Let me guess, the last time you negotiated with a woman was over the price of a Tijuana blowjob. How much to stick it in your asshole, that kind of thing.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
So you want freedom with no responsibility? Son, there's only one person on Earth who gets that deal.
The president?
A baby. You're fighting for your right to be a baby.
Here's my card. I'd be happy to sit down tomorrow to discuss the details of the deal.
Well, son, I'm not sure I can negotiate with a man named after a breakfast pastry.
They never hit you when it's going their way, y'know? It's when they're weak and just pretending to be strong. When they need something small to climb on to feel big.
TJAgent Tony Joaquin
Well, sir, there's no easy way to say this. Um, your wife isn't who she says she is.
You don't talk much, I like that.
A man has only so many words in his lifetime. For us, there are very few left.
[Roy tosses Munch a duffel bag of money]
Plus interest 'cause we got sideways. Now I didn't make your deal, but if I had, I would've been clear: that woman's like a tick. Can't crush her, can't pull her out clean. Suffocation is the key, or fire. If I had a nickel for every time she found the daylight or when I thought I had her buried. Never had a problem before or since breaking a woman, but that one, she's...What'd you call her?
A tiger.
Right. You think you're hunting her, but all the while you're just a mouse and she's playing with her supper. Probably ought to let her be, but...
When a man digs a grave, he has to fill it. Otherwise, it's just a hole.
Happy now, shitbird? You got your money? People are dead, good men, but you're still wandering the earth, breathing the air they should be breathing.
A boy complains because he thinks the world is unfair. He cries to his mother when the toy breaks or the knee is skinned.
Fuck that. You're the one who's gonna be crying.
A man knows better. The things that happen, happen. Who lives, who dies. You don't yell at the boulder for being a rock.
You want the last word? Here it is: I'll see you soon, asshole.
What's that?
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.
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.
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.
I don't like your tone.
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.
Oh please.
We're the same. Up before dawn, making our mark on the world. But you know who you're really in sync with?
Hm?
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.
VDVivian Dugger
Hello?
Are your balls in your belly, looking for a safe place to hide? Good. Listen to me, I'm pulling the offer. That $100 million is going to Mesa Prudential out in Flagstaff. What you get instead is the full might of the federal government reading the shit stains in your underwear like tea leaves.
VDVivian Dugger
Mrs. Lyon-
Quiet. A grown-up is talking. I called the SEC chairman personally, and as we speak, two dozen federal agents are in your office, seizing your books. They've also frozen every personal and business bank account you've got, so I hope you didn't give all your walking around money to that stripper. Oh, plus I hear your son is starting his freshman year at, uh, Notre Dame, except, whoops, you're late on tuition. So, hmm... [Vivian's other line rings] Oh, that ring you hear? That's your son on the other line, calling to tell you he's been expelled.
VDVivian Dugger
Mrs. Lyon, please-
Oh, "please". That's your secret weapon? You want to know what your mistake was? It was thinking death was the worst thing that can happen to you. So congratulations, the sheriff's not gonna kill you. Instead you're going to live the rest of your days in squalor, surrounded by the dead-eyed stares of your futureless children.
That's why I need her help. My Linda.
LLindo
Saint Linda. That's what we call her.
[Dot laughs, Lindo does not]
Oh, you're serious.
Look, I think it's wonderful what you're doing here, this place you've made for suffering. But I don't need a a doll to say what's on my mind. Maybe I could have used one before Wayne and this new life, but I am in control now. I know who I am and what's important. So if there's any way that we can skip-
SLSaint Linda
It's not gonna work, dear. You came here to confront me, the things you think I did, what happened after I was gone. This is the process. You wouldn't be here if you didn't need to be here.
I came for you. And to take you back to testify.
SLSaint Linda
And what I'm saying is you need to testify first. Then we can decide if I should go or you should stay. Now eat your piccata.
Chapter One: The Hero. Once upon a time there was a girl named Dot. Dorothy. She was the sun's favorite. Y'know, the, uh, the sun? And everywhere she went there were rainbows.
Dorothy, like mom.
Mmhmm. And she could do anything, our Dorothy. Y'know, she could, uh, climb a tree. She could, uh, wrestle an alligator. And everyone she met, she put a smile on their face. But the darkness hates the light and the ugly things come out at night. And so she, our Dot, in order to save the rainbows, she had to go fight against the darkness. And leave the, uh, the flowers and the birds at home. Her family, I'm saying. Because until you go someplace, you can't come home.
It got worse after that. He'd beat Linda every night and then come to me smelling like sweat and cigarettes. And then she was gone. Packed a bag, Roy said, and left in the wee hours. But he wasn't sad, he said, because he had me and what we had was true love. And then I was his puppet.
I got you.
You don't even have a plan, do you?
God has a plan.
And what is that?
Must be cold living out there in the dark, so let me spell it out for you: you made a promise. To Him, to me. You broke your vow.
You broke my fingers, my collarbone, three ribs. You dislocated my jaw.
I was trying to fix you.
Like a window cleaner pissing on a window.
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