Raylan Givens quotes from Justified

Raylan Givens

First off, whatever transpired between you and those kids gets squashed. No vendetta, no debt. You tell me it's over, and it stays that way.

Would you prefer that I respond point by point or should I wait till the end?

Raylan Givens

I hoped you were the kind of man who chooses not to live in the past.

Wynn Duffy

Well, normally I am. It's just that, you know, try to kill me once, shame on you…

Wynn Duffy

You're protecting me from a situation that you created?

Raylan Givens

I can see how'd you'd see it that way if you want to focus on the negative.

Raylan Givens

Did it get you?

Tim Gutterson

No, but I think something just came between me and my Calvins.

Daryl Crowe Jr.

Marshal, you know good and well ain't nobody going nowhere. Matter of fact, we came up here to lay down roots. 'sides, if you had good enough reason to run us out of here, you'd have done it already. Ain't that right?

Raylan Givens

Just remember, so when later you're regretting the decision you made, remember I gave you the chance.

Who are you, really? The guy whose chief punches him in the eye? That runs off to defend the honor of a lady? A guy that has a lady and the ex and the baby daughter all stashed out of state?

Raylan Givens

I guess so. What's your point?

You are a hero, Raylan. I met enough LEOs to know. I can tell you're a man that would run into a burning building without blinking an eye. Thing is, I think you're the one setting the fire.

Raylan Givens

I'm on vacation, actually.

Vacation? And you thought you'd come to Memphis and kick the hornet's nest, huh?

Raylan Givens

And have some ribs.

[mocking] And have some ribs. Yeah.

Raylan Givens

Miller, would you call this a herd, a gaggle, or a flock of assholes?

I would call this a United Nations of assholes.

Boyd Crowder

Well, that's funny because we were just discussing ratifying some shit.

"King Lear"? Shakespeare? Basically, Lear split his kingdom in half and gave it to his two daughters, deal being Lear get to hang out and keep 100 knights. They agree, and then later, these two bitch-ass daughters, they change the deal. They like, "well, daddy, what you need with 100 knights? 50, 10, 5? What you need with one?" Lear says, "reason not the need." Hot damn! Reason not the need.

Raylan Givens

Uh-huh. I don't understand what these two are talking about, but I got to admit I'm interested.

Well, in the analogy, we be Lear, and we just want what's rightfully ours, and then we out, never to be seen again. And, well, they the bitches. You can have them and they kingdom.

Dickie Bennett

Alright, Raylan, alright, you win. You wanna find Dewey here's what you do. First of all go to a gas'n'go or whatever and get yourself a map of Kentucky. Follow route 9 southbound with your finger, follow it way way down until you're pointing right at... your asshole, and then what you gonna do is you're gonna take your hand and just go ahead and cram it right up inside. You gotta make sure, Raylan, that you do it in a way so that the rest of you just keeps on following your hand right up your ass, right up inside all that shit you're so full of, Raylan. And then what you gonna do is you're just gonna [whistles] wink out of existence forever.

Raylan

Proud of that one, aren't you?

Dickie Bennett

...It'll do.

Daryl Crowe Jr.

Just so I'm clear, you're not gonna kill me? 'Cause I was worried for a minute.

Raylan Givens

Oh, be worried.

Daryl Crowe Jr.

Yeah?

Raylan Givens

'Cause that web of bullshit you spun around yourself to protect yourself? I'm gonna use it to strangle the life out of you and take away everything you got. Then you're gonna wish I'd have blacked you out—with a bullet to the head.

Daryl Crowe Jr.

Well, this feels like one of those "time will tell" deals which, as a free man, I have plenty of. Question is: how much time you got?

Dewey Crowe

This it then, Raylan? No final words, put Dewey Crowe in his place?

Raylan Givens

My advice? Stop talking about yourself in the third person. Makes you sound like a fool.

Dewey Crowe

Third person? This guy? [indicating the driver] Man, I don't understand you.

Raylan Givens

You said you'd help us get him. You didn't get him. So we'll be proceeding to convene a grand jury, bring charges against you as soon as possible.

Boyd Crowder

Are you back to that file bullshit?

Raylan Givens

Bullshit?

Raylan Givens

There it is. Thick with the names of the suffering and the dead, and many felled by your own hands. A trail of human wreckage you've left rotting in jail cells and cold graves throughout this state. And why? Because they had the poor judgment to believe your lies and follow your tune. Well, it's high time that tune reached a shuddering crescendo.

Raylan Givens

Say, what's the first thing you ever killed? You're from Florida, right?

Gator, maybe. When I was 11.

Raylan Givens

I was 11, too, or thereabouts. Wasn't a gator, though. Will Hendricks' pig got out of its pen, went feral, started tearing up my mama's vegetable patch. Arlo built the trap, caught it, gave me a gun, said, "get 'er done." You ever see a pig that's gone feral? Nasty. Tusks grow. They get dirty, ill-tempered. They don't look bad from a distance, but get up close, best watch your ass. You hook the gator before you...?

Danny hooked him. Wanted to do it himself, but Daryl said it was my time.

Raylan Givens

Well, there you are, pointing that gun at something that's staring back at you, right? Longer I stood there, the less I wanted to do it. Not that I had a choice. Arlo'd tan my hide if I didn't.

Danny called me a pussy.

Raylan Givens

Ain't about being a pussy, though, is it? No small thing, taking a life. Hell, my hand was shaking so bad, first shot nearly missed. Pig squealing, bucking, spraying blood. Put three more shots just to get it to lay still. I knew I should have felt good about it, but I didn't. Walked home, stepped through the front door, and threw up. That's when Arlo called me a pussy. He beat the shit out of me, too. Started thinking less about what I'd done to that pig and more—about what I'd like to do to Arlo.

Well, did you do it?

Raylan Givens

Not as such. I always wondered, though, if I didn't join the Marshals just to prove something to him what a badass I was. Maybe just to spite him. He hated me being a lawman. And I knew. I knew when I joined that I might have to shoot someone in the line of duty. But first time it happened, god damn if it wasn't the same feeling sick to my stomach. Just kept asking myself if there was something I could have done different short of pulling my gun. What was it like for you?

What, the gator? It's a goddamn dinosaur. Who gives a shit?

Raylan Givens

Good things happen to those who wait for stupid.

Tim Gutterson

I believe that was in the Sermon on the Mount.