“Unfinished Business” quotes from Criminal Minds

Nucky Thompson

My circumstances have changed. There are things I won't do anymore. You understand that, don't you?

There's what I know, what I suspect and what I don't think I should ever hear.

Al Capone

[weeping over his brother Frank's body] Everything that crawls is gonna pay!

I's a woman's place to tend to the home. It's a man's to tend to the future.

Dr. Narcisse found me. Put his wings around me ever since.

Chalky White

You and him ever...?

No, he's a decent man.

Chalky White

So what that make me?

That make you my man.

Valentin Narcisse

Where I am from, Mr. Thompson, there are no such things as "niggers", and I refuse to be treated like one.

Nelson Van Alden

Phil? Mr. Gulliver? Ralph?

Son of a bitch!

Nelson Van Alden

No, gentlemen, please! This is not a good time!

Not a good time for what?

Nelson Van Alden

You're upset!

[pointing at the burn scar from the iron Van Alden hit him with] Two months this took to heal! I didn't make a sale, for months!

Nelson Van Alden

Mr. Gulliver, do something!

You got it coming, George.

Nelson Van Alden

I apologize. I'm sorry! If we could just- [Gulliver grabs Van Alden and turns him to face Phil & Ralph, who each punch him again] ENOUGH!

You don't like it, huh?

Nelson Van Alden

I warned you to stop!

You hear that, Phil? He warned us! [Van Alden draws a pistol, aiming it at Phil and Ralph] Woah, woah, easy, Mueller!

Settle down, George!

Now, George, be reasonable!

Relax, huh?

Nelson Van Alden

I am relaxed. [shoots Phil, Ralph, and Scotty Gulliver]

Chalky White

[to Nucky] Heard a lot of "we" last year, when you was in trouble. Now it's just "you."

Nelson Van Alden

I told you, Mr. O'Banion-

I know you did. But- I don't believe you. [draws a pistol, points it at Van Alden's head] How's about the truth, Mueller? One more "I'm sorry", "I don't know", "I'm not looking for any trouble", and I will pop your head open like a melon.

Nelson Van Alden

I didn't kill Stu. Al Capone did. But I have killed other men. The one you know about, the three that attacked me... and my partner.

[surprised] Your what?

Nelson Van Alden

I was a Prohibition agent. I drowned him with my bare hands. My name isn't Mueller. I'm not legally married to my wife. I used to believe in God, but now I don't believe in anything at all.

Arnold Rothstein

May I offer you some free advice?

Is there anything more expensive in the world?

Nucky Thompson

You come to me begging, some wet behind the ears little shit...

Nucky...

Nucky Thompson

You assure me your intentions are honorable, that you and your partner have big plans for the future.

If you just let me speak...

Nucky Thompson

I let you in on the deal, things are going great. And then what do you do the second you get the chance?

Mr. Thompson...

Nucky Thompson

You stick it up my fucking ass!

We were coerced, Charlie and I! By Masseria. He found out about Tampa from his cousin.

Eli Thompson

Petrocelli.

And realized he could use it to his advantage.

Nucky Thompson

As did you and your greaseball partner.

He would've killed us if we didn't go along!

Nucky Thompson

You think I fucking won't?

I know that is a distinct possibility, sir, though I do pray to God that it won't happen. If it were up to me, sir, I'd have nothing to do with narcotics. There is plenty of money to be made in booze, which is a safer and eminently more socially acceptable...

Nucky Thompson

[slaps him across the face] You've got two fucking seconds to drop the boy scout routine, or you're going in that hole!

There's a fortune to be made in heroin. Millions and millions of dollars. Now, I don't know about you, but the way I saw it, it was the same life I was risking either way. I'm beggin' you, Mr. Thompson, please! What would you have done if you were me?

Gillian Darmody

Childhood doesn't last. Nothing lasts.

Gillian Darmody

You can make yourself live with anything.

Eli Thompson

[to Willie] You go to him? Over your father?

Nucky Thompson

I'm the one who can fix it.

Eli Thompson

He was supposed to amount to somethin'!

Nucky Thompson

He's still going to.

Eli Thompson

What? A man in an empty hotel, pointing a gun at his brother?

Nucky Thompson

I did it for the family.

Eli Thompson

You don't have a family. I do. Now you're gonna take that too? Nothing will fill that hole you got inside you. Don't you know that yet?

Nucky Thompson

This is your mess, Eli. Drown in it.

Valentin Narcisse

Who are you?

The one asking questions.

You seem to be a clever fellow. Who do you think gets to decide what the truth is?

Valentin Narcisse

Truth is what those in power wish it to be.

During the course of investigating the seditious activities of Marcus Garvey, James M. Tolliver, Special Agent with the Bureau of Investigation, was murdered in Atlantic City, New Jersey by an unidentified colored male. Dr. Valentin Narcisse assisted the Bureau in apprehending the suspect. He further agreed, during a private conversation with Director Hoover, to provide ongoing, secret intelligence regarding Mr. Garvey, with particular concern to his radical agenda and his ties to foreign powers.

Valentin Narcisse

And why would he do that?

To demonstrate his commitment to the values of his adopted land.

Valentin Narcisse

Brother Garvey is a hero, dedicated to liberation of a great people.

But you are not. You are just a peddler and a pimp sitting in a jail cell.

Valentin Narcisse

I am a businessman and a follower of Christ.

You agree to cooperate, you can go on pretending to be anything you want. You don't, and I will make sure you never see daylight in America again.

Valentin Narcisse

[to himself] Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof...

I cannot hear you.

Valentin Narcisse

I said yes.

Yes, what?

Valentin Narcisse

Yes... sir.

[to young Nucky] It took your mother three days to birth you. I was out in the water. I didn't know if I was a father or a widower. I come home, she's in bed with her hair down, her beautiful hair. A boy in her arms. My boy. [He strokes Nucky's hair, and then hits him in the face] You're the son of a fisherman. And what are you trying to catch?