[to Norman] You know what's ridiculous? Me, thinking you'd take me to the dance, and see me all dressed up, and realize you actually have feelings for me, Norman Bates, because you do, but you're just too stupid to know it.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
[after killing Abernathy] Not in my town, you piece of shit.
You're a teenager, it's summer. You should be out, I don't know, playing baseball or going to swimming holes or something normal.
I don't think mourning the death of someone who had been special to you is particularly abnormal!
Oh, I am just a little concerned that you seem obsessed with...[looking at Norma's taxidermy animals]...morbidity or something. I mean, you spend your days equally mooning over a dead teacher and taking apart dead animals. It's just weird.
You've got to stand up for yourself in life. You can't let the world run over you.
Look out there. We did that. All those cars, all those people out there in our motel, all of them, every single one, found us driving along the main road. Remember that first night we got to turn on the "No vacancy" sign?
Uh-huh.
You remember what that felt like?
Yeah.
We started over. We came here to do it, and we did it, and I'm not letting anyone take that away from us, okay? I will figure it out.
BMBradley Martin
I want to know who killed my dad.
GTGil Turner
I don't know who killed your dad.
BMBradley Martin
I find that hard to believe. You worked with him every day. You must know something. Who his enemies were, if someone had it out for him.
GTGil Turner
How old are you?
BMBradley Martin
Old enough.
GTGil Turner
I'm sorry about what happened to your father, but all I can tell you is stuff you don't want to hear.
BMBradley Martin
Try me.
GTGil Turner
Your father was a shitheel. He was out for himself, he had no loyalty to anyone, and that's a bad move in this business.
You're a dick!
LBLee Berman
Excuse me?
Yes, I just called you a dick, because that's what you are! I'm stuck here now because I can't sell my property because of your stupid bypass! I'm underwater! No one told me that before I bought it. Maybe you should talk about that at a city council meeting. Or maybe you should talk about the fact that your fancy town is run on drug money. Maybe that would be worth talking about as opposed to crazy house moms whining about whether or not their kids have read about ax murderers and whores. Welcome to the world, ladies! There are ax murderers and whores stuffed under every rug, so your kids better read up on it and get educated, because that's what life is! It's a cesspool you claw and scratch and fight to swim out of, but you never get to the top!
You know, Nick, I tolerate certain things, and believe me, I know the nature of the business that fuels this town, you know? Violence goes with the territory, but not this. I'm not gonna sit by and let things get out of control between the two families.
I can't help but wish you'd use the same level of effort to catch Blaire's killer. But then she was just a school teacher, not some big player in the drug business. I understand your priorities.
That's not the case at all, Nick. We're working on it.
It's been four months and nothing.
I, you know, your daughter didn't live a simple life, Nick.
I know exactly the kind of life my daughter lived. I know. You know, we all work together, Alex. We all try to respect each other or accommodate each other, and because of that, things in this little town are pretty nice. But it's not a given. It's not written on some stone tablet somewhere that that's the way it has to be.
You do errands for your mom. Well, aren't you a dying breed.
Yeah, I, uh I guess we're all doing that, too.
What?
Dying. You know, I mean, once we're born, that's what we're doing, right?
Who is this guy?
RWRemo Wallace
Zane? He's a lame-ass poser. Thinks he's a character out of Scarface. He's the brother of the big boss, a guy who shouldn't be in the business who is.
What was he in prison for?
RWRemo Wallace
Our buddy Zane was running the shipment down to our distributors in Las Vegas. Got clocked doing 95 and they pulled him over.
What kind of idiot speeds with a carload of weed?
RWRemo Wallace
That's my point exactly.
I like doing taxidermy. It's sort of "building" stuff, just rebuilding something you take apart first.
ZMZane Morgan
So, Paco and Tony. Doing them as what, payback for us taking out Johnny? Is that it? Is that the message?
I think that's pretty likely.
ZMZane Morgan
Okay. What would you do about it? Just tell me.
I don't think I'd do anything. I think I'd just stop. It's a zero-sum game. You just win until you lose again. It never ends. I'd just concentrate on having the best product and moving it. That's all.
ZMZane Morgan
I agree. That's very important. I also think that if they thought that Johnny was worth two of our guys, then two of our guys is worth ten of their guys or maybe twelve. Or however many I can get in one place at one time. And that right there, that's very important too.
What did you go through?
I kept waiting to grow up, get bigger than him, but it just never happened. You know, I mean, for all I knew, every family was like ours anyway. But I'm a man now, so I get it, you know, how worthless he must've felt. But I wasn't a man then, and Norma sure wasn't. And he just took it out on us. Such a pretty little kid. Such a trusting girl, and I couldn't protect her. I mean, she wants to forget it happened, forget me, and I get that. She wants to blame me. I mean, I blame me too. I always have.
You'll do anything to get your way!
I've never gotten my way, and that includes being your mother!
I thought it was time for us to meet. I'm Alex Romero.
ZMZane Morgan
Oh, yeah. You're that guy with the God complex.
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