Marshall Mann quotes from In Plain Sight

Mary

Give me a break, Marshall, honestly.

Marshall

One break coming up. [pulls out a box of donuts and coffee]

Mary

The Donut Hut? What did you do?

Marshall

Eat first.

Mary

Don't sugar-manage me.

Marshall

You should have no problem remaining surly as you masticate. Lois Turner stopped by after your house call. She wants a divorce.

Mary

She's not married, and don't say masticate.

Marshall

You going to be okay?

Mary

Yeah, fine. It's fine. Go!

Marshall

You sure?

Mary

Yes! Marshall, whatever little stupid Nora Ephron you have playing in your head about me and Faber's snappy workplace love connection, you can.

Marshall

It's less Nora Ephron and more Leni Riefenstahl.

Mary

Whatever. Hit the off switch.

Marshall

Well, this is where normal people say goodbye, I'll call you, be careful.

Mary

You owe me nine dollars for lunch last week, so don't get shot and die.

Marshall

[smiles] I'll do my best.

Marshall

I find your almost girlish delight disturbing on many levels.

Mary

Come on! It's five days without your standard, whiney, moping witness crap. It's back to basics: hunt, bust, cuff, haul! Then there's the icing on the cake: him. [looks at Marshall's father, Deputy Marshal Seth Mann]

Marshall

You've now crossed over to sadistic glee.

Mary

Are you nervous?

Marshall

No!

Mary

You should be. I'm about to find out so many embarrassing hilarious new secrets, I'm going to have to alphabetize them.

Marshall

I honestly fear for the state of your soul. [stands as his dad approaches]

Marshall.

Marshall

Dad.

Mary

[sighs] Heaven.

So, you seeing anyone?

Marshall

There are a few prospects.

Mary

[laughs]

Marshall

Mary doesn't know about them because I try not to subject people I care about to what I euphemistically refer to as her winning abrasiveness.

Mary

Look, Seth, Marshall's social life is a contradiction in terms, unless you count putting a bookstore clerk in a headlock and telling her about Nietzschean themes in Wagnerian opera.

Marshall

She was interested!

Mary

[pats his shoulder] Shhh. [to Seth] There's so much I want to know. Who was Marshall's first celebrity crush? How old was he when he went to his first Star Trek convention? And when did he start using a curling iron?

Mary

How old were you when you first wondered if you were adopted?

Marshall

Four. I did the saliva strip test at eight. Sadly...[shakes head]

Marshall

I wish I had had you in high school.

Mary

High school me would have eaten high school you alive.

Mary

What's that?

Marshall

That would be a painting.

Mary

Oh, God, no. You're not going to try to drag me to another art show, are you? Last time I got cornered by some freak wearing a kilt with a tattoo inside his bottom lip that said "yeah." He showed it to me twice while I was eating!

Marshall

[smiles] No. This is about my witness, Patrick Hill. It might be nothing. How's Mia?

Mary

Level-headed, funny, smart, no trouble whatsoever. She's just— [sighs] I'm sorry I couldn't tell you.

Marshall

Your talent for keeping a confidence is one of your most admirable qualities. Along with the ability to shoot accurately while downing a Big Gulp. Could I help you find something?

Mary

Yeah. There was this witness a while back, a case where the guy was shot and died and they videoed his testimony.

Marshall

U.S. versus Carlton Marchai, first degree felony kidnapping. I'm sending you the link.

Mary

Oh, praise Jesus you have no life!

I'm sorry! I shouldn't have misled you. I should have told you about us. But I... I just couldn't. My family, they'd never understand.

Marshall

Patrick, I don't mean to be glib, but if ever there was an opportunity to let go of what your family thinks, it's in Witness Protection, where you will never see them again!

[to Marshall] You see? This is what I'm dealing with!

Marshall

You leaving early?

Mary

I thought I'd go check on Mia, see if she feels like hanging out tonight.

Marshall

Ah.

Mary

What? What's that mean?

Marshall

It implies understanding.

Mary

No, it implies you think you know something; something even I don't know. "Ah" is Marshall speak for arrogant.

Marshall

You like her.

Mary

I don't hate her.

Marshall

Which for you is tantamount to eternal fealty. Would you go so far as to say under different circumstances you might be, dare I say, friends?

Mary

What's your point?

Marshall

No matter what you do or feel for her, she's not going to be here long and that you can't change.

Mary

Yeah, well, what I can do is make it better. Thanks, sunshine.

Marshall

I know that you can make it better, just don't make it worse for yourself.

Mary

I love when you talk to me in greeting card.

Marshall

I'm serious, Mary. That's why you're so lucky to have me.

Mary

Where I'm smart, you're an idiot.

Marshall

Symbiosis personified.

Mary

Holy mother, what is that smell?!

Marshall

Homemade empanadas.

Mary

What kind?

Marshall

[protects the plate] Mine, that's what kind.

Mary

Why do you get the witnesses that cook you food, and I get the ones who can multiply very large numbers in their head?

Marshall

It is commonly referred to as karma.

Mary

[grabs an empanada from the plate] Tu empanadas es mi empanadas.

Marshall

Actually, it would be "tus empanadas son mis empanadas".

Mary

So, in high school, who didn't hate you?

Marshall

Actually, I was both well-liked and widely admired.

Marshall

The paperwork has your IQ at 142. That's a notch above that of the average itinerant. What's your story?

I read a biography of Paul Erdős when I was ten. It hooked me. [to Mary] Erdős was a homeless Hungarian mathemetician.

Marshall

Who never settled down. Just roamed the world...

Mary

Terrific. Dueling Marshall's.

Marshall

Helping people with their math problems. He did a lot of work in set theory.

Mary

Hey, look! A dime!

Mary

So, long lost mom is a Sherry Greer from Modesto, California.

Marshall

With her social it won't take long to track down where she is.

Mary

Oh, goody.

Marshall

It's possible a positive reunion with Walter's birth mother could heal his primal wound.

Mary

Don't say primal wound.

Marshall

That's what it's called.

Mary

Seriously, I'll give you a hundred dollars if you'll stop.

Marshall

That's what they call many adoptees suffer when taken from their mothers at birth.

Mary

So, what? He's homeless because he's adopted?

Marshall

Maybe unable to bond properly with his adopted family, yes.

Mary

No. I'm a firm believer in ignorant bliss, especially when it comes to family members taking off.

Marshall

Ah, a parallel. How could I have missed it?

Mary

All right, okay. Just don't be surprised when Walter's mom turns out to be something less than Carol Brady.

Marshall

Found her! Sherry's gone back to good, old Modesto. Hmm.

Mary

Hmm, what?

Marshall

She's on husband number four.

Mary

Happy now? Carol Brady's a slut!

Marshall

I'll bet I know what you're thinking. Do you want me to tell you?

Mary

Do I ever?

Marshall

Your father's out there somewhere. You know more than you ever have. We can at least try.

Mary

I don't want to try.

Marshall

Sorry, those words coming out of your mouth are disorienting. You don't want answers?

Mary

There's no happy ending to that story, John Boy. Not even the one in my head.

Mary

[to Stan, after he assigned Marshall to a case he didn't want] I'm taking Sabrina to Chicago to see her mother today. How am I supposed to revel in Marshall's misery from 1,000 miles away?

Marshall

Sorry to blow your weekend.

Marshall

What are you doing here?

Mary

Well, Sabrina's mom screwed the pooch; showed up four hours late and cut the weekend short. So sad for them. So sweet for me. Free food; fights; food fights.

Marshall

You're actually hoping for violence.

Mary

I'm not hoping. Rooting.