What do you suppose your Brotherhood would do with infinite power? Maybe you can stop them. Maybe you can't. Maybe all you can do is try.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Every dollar spent is a vote cast. And that fellow right there? [indicates Robert House on the television] He has more votes than every pan-headed politician in Washington.
Hit me in the mouth. I think I'd enjoy it.
[Bill punches him. He staggers and groans.]
I'm rarely wrong, but let's move on...
Didn't that used to be a store? I think I bought a soda pop there, about 25 years back. Darla. Woman behind the counter, that was her name. Darla. She was a reasonable woman. Til you matching-jacket motherfuckers had to move in.
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!
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?
NPNick the Prick
What's Plan C?
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?"
NPNick the Prick
Whoever kills the girl gets to eat the dog.
[sighs] Okey-dokey. [shoots the Ghoul's rope. Violence ensues.]
[Lucy and the Ghoul look out over Las Vegas]
Still looks like all the old photos.
Bombs got shot down. Most of them anyway.
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.
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?
No. No, I'm going to bring him to justice.
You think he deserves that?
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.
I know. But look at your alternative. Guess I'm just trying to lead by example.
They sat around that table and talked about the end of the world like it was some new business strategy.
Sounds like you heard something interesting.
You knew?
And now you do too. So what are we going to do about it?
Are you familiar with Robert House?
Yeah, I'm familiar with Robert House. The guy owns half of Las Vegas.
He's also building a privately-owned missile system in Las Vegas with enough firepower to follow through on your wife's proposals. When the bombs drop, it'll be Robert House who presses the button.
Are you asking me to spy on the wealthiest man in America?
Not spy on him.
[Cooper gets the implication]
Y-you want me to...?
You wife is going to Las Vegas next week to sell Cold Fusion to Robert House. Then he'll have everything he needs to push that button. Play nice with your wife, and get on that trip to Vegas.
[Disgusted, Cooper gets up to leave]
Where are you going?
Home. While I still have one.
[shrugs] When the world goes down in flames, at least you'll know your hands are clean.
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.
Right. I know about the experiments. I've been to Vault 4.
Vault 4 was the best-case scenario.
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?
BOBrain-on-a-Roomba
You have two rational choices. Get in your dad's pod, or die.
NNorman
You're right. I only have two rational choices. But plenty of irrational ones.
BOBrain-on-a-Roomba
What are you doing?
NNorman
Two hundred years of planning in order for everything to go just right. Seems like lot of work if you ask me. I think plans are slightly overrated, personally.
[Norman begins inputting commands on the console]
BOBrain-on-a-Roomba
No wait, I need that to threaten you! What are you doing?
NNorman
Thawing everyone.
BOBrian-on-a-Roomba
What? No! You can't just thaw them all! [pods begin to activate] No! They're only supposed to come out once every thirty years! This isn't even a cogent plan! This is chaos!
NNorman
Agreed. Plans are hard. Chaos though...chaos is easy.
This is Hank MacLean, reporting for duty, sir. Nobody in Vault-Tec knows I'm here. Nobody in Vault-Tec knows much of anything anymore. Wanted to let you know I'm still alive. I hope you are too. I mean, I don't doubt that you are. You spent so much time calculating how to survive all possible contingencies. I've been keeping busy. I'm in Vegas these days. Back in your old stomping grounds, actually. Trying to pick up where you all left off. Looks like a couple of the Vault experiments ran into some...speed bumps. 24 made progress on the brain-computer interface. This one, miniaturization. What it all needs is integration. I'm confident that if I just roll up my sleeves, I can bring it all home. Then we can finally talk about my promotion. I'm going to complete the work you started. And when this is all over, you will be begging me to help you.
Were you always this rude? I'm guessing not. Look, your family may very well still be out there. I've seen enough by now to know that anything's possible. But one thing I wouldn't count on is them appreciating the kind of person you've become. I mean, you want them to like you, right?
Empathy's like mud. You'll lose your boots in that stuff.
I'm not just going to let someone die while I listen to them scream.
Folks've been screaming for two hundred fucking years.
Did it ever occur to you that if you helped them, they would stop?
You wanna know what I was like before the War? I was just like you. Stupid.
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