Mary Shannon quotes from In Plain Sight

Marshall

I know why you told Raphael your big secret: to paint yourself into a corner. Afraid you might back out from marrying him, you told him, so now you have to make it work.

Mary

Congratulations, Matlock. You've keenly observed that I'm somewhat relationship phobic, and yet the conclusion you've drawn couldn't be more off the mark. Marshall, I've spent my entire working life with career criminals: liars, thieves and sociopaths, each of whom knows what I do for a living. And I refuse to accept the notion that these miscreants are somehow more trustworthy than the man I'm going to marry.

Mary

Cheer up. Life sucks, we're all going to die, embrace it! [Notices Stan in a meeting with some people in their conference room] What's with the confab?

Marshall

Well, the bald one is Stan. Otherwise, not a clue.

[shouting at her CIA contact in the witness room, as Mary, Marshall and Eleanor listen in] You're sadly mistaken if you think I'm going to sit on the sidelines watching my country's revolution on CNN, while you people install your whole, self serving puppet regime!

Mary

We still do that?

Marshall

Yeah. The sad thing is we don't even use real puppets anymore, just socks with buttons sewn on.

How are you feeling?

Mary

Good. Better. Because if I say anything else I'm not getting out of here, so great!

How's your memory?

Mary

Fantastic! [under her breath] ...if I was shot by a smudge.

I told you it might come back slowly or in pieces. Or—

Mary

Not at all, which means no matter what happens you get to be right. You're not letting me out, are you? I'm going to be here another week, I knew it!

Promise me you'll take it slow.

Mary

Wait. Is that condescending doctor talk for I can go?

Do you like it?

Mary

Are you kidding? I want to get drunk and do it.

Marshall

Liar liar status?

Mary

Pants fully on fire.

Mary

[is being wheeled out of the hospital and is talking to the nurse pushing the chair] You are so sweet.

Marshall

This won't last.

Mary

Family just couldn't be bothered, right? What? Mom and sis getting two belly rings? Fiancee giving how to be gorgeous lessons to underprivileged models? Why am I in such a hurry to get home to those people and leave the place where I can pee lying down?

Marshall

And she's back.

Mary

Carson Miller, last spotted in Bolivia. Baltimore FBI thinks he's still the boss, running things from down there. Wow, gone seven years, ruling by pure fear from another hemisphere. I'd love to have power like that some day.

Marshall

But wouldn't you rather that power came from love, not from fear?

Mary

I don't even understand the question.

Mary

Wow, Stan. Opening day at Ascot?

Stan

I have a meeting with Allison Pearson.

Marshall

The newly appointed U.S. Marshall for our district.

Mary

Right! Right, the political hack who licked D.C. butt like a creamsicle so she could tell actual marshals how to do a job she can't comprehend, let alone be in charge of. That Allison Pearson.

Stan

You two are going to be gone all day, right?

Marshall

No, but it's okay. I think your meeting with Allison is tomorrow.

Stan

Is it?

Mary

Oops. That's good! It gives you time to buy the top hat and monocle.

Mary

This is so stupid!

Marshall

Okay, let's take a moment here and think this through. Henry set it all up, had Lebowski there break in, steal everything and the box of photos to intentionally create a security breach so that we would what, be forced to move them. Why?

Mary

I have no idea. Here's what I do know: I don't care! I'm sick of it! I'm sick of needy, crazy, stupid liars. Seriously, I can't take it anymore! I grew up with them, I live with them, I work with them, and no matter how fast I run or far I go, they breed and come after me! It's like a zombie movie, except the only scary part is that it never ends!

Marshall

How'd that feel?

Mary

Really good!

Marshall

Anything else?

Mary

No, I think I hit it all.

Marshall

Ready?

Mary

Ready. Thanks!

Marshall

De nada.

Marshall

I like driving at night.

Mary

Me too.

Marshall

I remember being with my dad when I was six, seven. He'd bundle us all up at bedtime and take off for someplace. My brothers and I in the back, half asleep, mom and dad up front. Nobody talking. Just the sound of the road in the dark. Aren't you going to say something funny and mean that'll blow holes in me?

Mary

It sounds nice. My dad had this sweet tooth. Kicked in sometimes late at night. My mom would be getting sloshed, gearing up for a fight, and we'd slip out. Go to this all night place for ice cream. Mostly to get away from her. That and I think he liked being with me. Just the two of us, driving around in the dark singing to the radio.

Marshall

I'll bet he did. I cannot imagine you were a dull child.

Mary, are you going back east?

Mary

No, this has been such a wonderful, life changing experience, I'm going to derail my whole career and join WITSEC in Albuquerque. Please.

Marshall

Freud said there are no jokes.

Mary

What?

Marshall

You were using sarcasm to express your true feelings.

Mary

There's something weird about the air here.

Marshall

That's the lack of pollution.

Mary

What, it's like this all the time? I don't know, might be worth sticking around to see these two break up. Should be in about a week.

Marshall

Everything okay with you?

Mary

Besides a witness who --

Marshall

I mean is everything okay with you.

Mary

[looks at him for a while] Everything with Rafe is really good, so --

Marshall

So?

Mary

I should be happy about that.

Marshall

And what are you?

Mary

Scared. Pissed. Guilty. And happy. Happy's in there.

Marshall

Somewhere?

Mary

Happy's under a bit of a pile.

Marshall

How come?

Mary

I think I want something that just doesn't exist. I want something that's just right. No argument or doubt, which is insane, right? Because there's always argument, there's always doubt. So, I guess what I'm after here is the insane goal of an insane person.

Marshall

I would say it's the ideal goal of someone who has somehow managed to protect the purest part of her heart, which does not seem insane to anyone who really knows you.

Mary

Which would be you and you.

Look, without Krista, there's no point in anything.

Mary

Wade, I know it seems impossible now, but you might meet someone else, someone you love just as much, maybe more.

You've never really been in love. If you had, you'd understand.

Mary

I have... I am.

Did it happen with one look? Because everything you need is right there in that first second of that first look. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was... in line buying a belt. Turned to pay, and there she was. She looked up and... sunk a hook in my heart. It'll be there till the day I die. You got a story like that about you and your boyfriend?

Mary

Well... we met at a diner.

And?

Mary

And he asked me out, and I said no. Ran into him again, I asked him out, he said no. I really can't talk about this.

You need love.

I think we need to have a talk.

Mary

Okay.

I don't think we should get married in July. Or at all.

Mary

[sighs] I knew it when Rita hugged me.

You've said it before. I didn't listen. You and I, we don't work.

Mary

It's been hard from the start. [Rafe nods in agreement] I don't know why it isn't easier.

Life isn't short. It's long and honestly, I don't know if you love me enough to make this work.

Mary

I do love you.

But enough? Maybe that's why it's been so difficult. If I'm wrong you'll say something before I get out of here, okay?

Mary

Okay.