If any of my employees ever stepped out of line, hassled you in any way, I'd expect you to call me. What I mean is I wouldn't want you to take matters into your own hands.
Look at me. Nobody runs from a fight faster than an old fighter.
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You checking up on me?
No I came to get you. You shouldn't stay here.
What are you kidding me? What do I have a curfew now too
No.
Well this is my house and I'm not leaving.
Well I guess I'm staying too then.
When the time comes for you to spend the night, it won't be to protect me.
[To Hood] I am legit worried about you, motherfucka!
I knew guys like Wicks in prison, guys that never stop digging graves for themselves and then trading everything and everyone to keep from getting buried. [Knocks on door] Eh, Hood, I never saw the paperwork on that Leonard Vanderwick guy. That get filed or...? It wasn't worth the effort. I sent him packing. Guys like that don't go down without taking everyone close down with him. That's their game.
How did he know you anyway?
He didn't. Not really. Knew of me, I guess.
And you just... just let him go?
Yeah. I didn't want to waste any more time on a vagrant who tried to steal some dinner.
So now you decide which laws are worth enforcing?
That's why they gave me the badge.
Yeah, but the rules are different out here.
No. Same rules. Same rules they had since the first man picked up the first stick and beat the second man's ass with it.
You have an interesting way of looking at the world.
[Chuckles] Yeah, I've lived an interesting life.
MMan
[Answers phone] Yes?
Tell him it's me. It's her.
MMan
Anastasia. I'm ready... to bring him to you.
When?
MMan
By the end of this week.
Where?
MMan
I'll let you know. She will bring him. [Starts engine]
And just when things finally seem to be nice and boring, you came along. You're welcome. I guess I'm just not cut out for... boring.
JJason
Hey, Dad, it's Jason. I got your message. I know we haven't talked in a long time, but I've got some real trouble here. I called a few times and I haven't heard back from you. I just wish I knew where the hell you were. I really need to talk to you. Anyway, please call me. Bye.
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.
Yeah I've never had much patience for people who quote scripture.
This is God's country, you better acquire a taste for it.
What would we be without our secrets.
OOlek
Your punches are sharp. You have speed and your balance is good, but you're still a woman. So it's not dangerous, not really.
What are you thinking about?
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?
What you mean people like you?
Me, you, people in general.
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.
[Pause] So you think we evolve.
I'm counting on it.
[To Rebecca after having her boyfriend strangled in front of her while they were making love] You're either with me or you're not. Do you understand?
Hey, Job. How was New York?
I see you got your ass kicked again while I was gone. It's starting to be a thing.
Every man needs a hobby.
Do I even want to know?
Probably not. How'd it go?
How'd it go?
You couldn't get rid of them?
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.
FMFoul Mouthed Stripper
Did you see somebody pay me to stick his dick in my ass? No!
DBDeputy Brock Lotus
No, thank god.
FMFoul Mouthed Stripper
So what do I know about a fucking prostitution ring?
DBDeputy Brock Lotus
Alright so let me just confirm your name is Platinum.
FMFoul Mouthed Stripper
Platinumm two m's. Platinumm.
DBDeputy Brock Lotus
Platinumm.
FMFoul Mouthed Stripper
Like mm she look good.
Okay. So, what do you got? [Opens door and closes it]
SStripper
So... I see him three to four times a week.
He pays you?
SStripper
Mm-hmm, but he calls them gifts.
And what would he do if you said no?
SStripper
He'd get me fired from the club and I need the money.
So, what do you want to tell me?
SStripper
If I gave you something on Proctor, would you put him away? Could you even put him away?
Depends what it is.
SStripper
Would I have to testify?
Depends what it is.
SStripper
Well, I won't testify, and you have to promise me...
I can't promise you anything until I know what you've got.
SStripper
And he can't know it's me.
Listen, I got a jail full of whοres I can do this with.
SStripper
And I have a... I have a son. fսck.
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?
SStripper
There was this guy I used to see. [sniffles] A client. He used to drive trucks for Proctor, running X into Philly.
Ecstasy?
SStripper
He said Proctor has this place where they do it all... cook it, pack it, and ship it off.
You know his name?
SStripper
Matt Sharp.
Where do I find him?
Hey. I'm looking for Matt Sharp.
MSMatt Sharp
I'm Sharp.
[Laughs] Irony. Nice. I need to talk to you for a minute.
MSMatt Sharp
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.
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.
MSMatt Sharp
Are you one of those affirmative action hires? Hey. How do you like sitting in the front seat versus the back?
DEDeputy Emmett
Not as good as it'll feel when I put my boot up your ass and out your mouth.
MSMatt Sharp
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?
DEDeputy Emmett
Real big deal in college. Running back.
MMan
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?
DEDeputy Emmett
I'm cool.
All right.
Don't hold back on my account.
DEDeputy Emmett
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.
MMan
[Throws cigarette in Emmett's face] Fսck you, O.J. I do believe I now feel threatened.
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!
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.!
MSMatt Sharp
What do you want, cop?
You're gonna tell me about Proctor's ecstasy operation.
MSMatt Sharp
[Leans towards the gun making contact with forehead] I don't know what the fսck you're talking about!
Okay. [Kicks Matt in the crotch] Let me get you started. You were a driver. You did runs from Banshee... to Philly.
MSMatt Sharp
Who told you that?!
Well, that's none of your business!
MSMatt Sharp
[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.
Yeah, but right now... [Gets Matt in an armlock in sing-song] I got your arm.
MSMatt Sharp
Stop!
So tell me how it works.
MSMatt Sharp
Fսck you!
Okay!
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.
We would have made them pay.
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.
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