Lucas Hood quotes from Banshee

Deputy Siobhan Kelly

You checking up on me?

Lucas Hood

No I came to get you. You shouldn't stay here.

Deputy Siobhan Kelly

What are you kidding me? What do I have a curfew now too

Lucas Hood

No.

Deputy Siobhan Kelly

Well this is my house and I'm not leaving.

Lucas Hood

Well I guess I'm staying too then.

Deputy Siobhan Kelly

When the time comes for you to spend the night, it won't be to protect me.

Kai Proctor

You know generally Banshee is a pretty quiet town but after you arrived it's been one thing after another, it's almost as if you brought it all with you. "And behold a Pale Rider and his name that sat upon him was Death and Hell followed with him", Revelations 6:8.

Lucas Hood

Yeah I've never had much patience for people who quote scripture.

Kai Proctor

This is God's country, you better acquire a taste for it.

Deputy Siobhan Kelly

What are you thinking about?

Lucas Hood

I don't know. I was thinking about something someone said to me the other day. [Pause] I mean you get used to a certain way of being and uh... Do you think we are who we are or do you think we can change?

Deputy Siobhan Kelly

What you mean people like you?

Lucas Hood

Me, you, people in general.

Deputy Siobhan Kelly

I don't know if anyone ever changes really but we can evolve, right. I mean that's what we're trying to do isn't it, just become better versions of ourselves.

Lucas Hood

[Pause] So you think we evolve.

Deputy Siobhan Kelly

I'm counting on it.

Lucas Hood

Hey, Job. How was New York?

Job

I see you got your ass kicked again while I was gone. It's starting to be a thing.

Lucas Hood

Every man needs a hobby.

Job

Do I even want to know?

Lucas Hood

Probably not. How'd it go?

Job

How'd it go?

Lucas Hood

You couldn't get rid of them?

Job

There was a wrinkle. I should have found out everything there was to know about those diamonds before you went in. Where they came from. Rabbit fucked you. He fucked you hard. You served 15 years for stealing a handful of glass.

Lucas Hood

Okay. So, what do you got? [Opens door and closes it]

So... I see him three to four times a week.

Lucas Hood

He pays you?

Mm-hmm, but he calls them gifts.

Lucas Hood

And what would he do if you said no?

He'd get me fired from the club and I need the money.

Lucas Hood

So, what do you want to tell me?

If I gave you something on Proctor, would you put him away? Could you even put him away?

Lucas Hood

Depends what it is.

Would I have to testify?

Lucas Hood

Depends what it is.

Well, I won't testify, and you have to promise me...

Lucas Hood

I can't promise you anything until I know what you've got.

And he can't know it's me.

Lucas Hood

Listen, I got a jail full of whοres I can do this with.

And I have a... I have a son. fսck.

Lucas Hood

Listen, if what you've got is big enough to put Proctor away, I'll do everything I can to keep you out of it. That's as close to a promise as you're gonna get right now. No?

There was this guy I used to see. [sniffles] A client. He used to drive trucks for Proctor, running X into Philly.

Lucas Hood

Ecstasy?

He said Proctor has this place where they do it all... cook it, pack it, and ship it off.

Lucas Hood

You know his name?

Matt Sharp.

Lucas Hood

Where do I find him?

Hey. I'm looking for Matt Sharp.

I'm Sharp.

[Laughs] Irony. Nice. I need to talk to you for a minute.

I'm on the clock, Sheriff. I don't know if you heard, but the market's down, unemployment's at 9%. You wouldn't want to keep an honest man from making a buck, would ya? An honest man, no.

Lucas Hood

You? Eh, I could give a shit.

Listen, guys, we just got a couple of questions for you. You're gonna want to put that down.

Are you one of those affirmative action hires? Hey. How do you like sitting in the front seat versus the back?

Not as good as it'll feel when I put my boot up your ass and out your mouth.

Whoa. Hey, we're just messing around. We didn't mean nothing by it. Yeah, spic, slope, coon, kike, fɑggоt. Soon as you put the uniform on, we dislike you all the same. Yo, I recognize this dude. You're that football player, right?

Real big deal in college. Running back.

Yeah, what happened? Did you quit? Or did somebody figure out that a nigger running like he stole something ain't nothing new? [Laughs]

Emmett, be cool, all right? Emmett?

I'm cool.

All right.

Lucas Hood

Don't hold back on my account.

A verbal taunt does not fulfill the protocol for self-defense, Sheriff, only a life-threatening act. And these little men aren't what I'd consider to be threatening.

[Throws cigarette in Emmett's face] Fսck you, O.J. I do believe I now feel threatened.

Lucas Hood

I would. [White supremacist punches Emmett in the face, merely turning his face and gets himself punched in the face] [To Matt Sharp attempting to flee] Hey, hey, hey, hey! Don't you fսcking move! [Brock is on the ground with a man on top of him holding off a pipe] You okay, Brock?!

No!

Lucas Hood

Emmett, you need a hand?! [Matt takes off] Oh, fսck! Emmett! You all right?! Yeah?! [Takes after Matt through the junkyard and catches up with him pointing a gun at Matt's head] Slow down, Sharp.!

What do you want, cop?

Lucas Hood

You're gonna tell me about Proctor's ecstasy operation.

[Leans towards the gun making contact with forehead] I don't know what the fսck you're talking about!

Lucas Hood

Okay. [Kicks Matt in the crotch] Let me get you started. You were a driver. You did runs from Banshee... to Philly.

Who told you that?!

Lucas Hood

Well, that's none of your business!

[Laughs] You think I'm gonna roll on someone like Proctor 'cause of you? Ah! Go ahead, arrest me. At least in jail I got my health.

Lucas Hood

Yeah, but right now... [Gets Matt in an armlock in sing-song] I got your arm.

Stop!

Lucas Hood

So tell me how it works.

Fսck you!

Lucas Hood

Okay!

Lucas Hood

I don't think he did lose it. I think he made a conscious choice. They hurt his family, he needed to make 'em pay.

Deputy Siobhan Kelly

We would have made them pay.

Lucas Hood

Yeah, but he needed it to come from him. Think of it like you and Breece. Look, there is a point at which any one of us will do exactly what Emmett did. It's just a question of what puts us in that situation where the circumstances outweigh the consequences. We go to the station every day and we're supposed to be dealing in justice, but all we're really doing is enforcing a set of rules. But justice, real justice, is personal. Sometimes the only way to get it is with your own two hands.

Lucas

[He and Brock arrive at a cabin in the Louisiana Bayou and he spots a still lit cigarette on ground] Brock.

Yeah? [Thugs attack and fight him and Lucas]

[Appears at cabin door speaking through electrolarynx] Stop! Better have a damn good reason for trespassing on my land.

Lucas

If this is your land, you must be Sani Crow. We're looking for Chayton Littlestone. He killed our friend. She was a cop.

Then you came a long way for nothing.

Oh, fuck. I blame you for this.

This woman you say Chayton killed, what did she do to him?

Lucas

Nothing.

Then why would he take her life?

Lucas

'Cause he's a fucking psychopath.

There was a time when you people would have called him a wild savage instead.

Yeah, that sounds about right.

Lucas

Listen... he came to you for help and you gave him sanctuary. I understand that. He's your people. But right now every cop within a thousand miles is looking for him. Not even you can avoid that kind of heat.

That's why I didn't allow him to stay.

Lucas

When did he leave? [Crow's thugs all raise firearms]

Hood.

A few days before you showed up.

Lucas

And where did he go?

My best guess would be the Quarter. It's not a big place.

Lucas

Let's go. [He and Brock walk away']

Hundred bucks says he's lying.

Lucas

Doesn't matter.

Why not?

Lucas

He sent us to the French Quarter. Whether he's selling us out or Chayton, we all end up in the same place.

You know, when we... when we killed Hondo, I swore to myself never again. And yet here I am a short while later on another assassination junket.

Lucas

Sometimes the law can't give justice.

Oh, don't kid yourself, Hood. This isn't justice. Hondo wasn't justice, okay? This is cold, hard, self-serving revenge. We're killers, okay? Don't make us idiots.

Lucas

Keep your fucking voice down.

Who gives a shit? They're all drunk.

Lucas

You need to calm down.

Fuck that, man. We drove through five states to come here to kill a man.

Lucas

You don't have to kill anyone.

Then what the hell am I doing here? Huh? What am I doing here?! [Lucas walks across street] Hood!

[Lucas sits on bed drinking and listening to couple making love next door] Oh, my God... oh, fuck!

[Lucas has flashbacks to Chayton's murder of Siobhan which morphs to a Chayton's present appearance which is then realized by Lucas with Chayton who trying to kill Lucas] You can't kill me, cop! You're just a man! No man can kill me!

Hood!

Lucas

[Grabs Brock's shotgun] Damn it, give me that.!

[After a chase by Lucas through a cemetery which ends at the Mississippi river banks of a warehouse] I underestimated you. You're not a cop.

Lucas

No.

Your people deal in lies. You will never understand the purity of true purpose. Of a spiritual calling. You're nothing. I am a warrior. I held her neck in these hands. So delicate. Felt her pulse tapping against my fingertips. The life running through her. [Lucas blows off half of Chayton's face with a shotgun with Chayton's body slumping down]

[After dumping Chayton's body in the Mississippi River] Hey. We should probably get the hell out of Dodge before the locals show up, huh? Hood, let's go.

Lucas

I can't go back.

What?

Lucas

I'm done. I got nothing left.

So that's it? You're just gonna walk away? You know, I've been driving myself crazy trying to figure you out, but I'm done. Who you are, who you were, where you're from, I don't care. I don't care anymore. The only thing I care about is my town. Kai Proctor has been having his way with us, all of us, for way too long. But you, you're the first guy that bastard couldn't own. And together, you and me, we could take him down for good.

Lucas

No.

God damn it. What do you think she would have wanted, huh? I'm not going back to Banshee without you. Gotta finish what you started. Even if I've got to kick your ass all the way back there myself. I'm not leaving without you.

Lucas

Are you done?

I think so. Come on.

Lucas

Hello? Hello? Hello! Let me the fսck out! [Robert enters] Who the fսck are you?

You're smaller than I thought you'd be, which is strange because you did a hell of a number on your drill instructor and he's not a pussy. Probably not the first time your temper got you into trouble, is it? That's probably why you joined the army in the first place, right? Or are you just a patriot?

Lucas

Where am I?

Where aren't you? You aren't in the brig at Fort Benning facing a court-martial that could have landed you two years in military prison and turned you into an even meaner asshоlе than you are now. I had you moved. You're welcome.

Lucas

So what is this?

Well, I guess it's math class, because I'm not wearing a rank or an insignia and this isn't a cell, so... Special Ops?

Lucas

Hey, fսck you!

Fսck me? We'll see you in a couple days, kid. [Walks away]

Lucas

What? Where are you going? [Roberts walks out door] Hey! Hey, asshоlе, come back!

Lucas

How'd you find me?

I didn't. I mean, I wasn't looking for you. I thought you were gone. Hey, you want to do me a favor and point that thing somewhere else, okay? Holy hell. Haven't seen you in two years. And all that time you've been living up in this cabin like some kind of mountain man or something? Is there anybody here with you?

Lucas

No.

Then I'm gonna need you to come with me.

Lucas

No.

I'm not asking.

Have a seat. First of all, you should know when I went up there today, you were the last person I expected to find. Were you in that cabin two nights ago?

Lucas

Yes.

Anybody with you?

Lucas

No. [Hands out photos of Rebecca's remains] Who's dead? Who is that? Rebecca.

Her body was found yesterday near the river. That's not where she was killed, but that's where the body was dumped.

Lucas

Jesus.

This is the third murder of its kind that we've had this year.

Lucas

You call the FBI?

Yeah. I called them after the second one and they sent some little shit up here and he looked through our files and took some notes and then he ran back to Quantico as fast as his little $60 loafers could take him. Told me to call back if a third body turned up. So maybe now they'll give a shit.

Lucas

So what does this have to do with me?

When was the last time you saw Rebecca?

Lucas

I haven't seen anyone... for about 18 months.

And yet, it's the weird part, the last coordinates on her car's GPS brought me up to your cabin today. You didn't see her?

Lucas

Nope.

Any idea why she'd come looking for you? How the hell she'd even know you were up there, Hood? I'm just trying to put this together.

Lucas

It's her uncle's land.

It's what?

Lucas

It's her uncle's land.

You're living on Proctor's land? He doesn't know. What happened to you, Hood?

Lucas

I retired.

We found trace blood that didn't match Rebecca's. I'm gonna need you to voluntarily submit a blood sample so we can rule you out.

Lucas

You think I'm a fսcking serial killer now?

Have you seen yourself lately, Hood? You're living up in the woods. You look like the Unabomber.

Lucas

Yes, you can have my blood.

Oh, and, Hood... if there's anything else you want to tell me, now's the time.

Lucas

You should be looking at Proctor.

Yeah, well, these days that's a little more complicated. [Kurt enters]

Is there something wrong?

Lucas

Sorry, you just... you reminded me of someone for a moment.

Mmm, the deputy who got killed? Indian gangbanger broke her neck?

Lucas

I think I like you better when you don't talk.

Did you know that Rebecca Bowman was pregnant?

Lucas

You've asked me that three times already.

And I'm gonna keep asking it till I'm satisfied.

Lucas

Did you know?

[Sighs] No. Tell me about your relationship with Rebecca.

Lucas

It wasn't a relationship.

Then what was it? Like just friends with benefits or something until you killed her?

Lucas

Fսck you, Brock.

No, fսck you. Look, I don't think you're killing young girls. But I don't know that you're not. The only thing I know is you've been lying to me since you got to Banshee. And the lies end here. When was the last time you saw her alive?

Lucas

I don't know. A while ago.

I need you to be more specific than that.

Lucas

I don't keep a fսcking diary.

Her car's GPS proves she was at your cabin the night she was killed.

Lucas

Like I told you, I didn't see her.

Really? How do you know? I mean, you don't keep a fսck¡ng diary. [Sighs] I think you did see her that night. I think she told you she was pregnant. Knowing you, you probably didn't take that news too well, so you argued. Maybe it turned violent, physical.

Lucas

No.

Why is your blood in her car?

Lucas

I don't know. Why don't you ask Proctor?

I'm asking you.

Lucas

Well, I don't remember.

Well, do you remember cutting the hearts out of these two girls?

Lucas

Jesus Christ. Come on, you know me, Brock.

No, see, I don't! I don't know you. The only thing I know is that you went off the deep end when Siobhan was killed. You snapped and maybe you're reenacting her death over and over and over again like some psychotic...

Lucas

Jesus, open your fսcking eyes, Brock! This didn't happen in the moment. Whoever did this shit took time to plan it! Think! What, you think I got them pregnant as well? Huh? You fսcking know it wasn't me. I don't know anything!

Yeah, well, that about sums it up.

Carrie

Sheriff's giving you five minutes.

Lucas

You finally get to visit me in jail, huh?

Carrie

Better late than never.

Lucas

[Chuckles] I didn't do this.

Carrie

I know. Do you have any idea who did?

Lucas

Not yet.

Carrie

I don't know if you'll make bail, but I can use my house as collateral if you do.

Lucas

Thanks. How's Job?

Carrie

They did a real number on him.