Indira OlmsteadWhat's the world coming to is all I'm saying. Neighbor against neighbor.
That...I agree with you there. We were just trying, me and my girl, to get out. School board meeting, my A-S-S. And then Mr. Abernathy, the math teacher, he came at me like something from a zombie movie. Which, don't come at a mama lion when she's got her cub. You know what I mean? But the officer, that...He was just wrong place, wrong time.
Indira Olmstead
Well, here's what I know. It's a beautiful day. And you know what they call a herd of lions? A pride. So think about that.
Indira Olmstead
That's the history of your daughter-in-law, written in punches and chokeholds.
Well, I'm sure I don't need to see that. People who claim to be victims are the downfall of this country.
Indira Olmstead
Mrs. Lyon, have you ever in your life ever heard your daughter-in-law say she was a victim of anything? You may not like it, but sometimes crimes are committed against people. They're victimized and it's not their fault.
I told him not to marry her. This whole sordid mess.
Indira Olmstead
You're saying if a woman is abused and she manages to escape, she should move to the woods, live in a tree, free from the burdens of basic human contact? God forbid she gets a fresh start, a good man to wash out the taste of the bad.
Indira Olmstead
Tough shit! Some of us work for a living and go home to empty houses, or houses that should be empty but are instead filled with the dirty underpants of our man-child spouses. Your problem is you think that you're rich 'cause you're better than me.
Indira Olmstead
We're the same. Up before dawn, making our mark on the world. But you know who you're really in sync with?
Indira Olmstead
Dorothy. Yeah. I know you don't want to see it, but let me tell you what I see. I see a woman who outsmarted two kidnappers, killed one and nearly killed the other, and who probably saved your son and granddaughter's lives when they came at her again at the house. I see a woman who doesn't quit no matter what. Who won't be silenced. And, unlike you, who never complains. Even when her mother-in-law has her committed to a mental hospital. So I brought you her file so at least you could be an educated asshole.
[on phone] Honestly, what's the point of being a billionaire if I can't have somebody killed?
Indira Olmstead
[picking up her ringing phone] Olmstead.
Indira, it's me. It's Dorothy.
Indira Olmstead
[to Lorraine] It's Dorothy.
Bill, I'm gonna have to call you back. [Lorraine hangs up] Let me talk to her. [Lorraine takes Indira's phone] Dorothy?
Where's Danish? Have you seen him?
What was he even doing there?
For me. He came to save me.
For now, but like a fish on the floor.
Listen to me. An army's coming, I called in some favors. State and federal. You need to get somewhere safe. Hide.
Because this busybody made me.
Oh, please. Nobody can make you do anything. If I don't make it back-
Quiet now. No daughter of mine is going down on the one-yard line. So put your big girl pants on and fight, you hear me?
[Indira takes the phone]
Indira Olmstead
Dorothy, don't get in the fight.
I love that color on you.
You know what I'd love to see on you? A noose.
Indira Olmstead
Hey! Watch your mouth, convict.
She wouldn't last five minutes in here, that one. Too many principles. But you? You'd be Queen Shit.
I saw you filed for an appeal. That was a mistake.
Please. That whole thing was rigged, your so-called trial.
You should know I'm the single largest donor to the Federalist Society.
Oh yeah? What do they do? Something with books?
They control the courts, selecting judges all the way up to the Supreme Court with the president's blessing. So, buy a throw pillow is my advice. You're gonna be here a while.
It's funny. Prison is the way the world should be. The natural order. No apology. Men separated by race, races stacked with the strong on top, you fuck the weak, you kill your rivals, sleep with one eye open.
Yes, well, I just came by to say I hope you're settled in because now your real punishment will begin.
[to Indira] Wait outside, please.
Indira Olmstead
Are you sure?
Oh, we'll be fine, won't we, Roy?
[Indira exits]
You're right. She does have principles. Where was I? Oh, yes, punishment. Did you know that 85% of all prisoners are in debt? Hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, interest accruing, their families put out on the street. Well, I've started a fund to help certain prisoners free themselves from this burden. A private fund. Plus a little fresh cash each month in their commissary accounts. Vaseline, Vienna sausages, that kind of thing.
Oh...that one, I think. And him over there with the scars. Oh, and all of the men in cell block D. And B. And A.
Well, that's mighty Christian of you.
Oh, no, this has nothing to do with that book. It's an older text, written on stone tablets in the Age of the Skull Fuckers.
Did Nadine put you up to this?
Please. She's a girl scout. I fight my own battles and you need to pay for what you've taken.
No, I want you alive for a very, very long time. But while you live, I want you to feel everything your wives felt. Every blow, each humiliation. Fear.
It's not me you need to be afraid of. [Lorraine passes Roy a pack of cigarettes] These might come in handy.
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