Datak Tarr quotes from Defiance

Datak Tarr

[on Christie] She insists on bathing alone. Who does that, I ask you?

Datak Tarr

[to Connor Lang] I'm sorry you had to see that. It doesn't fit my narrative.

Datak Tarr

[to Stahma] I know you betrayed me. I should open your guts right here in front of these good people. But a vote is a vote.

Datak Tarr

That smug shtako, he packed that audience with his own miners so he'd get a louder applause than me. What kind of a man does that? I ask you. It's juvenile, petty. It's beneath my contempt, really.

Stahma Tarr

You're annoyed you didn't think of it first.

Stahma Tarr

[discussing Alak] He's young. He's pushing boundaries.

Datak Tarr

Don't handle me, Stahma. Alak running wild reflects badly on this family. I've worked too hard, done too many unpleasant things to achieve legitimacy and respect.

Datak Tarr

[about Elah Bandik] This man is a deserter. He threw down arms and ran from the Volge.

Joshua Nolan

This man was brave to pick up arms in the first place! Plenty of men lose their nerve the first time in combat.

Joshua Nolan

Funny thing is he's not looking at me, Datak. He's looking at you and I'm the guy with the gun. Mr. Skevur. Ooh, well, that cut looks nasty. I think Datak's boys got here before me. I think they impressed on you the importance of not cooperating with me. Then I get to beat on you fruitlessly for a while until Datak swoops in, whispers in your ear, and all of a sudden, the information flows. [to Datak] I get to look like a big, dumb ape. You get to look like a hero. How close am I?

Datak Tarr

Close enough. But for the record, I had no intention of whispering in this disgusting man's ear.

Pol Madis

You're a disgrace to everything the collective stands for.

Datak Tarr

Watch yourself.

Pol Madis

Getting fat off human avarice in your multi-tiered house with your three baths a day, pledging allegiance to whatever culture will take you the furthest, and every month, you send off your bundle of scrip to Brazil, all to ease the guilt of leaving your parents to die.

Stahma Tarr

Alak is of the new world, he doesn’t see the humans the way we do. He sees beauty in them, kindness.

Datak Tarr

Then he’s lost his sense of smell.

Datak Tarr

Watch yourself. Without the name Tarr you’re nothing but a street haint with dyed hair and a record collection.

Alak Tarr

Street haint? Isn't that how you see yourself? You're always talking about how you pulled yourself out of the mud and made the humans respect you.

Datak Tarr

I said to watch your tongue.

Alak Tarr

I don't give a kanga rat's ass about the sacred scrolls. All right, maybe your father chose to die guarding a bunch of stupid papers, but I wasn't born on Casti! I was born on Earth, just like Christie!

Joshua Nolan

Just so we’re clear, anything happens to Amanda between now and the election, anything at all? She slips in the shower… chokes on a chicken bone… doesn’t matter. I will come to your house in the dead of night, press a pillow over your face and I’ll empty my gun into it.

Datak Tarr

And they say humans lack a sense of poetry.

Datak Tarr

I've worked hard to take control of this town, to win respect, and in one reckless act, you've trivialized me. Come morning, every soul in this town will be asking themselves, "Who's running the place, Datak Tarr or the Earth Republic?"

Yes, well, as I say, you will be compensated.

Datak Tarr

Yes, Castithans love money, can't get enough of it. Amusing. Now, I strongly suggest you dig deep and afford me some courtesy.

You are one uppity little haint. You know, after all of this is over, you're going right back to being a nobody.

Datak Tarr

The Earth Republic will come for us. Masters of our fate no longer. I miss home.

Stahma Tarr

I know. So do I.

Doc Yewll

This parable the one where the just man cooks his unfaithful wife and serves her body parts for supper?

Datak Tarr

It's inspiring.

Doc Yewll

It's disgusting. What is it with you Castis? Look, I know that you're mad at Stahma-

Datak Tarr

She is a derunjo! She turned my son against me and convinced my crew to throw me out into the dirt!

Doc Yewll

And you bear no responsibility for any of that.

Datak Tarr

Well, whose side are you on?

Doc Yewll

Well, as one of your closer friends, which is hardly a crowded field, I'm on the side of watching you avoid any further acts of extreme self-sabotage.

Datak Tarr

I've killed men for speaking to me like that.

Doc Yewll

First step is admitting there's a problem. Very good.

Datak Tarr

I assert my right to safeguard my lineage.

You're a disgusting troll.

Datak Tarr

Well, what family doesn't hit a rough patch now and then?