Black Mirror · Season 1
[Kenny, bruised and bloodied, is walking down a trail at night, when he receives a phone call from his mother]
[distraught] What did you do, Kenny?! They're saying it was kids! That you've been looking at kids! And Lindsay saw it! There's a video of you, and all of her friends have got it! Kids, Kenny! Tell me that's not true!
[The call ends, and the anonymous messengers have sent Kenny a Trollface; meanwhile, law enforcement has just pulled up to his position]
Oh, sorry. I'm... I said I'm not much of a dancer.
No shit. Like a frightened horse on a frozen lake back there.
Want to go to bed with me? We could be back at mine like... [snaps fingers]
I never did anything like that.
All the more reason.
I guess you deflowered me.
I "deflowered" you? What is this, merry England?
You married me.
To help you pass over. As a kindness.
It's not so kind to leave.
Forty-nine years. I was with him for 49 years. You can't begin to imagine. You can't know. The bond, the commitment, the boredom, the yearning, the laughter, the love of it. The fucking love. You just cannot know. Everything we sacrificed. The years I gave him, the years he gave me. Did you think to ask? Did it occur to you to ask? We had a daughter. Allison. Always difficult, always beautiful. Died at 39 years old, bless her heart, and Richard and I felt that heartbreak as one. You think you're the only person ever suffered? Go fuck yourself.
His aim's so bad he's the only guy on earth who can shit his own pants and miss.
Humans. You know, we give ourselves a bad rep, but we're genuinely empathetic as a species. I mean, we don't actually really want to kill each other. Which is a good thing... until your future depends on wiping out the enemy.
I mean, out here in the field--
What fucking field?
Well, you know what I mean. Out here in the... the real world, you can genuinely prevent stuff, can't you?
You are young.
Maybe you're old.
The heat in a marriage, that's in 3D, that's... had work put into it. That's sincere. Yeah, I'm divorced.
[About the ADIs being used to spy on people]
Government's not going to pump billions into it just cause some lab coat says so and it grabs 200 green votes. They saw an opportunity to get more, they took it.
Total nationwide surveillance.
We tracked suspects for weeks in ways they couldn't dream of. We prevented bombings, mass shootings--
By spying on the public.
And keeping them safe, which is what they want!
Clara Meades isn't safe, though, is she, Shaun? Knowing what you knew, that might've helped us, but no, you kept your little fucking secret.
Okay, the government's a cunt. We knew that already.
[About the online bullying that drove her to near-suicide]
It was like having a whole weather system turn against me. Just hate message after hate message, around the clock, all piling on. It's hard to describe what that does to your head. Suddenly there's a million invisible people, all talking about how they despise you. It's like a mental illness.
Lunatic with production values. That's the worst kind.
What is Space Fleet? I'll tell you what it is. It is a belief system founded on the very best of human nature. It is a goal for us to strive towards for the betterment of the universe, for the betterment of life itself. And you assholes are fucking it up!
If you think that I'm playing along with your Space Force bullshit--
Space Fleet.
Whatever! You can think again.
This is my ship. I am your captain. An order is an order.
Then go fuck yourself. Sir.
Okay. So we're doing it this way.
[scoffs] Are you gonna throw a fireball?
[Daly grins and snaps his fingers, causing Cole's face to vanish, leaving just skin; she makes panicked, muffled choking sounds and collapses]
[mockingly] Oh dear! You can't see, you can't breathe. Unpleasant, isn't it? Do you submit? You won't die, you know. No one dies in here unless I want them to. I can keep you like this forever if I feel like it. Forever gasping for breath with a mouth that isn't there. Do you... submit?
[Clutching at her throat, Cole nods desperately]
[patting her head] Good girl.
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