MGMilvin Gillis
I'm a U.S. alderman! You can't punch a U.S. alderman!
Well, apparently, you can.
All S1
S1 E15Unfinished Business
It was blizzarding when Satchel was born. Middle of the night. Why do babies always come in the middle of the night?
OROpal Rackley
It's the moon, my mama said. Babies come like the tide.
Buel birthed him in a tub with her mama. I was downstairs with the girls. I swear I couldn't hear a sound. My missus, passing a twelve inch head through a six inch hole. On my best day, I'm half as tough as that. And this ain't my best day. No, siree. That's behind me, I think.
RRedneck
Hey, boy, what you doing out here all by your lonesome? You hear me, boy? What, you got shit in your ears?
No.
RRedneck
No what? [Satchel pulls out a gun] Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey...
No "you". No "boy". No "do what you're told". No everything. This is my world. I'm the boss. I tell you what to do.
RRedneck
Hey, hey, hey...
Now fuck off.
Excuse me! You take your hands off me! Police! Police!
DDetective
Ma'am, we are the police.
And this is why the family business doesn't work. Because families are crazy.
They made me tell them.
I'm not talking to you.
You don't have to be mean. I've had, and I don't mind saying, as hard a 24 hours as ever been had on God's green earth.
What do you think's happening right now? You killed us.
I told the truth.
Now you tell the truth? Now?! How about when I said help with my dad, why didn't you tell me you were a demented hag?
You don't have to do this. Hasn't there been enough killing?
[Joe and Oraetta laugh]
Wait, that a serious question?
Listen to me. This is it, what they make us do. We're paisan. Come on. We change our names, we eat each other, we forget. For what? Don't you get it, Joe? This is a ladder, but there's nowhere to go.
Nah. Any last requests?
Yeah, can you shoot him first so I can watch?
What?
Are you kidding? This is half our business. You want to take half our business? We had a deal, in the park. WE MADE A DEAL!
Please be calm. This is just part of the new plan. Our national plan for the nation. New York, Chicago, Kansas City, Miami, Texas, California. You too are a national outfit, yes? Mm, wait, no. You are one man in one city. What do they say? Big fish, small pond. But we are the sea. Mm, I can tell you are thinking you can just kill me the way you kill the men before. But this is a mistake because when you look at me, you don't see the man behind me and the man behind him and all the men that follow. Forever. Mmhmm? You see them now. The wave that never ends. We understand each other. Cheer up. Look at it this way: we are not taking half, we are leaving half. You work for us now. You do what we say or we kill you and find someone who will. [in Italian] End of story.
History is a form of memory. But what does it mean to remember? We think naturally of our own past, our lives day by day, and through them we see the events of our times. We are black and white, rich and poor, foreign-born and domestic. And yet, if our pasts are separate, then aren't our histories separate, too? Segregated? Ask yourself, who writes the books? Who chooses what we remember and what gets forgotten? My name is Ethelrida Pearl Smutny. This is my history report.
Minnesota Nice:
1) an aggressively pleasant demeanor, often forced, in which a person is chipper and self-effacing, no matter how bad things get.
What'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.
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.
What were you doing there in the first place?
I mean, it was a school board meeting. I'm on the committee for the new library. We're trying to raise money to expand thrillers and mysteries. Lee Child and the like.
Can't you just give money like a normal person?
DIDonald Ireland
Could you take me to a veterinarian?
What?
DIDonald Ireland
You know, like in the movies 'cause they're also a doctor, just for animals.
You need to go to the hospital. Burns like that, you're gonna get infected. Maybe even go to the brain.
DIDonald Ireland
I need my brain!
Well, ya, hon, there was...you were abducted.
Stop saying that. I had a bad day. I needed some time to clear my head. Did I leave the house a mess? Well, shoot. I know you think I'm kinda this perfect woman, wife, mother, but you know, even I got a breaking point. Now, you want to set the table for breakfast? Gotta make sure Scott gets her vitamins and minerals for school. Most important meal of the day.
I was sheriff of this county when I was 25. Hard to believe. Grandfather was a sheriff. Father, too. Ranchers all. Working the land through times flush and fallow. There's a natural order of things. We know it in our bones. Jesus was a man, not some bearded lady. And just as water flows downhill, a husband is head of his household. Under him, the woman abides. She holds her virtue close until that matrimonial threshold is crossed, and then she opens to him, as the flower opens to the sun. And in exchange, the man shelters and protects his female, as the sword has its sheath.
JHJosh Hunk
...OK, but what I'm saying is, you-
No. He only raises his hand to her when she forgets her place and acts the man. And then only for instruction, never taking any pleasure or satisfaction from the task. Whereas you, son, seem to have played a Tommy Lee drum solo all over your missus's façade.
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