The Ghoul quotes from Fallout

[Wheeling Lucy past the two dopehead supervisors on couch watching TV] Pardon the interruption. Our latest arrival has arrived.

Oh, shit. What are they asking, Snip Snip?

Sixty vials.

[Looks into box] We can do 60.

Fantastic.

Oh, do her now so she’s ready for the next pickup.

Excellent idea as always, sir.

Thanks, Snip Snip.

Do excuse me.

Nice robot.

[Wheeling Lucy] Where are you from again? [Lucy groans] Never been there myself. Hope to go there someday soon. Here we are. Let’s get on with it, shall we? We don’t want to keep your associate waiting.

Lucy

Sir, you can’t do this. Please, I need my organs.

Now, don’t be afraid. A little snip-snip and it will all be over. Hold still now. This won’t hurt a bit. Excuse me. [Lucy kicks Snip-Snip's saw and then uses defribrillation paddles to shock Snip-Snip with it emitting garbled, overlapping phrases] There’s no fudge here. I am ever-ready to serve... to serve... to serve. [Appears to Squirrel and Huey watching TV with Snip-Snip] Do what I say and Snip-Snip doesn't get hurt!

...It's a fuckin' robot.

Yeah, you might as well be holding an air conditioner hostage.

Well, an air conditioner would be a big deal, but you know what I mean.

Totally. The question was, does she know what you mean?

Lucy

Yeah. I think I do. That’s why I put Abraxo Draining Fluid in his syringes. Snip Snip, tell them what Abraxo does to the human body.

If you’ve got a c- c- clog that’s full of muck, trust Abraxo Draining Fluid t- t- to get it unstuck. It’s v- v- very poisonous.

Okay, you can walk out of here.

Lucy

Not just me. Them, too. [Squirrel presses button and row of cages open freeing Ghouls]

Hey, thank you.

Lucy

I said all of them.

Lady, those-those ones, you don’t understand... [Lucy fires dart in between Squirrel and Huey] Whoa. [Squirrel presses button and another row of cages open]

Lucy

Don’t be scared. You’re free. Go. [Latter freed Ghouls attack Squirrel and Huey killing them]

Thank you, darling. [Realizes Adam's assumption of him with Sandra] Oh, wait. You thought...? [Laughs] Come on, now.

Sandra, wait outside.

Lead farming, huh? Why, hell, I probably still got some of your lead in me somewhere. [Sighs] But today... I’m just looking for information.

I’ll tell you anything, as long as you leave us in peace.

Say, am I out of date, or did I hear you had three kids? I had an older son, but he’s gone.

He took up with that madwoman in the hills two years ago. We haven’t heard from him since.

Hmm. There’s always some new little faction, ain’t there? Brand-new team of believers with their own dumbass ideas about how they gonna save the world. What did you say the name of your eldest was? Was it Roofus?

I didn’t say...

That must make you Tommy.

What did you do? What is that envelope?

Well, you see, daddy-o... now, from what I can tell... [clears throat] Old Roofus got Tommy here mixed up with that madwoman, too. [Holds up paper] Now, according to this, Roofus sent Tommy a stash of caps to pay a courier for “the safe transport of an Enclave defector” to that very same madwoman in the hills. Moldaver. But my problem is, by the time I got this letter off your brother, it was a little bit hard to read. For some reason, I just can’t make out her location. Now, you give me that location, and I’ll be on my way.

[Whispers] I’m sorry.

Tell him, son. Just tell him.

I didn’t want to spend my life digging through dirt. I want to build something, and we have the chance…

Tell him what he wants to know! Or else he’s gonna kill us all! Including your little sister.

Huh.

She’s... she’s at the Observatory.

Now, please, leave us.

So, what you think, Tommy? Am I really walking out of here today, or are you gonna try and draw on me for what I did to your big brother?

He won’t.

Maybe not today, but maybe someday. [Tommy reaches for a shotgun on a beam with The Ghoul shooting him fatally]

Tommy! [The Ghoul then walks out past Adam holding Tommy]

Want another autograph, young Henry? "Feo, fuerte, y formal?" When your daughter said her last name was MacLean, well...I just couldn't believe it was the MacLean. Hell, this kid used to pick up my wife's dry cleaning. Now, I've waited over two hundred years to ask someone one question:

Cooper Howard

Where's my fucking family?

War never changes. You look at this wasteland, it seems like chaos. But there's always somebody behind the wheel. And that's who I wanna talk to. That's where your Daddy is headed.

Lucy

But you let him go.

It's easier to track a stuck pig than to ask it where it's off to. You want to know how I know your Daddy, don't you? Let's just say that everything about your whole little world was decided over two hundred years ago. Now, you can stay here with him, but when his tin-can soldier friends take this place - and they're gonna take this place - they will kill you and everybody here. Or you could come and meet your makers.

Lucy

Hi, excuse me! Sorry. I'm hoping you can settle an argument between myself and my traveling companion there. We are hunting down my father, who is not a good guy, and on this journey we found ourselves in need of food and supplies. Plan A was just leaving you alone and avoiding this scenario altogether, but we've tried that, and I'd just end up starving to death. Plan B - his idea, by the way - was for me to turn him over to you so that you would open up your safe and give me the considerable bounty you put out on him.

[slowly strangling in his noose] Fucking...shoot!

Lucy

The idea was I'd shoot him down, he'd take your weapons, and use whatever violence was necessary in order for us to escape. Which, in my experience thus far...it's...it's a lot of violence. So I'm really, really hoping you'll agree to Plan C?

What's Plan C?

Lucy

You just let us go. And we keep the caps you gave me? Which, to be clear, we do need for our survival. And...just to ask the question, would it help if I said, "please?"

Whoever kills the girl gets to eat the dog.

Lucy

[sighs] Okey-dokey. [shoots the Ghoul's rope. Violence ensues.]

Lucy

Still looks like all the old photos.

Bombs got shot down. Most of them anyway.

Lucy

If they could do that for Las Vegas, why couldn't they do that for America?

Because there was no "they." There was a "him." A man by the name of Robert House.

Lucy

Maybe that's where your family went? They're safe there?

Nowhere near Robert House is safe.

Question: What exactly is it you plan on doing once we find your Daddy? We gonna do it like usual? You put a bullet in his ass, leave it to me to put one in his head?

Lucy

No. No, I'm going to bring him to justice.

You think he deserves that?

Lucy

I was raised to believe that that's what everyone deserves. So people know that how they conduct themselves matters. So they don't give up hope. [turns to the Ghoul] Like you say you did. But really it's still in here.

Well, I hate to break it to you, darlin'. But the way you was raised wasn't real.

Lucy

I know. But look at your alternative. Guess I'm just trying to lead by example.

Every time I set foot in one of these concrete shoeboxes, I gotta make peace with the fact that I might finally learn what happened to my wife and my daughter. Whether they be alive, dead, or...or something far worse.

Lucy

Right. I know about the experiments. I've been to Vault 4.

Vault 4 was the best-case scenario.

Lucy

To be fair, it was a little weirder than the one I came from.

You think so? How many towns did they destroy down in Vault 4?

Empathy's like mud. You'll lose your boots in that stuff.

Lucy

I'm not just going to let someone die while I listen to them scream.

Folks've been screaming for two hundred fucking years.

Lucy

Did it ever occur to you that if you helped them, they would stop?

Where's Robert House?

He's gone. He had all the money in the world. But all he wanted was to live forever. Life just ain't fair, I guess.

Typically I would agree. But you should know better than anyone that House had a knack for planning ahead.

Oh, he had plans all right. But he needed that cold-fusion doodad from before the War. Didn't you have something to do with all that? Way back when?

Aw, you leaving already? Ain't nobody around to keep poor VICTOR company these days. Just them Rangers up in the hills.

Rangers in the hills?

Well, you know how it is. The NCR and the Legion, they can't stop fighting. Like cats and dogs.

Much obliged, VICTOR.

Well, I'll be seeing ya.

I'm sure you will.

Rodriguez

The things we fight for, clean water, schools, rights for folks like you, story has it you used to believe in those things too. Please, help us, before we're captured.

Ain't nobody coming. Because there ain't nobody left. Little piece of advice that's helped me sleep at night over the years. When something's dead, it's usually because it deserved to die.

Lucy

I'm looking for someone.

Rodriguez

Pretty common story around here. Someone you care about, or someone you hate?

Ooh, what a great question. What say you, Miss MacLean?

Lucy

They seemed nice.

Think they'd be nice if they found out what your Daddy did?

Lucy

I wasn't gonna stay if that's what you're worried about. All I saw in there was more matching jackets.

Lucy

[speaking rapidly] Ooh, gosh. Is it just me or is the air extra itchy today? And heavy? The air's itchy and heavy? You ever feel like that? And also, like, hungry for...not food?

Lucy

What the fudge did you stop for? Sorry. Whew. Gosh, why am I suddenly so grumpy? Am I dying?

Nah, you ain't dying. You're addicted to drugs.

Lucy

What? No! No, it's not possible...

Two days on a steady drip of Buffout will do that to a body.

Lucy

Well then, I hereby quit drugs! There! [The Ghoul starts rummaging through his pack] Whatcha got there? Oh gosh, it didn't take. I'm still addicted to drugs. What do I do?

Well. there's two schools of thought. One, you muscle your way through it. Lot of pain, vomiting. Can't do much but just lay there and ride it out.

Lucy

How long does that take?

Four or five days.

In my experience, the alternative is the only way to go.

Lucy

What's the alternative?

[holds up a vial] Do more drugs.

Well, shit.

Lucy

What? What! Sorry.

It's gonna be a little hard to explain. We should go in through the east side of town. Place called Freeside. It's a good place to stock up on supplies. Only about a half-day's detour.

Lucy

No! My Dad is right there! I am done with all the sidetracks and detours! I say we just run on through! Who fudging cares! [heads off]

That's the drugs talking! [shrugs] Truth be told, I like what they're saying. [follows her]