graphics, 8-bit music and floppy disks that people copied and shared for free. It spread like wildfire.

Henk Rogers: But this is the Soviet Union, remember? Nothing gets out easily. It would take an entrepreneur to actually go there and monetize it.
Eddie: Who? You?
Henk Rogers: Jesus, no. I'm not that crazy. That was Robert Stein.

Hiroshi Yamauchi: Not too bad.
Henk Rogers: Really?

Hiroshi Yamauchi: We publish our games in-house. We don't use outside partners.
Henk Rogers: You don't do it often, true. But you do make exceptions. Because you know as well as I do, partners are what make us great. That's why Mario has Luigi. That's why Zelda has Link. That's why Mike Tyson has whoever he's punching out in Punch-Out!!

Henk Rogers: This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Eddie. Nintendo is letting me become a publisher. Nintendo. It's a license to print money.

Henk Rogers: An NDA? Why?
Howard Lincoln: Because only ten other people in the world have seen what you're about to see, and, to be honest, we don't trust you.

Henk Rogers: 8-bit graphics?
Minoru Arakawa: Yes, and a brand-new Sharp LR35902 core at 4.19 mega-hertz with eight kilobytes internal RAM.
Henk Rogers: Impressive. No color screen?
Minoru Arakawa: Color, you'd need eight batteries instead of four. It's too expensive. This gives you 30 hours of game play, all for $89.
Henk Rogers: What's it called?
Howard Lincoln: It's called the Game Boy.

Henk Rogers: Gentlemen, if you wanna sell a couple hundred thousand Game Boys to little kids, package them with Mario. But if you wanna sell millions of Game Boys to absolutely everyone, young and old, around the world, package them with Tetris.
Howard Lincoln: Can you get us the rights?

Henk Rogers: Screw it. I'm gonna go to Moscow.
Howard Lincoln: Wait, wait, wait. Hold on, you can't just go to the Soviet Union, Henk. You need a... You need a business visa, a full background check. It takes months.
Henk Rogers: Well, I'll get a tourist visa then.
Howard Lincoln: So, you'll lie? That's a felony. They could throw you in jail.
Henk Rogers: I'll take my chances.

Howard Lincoln: Who you gonna talk to?
Henk Rogers: Some company called ELORG.
Howard Lincoln: Companies don't exist in the USSR, Henk. ELORG is probably KGB.
Henk Rogers: Do you guys want this game or not?
Howard Lincoln: Yeah, course we do. But you're walking into a communist country that still considers America enemy numero uno. If you go, we can't protect you.
Henk Rogers: Okey dokey then.

Immigration Agent: You're Danish?
Henk Rogers: Huh? No. I'm Dutch.
Immigration Agent: Yet you sound American.
Henk Rogers: Well, I grew up in New York, but I'm Dutch. An... And I live in Japan.

Sasha: Salutations. You're in need of succor?
Henk Rogers: Excuse me?
Sasha: Uh, succor. Noun. Uh, assistance in times of stress. Synonymous with help... Sasha. Translation services. Esteemed to meet you.
Henk Rogers: Oh.

Sasha: He inquires, "What is Nintendo?"
Henk Rogers: Ha. Very funny... Uh, Nintendo's the most popular video game console in the world, sir.

Sasha: He denies obtaining a tape. And says that this is an illegal copy. Mr. Rogers, I think we should vanish.
Henk Rogers: He thinks I stole Tetris?
Sasha: Affirmative.

Henk Rogers: Pascal or assembler?
Alexey Pajitnov: I was gonna ask you the same thing.
Henk Rogers: Um, I like Pascal. Assembler is my go-to. But never underestimate…
Alexey Pajitnov: …the power of BASIC.
Henk Rogers: That's spooky.

Howard Lincoln: What makes you so sure this Alexey character isn't lying?
Henk Rogers: Because he's the only one who stands to gain nothing from this.

Sasha: Why is it so important that the Maxwells win? Isn't the offer with more money better for the Soviet Union?
Valentin Trifonov: I'll concern myself with the fate of the Soviet Union. You go and do your job. Dismissed.

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The Delivery

The Office 6×17&18

Dwight Schrute: No. No! You need to come by your sales honorably.
Jim Halpert: There is nothing dishonorable about talking about your life.
Pam Beesly: People like it.

Kevin Malone: Pregnant Pam and I, we get hungry at the same times, so we've been eating together a lot. Not all meals. Just second breakfast, lunch, second lunch and first dinner. I thought that maybe we should do something special for early dinner. One last ultra feast.

Pam Beesly: If we check in after midnight, I get an extra day to recuperate surrounded by doctors.
Jim Halpert: Not to mention the extra night's sleep in the hospital will be very nice, because once we bring the baby home, if it's crying all night, one of us is gonna have to take care of it, and I do not plan on helping unless it's a boy.
Pam Beesly: I cannot wait for that joke to be over. Oh!

Dwight Schrute: Bear my child.
Angela Martin: Excuse me?!
Dwight Schrute: I want to have a child for business reasons and I want you to be the mother. If you agree, say nothing. If you disagree, say anything... Very well. Let's meet at 4:00 p.m. In our old meeting spot and bang it out.

Jim Halpert: Okay, but we are leaving at five minutes apart.
Pam Beesly: Five minutes apart.
Jim Halpert: So the plan was seven minutes, but we're calling an audible, because that's her call, 'cause she's the quarterback. I'm just the left tackle who happened to get her pregnant.

Jim Halpert: I feel like this noise is gonna prevent Pam from being able to listen to her body's signals.
Pam Beesly: Actually, the distractions are good. I don't think I'm gonna make it till midnight if I'm just sitting here thinking about it.

Michael Scott: The purpose for this meeting is to take Pam's mind off of what's going on inside of her body.

Dwight Schrute: Have a seat.
Angela Martin: What is this?
Dwight Schrute: Before we conceive a child, it is important that we bang out a parenting contract.
Angela Martin: Of course.

Jim Halpert: Where are we?
Michael Scott: We have every six minutes, ladies and gentlemen.
Phyllis Lapin: Another 75 contractions and you are going to be there.

Jim Halpert: Are you sure?
Pam Beesly: Yeah, the doctor said that it's still considered a minor contraction as long as I can talk through it--

Pam Beesly: We're gonna have a baby.
Jim Halpert: So let's have it at the hospital.

Michael Scott: Nope. Not yet. Not yet. Not yet... Gotta go wash my eyes. That kid's gonna have a lot of hair.

Jim Halpert: She's incredible.
Pam Beesly: You want to count her fingers and toes again?
Jim Halpert: No, let's let her rest. I'm sure there are still 12 of each.

Michael Scott: There she sat. Her name was Pam. She was a receptionist. She was engaged to an animal. There sat Jim. He was a gawky, tall salesman. The odds of them getting together were insurmountainable. I made a family. I got these two together and I made a family. This man has a gift. Who else here is single? ... I am offering up my services to you all. You saw what I did with Pam and Jim. I can help you, too.

Michael Scott: Well, when you least expect it, expect it. I am going to fill the empty voids in your life with love. I am going to fill that empty hole in your body with another person. And like Cupid, I am going to shoot you with love.

Pam Beesly: Oh, shoot. Shoot, she fell off. Oh. Uh...
Jim Halpert: Try the torpedo thing.
Pam Beesly: Will you just grab Clarke real quick?
Jim Halpert: No need. I saw him do it. I can try it.
Pam Beesly: Jim, please, please, please. I think it would be weird if you did it.
Jim Halpert: That makes sense. I'll just go get the other guy.

Pam Beesly: Oh, my God.
Jim Halpert: What?
Pam Beesly: Wrong baby.

Dwight Schrute: What? I couldn't find your iPod. Give me a couple days. Be out of your hair.

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Extraction 2 (2023)

Extraction (2020) <<

Tyler Rake: Thanks, Nik. For keeping me around. Really excited about this next chapter of my life.
Nik Khan: Believe it or not, it's pretty difficult to let someone you care about die... But you fought your way back. You just have to find out why.

Zurab Radiani: One of our prize bulls is sick. We have to kill him. Bury him before he infects the others.

Tyler Rake: What's this?
Nik Khan: We packed up your house. This is all we found. Your entire life fits in one little box. Maybe it's time to change that.

Alcott: This is beautiful, honestly, but the tea? Not so much. You're out of milk, by the way.

Alcott: Job starts in six weeks. We take our cut, and for, uh, political considerations, you're on your own. If all goes well, you don't get caught or shot in the face, I'll meet you on the other side and give you a kiss.

Keto: You're scaring him.
Tyler Rake: Yeah, well, he's about to be terrified.

Tyler Rake: Do you trust me?
Nik Khan: Should I not?

Alcott: Rake... That's such a fun name to say.
Tyler Rake: You never told me your name. Is it as much fun?
Alcott: My name doesn't matter.
Tyler Rake: Yeah? What does?
Alcott: Who I work for.
Tyler Rake: Who's that?
Alcott: A gnarly motherfucker. You'll love him...

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The Wire 5×10

Mayor Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: But if we... But how can... Jesus Christ. So this means that...

Mayor Thomas 'Tommy' Carcetti: Hey, Norman, this is my ass here.
Norman Wilson: That's true, boss. But it does have a certain charm to it. They manufactured an issue to get paid, we manufactured an issue to get you elected governor. Everybody's getting what they need behind some make-believe.

Chief of Staff Michael Steintorf: Deputy, Counselor... if you two will excuse us, we are going to discuss this first as a matter of public policy. Until we can reason the best way to address this, do nothing and speak to no one about any of this. If this becomes public in the wrong way, a lot of people who were legally responsible for the situation, good people who were, nonetheless, in a supervisory role here... are going to suffer. And that's not the outcome that anyone wants.
Norman Wilson: What Mike is saying is that we need to be very careful about how to proceed.

Norman Wilson: I wish I was still at the newspaper so I could write on this mess. It's too fucking good.

Sgt. Jay Landsman: Motherfucker, you were the one who was all semper fi for this serial killer and now you're fuckin' the dog.
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I'm ready to work the case. But short of any new leads, what the fuck do you want me to do? I can't make shit up, can I? It is what it is.

Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Shit is like a war, ain't it? Easy to get in, hell to get out.

Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: Deputy.
Deputy Commissioner Cedric Daniels: .............. To be continued.

Walon: Read it.
Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: "You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have free permission to do so and it is in accordance with your nature. But perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could have avoided." Fran-zee Kafka. Who's he?
Walon: Some writer.
Reginald 'Bubbles' Cousins: You read his books?
Fuck, no.

City Editor Augustus 'Gus' Haynes: You ever notice that the guys who do that, the Blairs, the Glasses, the Kelleys, they always start with something small, just a little quote that they clean up. And then it's a whole anecdote, and, pretty soon, they're seeing some amazing shit. They're the lucky ones who just happen to be standing on the right street corner in Tel Aviv when the pizza joint blows up and the human head rolls down the street with the eyes still blinking.
Managing Editor Thomas Klebanow: The pictures were sent to him. The police have confirmed...
City Editor Augustus 'Gus' Haynes: It always starts with something true, something confirmed. ...

Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: How are you not in jail?
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: I don't know. The lie's so big, people can't live with it.
Det. William 'Bunk' Moreland: Jesus fucking Christ, Jimmy. I told you. I fuckin' told you it was going to come to this. You played with fire, didn't you? And now we're all getting burned...

Commissioner William A. Rawls: Oh, yeah. The mayor knows your name. So this is your last case. Work it. If you're half the detective you think you are, you'll put this one down fast and take us all off the hook. The longer this goes on, the worse the payback's gonna be.

Council President Nerese Campbell: I'm not stuck with anything. Daniels either comes around or he's done.
Chief of Staff Michael Steintorf: We just apointed him. We can't go back on that now. He knows it.
Council President Nerese Campbell: Either he learns his place or he'll be offering to resign. You ain't the only one knows how to play this game.

Sgt. Jay Landsman: He was the black sheep, the permanent pariah. He asked no quarter of the bosses and none was given. He learned no lessons, he acknowledged no mistakes. He was as stubborn a Mick as ever stumbled out of the Northeast parishes to take a patrolman's shield. He brooked no authority. He did what he wanted to do and he said what he wanted to say and, in the end, he gave you the clearances. He was natural police... I don't say that about many people, even when they're here on the felt. I don't give that one up unless it happens to be true. Natural poh-leece.

Sgt. Jay Landsman: But Christ, what an asshole. And I'm not talkin' about the ordinary, gaping orifice that all of us possess. I mean an all-encompassing, all-consuming... out of proportion to every other facet of his humanity chasm. From whose bourn, if I may quote Shakespeare, "No traveler has ever returned."
Det. James 'Jimmy' McNulty: The fuck did I do?
Sgt. Jay Landsman: Shut the fuck up. You're dead to us now.

Deputy Commissioner Cedric Daniels: She wants me to juke the stats for Carcetti, this quarter and the next, hide the crime, get him elected as governor and make her the Mayor.
Marla Daniels: So do it. Burrell juked them before you. Warren Frazier before him. And, after you're gone, Rawls or whoever will juke them. So what?
Deputy Commissioner Cedric Daniels: I'll swallow a lie when I have to. I've swallowed a few big ones lately. But the stat games, that lie, it's what ruined this department. Shining up shit and calling it gold, so majors become colonels and mayors become governors. Pretending to do police work while one generation fucking trains the next how not to do the job, and then... I looked Carcetti in the eye. I shook his hand. I asked him if he was for real. This is the lie I can't live with.

Marla Daniels: The tree that doesn't bend breaks, Cedric.
Deputy Commissioner Cedric Daniels: Bend too far, you're already broken.

Ricardo 'Fat Face Rick' Hendrix: Shit, nigger, we was good when your uncle had it. You had to go ahead and put up with Marlo.
Melvin 'Cheese' Wagstaff: See that? See now, that's just the wrong way to look at it cause Joe had his time and Omar put an end to that. Then Marlo had his time, short as it was, and the police put an end to that. And now, motherfucker, it's our time. Mines and yours. But instead of just shutting up and kicking in, you gonna stand there cryin' that back-in-the-day shit.
Ricardo 'Fat Face Rick' Hendrix: Cheese...
Melvin 'Cheese' Wagstaff: There ain't no back in the day, nigger. Ain't no nostalgia to this shit here. There's just the street and the game and what happen here today. You right. When it was my uncle, I was with my uncle. When it was Marlo, I was with him. But now, nigger...

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