I appreciate the nice things in life. I take no pride and accept no shame in this. I treat small luxuries like hand cream as valuable indulgences to treasure. My moments of civilization. So you'll no doubt understand, when I accepted the role of provisional mayor 8 and 1/2 months ago, I was apprehensive. I imagined those wild west movies my father was so fond of, of a town full of anarchists, malcontents, and savages. How wrong I was. Put simply, Defiance is paradise.
S2 E1The Opposite of Hallelujah
You're a show-off, Pottinger, with your big words, your hand lotion, your TV screens. But I tell you something, I never met a show-off who was quite as smart as he thought he was.
Well, now that you finally have, you can tell your grandkids all about it.
You burned off my hair.
Nope, the explosion burned off your hair. I was blameless. Besides, short and sassy for those hot summer months. You wore it well.
Straight talk?
Yes.
Your father surrendered his claim on his financial interests when he murdered Colonel Marsh in a fit of foolish temper. I thought perhaps his son could take over with the proper guidance, but you lack the strength and brutality to do what is necessary.
This is just-
Once again, the strong Castithan males falter and I am left to open the airlock door myself! The family business belongs to me.
S2 E2In My Secret Life
JRJessica "Berlin" Rainier
Hmm, Nolan. Should have put it together. I've heard of you.
And I've heard of Berlin. I've always wanted to visit.
JRJessica "Berlin" Rainier
You're a real happy cowboy, aren't you?
Did you really just call me a happy cowboy?
JRJessica "Berlin" Rainier
It's written all over your face, the way you carry yourself. That jokey tough guy shtick. I bet you watched Star Wars a few hundred times when you were a kid.
You know, we've been through a long, bloody war. Some of us have developed this thing called a sense of humor -
JRJessica "Berlin" Rainier
Bull shtak.
- to help us stay sane.
JRJessica "Berlin" Rainier
You're not trying to paper over your nasty wartime past. We all have that. You're trying to hide the fact that you like where it dumped you out. Driving around in that busted-ass roller with your hot Chewbacca, chupping whores. Shooting people who cause you trouble. Call that hand cannon strapped to your side a blaster, and you've got the complete picture. You're living your fantasy, and it only took ten years of an apocalyptic war and the near destruction of the Earth's surface.
Well, this is all very entertaining, if a little facile given that we've just met.
JRJessica "Berlin" Rainier
Admit it, you like the world just the way it is: a playground for a man who'd rather not grow up than face the fact that this doesn't work for most everybody else.
[to Datak] You're here because you couldn't control the one thing you needed to control: yourself!
S2 E3Beasts of Burden
CChurchill
I want to hurt the people who hurt you.
Thank you, Churchill. That's very kind.
So you got yourself paroled from Camp Reverie, huh? How exactly did you manage that?
Raw sex appeal.
[to a badly beaten Datak] You should have made me a partner.
S2 E4Put the Damage On
This parable the one where the just man cooks his unfaithful wife and serves her body parts for supper?
It's inspiring.
It's disgusting. What is it with you Castis? Look, I know that you're mad at Stahma-
She is a derunjo! She turned my son against me and convinced my crew to throw me out into the dirt!
And you bear no responsibility for any of that.
Well, whose side are you on?
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.
I've killed men for speaking to me like that.
First step is admitting there's a problem. Very good.
LLev
To forgive is divine.
No, it's deeply human, which is something that neither of us are.
I assert my right to safeguard my lineage.
CTChristie Tarr
You're a disgusting troll.
Well, what family doesn't hit a rough patch now and then?
Some people, when they're born, they just come out wrong.
S2 E5This Woman's Work
If you think you can just swoop in here and take credit for my accomplishments-
Consider yourself lucky I didn't send you to the front to die. But rest assured, that option remains on the table.
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