Just leave me alone so I can shrivel up in peace.
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
[to Brenda] All couples have these types of disagreements. You think I didn't want to abort you and Billy?
MSMaggie Sibley
What's wrong?
[breathing heavily] My arm is numb … [slurs] Numb arm … numb arm … narm! … Narm!
It's perfectly normal to live in a bombshelter!
[to Hiram] Oh, go give yourself a handjob!
[to Rico] Ecotone. It's the area where two ecological worlds overlap. You know, like wilderness and civilization.
[to Maggie] What is this, some Quaker thing? You fuck someone's husband to death, then you bring them a quiche?
You could've dressed.
I couldn't.
The rest of us managed.
The rest of you win.
I think we're all in shock. Three years ago we prayed for Nate's life, and we thought our prayers were answered. Now we have to pray for help making sense of this loss. Because … we've lost a lot. A son, a father, a brother, a husband, a colleague … to me, an inspiration. He had a natural sense. He had a natural sense of what to say to people when they were grieving. And I just think he'd know what to say to help us if only he were here.
I'm David Fisher, and Nate was my big brother. When we were kids, I used to get picked on at school. I'd come home with my face or my pride bruised, and Nate would make me tell him who did it, and he'd go talk to whoever was tormenting me, and I'd be fine … until it happened again. So Nate came up with another strategy. He said, "When they start in on you, just laugh, laugh at them. Even if they hit you, laugh." Well, I could never pull that off. But that was Nate. He could laugh at anything, and people were always drawn to him because he could make the best of the worst situation. Even when life hit him, it couldn't ki– [chokes]
My name is George Sibley. I was Nate's stepfather. This is a hard day, and we're all very upset. The loss of a young person is always a terrible blow. But in this case, it's even more cruel because Nate was an idealist, and he struggled, all through his life, to be a good man. He wasn't perfect; but then, who among us is? And he never gave up on himself, the people he loved, or even love itself, in all its vexing, beautiful forms.
[as imagined by Brenda] I'm just saying you only get one life. There's no God, no rules, no judgments, except for those you accept or create for yourself. And once it's over, it's over. Dreamless sleep forever and ever. So why not be happy while you're here. Really. Why not?
I have a fucking husband, Rico, and I have two children! When are you going to realize that I'm a human being just like you? When? When?
Dozens of fucking Iraqis are still dying every day, the whole world hates us for going in there in the first place, and terrorists are still gonna be blowing shit up in this country for the next hundred years! And the best thing she could think of to do about it is put that sticker on that enormous shitbox!
[to Ted] Take her inside!
[to Mrs. Duncan while ushering her to the SUV away from Claire] There has been a death in the family recently. I am so, so sorry.
[running up to Mrs. Duncan's daughter] You know, they still bring the wounded soldiers back at night, so the press can't even film it and nobody sees. American soldiers are still getting fucked up every day, and they don't even tell us. [Mrs. Duncan's daughter runs in the car to get away.] So it's all so you could put gas in this enormous fucking car of yours to keep everybody feeling really fucking American! Such a bunch of shit!
Claire, shut the hell up! Her brother just died, damn it!
[quietly] I'm sorry.
[David is putting stitches on the corpse of Paul Duncan, a triple amputee Iraq war vet, in the embalming room.]
PDPaul Duncan
You're gonna die, David. Just like Nate, just like your dad, just like everybody.
I am aware of the reality of death. I work with it every day.
PDPaul Duncan
You're scared. You're more scared now than you've ever been in your life. You thought you knew what fear was when Jake poured gas all over your head, but this? This simple, unavoidable fact that you're alive and alone and you'll be dead, gone.
David Stop it.
PDPaul Duncan
You'll never see Keith after that, you'll never see your boys.
Shut up!
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