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6 дек. 2019 г.

Burning Man

Mr. Mercedes 3x10


Bill Hodges: It's time to start scarin' people.

Morris Bellamy: Tick, tick, tick. That's what I am. A ticking fucking... bomb!

Lou Linklatter: My caseworker's saying that I should find something autonomous and flexible. I'm hoping she doesn't mean hooker.

Morris Bellamy: Do not tell me anything is simple. Nothing turns out to be simple. Things we think are simple turn to shit! And while Jimmy Gold said "shit don't mean shit," sometimes it does. Sometimes it means deep fucking shit like this.

Bill Hodges: Look, you're worthless from a thinking standpoint, Tom.

Lou Linklatter: Killer? It's okay, you can say it. Former best friend and killer. Current killer. He, uh, he's currently killed, so I'm currently the... the current killer. Presently current killer.

Morris Bellamy: Fuck! I'm killin' dead people now.

Bill Hodges: Maybe you were right.
Jerome Robinson: Which time?

Bill Hodges: I'm perfectly fine. Everybody's fine. Peter's fine. The mother's fine. The father's fine. Bellamy's better than fine. He's fuckin' well done.

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1 дек. 2019 г.

Crunch Time

Mr. Mercedes 3x9


Morris Bellamy: I'm good-looking, I'm unpredictable, and I fuck good. It's the goddamn triple crown!

John Rothstein: You see, we ought to nourish the reader, even if it's only a little bit. Stir his brain, move his heart. Offer him some escape from the oppressive monotony of his, uh, pathetic own reality. Give him something that he, uh, could have only gotten from you. Otherwise, what's the point of being a writer at all?

John Rothstein: A good book isn't something to pass the time... it should make your goddamn day.

Alma Lane: The thing about anxiety, takes on a life of its own. The mind begins to play tricks, imagining all the bad things that can happen.

Alma Lane: Enough, okay? Nobody likes a whiner. It's not attractive.

Bill Hodges: I do not have a good feeling.


Jerome Robinson: Now check out his yearbook quotes.
Bill Hodges: "Live fast, die young, leave a pretty corpse."

Jerome Robinson: How much smaller can our world get?

Holly Gibney: Brady was the evil one, not the car.

Morris Bellamy: I'm almost afraid. What if he killed Jimmy or made him gay or a fucking Democrat or...
Alma Lane: He wouldn't do any of that.

Alma Lane: Look... Life and people are kind of like really good books. There are chapters, you know? I've had many wonderful chapters. You just caught me during a bad one.

Bill Hodges: Morris loved Rothstein from a literary standpoint. You loved Rothstein and Morris from a biblical standpoint.

Alma Lane: What size suicide vest are you? Do you know off-hand?

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21 нояб. 2019 г.

Mommy Deadest

Mr. Mercedes 3x8


Lou Linklatter: It could be said that Brady helped secure my freedom just as much as you did.
Holly Gibney: That's not fair...
Lou Linklatter: It shouldn't be said.

Lou Linklatter: Look, there's advantages and drawbacks to Brady being in my head. The key is to know which one is which... I know!

Holly Gibney: Well, lots of people hear voices, okay? As much as 20% of the population, and that doesn't necessarily mean mental illness.
Bill Hodges: For the ones who heard Brady, it did.

Peter Saubers: Sanctuary laws, right? Where police can't enter. Isn't that kind of a law?
Roland Finkelstein: Oh, not really. The government is free to go after the church, it just chooses not to.

Roland Finkelstein: Under Ohio law... anyone and everyone involved in the robbery, including those who were handling the stolen goods, is guilty of murder.
Peter Saubers: What?!
Roland Finkelstein: As guilty as if he pulled the trigger himself.
Peter Saubers: How can that be?
Roland Finkelstein: Because politicians get to draft penal codes, none of whom want to be viewed as being soft on crime. And home robberies, they get prosecutorial overkill because that's what terrifies everyone the most.

Bill Hodges: Does he have the manuscripts?
Roland Finkelstein: I can't reveal privileged information.
Bill Hodges: You could deny he's got them... He's got them.

Lou Linklatter: Well... that whole... "nobody's above the law" thing, that's kind of a myth, really. ... It's only the little people that can't be above the law. The big people... Nixon, he got pardoned. He was above the law. The banks that were "too big to fail." People in Ohio died because of them. They didn't go to jail.
Monica Porter: The banks didn't literally kill anyone.
Lou Linklatter: O.J. did, Teddy Kennedy did, George Zimmerman did... the guy that... This idea that nobody is above the law, not even the president of the United States... I mean, it's a joke. Clinton, Nixon, Andrew Jackson, they all broke laws. Even Bush... I mean, if you count starting a war under false pretenses so that your vice president can get a gazillion dollars in... in private defense contracts. People are still dying...


Lou Linklatter: If I was to speak for society at large... When the law doesn't work, when government officials are allowed to commit crimes, when the people that we trust to uphold the law are the same ones that are breaking it, there needs to be a revolution.
Ida Silver: Brother.

Alma Lane: We're living large, Morris. Nothing more you could ask out of life.

Roland Finkelstein: I never knew you were such a presidential historian.
Lou Linklatter: I'm not, actually. Brady is. Was. Was. He always used to say that... if you wanna take the pulse of America, just look who the president is.

Morris Bellamy: Things never go the way they're fucking planned, that's what the fuck happened! She fought like a fucking wolverine!

Alma Lane: See, you think you're having a shitty day, but you know what real shit is? It's having all your days blur into one another, not being able to distinguish one from the next. That's my idea of hell.

Alma Lane: Do you know who I like to go to in challenging times? Liza Minnelli. The things she endured... Nobody ever gives that dame enough credit, but I do. Do you know what she'd say to you right now?... She'd say, "Money."

Morris Bellamy: We will be making a plan for the book delivery, a plan that you will execute faithfully, or it's mommy deadest.

Holly Gibney: If I continue to see him, I might fall in love with him... and I'll lose control. ... And when you love people, you grow branches or limbs, and they are outside of your jurisdiction...

Holly Gibney: Being able to function in the outside world, I have to protect myself however I can, you know? I need... I need to be in control.
Bill Hodges: Well, I'm no expert on the outside world stuff, but... it seems to me... one of the main perks is getting to love people, being loved back.
Holly Gibney: Not everyone gets to have that.
Bill Hodges: Why can't you? Leap and the net will appear. Isn't that what Jerome told you? It's good advice.

Morris Bellamy: Nobody has to die here. We just want the books.

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18 нояб. 2019 г.

The End of the Beginning

Mr. Mercedes 3x7


Alma Lane: Pain is just weakness leaving the body.

Alma Lane: It's just antiseptic. Makeshift medicine. We call it health care.

Alma Lane: Ooh, these are exciting times, Morris...

Bill Hodges: Hey.
Jerome Robinson: I'm fine.
Bill Hodges: I didn't ask that. I just said, "Hey."

ADA Sarah Pace: ... At the beginning of this, I said that this trial was really about us. Mostly you. Are we a society of law and order or not? Is everyone held to the same law, or if someone is popular enough, they get to commit murder? Okay to shoot unarmed people in the head just so long as they're bad people? Really? Yeah, I know who Brady is. And I know who Lou is. Who are you?

Jerome Robinson: Don't give me this whole "you're not alone" speech, please.
Holly Gibney: We're all alone... You know, that's why we have friends. To make the loneliness easier to take.

Alma Lane: I am not decrepit, and I'm not that old.

Alma Lane: You know, I'm 1/8 Shawnee on my mother's side. Well, maybe less. Not enough Shawnee to get any money out of the deal, but still, something to be proud of.

Alma Lane: We were the first people here and the first ones to get fucked over by the government. Chickasaw, Shawnee, Apache...In all the tribes, the women were in charge of torture. Did you know that? That's true.

Alma Lane: If I were to hit you on the head with a tomahawk, being part Shawnee, I'd be feeding into a nasty stereotype.... So being the politically correct person I fancy myself to be, I will spare you the tomahawk. You get the pickax. You get it twice.


John Rothstein: Ah, the old Faustian bargain. A pact with the devil. Your soul in hell for... honor, power, wealth, fame... and the love of women on Earth.
Bill Hodges: Freud said that last part, not the other fella.

John Rothstein: This is about one thing: to give your life meaning, to make it matter that you even lived!

Bill Hodges: Yeah, you've followed the law. And good on you. Nobody can deny it. But the question is, will you do justice?

Lou Linklatter: I had my turn for me. You asked if anyone wanted to speak for Brady. I'd like to speak for Brady. I think... I think somebody should.

Judge Raines: ...And don't you be killing anybody else.

Bill Hodges: You know... Rothstein spoke of a pending apocalypse. He said we're just at the end of the beginning of the world turning to absolute shit.
Ida Silver: You know what? Let's just... let's just give Rothstein a rest, shall we? Let's turn to Huxley, if you're so determined to drink to dystopia.
Bill Hodges: A brave new world it is.

Ida Silver: How did a lump like you get to be so literate?
Bill Hodges: My father. The only thing he gave me before he fucked off... A love of books, reading. Places they bring me, I suppose, seeing as he wasn't going to be there to bring me anywhere himself, that prick.

Bill Hodges: "How many goodly creatures are there here?"
Ida Silver: "How beauteous mankind is."
Bill Hodges: "O brave new world... "
Ida Silver: "That has such people in it."
Bill Hodges: Yeah...

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12 нояб. 2019 г.

Bad to Worse

Mr. Mercedes 3x6


Bill Hodges: He's not coming back, honey... He's not coming back.

Holly Gibney: "Glamour" magazine said that panic attacks, they're the young woman's new health crisis. I mean, 40 million Americans suffer from them, and young women are twice as likely, which makes me more normal than weird.

Jerome Robinson: Hey, you okay?
Bill Hodges: Oh, I don't know. I think I'm going from bad to worse.

Bill Hodges: ...you, you are like a son. So is Holly, you see. You're like my kids, really. Lousy kids, but still.
Jerome Robinson: Bill, what is this? You got cancer or something? Are you dying?
Bill Hodges: Not that I know of.

Bill Hodges: ... And this idea originated with Brady, right?
Roland Finkelstein: It came from Lou.
Bill Hodges: Who got it from Brady. We're taking directives from Brady. It's beyond fucked.

Bill Hodges: I mean, I don't know, just, when you consider this trial, is why we're here. Everything is six degrees from fucking Brady.

Holly Gibney: You know, I... I remember reading Shakespeare in high school. I liked the love stories, you know, not so much the tragedies, but... And in "Julius Caesar," there was this line right before they killed Caesar. I think it was Casca. He said... "Speak, hands, for me," right before. And I never really got that line, to be honest, but... at the arts gala, I got it.


Morris Bellamy: Let me start with don't shoot the messenger, okay? You know where that comes from, "don't shoot the messenger"? Shakespeare. Fuckin' guy wrote all the good stuff.

Lou Linklatter: He thinks that you're excellent, by the way.
Roland Finkelstein: I'm sorry?
Lou Linklatter: Brady, for the record, thinks that you're an excellent lawyer.

Holly Gibney: He plans to kiss me. I mean, for real this time.
Jerome Robinson: Well, you make it sound like a bad thing.

Jerome Robinson: It's... it's not like I'm an expert at kissing.
Holly Gibney: Yeah, I know, but you've done it.
Jerome Robinson: Yeah, yeah, I have.
Holly Gibney: And?
Jerome Robinson: And... it's... just two lips touching.
Holly Gibney: With tongue?

Jerome Robinson: You trust him?
Holly Gibney: I do.
Jerome Robinson: Well, then there's this saying. Take a leap, and the net shall appear... Trust me.

Morris Bellamy: You shot the messenger! Oh! You shot the fucking messenger!

Alma Lane: You know those big game hunters, huh? When they shoot their quarry, they fornicate right in the bullet hole. That's what manly men do. They don't see a bullet hole and cry. They see a bullet hole and wanna fuck.

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31 окт. 2019 г.

Стивен Кинг — Чужак

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цитаты | Чужак | Стивен Кинг | The Outsider | private investigator | body snatcher | murder | alibi | witness
  “Машина была неприметной, без всяких опознавательных знаков: обыкновенный американский седан, не старый и не новый, – но его принадлежность сразу же выдавали покрышки с черными боковинами и люди в салоне. ...
&  Да, тут любой бы взбесился... но гнев плуга не тянет, как говаривал дедушка Ральфа.

&  Терри посмотрел на него, как умеют смотреть только школьные учителя: Мы оба знаем, что ты дебил, но я не скажу этого вслух, чтобы не смущать тебя перед одноклассниками.

&  – Я не собираюсь никуда бежать. Как там сказал кто-то из генералов на Гражданской войне? «Я буду сражаться и держать рубеж, даже если придется потратить на это все лето».

&  – Я не верю в сверхъестественное. Ни в привидений, ни в ангелов, ни в божественную природу Иисуса Христа. Я хожу в церковь, но лишь потому, что там спокойно и иногда получается добиться внутренней тишины и прислушаться к себе. И еще потому, что так принято. Я всегда думал, что ты сама ходишь в церковь по тем же причинам...
     – Мне бы хотелось верить в Бога, потому что очень не хочется верить в то, что после смерти уже ничего не будет. Хотя это логично: раз мы приходим изнебытия, то в небытие и уйдем. Но я верю в звездное небо над головой и в бесконечность Вселенной. В великое Там Наверху. Я верю, что в каждой горстке песка здесь, внизу, заключены бессчетные миры, потому что бесконечность работает в обе стороны. Я верю, что за каждой мыслью в моей голове, стоит еще дюжина мыслей, о которых я даже не подозреваю. Я верю в свое сознание и подсознание, хотя даже не знаю, что это такое. И я верю Артуру Конан Дойлу, который придумал Шерлока Холмса и вложил в его уста такие слова: «Если отбросить все невозможное, то, что останется, и есть истина, какой бы невероятной она ни казалась».
     – Это не тот Конан Дойл, который верил в фей?


28 окт. 2019 г.

Great Balls of Fire

Mr. Mercedes 3x5


John Rothstein: I'm dead. But clearly, not gone.

John Rothstein: That's your fear, isn't it? Once you're dead, gone, gone, gone, gone. But the fear that's under that one... let's call it, uh, totem pole fear... is that you were never there in the first place. You got no legacy. You think finding my killer is gonna give you one? Well, let me tell you something, bud. Legacy is shit. And shit don't mean shit.

Antonio Montez: I'm just saying that if we're gonna solve this, we're gonna have to do it right here, on Earth.

Anita Bellamy: A writer is more of a secretary than God, so Rothstein didn't do anything to Jimmy Gold. What Rothstein saw and allowed Jimmy to show us is that most of us just become everyman. Ordinary, we just... morph into the guy next door.
Young Morris: No!
Anita Bellamy: Yeah, honey. Jimmy Gold evolved into bland nothingness—

Bill Hodges: You okay?
Holly Gibney: Fine.
Bill Hodges: You seem a bit fidgety.
Holly Gibney: I'm fine. I'm a fidgety person. ... I'm allowed to be a fidgety person.


Peter Saubers: Jimmy's still a rebel in the end.
Ida Silver: Why? Because he throws an ashtray through a TV screen?
Peter Saubers: That's a symbol... The CBS logo is an eye, and Jimmy's act is a ritual blinding of his inner eye, the one that sees the truth.

Roland Finkelstein: You're scared I might try to kiss you or something?

Tom Saubers: Peter. We are honest people, okay? We may not have much, but we have that. We are honest people.

Bill Hodges: Nothing spectacular about it. They only put ordinary failures on TV nowadays. It makes the ads look better.

John Rothstein: Billy, I think you're missing the point. There's only one way out, and that's in.

Lou Linklatter: Your job is to show the jury that Brady-bashing... oh. It's such a good thing. Brady-bashing is sympathetic and so... pretty.

Roland Finkelstein: A person in Ohio can't be convicted of both murder and manslaughter for the same killing.
Antonio Montez: No. It's one or the other.
Roland Finkelstein: Because not all killings are the same. Murder is worse than manslaughter.

Lou Linklatter: He's a very complicated person. He really is. He hurts me, and then he helps me, and then he hurts me. All I gotta do is know which one is which.

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22 окт. 2019 г.

Trial and Terror

Mr. Mercedes 3x4


John Rothstein: The worst crime that my generation ever committed is that we murdered Satan. Now nobody's evil. They're damaged, they're misunderstood, they're unloved, but they're not evil. God forbid you say that. But here's a problem... If there is no Satan, then there is no God. And where there's no God, there's Mr. Mercedes plowing into a bunch of innocent people looking for jobs.

Alma Lane: I know Bill. He's a bloodhound, only less handsome.

Jerome Robinson: I'll go. I'll take the information.
Bill Hodges: Take information. Don't give any. Do you understand?
Jerome Robinson: Sí, kemosabe.
Bill Hodges: What does that mean?
Jerome Robinson: It means you're no longer a lone ranger. You have two sidekicks right here.

Bill Hodges: But you need to let Brady go.
Lou Linklatter: Easier said than done.

Bill Hodges: At the end of the day, we're all fucking head cases. But our only hope is to hang on to our wits, even if only by a thread. You need to be hanging on to yours.

Lou Linklatter: With public sentiment on one's side, nothing can fail.
Bill Hodges: Brady say that, did he?
Lou Linklatter: ... It's Abraham Lincoln.

Lou Linklatter: The public is gonna set me free.
Bill Hodges: ... The facts don't support her. The law doesn't. She's off in the fuckin' head. I don't see how this hand gets played. I really don't.
Holly Gibney: Well, um, Finkelstein is good. I mean, we just have to hope he's great, I guess?


Bill Hodges: Mm. What's your perfume? Vanilla? You smell like cookie dough.
Holly Gibney: You don't get to say things like that to me.
Bill Hodges: Why not?
Holly Gibney: Because you're my boss, okay? You're not supposed to take note of how I look or smell. It's practically illegal for you to even notice I'm a woman. Don't you read?
Bill Hodges: And where would I read that fuckshit, on your Facebook? I'm not allowed to notice ya as a woman? Would lunatic be okay, gender neutral? Jesus fuckin' balls.

Bill Hodges: That's bullshit. We made a deal... you scratch my balls, I scratch yours.
Antonio Montez: We didn't make that deal. Thanks for the visual.

Holly Gibney: May I ask a question?
Roland Finkelstein: Of course.
Holly Gibney: Are we on a date?
Roland Finkelstein: Would you like it to be?
Holly Gibney: Well... what I'd like is for you to answer my question with something other than another question.

Bill Hodges: Something about Satan. Rothstein was banging on about needing him back.
Ida Silver: Satan?
Bill Hodges: Yeah, the world needs him back because he's better than the alternative.
Ida Silver: Oh-ho! God?
Bill Hodges: People.

Ida Silver: Kids today, they think everything is stupid. Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"... stupid. "Young Goodman Brown," by Nathanial Hawthorne... so stupid.

Lou Linklatter: Diamond in the rough, right?
Roland Finkelstein: I'm sorry?
Lou Linklatter: Holly. Diamond in the rough. Like that... Neil Diamond song.

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19 окт. 2019 г.

Lost Love

Mr. Mercedes 3x3


John Rothstein: Dante was wrong. Most men hit the forest when they're young and then spend the rest of their lives lost. What you learn is, the only way out is in. You gotta go deeper. You gotta look harder. You gotta expose your heart. The devil's in the details. Most men don't have the guts to look at them.

Bill Hodges: She talks to Brady?
Finkelstein: And he answers back. That's my bigger concern.

Librarian: You go to Harvard?
Jerome Robinson: Yes.
Librarian: Harvard University?
Jerome Robinson: Yes.
Librarian: The one in Massachusetts?
Jerome Robinson: Ma'am, is there any other one?
Librarian: Why would you be here in Ohio?

Librarian: I'm sorry, we don't get many Ivy Leaguers here.
Jerome Robinson: Oh, yeah, I understand.
Librarian: I don't. Ivy League people tend to skip over Ohio like we don't exist.

Alma Lane: We're not doing this for me. We're doing it for the money. We're doing it for literature. Now, eat your berries. You're gonna need them, baby...

Alma Lane: I'm prettier than I look... I'm thinner than I look too.

Holly Gibney: What's he saying?
Lou Linklatter: He's saying... "What is the big deal with freedom? What's so great about the great out there?..."

Holly Gibney: I'm not a vulgar person. And I think that people throw around the F word way too easily, but sometimes it is necessary to make a point. And I'm gonna make one right now... There's no fucking safety in this place.


Bill Hodges: I shouldn't have put you in that situation...
Holly Gibney: Well... according to Brady, you know, through Lou, that's what you do, you know, put people in situations.
Bill Hodges: She said that?
Holly Gibney: Well, she's saying that Brady said that. ... And that you don't really care about people in the end so much as you care about your quest.

Jerome Robinson: Floppy disks. Yeah, I read about these. I mean, do you even have a computer that can read these?

Bill Hodges: Well, you can't judge the art by the artist, though, you know? I mean, hate the man, but don't throw out the work. Caravaggio killed people. Cellini was a rapist...

Bill Hodges: We need to go to a pub.
Ida Silver: What?
Bill Hodges: In Ireland, if you lose the love of your life, you have to have a proper commemoration. It can only happen in a pub. Come on. Get your dancing shoes on.

Jerome Robinson: But you think it's a date?
Holly Gibney: Jerome, when a man asks a woman out for pancakes, it is rarely about the pancakes.

Jerome Robinson: You said he seems like a good guy.
Holly Gibney: Yeah, I know. Well, that might be a problem 'cause... I might like him and he might like me, and, you know, when two people like each other, then they go on another date and then another date, and then expectations come into play, you know, expectations that I'm not equipped to fulfill.

Tom Saubers: You know, the thing about the truth, Pete, is that it always comes out.

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2 окт. 2019 г.

Madness

Mr. Mercedes 3x2


John Rothstein: You know, not all murders are the same. Some are worse. The goddamn Constitution notwithstanding... "All men created equal"... Written and drafted by men... Who owned slaves who were just a little less equal, I guess... But even assuming that we're all born the same, some folks grow up to be bigger.

John Rothstein: You know, you shoot Joe Blow the plumber... Nothing. That's one thing. But then you kill John Lennon, that's a whole nother thing.

ADA Sarah Pace: With all due respect, Judge...
Judge Raines: Oh, shut the fuck up. Whenever somebody says "with all due respect," you know what I get? I get shit. You know? I get double-talk. I get shit mixed with double-talk. What I do not get is respect. Don't bring that shit in here.

Bill Hodges: We're about to take an inventory of your teeth as we pick them off the floor.

Bill Hodges: I have a thing for bullies, another for power junkies. You strike me as the whole ball of wax.

Alma Lane: So when you said "monumental fuckup," you were selling yourself short, Morris. You might've set yourself a Guinness world record for fuckups.

Jerome Robinson: I read up on Rothstein, and the guy was angry, and it just oozes out in that book. I also read that... reading his books can... breed melancholy into teenage boys. It's like, uh, swallowing a bad drug.

Finkelstein: Sarah Pace is excellent. If she appeals to the jury to follow the law or uphold their oath... Vigilantism fares better in the movies than in real life.

Marjorie Saubers: ...Another reason to ban guns, I suppose.
Peter Saubers: We'll never ban guns. I mean, the more people feel oppressed, especially by government, the more they cling to their right to bear arms. Government's the enemy. Once we hit the tipping point...
Tom Saubers: Where are you getting all this?
Peter Saubers: History books. It's how this country started: citizens arming themselves against government oppression.
Tom Saubers: Uh-huh. So the, uh... The people are gonna overthrow the government. Is that it?
Peter Saubers: All it takes is one bad king, right?
Tom Saubers: Well, we don't have a king, Peter. We have a democracy.
Peter Saubers: What did Winston Churchill say? "The best case against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."


Ida Silver: "There was only one"... No, wait. "I only committed one crime in my life, but it was the worst sin of all."
Bill Hodges: "Being born human." Second novel, when Jimmy's talking to the priest.

Ida Silver: What are the three thingsa man must never do?
Bill Hodges: Never apologize, never explain, never ask a woman... if she came.

Judge Raines: The law doesn't always work, Mr. Hodges. Depends on who's doing the administrating. And in my courtroom, that'd be me. As long as I can keep my seat, that is.

Judge Raines: For me to be in business, I got to stay in business, which means I got to play the populist every now and again in order to get reelected, which means those traditional judicial boundaries you see in your rearview mirror... Way tinier than they appear, which means at the end of the day, I let my conscience be my guide... which will not bode well for Lou Linklatter.
Bill Hodges: "Later." It's Lou "Link-later."
Judge Raines: "Latter," "Later." You tell Finkelfuck to plead this thing out.

Morris Bellamy: They're saying on the news that... I murdered culture, that what I did was worse than the Mr. Mercedes guy, 'cause he just killed losers, while whoever killed John Rothstein murdered... greatness.

Alma Lane: I had a great hatred for John Rothstein after that, but my animus softened with the realization that he was simply a product of our society, where the wealthy not only fail to help the less fortunate but find ways to condemn them. We live in the richest country in the world, Morris, where we get to eat cake. We don't get educated. We don't get health care. We don't get living wages. We don't get shit.

Holly Gibney: That was impressive.
Bill Hodges: What that was, was a farce. It's the media tail waving the justice dog by the balls. First those whores in Washington, now the judges.
Holly Gibney: Hear ye, hear ye. Justice dog by the balls.

Judge Raines: Before we proceed with our never-ending, unflinching quest for justice...

Judge Raines: Sua sponte. You know what sua sponte means, Counsels? Huh? It's Latin... for "I get to do whatever I want because I'm the judge."

Judge Raines: Why does nobody listen to me? Nobody listens to me. I tried to tell you, but now you got sua sponte, she gets her head examined, and we are adjourned! Nobody ever listens. That's the damn trouble with these people.

Holly Gibney: I'm sorry. It's unprofessional. You know, I'm meant to be... sane during business hours. I apologize.
Jerome Robinson: It's after business hours, so it's okay.
Bill Hodges: Holly, we're all a bit mad. It's what makes us human.
Jerome Robinson: That and literature.

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21 сент. 2019 г.

No Good Deed

Mr. Mercedes 3x1


Carl: I'm having second thoughts...
Morris: Then don't think. And maybe don't talk...

Morris: Even in failure, you're about to meet the greatest American author that ever lived...

Morris: First, I am a huge fan. And second, I will kill you if necessary.
Mr. Rothstein: And third, who the fuck are you?

Judge Raines: You seriously think you're gonna get a murder one convict? She's a folk hero, for God's sake. She could fucking run for office.

ADA Sarah Pace: And maybe get elected. Doesn't mean she gets to shoot people in the head.

Judge Raines: So this is how it's gonna be, huh? Dump all this shit on me? Make me the chump who convicted the hero or set the killer free, huh?
Roland Finkelstein : Heavy is the head that wears the crown, Your Honor.

Judge Raines: Oh, I am not satisfied...

Bill Hodges: DA is even worse... got a stick up her hole the size of a cannon barrel.
Holly Gibney: Okay, that will cost you $10.
Bill Hodges: For what?!... "Stick" isn't a bad word. Neither is "hole." I'm not throwing money into your "fuck" jar every time I have an opinion.
Holly Gibney: No, it's not about opinions. It's about decency, okay? This is a reputable place of business, and we will not have our founder waxing on about sticks the size of cannons being shoved up a woman's...
Jerome Robinson: Orifice.
Holly Gibney: Orifice. $10.
Bill Hodges: Fuck me up the ass!


Jerome Robinson: He seems to be taking it personally.
Holly Gibney: Yeah, well, Irish people get that way about authors. It's a thing. I heard once that Colin Farrell screams "James Joyce" when he orgasms.
Jerome Robinson: Holly, that's at least 20 bucks in the jar.
Holly Gibney: S-sorry.
Jerome Robinson: At least.

Ida Silver: Back when JFK died, I cried for days. Wept. It wasn't that I cared for his politics so much. It was just the poetry of his soul. It left a hole in all of us.

Marjorie Saubers: How was school?
Peter Saubers: It was okay. Nobody got shot.
Tom Saubers: That supposed to be a joke?
Peter Saubers: I didn't mean it as a joke. People get shot at school now. It's a thing.

Peter Saubers: I think you feel sorry for yourself too much. Look, I know a bad thing happened to you, but you always said, "How a person responds to adversity, that's his measure."

Bill Hodges: I don't think it's healthy to be living so close to work, ask me.
Holly Gibney: Well, I didn't ask you, and I save money on gas. Plus, statistically, commuting is less healthy. So...

Bill Hodges: What separates man from beast is literature.

Lou Linklatter: If I go to prison for what I did to Brady, then Brady wins. We go to trial.

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15 нояб. 2018 г.

Fade to Blue

Mr. Mercedes 2x10


Brady: ...in jail together?

Bill: You really expect me to shake that thing?

Montez: ... put a suit on, and just... generally look better than you do right now.

Reporter: Bill Hodges, Michelle Roberts, WPDK Milwaukee. Can I get a comment?
Bill: Free agency ruined baseball. That's all I got.

Shields: This is what I'm talking about, Your Honor. Mr. Mercedes is no longer among us.

Lou: I don't un... I don't understand what you're expecting me to do here.
Bill: Just go in and talk to him... see where it goes.

Bill: All right, I have a toast now. ... Somebody said it's not the destination, it's the journey. ... Look, however this ends, okay, however this ends... I met you guys on this journey, and, uh... and I love every one of ya. All that stuff. So that's the end of the toast. Now can we drink before the tea goes cold?

Lou: Oh, I don't know if I can do this.
Holly: ...when things get really hard sometimes, I tell myself that I'm gonna hold my breath for the rest of my life, which, of course, is impossible. I mean, no one can hold their breath forever, but next to that, you know, everything seems simple. So just tell yourself you're gonna hold your breath. But don't. But just, um, take breaths. Just... deep... breaths.
Bill: Uh, Holly?
Holly: Mm-hmm?
Bill: Stop helping.

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6 нояб. 2018 г.

Walk Like a Man

Mr. Mercedes 2x9


Bill: Could I have a minute alone with the good doctor?...

Bill: Ball bearings in a sock. So simple, so effective...

Babineau: I... I need to think.
Bill: You need to fucking talk.

Cora: You are handsome, you are rich, and you are famous, and if there's anything we know about American jurisprudence, the rich and the famous do not end up in jail, okay?
Brady: I guess all I need to be is rich, then.

Brady: It's amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it.

Brady: So medically speaking... I'm a dead man walking.

Brady: I'm, uh... I'm 29 years old, and I've never been kissed. How sad is that?

Brady: Upon my death, I want my brain sent to Boston University. I promised mother I'd go to college.

Bill: Are you detaining me, you piece of smug shit, or am I free to go?
Marks: Don't leave the jurisdiction.
Bill: Fuck you very much.

Holly: I don't understand. I mean, why didn't they just arrest you on the spot?
Bill: 'Cause the detective's an asshole. Or should I say he perceived me as one... So he's gonna fuck with me some. If they can take me too late in the day to be arraigned, he can stick me in a cell overnight. To reflect.
Holly: Reflect on what?
Bill: On my being an asshole.

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1 нояб. 2018 г.

Nobody Puts Brady in a Crestmore

Mr. Mercedes 2x8


Bill: We got to stop looking for rational explanations for stuff that's... they're unexplainable.

Holly: I can't hold this world sometimes. I can't... 'cause I know that it doesn't hold me. It's just... letting me visit.
Bill: Yeah. We're renting for sure. No option to buy.

Holly: I wish I could tell you... what you mean to me... and how much that frightens me.
Bill: It cuts both ways.
Holly: I... I don't like the feeling.
Bill: I know. Caring for people is scary. Happiness is lovely. Not... Not really controllable. You can't tie it to a post.

Holly: Remember that the number-one killer of hospital patients is staph infections, okay? So don't get one of those.
Bill: Jesus. How do I avoid that?
Holly: Um, wash hands often, uh, keep cuts and scrapes clean and bandaged, and, um, don't take any personal items from other patients... especially those with, um, open wounds and hacking coughs, okay?

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24 окт. 2018 г.

Fell On Black Days

Mr. Mercedes 2x7


Brady: Maybe I'll... pay you a visit. Maybe I'll... open your skull.

Babineau: Who are you to him?
Lou: Just a girl that he stabbed, you know? Makes us pretty intimate. He's... been inside me in a way that nobody ever has.

Pettimore: What are you so terrified of?
Bill: Brady Hartsfield is the flea on a rat's dick at the dawn of the Black Death. He's a pestilence. You don't fuck around with it. You get rid of it as far away from people as you possibly can or you'll regret it every day for the rest of your life. Does that clear it up for you?

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16 окт. 2018 г.

Proximity

Mr. Mercedes 2x6


Brady: Let's think about that. If, while asleep, the machinations of the mind are complex enough for you to be having a dream within a dream, all the while factoring actual conscious obsessions, is it any wonder the line between reality and fantasy sometimes gets a little blurred?

Brady: It doesn't make much scientific sense for me to be able to control the actions of other beings from my hospital bed, does it, Kermie-Wormie? That would make me rather Godlike and you a pretty dumb shit to be picking a fight with the almighty.

Ida: You know it's rude to turn away when someone's talking to you, right? Especially when that someone is me.

Ida: Here's my question... How fucked up do you want to be?

Holly: So, I looked up the message that the dog killer left. It's "occupandi temporis." It's "seize the moment." Um, some people use it interchangeably with "carpe temporis," but others use "occupandi" specifically because "occupandi" means more to occupy, to inhabit.
Bill: So you think Brady's inhabiting people? You're worse than me.

Babineau: All right, listen to me, Brady. We are both on the same side, okay? I'm your "get out of vegetative state free" card.

Montez: I believe in God. You know, like heaven and shit. I figure when someone dies, you can still connect with them. I still talk to my mother. I know she can hear me. But with a dog... it's all about, like, the eye contact and the touch. When a dog is gone, I don't know, it's like the most gone there is.
Bill: Yeah, that's why I got a tortoise. You know, figures to outlive me, so I don't have to concern myself with talking to him in heaven or any of that.
Montez: What do you mean, like a turtle?
Bill: I mean like a tortoise. I don't care for turtles.

Montez: Who'd be so depraved to stab an innocent dog?!
Bill: Another reason for the tortoise. Yeah, they got the hard shell...

Holly: An acquaintance? What acquaintance? Like, a "none of my business" acquaintance or a work-related acquaintance?
Bill: Jesus balls! Are we married now?
Holly: Oh, "Jesus balls" yourself. Your vulgarity doesn't work on me anymore.

Lou: You know what they say, that nobody's really gone, right, even after they die? That, like, they live on in the people that they leave behind.


Cora: Do you know what the most terrifying thing in the world is?... Success.

Bill: So the official line to anyone who tells me I'm mad is that I'm gonna ride the madness out just a little bit longer before I start flirting with ways to get rid of it.

Jerome: There's a world that nobody talks about, a world that lives under the surface of what we say is the world, you know?
The fuck you talking about?
Jerome: This world, i-it's the blood, the oxygen, the air, you know, the lower G.I. system, the things we can't see, but it's actually really keeping us alive.

Jerome: Harvard's lies and... and whole subtext language, that's the complete opposite of what's leaving people's mouths... It's actually fucking designer labels and $100,000 cars and people calling me "bro" and "homey" and "yo" just 'cause they swear that they're cool or they're on some sort of hipster-friendly wave or... or this whole post-modern meta-pseudo "I'm not really racist but I'm actually fucking racist." It's fucking... It sucks. It really sucks.
Bill: ... You lost me at subtext.
Jerome: It's just cold and empty.

Holly: If there's one thing I learned from my mother, the hardest thing about parenting is knowing when not to.
Bill: The fuck does that mean?

Bill: You know, modesty, I admire. False modesty, not so much.

Cora: I wish that we could help you...
Bill: You need to wish harder.

Cora: I know a man on a mission when I see one, and I do not want to be that man's mission.

Bill: Olly olly oxen free. That's what we used to say as kids when we were playing hide-and-seek, trying to get people to come out. Olly olly oxen free. Come on out, Brady.

Bill: I don't know if it's a... it's a life, but it's a start.
Ida: It's a start.
Bill: There's no sex in it for ya.

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9 окт. 2018 г.

Ándale

Mr. Mercedes 2x5


Bill: The truth of it is, none of it makes any fucking sense.
Jerome: But?
Bill: I can't shake the idea that that's where the truth is.

Jerome: Can I ask you something? Without you going off on me?
Bill: You can ask... no guarantees.

Bill: Purpose, right? I want a serial-killing, ice-cream fuck to crawl out from his vegetative crypt because it beats the shit out of playing Scrabble? Is that it?

Ida: Listen, in our day, we at least used to pass notes. These kids just sit there and stare at these things.

Ida: Oh, teaching English?
Elliot: Our mother tongue, in the age of emojis.

Montez: I need a case, Felix. And no one's been thoughtful enough to slaughter an entire family or thrill-kill a bunch of white women lately.

Montez: Ándale, Doctor. Make your medical magic bullshit happen.

Silas: In fact, the majority of human communication, especially in groups, is nonverbal.
Holly: Speaking of nonverbal communication, let's say there was a mute, immobile psychopath... Do you think that there's, like, any possible way that he could get into someone's brain and then convince that person to kill herself?
Silas: Are you talking about a particular situation?
Holly: No. Not at all. No way.

Silas: I don't think it's possible... I know it is. You ever heard of entanglement?
Holly: Like... like, quantum theory?
Silas: Exactly... When you're dealing with entangled particles, they will never act independently from one another. One will always be in control of the other one, no matter how far apart they are in space and time. ... And certain people... manipulators, we call them... they're able to maneuver energy, be it physical or psychic. Simple as that.


Silas: Do you know what Einstein called it when he first discovered entanglement?... "Spooky action at a distance."

Jerome: You got that look again.
Bill: What look?
Jerome: The "Hey, Jerome, you down to break the law look today?"
Bill: Nonsense. Just checking on your gazebo progress.

Jerome: You're obsessing. .... What the hell is wrong with you?
Bill: You think I know?

Bill: You know, people assume as we age that, you know, this old-fuck wisdom just clicks in. Well, it isn't like that. Fucking lose track of anything. You want a little piece of old-fuck wisdom? Here it is... everything goes to shit. Write it down.

Bill: Well, maybe you should give me some wisdom for the young, then. What do we tell the young people these days?
Jerome: Follow your heart. It works every time.

Montez: ...I also said something to him, something that I haven't said out loud since sophomore-year Latin class. Just... came to me. "Occupandi temporis."
Bill: "Seize the moment" or some fucking thing.
Montez: Right.

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3 окт. 2018 г.

Motherboard

Mr. Mercedes 2x4


Bill: I wanted to be there when he woke up.
Montez: Why'd you stop?
Bill: I realized he wasn't gonna.

Holly: That hurts my feelings.
Bill: It's meant to spare them going forward.

Nurse Maggie: I'm allowed to have friends.
Dr. Babineau: No, friends are great. A job's better.

Bill: You equate "Put a sock in it," with "I don't want to go there." Just maybe you should be a detective.

Bill: Sorry to say she didn't keep [diary].
Jerome: Of course she did. We all do. Her texts, her e-mails. I mean, we all keep diaries in one way.

Jerome: ... If you want to get into her head, you should probably try to get into her phone or her... gadget. That's what you called it... "gadget"?

Bill: People are people. You can never figure them.

Brady: They died... because I lived. Not many people can say they had that kind of impact on the world.

Holly: You know, only 9% of construction workers in the United States are women.
Ida: What was that?

Ida: Let me ask you a question. And I want you to be perfectly honest... How weird are you?

Bill: I'm assuming you didn't learn this in any actual class.
Jerome: No. This would be a little too, uh... what's the word?
Bill: "Illegal"?
Jerome: Eh... "extracurricular."

Bill: What's with the soldering iron?
Jerome: Well, I mean, how else would I be able to extract the memory chip from the motherboard? I-I'd have to use this...
Bill: Exactly.

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27 сент. 2018 г.

You Can Go Home Now

Mr. Mercedes 2x3


Felix: Is Camden a boy or a girl's name?
Cora: Either. Covers our bases if the kid ever wants to transition.

Felix: Well... I'm not a "president's last name for first name" kind of guy, so Madison and Reagan are out...

Cora: You know these Beijing types... "return on our investment," all that.
Felix: Yeah, well, you tell him, Rome wasn't built in a day.
Cora: No, but modern Shanghai sort of was.

Maggie: It'd be like someone telling you Mother Teresa collected machine guns.

Holly: You're trying to gain dominion over me by proffering a vulgar visual.

Holly: I hear your arguments. Okay? I do. And when you put them that... colorfully, I see that they are deeply felt. That being said... I am an equal partner.

Bill: Wheels up.
Holly: What?
Bill: Start the fucking car!

Lou: On a scale of 1 to 10, being stabbed by Brady Hartsfield is like a 600,000, and my boo-hoo childhood complaints come in at about a 3.

Holly: I feel quite incompetent.
Bill: No reason for you to feel that way. How can you know what you don't know?

Bill: So, uh... So is this. Old times.
Donna: No. No. Old times would be you carrying the toxic cloud of a failed case into the house and refusing to talk about it. And then drinking right through dinner.

Donna: What kind of nurse is she?
Bill: One of Brady Hartsfield's.

Donna: Just walk away... Stay away from Brady Hartsfield. Just choose the sun.

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19 сент. 2018 г.

Let's Go Roaming

Mr. Mercedes 2x2


Karen: I-I have a kid. I'm a single mom.
Billy: You're making this hard now.
Karen: You ugly fat fuck!
Billy: Okay. Less hard.

Billy: Fuck me up the arse!

Piggy: All these kids look alike, truth be told... I actually try not to look at the little bastards. Most are overstimulated glucose addicts.

Donna: Why don't you simply enjoy life, hmm? Just stop worrying about finding the value in it.
Billy: What if I'm not built for that?

Holly: Do you know that I've never been camping?
Billy: Ugh. I wish I could say the same.
Holly: Why? You don't like nature, or...
Billy: Well, not philosophically opposed. I just prefer toilets.

Billy: Wow! Look at this!
Holly: Oh, they got the color wrong. It's supposed to be crimson.
Billy: Blue for a boy. It's perfect.

Billy: Good man. Lived good, died shitty.

Ida: How was the party?
Holly: Mm, it was slightly more enjoyable than Pete's funeral because no one was crying, but the food wasn't nearly as good.

Holly: He never leaves the lights on for when he comes home. He says he doesn't want to pay the electric company more than he has to, but I think that he just prefers the dark.
Ida: There's nothing wrong with a little darkness...

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