Hey, Howard.
You!
How's business?
Well, you know, the world's falling apart and I'm running a casino. Things are great!
Criminal Minds · Season 1, Episode 15
“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)
Hey, Howard.
You!
How's business?
Well, you know, the world's falling apart and I'm running a casino. Things are great!
Places like that -- not everyone who goes in comes out!
Which means that many of the people who entered these premises end up dead. Forever. Forever dead.
This was all a setup. Giving me the Yondu case, pointing me to the shield codes. All so you could start an invasion. You swore an oath to defend Xandar.
And look where it got us. The world's falling apart. People are at each other's throats. We can't go on like this. And sometimes, there's just no shame in surrender.
No shame? And what else?
Well, of course, Ronan promised to keep me in charge in exchange for my cooperation. There was no way to access the data core without a cyborg. Then I remembered I recruited one.
You've been using me this whole time.
You're a machine. What did you expect?
I'd say "I told you so", but your head's bashed in, so you wouldn't remember...
Now about those guns-
Guns? Nebula, even if I had, say, heavy weaponry, you know, military grade, sure to kill, which I’m NOT saying I do, breaking them out would be bad for business!
Nova Prime’s helping Ronan launch an invasion. How’s that going to help business?
Business takes care of itself.
The people of Xandar are going to suffer.
They’ll drink more!
Nova Prime will take your liquor license.
[beat] NO! [to Korg, Groot and Miek] Rock, Paper, Scissors, strap up! It’s happy hour!
How did you know?!
"Seek the light, be the light, never stray from its path." The moment you told me to solve this by 'any means necessary', I knew you'd broken our oath. Still doesn't make it hurt any less.
Is that a kid?!
Not just any kid, but Peter Quill. The son of Earth and the stars whose pain and loss now threatens to destroy the very world he once called home, and the entire universe along with it.
Six months earlier, the Ravagers were dispatched to abduct Peter Quill from his home world. But young Quill's captor couldn't bring himself to turn him over and chose to raise him as his own. At least, that's how the story often goes. But in this universe, Yondu never had his change of heart. So he turned Peter over to his father, the Celestial being known as Ego.
(seeing the destruction caused by Peter Quill in Coney Island) This kid puts on quite a show.
(about Quill) He does not look that threatening...
Looks can be deceiving, your Highness.
You would think the leader of a technological superpower that masquerades as a third world country could appreciate that.
(watching Quill destroy a prize booth) ...I see your point.
Whoa. Is it... really you?
If you are referring to your doom, then yes.
Bummer. I thought you were the dude from Van Halen... (passes out)
I'm... Van What?
You don't seem bad, given...where you're from.
(mock indignation) Hey! What's wrong with Missouri?
Missouri? My dad said you were an alien.
Dude! Feed me a corndog and call me Springsteen, because I was born in the USA.
He's a kid, like me, Dad! I was just trying to help him get home.
Home? Like, his homeworld?
No... Like, Missouri.
You guys are making a mistake. Peter's not behind all this; it's his dad. He says he's like a weird alien space god, or something.
(sarcastic) Yeah, great! Blame the absentee father. I get that enough from my own son.
(to Thor) Hey, Lighting Boy, we kind of have a "team thing" going on here!
And I have a "duty thing" going on here, Mustache Man, to see it that the boy submits to Asgardian justice!
Which entails... what, exactly?
Eternal flagellation, impalement, some light maiming — you know, standard stuff.
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