Yes, but to restore a life you must take a life.
“The Day That Was the Day” · Season 1, Episode 12
In this episode: Management (5), Brother Justin Crowe (4), Ben Hawkins (3)
You must act as a man, not a boy. A boy mends the broken bones of his playmates, and resurrects little kittens for his own amusement. This is different, this is a woman's life. A human life. To restore it you must take life… with deliberation. You must choose the life you take — that is the way of our kind.
I ain't here to play games with someone hiding behind some curtain.
LLodz
Best keep a civil tongue in your head, boy.
Another step and I will kill you where you stand… then what will become of your friend, I wonder.
Who are you?
Someone who understands the life you've led, the questions you have, the torments… Someone who understands what it is to make such a choice. One life for another.
You have made this choice before.
What do you know about that?
I know that you are capable of making such a choice. Capable of saying "this one deserves to live, this one deserves to die".
No, that ain't my place.
If that is true, my friend, then why is such a choice possible? Why are you not like other men, left behind to bury your dead, gnash your teeth and cry out to God, "Why her, Lord, why not another?" The answer is self-evident. It is your place, Ben Hawkins; it cannot be escaped. It can only be accepted… Her life for another's. It is the only way… You may go now.
SStumpy
It's a hell of marriage we got here.
RSRita Sue
I wouldn't trade it.
SStumpy
Wouldn't be any takers.
So, I hear you think I burned down my church.
TDTommy Dolan
Do you need an audience, Brother Justin?
What I need will take some time to accomplish. But the first step is getting out my message.
NBNorman Balthus
My greatest evil? Saving your life? Giving you refuge? Protecting and nurturing you?
No, this can't be.
NBNorman Balthus
By your own words, the sin l must embrace, the evil that l have brought into the world...
[Visibly shocked] ls me!
NBNorman Balthus
lt's not too late, son. Pray with me now. Beg the Lord God to have pity upon you. Pray with me, pray that the demon leave you.
There is no demon in me! The demon is me.
TDTommy Dolan
Deal?
I'm reminded of the phrase "making a deal with the devil".
TDTommy Dolan
Oh, come on, now. I'm not that bad.
No, no, you're not.
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