Maude Schmidt's boy here is trying to tell me your brother killed a judge.
Nobody killed a judge. We own all the judges. What'd be the point of killing one?
BSBen Schmidt
Now, Dodd...
Don't you "Dodd" me. We're not friends.
BSBen Schmidt
We found Rye's prints on the gun.
You're gonna find my boot on your neck, you keep talking like that.
Well, now, to be fair - I'm the one who found the gun, so I think you're dancing with the wrong girl.
I says, I'm the one who found the gun, so you should be talking to me. And I'm from out of town, so forgive me if I should be terrified, but in Minnesota, when a police officer says talk, you talk.
You want to dance? Let's dance.
MKMort Kellerman
That Mao Tse Dung thinks he's gonna run the whole show. Be king of the world. Is that what you want? Be king, like your dad? Sit on my throne?
OGOtto Gerhardt
The way I see it, you're on his throne.
MKMort Kellerman
Yeah, kill the king, be the king. That's the world. If you're feelin' sour about it, write a letter to Napoleon. Or maybe you've come to get your revenge.
OGOtto Gerhardt
Me? Nah. I just want a seat at the table.
MKMort Kellerman
Ain't no table. There's me. Everybody else sits on the floor. So what're you waitin' for? Sit. Avert your eyes.
[one of Kellerman's henchmen puts a gun to the back of Otto's head; he leans forward, over the theater chair in front of him]
MKMort Kellerman
[eating popcorn as he watches the movie] Love this part. Stupid to bring your kid.
OGOtto Gerhardt
Boy's gotta learn how men are.
MKMort Kellerman
Yeah. But it's the last lesson he'll ever--
[Kellerman stops talking as a squelching sound is heard; Otto then seizes the gun from Kellerman's henchman as Kellerman falls forward, dead, revealing a knife stuck in the back of his head by a young Dodd Gerhardt, who then proceeds to watch the movie as Otto eliminates the rest of Kellerman's crew]
SGSonny Greer
Look, I-I was in 'Nam, yeah? Out there, they called me "Mad Dog," so you just-- you watch your, uh...
Well, the-- the country-- you know, the wet, the heat, the bugs? Do you miss that?
It's this quiet I can't get used to, this frozen winter.
SGSonny Greer
Yeah, well... Can't argue with ya.
Did you work the tunnels?
"Send the Indian," they'd say. "Who cares about booby traps? Give Hanzee a flashlight and a knife and send him down into the black echo." Moving through the earth like a rat, killing off Charlie, taking his ears.
You got to push their faces down into the dirt so they don't scream and wake the others.
You know what depresses me? I missed the '60s-- free love, drop acid, Woodstock. Wake up one day, decide you want to call yourself Flower Rainblossom, you just call yourself Flower Rainblossom.
Yeah, but the '70s were always coming, like a-- What do you... A hangover. And you know what happened to Flower Rainblossom? She's on methadone in Bismark, turning tricks for breakfast meat.
I know. But at least I would've had fun, be free like how you get to dream before you wake up.
Maybe, when you look at me, you see an old woman, and I am 61. I've borne six children, had three miscarriages. Two of my sons are here today. Two were stillborn. My firstborn, Elron, killed in Korea - gook sniper took off half his head. The point is don't assume, just because I'm an old woman, that my back is weak and my stomach's not strong. I make this counter because a deal is always better than war. But no mistake - we'll fight to keep what's ours to the last man.
You're a good woman. I wish I'd known your husband.
No. My husband would've killed you where you stood the first time you met. So be glad you're talking to his wife.
And that's what I'm glad for. And if it were up to me, I would take your counter. Partner up. Except...I gotta admit, I-I just wonder, if we make this deal--split the territory, we move in, can you guarantee your boys will abide?
My sons listen to their mother.
Good! Okay. Except...[gestures to his bodyguards standing behind him] here are two of my men, assaulted just this morning in the appropriation of doughnuts, by your oldest. Attacked in peacetime, during the period of deliberation, without provocation.
[shushes Dodd] My sons will abide.
Ah, see-see, that-that's the problem with a family business. Now, if one of my men defies me, puts a deal in jeopardy, I take his arm. If he talks out of turn, I take his tongue. But you, your children, your grandchildren...what are you willing to do to show us you're committed?
I'll deal with my son. This partnership will--
[interrupting, rising from his chair] Come on, you gonna let this guy come here and disrespect us, disrespect Pop?
Buncha fruits in ties, and your pocket protectors!
[turning to Bear Gerhardt] Take him out!
I'll pick my teeth with you!
My frickin' teeth with you!
[Bear grabs Dodd and quickly ushers him out of the room]
[offscreen] My teeth! Get off me!
[Floyd pauses, looking down at the table and taking a moment to collect herself]
He's a proud man. His father built an empire, and he just wants what's his.
[shaking his head] No. I don't think he will.
You didn't fight, did you, Ed - in the war?
No, sir. 4-F on account I got the one kidney.
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.
His - his brain hasn't caught up with the reality, which is... he's already dead.
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.
NVNoreen Vanderslice
Personally not sure why you're makin' all this effort.
Gonna buy the shop, be my own boss.
NVNoreen Vanderslice
And?
And what? That's the American dream.
NVNoreen Vanderslice
What's the point? Just gonna die, anyway.
NVNoreen Vanderslice
Camus says knowing we're all gonna die makes life a joke.
So what, you just - you just give up?
NVNoreen Vanderslice
You could kill yourself, get it over with.
EBEd Blomquist
Okay, that - that's not... I-I mean, come on, you gotta - you gotta try.
EBEd Blomquist
You go to school, you get a job, you start a family.
NVNoreen Vanderslice
Die.
EBEd Blomquist
That's - Would you please stop saying that? I'm gonna live a long, long life. My - my grandpa was 96.
NVNoreen Vanderslice
At which point he did what?
You actually like it, huh, taking orders from a woman? Was that how it was in the bedroom with Kathy?
Don't you talk about her.
She strap one on, bend you over the bed, and show you who's boss?
There's gonna be a reckoning one day, brother. All souls are called to account for their actions. In the end, we all get what we deserve.
You keep telling yourself that.
This is all just so crazy. And I can't stop thinking about that book. Noreen's book. It's, like, stuck in my head.
It's about this guy who, every day, he - he pushes this rock up this hill. Like a boulder. And then every night, it just rolls back down. But he doesn't stop. You know, he just - he keeps goin'. And - and he wakes up every day and starts pushin'. By which I-I-I guess I'm - I'm sayin' it doesn't matter what they throw at me. I'm gonna take care of what's mine.
HLHank Larrson
My question for you is, how come after you hit that fella, you didn't just drive to the hospital or waved down a passin' motorist and ask 'em to call the cops?
You say it like these things happen in a vacuum. Like it's a test. Check "A" or "B". But it's like decisions you make in a dream, ya know? I'll tell you what, if it was me, and we had to run I wouldn't look back. For what? The dazzle? This house? This is Ed's house. He grew up here. His mom washing his undies, his father taking his paper to the commode. You ask me how come I buy all these magazines? I'm livin' in a museum of the past.
