Raylan Givens quotes from Justified

Raylan Givens

Anybody ever tell you should talk less?

Yeah. One guy.

Raylan Givens

Well, you're young yet.

Anyway, the matter I wanted your take on: you come across a fella like this, never sat a horse or roped a steer, wants putting on a hat to make him a, a buckaroo. You think it's up to gentlemen like us to disabuse him?

Raylan Givens

You're asking if we're keepers of some kind of flame. I guess my main take is I believe you're overestimating how much you and I have in common.

Raylan Givens

You really think this ends in a trial?

Tim Gutterson

Shit, I hope so. All the work we've done.

Raylan Givens

What I mean is, you really think Boyd's gonna let us take him in instead of going out in a blaze like the outlaw he's spent his whole life trying to be?

Tim Gutterson

Well, I guess that'll be up to him. [pointedly] Won't it, Raylan?

Raylan Givens

You know, it don't bother me much running into a cop from this town that's bent to shit. I grew up around here. Kinda expect it now and then. What irritates me is when you call 'em on it, and they give you this look like, "how dare you insinuate I'm a piece of shit tarnishing my badge?" I see you doing the math, whether you're gonna tolerate the insult. But you should know, one of your co-workers is in the hospital with brain bleed, and this boy's brother's dead, so you might wanna factor them items into the equation before you decide what you're gonna do next.

Number one, I don't like your tone. Number two, that badge don't mean shit. And number three, this boy's been bonded out fair and square. Matter of fact, I was just about to call the judge.

Raylan Givens

The marshal service have spent a lot of time and effort apprehending a fugitive that's now out on the run, and lives are in danger because of it, so every time you open your mealy mouth to lie, I think of that, and I start picturing how you'd look without any of your goddamn teeth.

Art Mullen

You got 48 hours, Raylan. That's all I can give you.

Raylan Givens

48 hours, bullshit. Who you got coming after me? Everybody?

Art Mullen

You got too high an opinion of yourself. Of course, you always have. Everybody's out looking for Boyd. I'll be the one coming after you.

Boyd Crowder

Goddamn, Raylan! How you know I wasn't some boy scout looking for his tent?

Raylan Givens

Your teeth glow in the dark.

Boyd Crowder

You shot unprovoked. How am I supposed to take that?

Raylan Givens

As me aiming to kill you.

Boyd Crowder

Well, it's only getting colder. So what say the next time the moon peeks out from behind those clouds, we show it down?

Raylan Givens

Now you're talking.

Boyd Crowder

Only problem is, Raylan. I don't know where you are.

Raylan Givens

I don't know where I am, either.

Boyd Crowder

Why you want to kill me so bad, Raylan? You don't even know why. "Boyd Crowder must die!" That's just the lie you tell yourself, wanting to win.

Raylan Givens

You are the world-conquering emperor of lies, the biggest reserved for yourself.

Boyd Crowder

Just say it, Raylan. "I want to win!"

Raylan Givens

[chuckles] How about, "I want the money"? Shit. You want to kill her, Boyd. You want to kill the woman who stole your money, shot you, and left you for dead.

Boyd Crowder

You don't know what's in my heart.

Raylan Givens

What heart?

Boyd Crowder

You don't know what's in your own heart. You've given up everything you are so that you could murder me.

Raylan Givens

I cross the line with my eyes wide open.

Boyd Crowder

Well, whose eyes you gonna see when you kill me, Raylan? Your daddy's?

Raylan Givens

Not anymore.

Boyd Crowder

Your baby girl's? Imagine the look on her face the day she realizes, "my daddy spent his whole life trying to walk the line and failed".

Raylan Givens

She'll live her life the way everybody does: on her own.

Boyd Crowder

Are you sure you don't want me to kill you, Raylan, keep you a hero? That makes for a hell of a bedtime story.

Raylan Givens

This is the only story here tonight.

[in the distance] Help!

Boyd Crowder

You don't think that's Bob, do you?

Raylan Givens

Why would that be Bob?

Boyd Crowder

Well, I shot him a couple times down at the trail head. I think he might still be alive. You ought to go run down there and see if you can't help him.

Raylan Givens

Bob can take care of himself.

Boyd Crowder

Well, hell, Raylan. Then I have already won.

Boyd Crowder

Goddamn Raylan, your timing sucks!

Raylan Givens

So I've been told.

Boyd Crowder

I'd ask you the number for a couples' therapist, Raylan, but I don't think you're any better at this than I am.

Raylan Givens

I don't suppose that's your blood on you there.

Boyd Crowder

That please you? Somebody show up and do your dirty work for you?

Raylan Givens

Well, Boyd, I don't care how it gets done, as long as it gets done.

Boyd Crowder

Well, I guess, in that case, you ought to pick up where we left off in the woods, Raylan.

Raylan Givens

There is another way.

Boyd Crowder

What's that? I pull, you put me down?

Raylan Givens

Either way, I am going to put you down.

Boyd Crowder

Well, Raylan, here's the problem. See, I don't have any more bullets in my gun.

Raylan Givens

[Kicks a gun over] Try that one. Ava, now would be a good time to get out of the way.

Boyd Crowder

Raylan, you mind if I ask Ava a question before we do this?

Raylan Givens

Knock yourself out.

Boyd Crowder

Why? We had the money. We were home free.

Ava Crowder

Honestly, Boyd? I put myself in your shoes. I did what I thought you would do.

Boyd Crowder

I ain't doing it, Raylan.

Raylan Givens

Ya you are.

Boyd Crowder

No, I ain't.

Raylan Givens

You are gonna to raise that gun, and we are gonna end this.

Ava Crowder

Raylan!

Raylan Givens

You stay out of this.

Boyd Crowder

I ain't gonna pull on you, Raylan. So, you go and do whatever it is you're meant to do. 'Cause someday I am gonna get out. And when I do, I'm gonna kill her, Raylan. And then, I'm gonna come and I'm gonna kill you. So what's it gonna be, Raylan?

Ava Crowder

I can tell you where the rest of the money is. Almost nine million dollars, Raylan.

Raylan Givens

You're trying to bribe a federal officer now?

Ava Crowder

I'm just wondering if there's still a deal to be made.

Raylan Givens

No. No deals, no outs. I'm sorry, Ava.

Ava Crowder

Why didn't you just kill him? You heard him. You know there ain't a cell that can keep him. What's it prove, letting him live?

Raylan Givens

...Maybe nothing.

Raylan Givens

Well, I hope you get someone at this desk that's less of a pain in the ass.

Tim Gutterson

Not likely there's someone who's more of a pain in the ass. I just hope it's someone who can keep up.

Raylan Givens

I hear you're preaching again, gathering a flock.

Boyd Crowder

Just spreading the word of my calamitous fall and subsequent rebirth in the light of the Lord, Raylan.

Raylan Givens

You know you're repeating yourself, right?

Boyd Crowder

Raylan Givens, I know you have never believed a word that has come out of my mouth, though I have harbored the secret hope that you have nevertheless enjoyed hearing them.

Boyd Crowder

Tramble Penitentiary is a long way from Miami, Raylan. Now, you could have called the warden. Could have sent word through my lawyer.

Raylan Givens

You asking why I came? Thought it was news that should be delivered in person.

Boyd Crowder

That the only reason? After all these long years, Raylan Givens, that's the only reason?

Raylan Givens

Well, I suppose if I allow myself to be sentimental, despite all that has occurred there is one thing I wander back to.

Boyd Crowder

We dug coal together.

Raylan Givens

That's right.

Oh Sandy. One of these days that girl is going to get me in trouble. She’s cute ain’t she? Gets stoned too much. Keep telling her, quit smoking that queer shit and drink like a normal person.

Raylan Givens

Some people, you can’t tell em anything.

Ain’t that the truth.

Raylan Givens

But, as long as they don’t tell on you.

What’s in the bag? You’re lunch?

Raylan Givens

Ya, it’s my lunch. He’s gonna want another one of those.

You gonna join me?

Raylan Givens

I got something I got to do first.

You know I’m actually glad you came by because I’ve had some business come up that I got to attend to, so it’s about time for me to leave town.

Raylan Givens

Is that right?

Mm-hmm. Want you to know it’s not an account of you or these goddamn Albanians. Just had no reason to sit around with my thumb up my ass, so I’m moving on.

Raylan Givens

When, tonight?

Maybe.

Raylan Givens

Ok. Guess I’ll see you later then.

You want me to think you know more than you do.

Raylan Givens

Ha. Wait a minute. As long as you’re confident all Sandy told me was where you gonna be, you got nothing to worry about.

That ain’t your lunch, is it?

Raylan Givens

No, it ain’t my lunch. Ain’t a box of donuts neither. You want it? Here.

We getting tricky, are we? You want me to put my prints on someone else’s murder gun.

It loaded?

Raylan Givens

Mm. You can check it if you want. Just short two rounds we fired in ballistics, that’s all.

Raylan Givens

This is what you wanted, wadn’t it?

Oh I don’t think you’re serious. Right here? A little too close, don’t you think?

Raylan Givens

You want to go outside? Or, up on the roof? We can go outside if you want. Less chance of getting shot in the balls.

Trying to spook me into signing some statement. Man you are going way around to do it.

Raylan Givens

I don’t want a statement. You sign a confession, we come up in court, you say it was under duress or coercion or some chicken shit thing. This is fair. Ind’t it? You said you wanted a shooting match. Let’s go.

Just grab the gun, huh?

Raylan Givens

Anytime you want. Do it.

Bit much? Yeah, I suppose I coulda tried the lock, but who in the hell would leave their door unlocked? It’s a dangerous world, Raylan. Where the fuck is my lawyer?

Raylan Givens

If you were hoping to see her, you shoulda come straight here after you killed Skinder.

Oh, shit, you came back for me. Knew you couldn’t just leave me in that room.

Raylan Givens

Case you think it came to be… no. We ain’t friends.

But we coulda been if things were different.

Raylan Givens

And if your mama had wheels she’d be a streetcar.

That’s what I like about you. Never too serious. Got a sense of humor. You want a beer? I could use a beer.

You like music? My old man, so I’ve been told, was the real deal. Played with Waylan, back in the day, till my mama ran him off. But I never knew the man. But I hear he was a real barn-burner, and I got his DNA. We are made up of the same atoms and molecules of those who passed before us.

Raylan Givens

Clement… stop.

Okay. Yeah, I can tell you’re loosing your patience. You know I really have enjoyed our time together, Raylan, but I got to get going. Before I do… I got you something to remember old Clement by. I think you’re really going to like this.

Shit man. You shot me. What’d you do that for?