The Circle Closes

The Stand 1×9

Frannie: I wish I could tell you every story has a happy ending. Truth is, most stories don't end at all. Not really.

Frannie: Feels like every day we're making progress. But the question is where are we headed, and how much farther do we have to go before we get there?

Stu Redman: You know, back in February, I knew everyone by their first name? Then all the snow went, and we've got 500 more. At least 500. Three in jail. Only drunk and disorderly and vandalism right now, but sooner or later it's gonna be something worse. Stealing and...
Frannie: Murder.
Stu Redman: I mean, I don't want to think that way, but yeah. Mother would have called it the Old Adam. It always comes out.

Randall Flagg: I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV.

Randall Flagg: Well, of course it's free. What kind of a philistine do you take me for? There's just one little thing... I would like a kiss.

Frannie: Not for my husband! Not for my baby! Not for the world itself! Get thee behind me, you fucking bastard!

Mother Abagail: You know, all seems well... and then here comes God and says, "No, there's more to do, more pain to bear."
Frannie: God is cruel, then.
Mother Abagail: Job said the same. And God spoke to him out of the whirlwind, and He said, "Were you here when I made the world?" God said, "The wheel keeps turning, the struggle continues, but the command... is always the same. Be true. Stand."

Randall Flagg: My name is Russell Faraday. Worship me!

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The Stand

The Stand 1×8

Glen Bateman: Randall Flagg, the Mother of Dragons, the Queen of the Andals and everybody else above himself.

Ray Brentner: Bitch, you look bad...

Randall Flagg: Just one thing I want you to do for me first. Waste not, want not.

Rat Woman: Larry Underwood? Compliments of Mr. Flagg.

Randall Flagg: Now, let's get this party started... First we drown the rats, and then we burn the witch!

Lloyd Henreid: I always liked your music.

Lloyd Henreid: Any last words? Now's the time.
Larry Underwood: I will fear no evil... I will fear no evil. I will fear no evil!

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The Walk

The Stand 1×7

Mother Abagail: There's bitter days ahead. Death and terror. Betrayal and tears. And not all of you will live through 'em.

Mother Abagail: The Dark Man grows stronger every day, and I know you can feel it. And soon he'll come to destroy all who stand against him. His kingdom's in the west, and it is there you must go and make your stand.

Frances Goldsmith: Swear you'll come back.
Stu Redman: Frannie, how can I... ?
Frances Goldsmith: God can't run all of it. Not all of it. Swear it.
Stu Redman: I swear I'll try.

Glen Bateman: Mother Abagail also said this may be what God wants for us.
Stu Redman: Oh. Wait. Don't... don't tell me the world's preachiest atheist all of a sudden found religion.
Glen Bateman: Oh, my wife used to say, "There's no difference "believing in something for which there is no evidence and refusing to believe in something for which there is overwhelming evidence." I have no idea if there's a God, or if He was speaking through Mother A, but we're on this train now till the end of the line.

Stu Redman: Well, shit.

Stu Redman: Did you go to church when you were growing up?
Larry Underwood: Yeah. So what?
Stu Redman: You remember Psalm 23?
Larry Underwood: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death... "
Stu Redman: "... I will fear no evil." I want you to look around you, Larry.

Glen Bateman: Thing about pain, of course, is... well, stay ahead of it. Stu... Important about the dosage. Take three or four of those at once... liable to be fatal. You get me, East Texas?

Randall Flagg: We tried it their way... We're not gonna have any whining, my friends... Can't have any pussies, either. We tried it their way, and it didn't work. Now it's our turn.

Nadine Cross: Hello, friends. Welcome... to New Vegas.

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The Vigil

The Stand 1×6

Harold Lauder: Did you know that the Chinese character for "crisis" includes the Chinese character for "opportunity"?...

Harold Lauder: There's gonna be a vigil tonight...

Randall Flagg: Even before I could see the old hag at the motel, I... I could feel her. But this, this last one, every time I try, it's exactly the same. All I see is... the moon.

Julie Lawry: Run. Run. Run now. Run. Run, Forrest, run!

Mother Abagail: God sent Moses mountain climbing, Noah boat building, and let His Son get nailed to a cross, and said not a word, not even when He asked to have the cup taken from His lips. Said nothing. You think my fear's greater than His?
Randall Flagg: Well, having observed a number of crucifixions, I'd have to say no.

Mother Abagail: Get thee behind me, Satan.
Randall Flagg: That's not my name, you know.
Mother Abagail: Oh, I know. You've got many names.
Randall Flagg: I do, indeed. My name is Legion, for we are many.

Randall Flagg: Oh, He's gone quiet, hasn't He? Is that why you're out here in the middle of nowhere? 40 days and 40 nights?
Mother Abagail: If that's what it takes.
Randall Flagg: You're not looking for God, Abagail Freemantle. You know as well as I do, He left this world a long time ago. You're looking for Death.

Randall Flagg: My sincere apologies to the housekeeper...

Frannie: If I'm right, doesn't matter... If I'm wrong... "Remember that time Frannie's pregnancy brain made her, like, crazy paranoid?"

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Fear and Loathing in New Vegas

The Stand 1×5

Julie Lawry: Well, way it works is, if you want to get to see the Man, you got to see... my man.

Lloyd Henreid: This place, you can be anything you want to be here. All it is, is a question of motivation.

Receptionist: Name, age, pre-plague occupation, special skills.

Bouncer: You know Mr. Flagg's rule. Anyone comes here voluntarily is a citizen no matter what.

Mother Abagail: I told you not to do anything having to do with the Dark Man until we got the okay from above. And what do y'all do?

Mother Abagail: Aw, Nick, you were supposed to be my voice. The Lord said it was you. And now you're talking about... y'all sent spies! The Israelites sent spies into Canaan, and it bought 'em 40 years in the desert. I guess we'll find out what you've wrought...

Mother Abagail: We all have choice... until we don't.

Dayna Jurgens: I lost something.
Tom Cullen: Okay. Do you know what it was?
Dayna Jurgens: Yeah. I...
Tom Cullen: Because sometimes we know we lost something, but we're not sure what. Miss Sykes says that's a blessing because if you're only looking for one special thing, then anything else you find is a disappointment.

Lloyd Henreid: Dayna, where you been, girl? I know how you wanted to meet Flagg. Well, Flagg, he wants to meet you, too.

Julie Lawry: See ya. Wouldn't want to be ya.

Randall Flagg: You dig that? I learned that trick from my old lover Konstantin Stanislavski. Yeah, he once told me that acting is all about reacting. I was simply using what you were giving me there.

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The House of the Dead

The Stand 1×4

Frances Goldsmith: If you're reading this, that means you're alive...

Glen Bateman: The messenger... The messenger, way more important than what comes out of his mouth.

Glen Bateman: Well, you know where I stand. We tell them the truth.
Nick Andros: "What's the truth?"
Glen Bateman: Oh, it's too early in the day for me to get all metaphysical. I don't really know.
Frances Goldsmith: But, Glen, actually, we don't know what happened to this guy. All we know is what he told us.

Stu Redman: Protecting this place is all that I care about. But I do think there's some room in there for the truth...
Glen Bateman: You wouldn't have to lie. Just-just... You just don't say more than you know.
Stu Redman: Never pegged you for a politician.
Glen Bateman: Desperate times...

Harold Lauder: Mr. Chairman?
Stu Redman: Yes, Harold?
Harold Lauder: Hi. I think since you're all doing such a fantastic job, I'd like to put a motion on the floor to accept the slate of ad hoc committee members in toto as the permanent committee... If they'll serve, that is.

Nadine Cross: I know who you are... Harold.

Nadine Cross: The man who gave me this?... He believes we can do great things together.

Glen Bateman: I think I know what Harold's problem is.
Stu Redman: Glen.
Glen Bateman: No, no, no. You are a man of science. Am I right? Harold?

Glen Bateman: I recognized a fellow traveler. See, because I can see the mistake you're making, Harold, 'cause I made the same one myself.
Harold Lauder: The mistake I'm making?
Glen Bateman: The reason we have spent our entire lifetimes not believing in what so many of our species were so... determined to believe in... God and magic and... Not because it wasn't true, Harold. It's because there was no proof that it was true. See? Think about the first man to look into the microscope...

Glen Bateman: The point is, as a man of science, don't you kind of want to know? Come with us. Let's see how far down the rabbit hole goes...

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Blank Page

The Stand 1×3

Drogan: He's coming.

Teddy Weizak: Ah! She may be the hottest woman on Earth. I mean, left... Before, I see that woman, I say to myself, "You wouldn't have a shot with her if you were the last man on Earth." And now... here I am, a lot closer to being the last man on Earth than I ever imagined.
Harold Lauder: And you still don't have a shot with her.

Stu Redman: Well, look, Atlanta's as good a place as any. Good to get south before the winter hits.

Randall Flagg: I can fix you, Nicky boy. And all I ask in return is for you to worship the ground I walk on.

Glen Bateman: Do you like caviar?
Stu Redman: Cavi-what?

Glen Bateman: What I gathered from the news, back when there was news... Captain Trips hit dogs as bad as it hit people.
Stu Redman: Yep, dogs... horses... guinea pigs.
Glen Bateman: Yeah, yeah, and-and yet, uh, deer!
Stu Redman: Yeah, deer.
Glen Bateman: Sons of bitches are everywhere.
Stu Redman: Everywhere. What... what's up with that?
Glen Bateman: And rats. What sort of horseshit Judgment Day spares the rats?

Stu Redman: Really, you think this is Judgment Day?
Glen Bateman: "Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three, they'll create a charming little thing called society." It's true, you need a society to build buildings and golf courses and... towns and... steeples and create the Internet, everything else! But the other stuff society gives you... outcasts, prejudice, competition? You can keep the rest of that crap for yourself.
Stu Redman: And you don't feel the slightest obligation to get things back up and running?
Glen Bateman: "Up and running" is what got us here. I think it's high time we tried down and standing still.

Nick Andros: Who are you?
Mother Abagail: My name is Abagail Freemantle. Some folks call me Mother Abagail, because I'm the oldest person that anyone knows.
Nick Andros: No, I mean... who are you?
Mother Abagail: Oh. I'm an old woman who the Lord has chosen to talk to. Now, it would not have been my choice, but no one asked me.
Nick Andros: Well, I don't believe in God.
Mother Abagail: That's all right. God believes in you. And He's got a job for you. He wants you to be my voice.
Nick Andros: "Voice"?

Tom Cullen: Holy geez, mister! What happened to your eye? My name is Tom Cullen. I'm 42 years old and developmentally disabled. Please do not be alarmed by my behavior, for I have difficulty reading social cues. If you find my behavior inappropriate to the situation, please tell me, and I will endeavor to change. I am a hard worker, very strong, and capable of basic physical labor. I cannot read, but I can follow simple direction. If you know of employment opportunities, please contact Miss Sykes at the Center for Handicapable Workers... What's the matter, mister?

Stu Redman: Are we having the same dream?
Glen Bateman: No, we're not. This is... We're remembering the same commercial. Old lady selling detergent.

Drogan: I've come from a bad place. An awful place. And there's a man there... but he ain't no man. He's got lots of names. The hardcase. The Walkin' Dude. Flagg.

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Pocket Savior

The Stand 1×2

George Trask: George Trask. You can call me "Gorgeous."

Larry Underwood: How do you know who I am?
Stu Redman: How do you think?
Larry Underwood: Mother Abagail? Shit. I feel crazy saying her name out loud.
Stu Redman: Well, then, we're all crazy, 'cause we all dreamt of her.

Stu Redman: I asked the exact same question the first time I met her.She said, "All God's seen fit to show me is the who. Up to you to sort out the how."

Ray Brentner: Dangerous being a prophet. Especially during times of upheaval.

Rita Blakemoor: Oh, the smell, it's awful.
Larry Underwood: Only gonna get worse. We can't stay here. You know that, right? Eight million corpses in the naked city. They're just rotting in... furnished ovens. Plus the rats. They'll spread diseases we're not immune to.

Rita Blakemoor: Is this water?
Larry Underwood: Uh... I know it sucks, but I bet it beats the shit out of whatever those assholes had planned.
xMaps: Starting route to Haven Avenue. In 400 feet, turn right on Columbus Avenue.
Rita Blakemoor: I don't think I can do this.
Larry Underwood: Hey, listen, just pretend we're Ninja Turtles.

Nadine: What did she say to you... the old woman?
Larry Underwood: I told you, I'm really not supposed to...

Nadine: Yeah.
Larry Underwood: ...tell people what she said.
Rita Blakemoor: This is stupid.
Larry Underwood: What is? That it's raining or... that you're stuck here with me?
Rita Blakemoor: No. Being alive. When everyone else is dead. It's like being the last people to leave a party.
Larry Underwood: Meaning what? That-that... You're worried it's tacky?
Rita Blakemoor: It's stupid. It's not worth it.

Randall Flagg: Look at me.
Lloyd Henreid: No.
Randall Flagg: Why not?
Lloyd Henreid: I don't think you're real.
Randall Flagg: Oh, I'm real, baby. I'm real real.
Lloyd Henreid: Well, if you're real, then you must be the devil.

Randall Flagg: Hell, I'm a bit peckish myself and it's barely an hour since I finished lunch. Mmm. Rare roast beef sandwich on Vienna bread. Smothered in onions and Gulden's spicy brown. Home fries on the side. Little chocolate milk to wash it down. Oh, my, I'm... I'm torturing you, ain't I?

Randall Flagg: I don't believe I introduced myself... Name's Flagg. Two Gs. Pleased to meet you.

Randall Flagg: I'm very pleased to have found you, Lloyd. I believe this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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The End

The Stand 1×1

— Seven billion people dead. You want to puke, son... you go right ahead.

Dr. Jim Ellis: Okay. What do you want to know?
Stu Redman: Well, for starters, how come you're not wearing one of those masks?
Dr. Jim Ellis: I'm, uh, too good-looking. Sorry. Uh, my psych profile says I use humor to cope with... stress.

Stu Redman: How many of them had what Campion had?
Dr. Jim Ellis: All of them.
Stu Redman: What do you mean, all of 'em? What... ? And how are they?
Dr. Jim Ellis: Ralph Hodges', uh, youngest daughter, the four-year-old.
Stu Redman: Eva?
Dr. Jim Ellis: Uh-huh. She's alive. She was when I came in here.

Dr. Jim Ellis: Well, as far as we can tell, everyone who comes in contact with this thing becomes infected. Everyone but you, and we need to find out why. We need to take as much blood from you as you can tolerate. Couple of vials every couple hours. Run it through every test we can think of. Run the rest of you through every scan we have. Hope that one of these tracks helps us identify what's protecting you from this infection. Come up with some way to protect the rest of us.

Harold Lauder: Frannie. Five will get you ten, it was the people in authority who did this. Some government scientist said, "Look what I made. Kills almost everybody. Isn't it great?" Probably got a medal and a raise. And then somebody spilled it.
Frances Goldsmith: What are you talking about?
Harold Lauder: What planet have you been living on? It was all over the Internet before they shut it down.

Harold Lauder: No one's coming, Fran.

Dr. Jim Ellis: I got to get on the phone with the World Health Organization in five minutes to get estimates that would make the Spanish flu look like a sham.

Harold Lauder: ... the fatality rate for this virus is well over 99%. Means we can't afford to lose a single person. It means...
Frances Goldsmith: We're the future.
Harold Lauder: Yes. Us.

Stu Redman: No.
Dr. Jim Ellis: Uh, pretty much sums it up. See, the first rule of epidemiology is, you don't end up on the wrong end of the stethoscope.

Dr. Jim Ellis: Pretty much everyone has it. ... Oh, God. Can you imagine that just, like, a month ago, we were all worried about Ebola.

General Starkey: Right this way, soldier.... Follow the lights, Mr. Redman.

General Starkey: Looks like we're the last men standing here...

General Starkey: Men like Cobb... don't stop following orders just because the orders stop making sense.

General Starkey: Poetry. And I do believe Mr. Yeats was onto something about how it looks when the shit hits the fan.

General Starkey: If you'll indulge me?
     "Turning and turning in the widening gyre,
     the falcon cannot hear the falconer.
     Things fall apart.
     Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
     The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,
     and everywhere the ceremony
     of innocence is drowned.
     The best lack all conviction,
     while the worst
     are full of passionate intensity.
     Surely some revelation is at hand.
     Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
     Somewhere in sands of the desert
     a shape with lion body
     and the head of a man,
     a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun
     is moving its slow thighs.
     And what rough beast,
     its hour come round at last,
     slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

General Starkey: Good luck to you, Mr. Redman.

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