Lou Solverson, Ed Blumquist and others in “Unfinished Business”

Lou Solverson

You didn't fight, did you, Ed - in the war?

Ed Blumquist

No, sir. 4-F on account I got the one kidney.

Lou Solverson

So... There's a look a boy gets when he's been shot or a - or a land mine takes off his legs, and he's laying there in the mud, trying to get up, 'cause he doesn't feel it yet.

Ed Blumquist

I, uh, don't...

Lou Solverson

His - his brain hasn't caught up with the reality, which is... he's already dead.

Peggy Blumquist

Ed, he's scaring me.

Lou Solverson

But we see it, the rest of us. And we lie. We say, "Lay still. You're gonna be fine." If you'd been to war, you'd know the look. See, you and Peggy, you got the look.