Must/Can't

The Outsider 1x10

Yunis: Hey, when the GIs were getting chewed up on the beaches on D-Day, you know what they're told?
Holly: Um... Uh... Ad... Advance or die. Or something like that.
Yunis: That's fucking right.

Holly: Damn you to hell!

Holly: What are you?

The Outsider: I eat to survive, just like you.

Holly: Why children?
The Outsider: 'Cause they taste the sweetest.

Ralph: You gotta go.

Holly: My father was ex-military and when I was little, he would say, "A man knows a man." Well, if I had the time to think in that cave and the inclination to answer that thing, I would have said... "An outsider knows an outsider."

Ralph: Holly. What else is out there?

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Tigers and Bears

The Outsider 1x9

Howard: That photo, that was... "the thing"?

Andy: Does anybody know if it can even be killed?
Ralph: Well, we... we have to assume it can be.
Andy: Why?
Ralph: It walks, it talks, it clearly needs food to sustain itself, so... it can be killed.

Seale: Me, I'd go with a couple of strings of garlic and a big wooden stake, maybe a big ol' cross.

Howard: I'll drive.
Claude: It's an hour there, hour back. That's with no traffic and all.
Howard: If I did not love to drive, I would not have purchased that fine piece of machinery outside, right?

George: There are no bears.
John: There were in the olden days...

Claude: A thing that can become other people?... You don't have any issue believing that?
Howard: I'm a criminal defense lawyer. I can believe anything.

Claude: Cold, flu, virus, cancer. It want in? There's not a fucking thing you can do about it. Same with this thing. It wanted in. It got in.

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Holly: They died of influenza... They called it the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, except it started at an army base in Kansas, went out from there and killed 50 million people around the world...

Sam: When he asked me at the map what I was looking for, I said I was trying to find the cave that had the saber-toothed tiger footprints...

Holly: We found him. He's in there.

Seale: Y'all are thinkin', "Yeah, we got this thing now." It's in the cave, waitin'. Well, maybe it's waiting for you... You think of that?

Yunis: I noticed you drop the conditional when you talk about it. ....
Ralph: Yep. Guess my sense of what's rational just got tired and left town.

Ralph: It's just the reality of this thing, it upends everything. It means everything we ever believed in, everything we've come to an understanding...
Alec: Hey, Ralph. Ralph.
Ralph: What? What? What?
Alec: You take small bites. You accept what you can to keep your shit together and nothing more, until you're ready for another bite. That's it.

Yunis: What if it can't be killed?.. Yeah, we're back to that again. Small bites, my ass.

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Foxhead

The Outsider 1x8

Yunis Sablo: ...in Tennessee, town called Cecil, near Chattanooga.
Alec Pelley: Yeah, I've been there. It's a diner, two bars, and a bunch of caves, not much else.

Seale: Peach Crease... Damn, I could never quit a job like that.
Claude: Well, as the saying goes, if God truly hates your guts, then he grants your deepest wish.

Jeannie: Don't go.
Ralph: Why not? Wh... What?
Jeannie: Because you're blind. You don't really believe in this thing, which means you're not capable of seeing it for what it really is. Could you imagine going into a battle with your eyes shut?
Ralph: J, there's not gonna be a battle.
Jeannie: There will be.

Holly: Please don't tell me.
Ralph: Yeah. Became a warehouse clerk in the Aleutian Islands. You know, up there in the ass-end of Alaska. "Could've swam to Russia in an hour and back," is what he used to say.

Ralph: Let's just say that you sold me on this El Cuco thing of yours, right? What does it want?
Holly: It wants what every organism wants. It wants to perpetuate its own existence, it wants to survive. At all costs.

Holly: It's not a criminal. It's not even human.
Ralph: ... I knew you were gonna say that.

Yunis Sablo: I'm assuming you're aware of some of her... gifts.
Andy Katcavage: Yeah, she put on a show or two.
Yunis Sablo: Did you know that she can walk into a room full of people... and pick out the ones that are gonna die soon?... I'm serious, man. I've seen her do it. When she's reading you and she senses your time is nigh, at first, she can't take her eyes off you, then she can't bear to look at you... Same thing with her hands, at first, she's reaching out for you, and then, she pulls away immediately as if you were radioactive. She hasn't behaved like that with you, has she?....

'Claude': I need to eat.

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Sam: Do you know where the Sabertooth Cave is?
Volunteer: Well, I'll tell you, there's over a hundred caves around here, so the best I can say is "somewhere." Have fun.

Holly: Um... I know what I just told you might sound a little insane.
Claude: Insane don't even come close.

Holly: If you can't get yourself to really believe in this thing, then you're not only an obstacle, but you're a danger to everyone else.
Ralph: I don't respond to ultimatums... You need to step off. Let me come at it at my own pace. Which is what I've been trying to do. ....
Holly: Try harder. Come to it faster. Please.

Holly: Ehh.
Seale: You don't like puzzles?
Holly: I don't like elephants.

Seale: Shit, man, it's just weed. Practically in the damn Bible.
Ralph: Oh, yeah?
Seale: Oh, hell yeah! When they discovered King Solomon's burial chambers, guess what they found on his night table.

Howard: Jesus Christ. Hey. What? You too cheap to spring for a room?.. I swear to God, I never met a cop who didn't hate a nickel because it wasn't a dime. That's amazing... Fuckin' cops.

Seale: Whatever you're here for, I didn't do shit.

Holly: He's here.

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In the Pines, in the Pines

The Outsider 1x7

Jack Hoskins: So, what is it? Vampire? Satan? Joker? A guilty conscience?
Holly Gibney: I don't know.
Jack Hoskins: How old is it?
Holly Gibney: I don't know.
Jack Hoskins: My age? Centuries? Before the Big Bang? Is there just the one, or is there others?

Holly Gibney: You know I'm trying to help you, right?

Holly Gibney: This... thing... It's drawn to pain. Pain is... its wine. That's why you.

Jack Hoskins: How many shrinks does it take to change a lightbulb?... One. But the lightbulb really has to wanna change.

Glory: Yep, it's me. Mrs. Terry Maitland, bride of Frankenstein.

Yunis Sablo: Maybe she told you why. You just didn't wanna hear it.

Yunis Sablo: She doesn't strike me as crazy. She's weird, okay, but she's not crazy.

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Yunis Sablo: Here's the difference between you and me. You need this whole thing to make some kind of sense that you can live with. I just want it to end.

Jeannie Anderson: No, you don't get to do this anymore, Ralph... Play like it's reasonable and rational to ignore everything that's unreasonable and irrational that's happening right in front of your face.

Ralph Anderson: Do you believe in the concept of evil?
Therapist: Whenever I hear evil, I think "medieval".
Ralph Anderson: Okay, but... do you believe in it?
Therapist: I believe in cause and effect, and I believe in medical research.
Ralph Anderson: Okay, so, for you, um... any kind of, um, negative behavior, uh, is due to either bad parenting, bad genes, uh, bad brain chemistry, right? There's no such thing, for you, as evil in the world without some rational explanation.
Therapist: If I wanted to be a voodoo doctor, I'd have gone to voodoo med school.

Therapist: I will tell you this. For all that we now know and understand about the world these days... there's a hell of a lot more that we don't, and maybe never will. Is that any help?

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The One About the Yiddish Vampire

The Outsider 1x6

Ralph Anderson: I'm not presuming anything. It's what I believe.

Holly Gibney: Well, I can tell you one thing... I'm afraid nobody's going to believe me.

Ralph Anderson: Not a moment too soon.

Holly Gibney: A human being cannot exist in two realities at the same time.

Holly Gibney: The... There... There are times when looking at a series of seemingly impossible, yet, uh, distinctly connected events... When the facts before you are so filled with uncanny coincidences... that perhaps the first step to seeing things clearly is not to find a way to dismiss those facts, but to, um, expand your sense of what reality might entail.

Yunis Sablo: All she's asking for is that we keep an open mind.
Ralph Anderson: You know what, you... you... you keep your mind open, I'm just gonna look for facts, evidence. You know, dumb cop shit like that.

Alec Pelley: I'm not saying that I believe her... I'm just saying I'm not ready to say I don't.

Howard: Did you ever hear the one about the Yiddish vampire?.. Vampire, he flies in through the window of a church, his fangs are out, priest immediately goes for a crucifix. Shoves it in his face, "Back, you fiend." Vampire laughs, says, "Ni gunisht helfen, bubbalah." "It ain't gonna help you, baby." He says it in Yiddish.
Alec Pelley: Okay.

Ralph Anderson: So, um, El... El Cuco, right?
Holly Gibney: More like some hybrid entity. Like I said, it's been known by a number of names. But I guess "El Cuco" is close enough.

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Ralph Anderson: I've known a few people like you...
Holly Gibney: I've known plenty of people like you.

Ralph Anderson: You've got your own reality. No justifications, no excuses. If people can't make it out to where you are... Holly Gibney: You just have to send them a postcard, right?

Holly Gibney: If I believe something to be true, then I have to deliver that truth no matter what.

Holly Gibney: They found a number of unknown substances and they've never considered the fact that what they're looking at isn't human, it isn't animal, it isn't mineral, or vegetable, it isn't even of this world...

Holly Gibney: If what you saw, Jeannie, was an image, and he wasn't actually physically present, then... How much does a radio wave weigh? How much does a hologram weigh?

Glory: You know... In a marriage, you can be so close to someone that you start to feel like you're the same person... But we all keep things from each other.

Ralph Anderson: Glory, let me tell you something that I've learned to be true. Whenever I find myself unable to uncover a reasonable explanation for a so-called inexplicable criminal act, it only means... I haven't uncovered it yet... But then I do. Because there's always one out there. Always.

Ralph Anderson: It's one thing to respect the unexplainable... but it's another to pretend that you know the specific thing, give it a name and a resume.
Holly Gibney: Isn't that what we've been doing with God? With all the gods throughout human history?
Ralph Anderson: And wasn't it Napoleon who said that all religious wars are basically just people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend?

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Tear-Drinker

The Outsider 1x5

Holly Gibney: I say grief-eater, you say... first thing that comes to mind.
Skye: Ulcer.
Holly Gibney: Uh, too literal.
Skye: Stress giver.
Holly Gibney: More poetic.
Skye: Hmm. Tear-drinker.

Holly Gibney: I'm a private investigator.
Skye: Investigating what, paranormal activity?
Holly Gibney: Not at all.

Jeannie Anderson: I feel like something very bad is gonna happen.
Det. Ralph Anderson: Something bad's already happened. I'm just trying to get to the bottom of it.

Yunis Sablo: Dreams are messages, bro.

Det. Ralph Anderson: Okay, so tell me what I'm looking at.
Holly Gibney: Looking for.

Det. Ralph Anderson: What am I looking for?
Holly Gibney: Hiding places.
Det. Ralph Anderson: For who?
Holly Gibney: Could be a who, more likely a what.
Det. Ralph Anderson: What?

Andy Katcavage: Agreed— Why are we talking about this again?

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Que Viene el Coco

The Outsider 1x4

Holly Gibney: There's more than one way to skin a cat.

Holly Gibney: You have a nice home...
Angela Kelly: It's called post-divorce piss-poor modern.

Glory: What are you? Some kind of reporter for the tabs? Blogger? A vee-logger?... Vlogger. Gloggler. Whatever the hell they call it. Get out of my house!

Holly Gibney: Why do people have to tell jokes? I've never understood that.

Andy Katcavage: Holly. May I call you Holly?... There's only one thing that you need to know about me. I have the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Holly Gibney: Can't catch murder. It's not a virus.

Angela Kelly: It's called a telephone.
Holly Gibney: Sorry, sometimes my brain skips a step.

Maria Caneles: You can't help me. No one can. Because what he does can never be undone.

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Idilys Castro: Do you believe in God?
Holly Gibney: Of course. He's the explanation.
Idilys Castro: Explanation for what?
Holly Gibney: For, uh, everything in this world that ever happened to me that I don't understand, that I never will.
Idilys Castro: And the devil?
Holly Gibney: What about him?
Idilys Castro: Do you believe he exists?
Holly Gibney: Well, if I believe in God, I guess I do. Well, no, I definitely do.
Idilys Castro: One devil or many?
Holly Gibney: Many.
Idilys Castro: Right. How do I know you're not one of them?
Holly Gibney: A devil? Um... Uh... Do you need to see my driver's license?

Holly Gibney: El Cuco?

Idilys Castro: ♪ Duérmete niño ♪
     ♪ Duérmete ya ♪
     ♪ Que viene El Cuco ♪
     ♪ Y te comerá ♪
Holly Gibney: Uh... Sleep child, sleep now...
Idilys Castro: ♪ Else Cuco comes ♪
     ♪ And eats you ♪

Idilys Castro: El Cuco, Jumbee, met an old Russian woman once who called hers Baba Yaga.
Holly Gibney: Uh... The Boogeyman.
Idilys Castro: If you like.

Idilys Castro: All the old cultures, we had the bad habit of turning truth into fairy tales. When we tell our children about El Cuco, we say, "If you misbehave, it'll take you away and eat you." What we should tell them is, "It doesn't matter either way; it takes what it wants."

Idilys Castro: ...it is also known as El Glotón Para Dolor. The Grief Eater. ... If the child is its meal, the suffering of the family is its dessert.

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Dark Uncle

The Outsider 1x3

Det. Ralph Anderson: So, what is it?
Yunis Sablo: Well, they're still testing.

Howard: How about sending Holly Gibney?
Alec Pelley: Holly Gibney...

Alec Pelley: Well... as an individual, she's... She's what I would call "unique."

Det. Ralph Anderson: Oldest trick in the book.... So, you have a bad actor with you in the box, right? And he thinks he's finished answering all your questions, all you gotta do is sit there. Say nothing. Before you know it, he gets nervous, starts talking and then you got him, because you got him going past his rehearsed answers. So...

Holly Gibney: Insvekataj! It... It means, uh, "For your health" in Lithuanian... And then you say, "Insvekataj!"

Holly Gibney: I have to say all these contradicting eyewits, videos and forensics, sounds like your man has, uh, a doppelgänger... From the German, uh, "double goer."

Holly Gibney: Not a twin. No, no, sir. Um... a non-biological double. The Egyptians call it a "Ka," the Norwegians a "Vardoger," the Finns an "Etainen," the Swiss a "Dark Uncle"...
Alec Pelley: She likes history.
Holly Gibney: My particular favorite is... "Fetch," uh, from the Old Irish. Find that word quite fetching, don't you?

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Det. Ralph Anderson: You said, "if" it's a myth.
Holly Gibney: Yes, I did. Mm.
Det. Ralph Anderson: Because I have no, um... tolerance for the unexplainable.
Holly Gibney: Well then, sir... you'll have no tolerance for me.

Holly Gibney: I can tell you what day May 1st lands on 204 years from now faster than any computer on Earth. I can look at a skyscraper for two seconds from a speeding car and tell you within six inches how tall that building is. And I can not only recite the lyrics of every rock and roll song written from 1954 to the present day, but I can tell you which Billboard chart position they were in week to week until it fell off completely, but you know what? I don't listen to music, because I don't like it. Heights make me throw up. And if you ask me what date it is today, I have to look at a calendar.

Howard: So how did you find Holly Gibney?
Det. Ralph Anderson: Um... I found her unique.
Howard: "Unique," he says. She's a full-tilt bull goose loony... but she's damn good at what she does. You'll see.

Jessa: He doesn't make me scared, he makes me angry. I think you're the one who's supposed to be scared.

Glory: How do you live with it, Jeannie?... I really need to know.
Jeannie Anderson: Well, yeah, it's impossible.

Holly Gibney: It's just... sometimes... every once in a while, I like to hear the voice of someone who's on my side.

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Roanoke

The Outsider 1x2

Det. Ralph Anderson: On March 30th, 2019, did you have any physical... or verbal contact with Frankie Peterson?
Terry: Nope.
Det. Ralph Anderson: On March 30th, 2019, did you abduct Frankie Peterson?
Terry: No.
Det. Ralph Anderson: On March 30th, 2019, did you murder Frankie Peterson?
Terry: I didn't kill that kid, Ralph... That it?
Det. Ralph Anderson: For tonight, yeah.

Terry: I didn't do it. I wasn't there. It wasn't me. It wasn't me.

Nurse: Hello, sir. Any complaints?
Det. Ralph Anderson: Um... I killed a boy.

Kenneth Hayes: "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy..."

Kenneth Hayes: ... 1587, Roanoke Colony, North Carolina, close to 200 people living there when the governor sailed back to England to get more supplies, and when he returned they vanished, not a soul, and no clue as to what happened. I mean, here we are four centuries later, we still can't figure it out... So it is with Terry Maitland.

Kenneth Hayes: Is there a mystery here? Yes. Will there always be unanswered questions? Most likely. Sometimes that happens, and when it does, you just need to learn how to live with it, and move on.
Det. Ralph Anderson: Yeah, that's hard for me...

Det. Ralph Anderson: It's just that when anybody says to me, "I'm here to help," things invariably get worse.

Det. Ralph Anderson: If he didn't do it... someone else did.

Maya: Are you the man that killed my father?

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Fish in a Barrel

The Outsider 1x1

Yunis Sablo: So, the coroner said the tissue tears on the upper torso, there's teeth impressions around the edges.
Det. Ralph Anderson: Animal?
Yunis Sablo: No.

Glory: I'll never understand how blue and yellow make green. That just doesn't make sense.

Det. Ralph Anderson: I hope to God he resists.

Det. Ralph Anderson: This individual...
Mary: Ralph. Terry Maitland. I've known him since he was a kid.

Det. Ralph Anderson: Go in there. Read him his rights. Loud and clear. So that everyone can hear it. And then cuff him in front so everyone can see.
Don Harrier: In front's against protocol...
Det. Ralph Anderson: Cuff him in front so everybody can see and then you bring him out to me.

Claude: I got those three years ago in McAlester. That's the addict's memo to self. Must use but I can't use. Therein lies the struggle right there.

Claude: Brother, since the last time you slapped the bracelets on me, I have been Anonymous to death. Narcotics, the alcohol, gamblers, debtors, the sexaholics... If I was anymore anonymous, I'd be invisible.

Howard: Now, they might try to get you talking about Terry. Now repeat after me: "On the advice of my lawyer, I refuse to answer any of your questions."
Glory: "On the advice of my lawyer, I refuse to answer any of your questions."
Howard: Perfect.

Det. Ralph Anderson: I only have one question for you... Did you ever touch my kid?

Terry: You just ruined our lives.

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Det. Ralph Anderson: I don't get it. This guy has murdered a child. He wants to avoid arrest, but everything he does after that is idiotic...

Det. Ralph Anderson: It's like he's begging us to catch him. But what kind of criminal does that?

Howard: You know the definition of a witness, Ralph, right? A person who thought they saw something.

Terry: I don't understand. Slaughterhouse Five is banned in part because, I guess, of its unsparing take on war, but The Iliad, which is infinitely more bloody and graphic is required reading. So, I was wondering if any of you could respond to that.

Howard: Is that not Terry Maitland... on the same day 70 miles away?... Poof.

Det. Ralph Anderson: Okay, this is from the Babcock. This is from the crime scene. And this is Terry Maitland's booking sheet...
Kenneth Hayes: Drum roll?
Det. Ralph Anderson: They all match.

Kenneth Hayes: Bullshit. He can't have been in two places at once.

Det. Ralph Anderson: How badly do you wanna win, Kenneth?
Kenneth Hayes: I don't know, Ralph. How badly do you wanna lose?

Det. Ralph Anderson: If Terry Maitland is innocent, we're not done.

Anderson: ...Answer me this. From your gut... do you think Terry Maitland killed that boy?
Det. Ralph Anderson: I can't tell. I don't know. I really don't know.

Det. Tamika: Is he giving us the finger?

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