Doma Smo

The Walking Dead: Dead City 1×6

Ginny: I... want you to...
Negan: No! All these months and now you want to chat?
Negan: You? You're just a debt that I had to pay.

Negan: The shit thing is, Maggie, we could have done it. We could have saved Hershel. Because you and I together, we made one hell of a badass team...

Negan: The fact is, Maggie, it doesn't matter what excuses I give you or how many apologies I offer, you can't get over it... And you shouldn't.

The Croat: Four men and a magistrate... You, you, you.

The Croat: ...he told me a story that excited my curiosity. The story of the widow. ... Strong, smart. Vulnerabilities to be exploited.

The Croat: You found him. And brought him home. Doma smo, eh?

Negan: Just look after Ginny, will you? That's all I ask.

New Babylon Leader: You know what went into making that cigar?... You see, the thing is, gotta cure the leaves at a temperature of 100 degrees. And a temperature like that, an exact temperature. What's the optimal way to keep that going? Central heating. But ethanol comes from corn, which takes up thousands of acres of fields. So what I'd like you to do, Marshal... I'd like you to tell me your story again. And this time, I want you to tell me all about the methane.

The Croat: ...you didn't get upset with me. No, you took your time. You had the patience to show me how to do it right. And then once his face was just a puddle on the ground and I looked around and I saw what you told me I'd see... Complete and total submission. We were untouchable. No one could ever take anything from us again. You remember that?
Negan: I do.
The Croat: It was beautiful, huh?
Negan: It was.

Maggie: I don't know how, but this thing with Negan... I'm gonna finish it. So that I can just let it go.

The Croat: Once we have full control of the island, Dama says a clash of civilizations is inevitable.

The Croat: I can't wait for you to meet her! Like Mommy and Daddy coming together. You know?

The Dama: I hear brandy is good for cramps.
Negan: Really?
The Dama: It's good for everything.
Negan: Yeah, I gotta tell you, I'm more of a gin man.

Negan: Don't tell me you're spooked by the cops.
The Dama: Oh, it's not the cops I'm worried about. It's the forces behind them. Wherever a natural resource abounds, they'll come for it like a sneaking, thieving pack of hyenas.

The Dama: The island needs leadership. Now more than ever. Someone with confidence, fearlessness, charisma, that special, shall we say, political talent. For what is politics if not performance?

The Dama: The keys to the kingdom... But how can I be sure? Maybe you're not the man you used to be. Maybe you never were.
Negan: Maybe.

Negan: What the hell is this?

The Dama: Make it last. We have a lot to discuss. A lot to plan for...

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Stories We Tell Ourselves

The Walking Dead: Dead City 1×5

Tommaso: Hey, your heart starts pounding, feels like there's a jackhammer going off in your head... can't keep your eyes open or you feel like you're gonna puke, that's the methane kicking in. That's when we start running. Just be cautious.

Negan: What do you think? Some avant-garde artist from before?
Pearlie: Or someone who lost their mind from after.

Negan: Goddamn it. Believe it or not, I don't like leaving people behind to die. Even huge assholes.

Tommaso: Like you said. Gotta do whatever it takes to make it safe.

The Croat: Negan is on the island. I saw him with my own eyes.
The Dama: Then where is he? Let me see if I understand. The show started out with a bang. Kept me up all night, actually. But then there was a plot twist. You thought you had your hero, but he got away. What good is a hero offstage? So naturally the ending fizzled, and let's face it, everyone knows the ending is all that matters.

The Croat: They're here. ... A marshal, but he comes from the mainland. It's just as you said. There will be those who try to bring it all back, the old laws and prisons, to protect and serve, but really like before, just to punish and steal and feed their fat bellies. Now they've come for what we've built. What's ours.

Pearlie: He was left to die all alone, in the worst possible place on the planet. Is that what he deserved? Is it really so black and white? You'd asked me back then, I would've said yes. But now? I don't know. Is it gray? Is it something else? Tranquilitas Ordinis. What if it's just stories we tell ourselves to sleep easier?

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Everybody Wins a Prize

The Walking Dead: Dead City 1×4

Simon: Hey, Neegs? Um... We got a problem.

Simon: Emoti-blah, blah, blah, this is what I'm talking about, Negan. Usin' these highfalutin words to cover up what we all know you really are. A Slavic, psychopathic nutjob.

Negan: It's hard to explain, you know? It's... The closer we get to the Croat... it just starts to feel a bit too goddamn familiar. Like, if he starts talkin', it won't be him at all. It's gonna be the echo of some song that I don't wanna hear no more.

Negan: I can explain.
Maggie: You've done enough explaining.
Negan: Don't act like you've never did something you needed to explain.

The Croat: Nothing to be afraid of! You're safe, Negan. It's only me.

Pearlie: Code 14, Section 2. Intentional killing shall be defined as first degree murder and shall be punishable by supplementary execution. Times five.

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People Are a Resource

The Walking Dead: Dead City 1×3

Negan: You need help? How am I supposed to know if you ain't yelling for it?

Negan: Okay. All right. We will just re-goddamn-trace our goddamn footsteps.

Negan: What's he want with you?
Amaia: To keep us safe.
Tommaso: His paranoid, crazy version of that. Kill or be killed.

Negan: She's tougher than she looks, and she looks tough as shit.

Negan: I am, um, getting a little feeling of déjà vu. Twelve, fifteen years ago, there was a... a fella down south. Showed up out of nowhere, a lot like this guy. Everybody flocked to him because he knew what they needed, what they wanted. Protection. Sanctuary. So we built a badass fortress. Formed an army out of psychopaths. And he forced people to join. And if they didn't? The hammer came down. Now soon enough, the people, they got fed up with it, so they got together. And they decided it was time to take that hammer back.
Tommaso: So what happened?
Maggie: It worked.
Negan: Hell yeah it worked.

Luther: So how is he gonna bait him?
Negan: You don't think he's gonna want payback? Eye for an eye? Dick for an ear?...

The Croat: That was my profession. Alternative energy. So naturally, when I first arrived here, I couldn't help asking myself, what is the most abundant natural resource on this island?.. Death. The sewers are full of it. As the bodies break down, they produce methane, and because the intermolecular forces are weak, the gas can be pressurized into a liquid fuel at regular temperatures. Amazing, isn't it?

The Croat: You understand, I can't offer you refuge until you no longer pose a threat. Because above all, above all in this vicious, monstrous world, we must stay safe.

Negan: If you wanna talk about it or whatever, I... Contrary to popular belief, I do occasionally... know how to shut up.

Negan: I don't know, Maggie. I mean, what else do we have? Besides hope.

Negan: All right, maybe back in the day you could go see some state doctor and he would help you get through all the horrible shit you've been through. But that is not the case anymore, so you gotta skip all the coping shit and get straight to the staying alive shit.

The Croat: Who is worth following here?
Pearlie: His name is Negan.

Negan: I think you got the wrong idea about me.
Luther: Do I? So this isn't you right here? Says that "if you have any information on this man, notify any office of the New Babylon Marshals. Do not approach unless armed". ... "Antisocial, prone to extreme violence, with above-average intelligence and charisma. Do not trust him".

Negan: Talk is cheap anyway, kid. Believe me, I oughta know. It doesn't matter what people say... It only matters what they do.

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Who's There?

The Walking Dead: Dead City 1×2

Negan: Just a ball of fun hangin' out with you, ain't it?

Negan: All right. I may be a little bit rusty, but I'm pretty sure that translates into hell freakin' no.

Negan: The thing is I um... I really thought I was helping him.
Maggie: It takes a monster to make one, I guess.
Negan: No. No. You see, I was only a monster when I absolutely had to be. When I had to put on a show to protect my people. Anyway, the... The Croat, he had a way of, um... Reading people. And then toying with them. And pulling them apart.

Negan: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Everybody just take one second and unbunch their undies, all right?

Negan: Now, where the hell was I? Oh. Right. Knock, knock! Who's there? Butter. Butter who? Well, you butter get out your umbrellas 'cause it is about to goddamn rain. Now, I don't know if any of you have checked tonight's forecast, but if I see even one mole hair on one of your ugly ass faces, it won't be just a rainstorm. Hell, it won't be a thunderstorm. It'll be a goddamn hurricane!

Amaia: So you wanna get to the psycho... That we can help you with. You know, if you're looking to die.

The Croat: Don't worry. You're safe now.

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Old Acquaintances

The Walking Dead: Dead City 1×1

Maggie: Sorry, thought you were better on your feet.
Negan: Good to see you, too.

Negan: Ginny, this here is Maggie. See, Maggie and I are... old acquaintances.

Negan: So, you are either here not to kill me, or you have gotten seriously rusty.

Maggie: I tracked them all the way up the Hudson, by then they'd already made it across.
Negan: Across to what?
Maggie: Manhattan.

Negan: Let's just say there were a lot of psychos in my crew back then. But [Croat] always stood out as being an exceptionally insane son of a bitch.

Negan: All right, tell me this. Why would I help you?
Maggie: Because you owe me...
Negan: Because I owe you, right.

Pearlie: The reason it's crucial we find this man is because he's murdered a magistrate in cold blood, along with four others. Which means under Code 14, Section 2 of New Babylon law, he'll be executed. But not just executed. Nothing so magnanimous as a hanging or beheading, no. For what this man has done, he'll be dangled upside down and sawed in half lengthwise from the groin to the head very, very slowly.

Pearlie: This is a man who's built up an empire like a greedy king. Story goes, he once lined up a group of unarmed folks and he bashed in a man's head with a baseball bat in front of the man's pregnant wife.

Pearlie: Tranquillitas ordinis. Tranquility, order, justice, the law. That's what keeps our Federation of States at peace. Safe, stable.

Pearlie: See. That's all you needed to say. The truth. And yet, Code 14, Section 8... Aiding and abetting.

Negan: All right, so how's this whole operation supposed to lay out? I mean, besides the part where I charm my old pal into giving you your kid back?
Maggie: I got a plan.
Negan: Ah, top secret, huh? I am on a need-to-know basis, I guess. That's cool, you don't trust me. Hell, I wouldn't trust me either.

Jano: So what's the deal with Manhattan? What's so special about it?
Pearlie: Manhattan was one of the epicenters. Military destroyed all the bridges and tunnels, hoping to contain it, hoping to contain them. Once home to a million and a half people. Now...

Negan: What I don't get is after all these years, you still think I'm the bad guy? I'm not. No one is. Or you know what, Maggie? Maybe everyone is... Ask yourself one question. How many husbands and fathers have you killed?

Negan: Seriously, walkers are falling from the sky now?

Negan: Nope!

The Croat: Twenty stories! New record, no? And yet...

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