Datak Tarr quotes from Defiance

I thought you'd like it.

Datak Tarr

What, hearing my name over and over again? Do you think I'm some kind of egomaniac?

[long pause] No.

Stahma Tarr

How long can a human being survive underground without air?

Datak Tarr

Do I look like a biologist?

Stahma Tarr

You look like a pauper, but that's incidental.

Stahma Tarr

I've just gone to a great deal of trouble to free our son from the lawkeeper's jail.

Datak Tarr

You're a good mother.

Stahma Tarr

Is that sarcasm?

Datak Tarr

Oh, if you have to ask, it probably is. So Alak, did he do it?

Stahma Tarr

I think we both know the answer to that.

Datak Tarr

Do we?

Stahma Tarr

I know you placed the microphone under his bed. What I don't know is why.

Datak Tarr

What microphone?

Stahma Tarr

Are you seriously trying to tell me you did not kill Deirdre?

Datak Tarr

Well, actually, I assumed it was you.

Stahma Tarr

Then who - [Stahma realizes, and breaks into laughter]

Datak Tarr

I will not have my wife pretending she's smarter than me.

Stahma Tarr

I'm not pretending.

Datak Tarr

Taking a bullet is easier than living with the knowledge that I've lost you.

Stahma Tarr

So you've given up?

Datak Tarr

I haven't been good to you. And you're right. I probably won't be able to change. Not enough.

Stahma Tarr

Perhaps if we each changed a little.

Datak Tarr

I married well.

Stahma Tarr

Have you seen Alak and Christie?

Rafe McCawley

Not yet. They're probably inside.

Stahma Tarr

If your wife has harmed them, she will die an excruciating death.

Datak Tarr

And if she hasn't harmed them?

Stahma Tarr

Same outcome.

Datak Tarr

General Tak, may I ask what business you have in Defiance?

You may, indeed. I'm going to kill all the humans and burn the disgusting place to the ground.

So I am trying to decide how best to put you both to work for the Votan cause.

Datak Tarr

Anything to serve the Collective, General.

Good, good, because you, Datak, are going to be a saboteur for the Votanis Collective. You are gonna help me bring that odious little town to its knees.

Stahma Tarr

If I may, General without me there to calm him, my husband is prone to fits of intemperate anger.

You're saying I should send you both?

Stahma Tarr

It might help you achieve the objective you desire.

Here's the thing, Stahma, you and your husband are a pair of treacherous snakes. If I release you both, you'll disappear into the woodpile, and I won't get what I want. So I think it's best for everyone if we set some simple ground rules. You, Datak, will go to Defiance. You'll carry out assignments that I give you. Anytime you refuse an assignment or fail or displease me in any way, I will cut a piece off of your wife's beautiful body. And over time, that can add up to one ugly bitch. So do as I say.

Datak Tarr

The McCawleys may have been human, but they were our humans. Rafe was shot down like a dog. He deserved better.

Stahma Tarr

And Christie? Make me a weapon too. Better we die together, don't you think?

Datak Tarr

I'll get to work.