Boyd Crowder quotes from Justified

Boyd Crowder

You gonna introduce me to your friends?

Raylan Givens

Oh, my mistake, I'm sorry. Yes, of course, Art Mullen, chief deputy of this office, my boss. I thought you guys had met that night I shot you, but of course you were unconscious by the time he showed up.

Bo Crowder

That day I came to pick you up at big Sandy and I asked you to work some hours to help me rebuild my business and you said you wanted to walk another path, well, I reacted poorly. That's why I came too see you today, son, to say I'm sorry, to beg your forgiveness and your indulgence.

Boyd Crowder

What's this?

Bo Crowder

The smoke from your blast sent a signal across all of Harlan County. I got people lining up with cash in their hands, begging me for protection.

Boyd Crowder

Well, I can't accept this.

Bo Crowder

Why not?

Boyd Crowder

Cause I know where it comes from. The bible tells us that "a gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous."

Bo Crowder

Well, then let's just consider it an offering, my tithes to your church of the last this, that, or the other.

Boyd Crowder

You're not taking me seriously, Daddy, and I don't find that amusing.

Bo Crowder

You know, it's funny. I was just about to say the same goddamn thing to you.

Boyd Crowder

Well, how'd he get you to talk, then?

Dewey Crowe

He deputized me.

Boyd Crowder

He did what?

Dewey Crowe

He said he could deputize me, and then I had to talk.

Boyd Crowder

Oh, that Raylan Givens. He sure is a clever one.

Boyd Crowder

Well, as many of you good people may remember, I was a hateful man, and I was a sinful man. Seeking my way through the darkness, looking for salvation in worldly things! And evil things. Like Saul on the road to Damascus, I was long gone on a sinful journey, when the light of the Lord shone upon me on my deathbed in a prison hospital. And, brothers and sisters, I'm here to tell you today that bullet missed my heart, but it struck my soul. It struck it. For I was blinded. I was blinded. I could no longer see ungodly truth. For if any man be born again in Christ is a new creature, well, I am a new. a new creature! I am a new creature!

Thank you, Boyd.

Boyd Crowder

Not quite finished yet, Reverend.

By all means, continue.

Boyd Crowder

Now - Now, Jesus entered a temple in Jerusalem. He found moneylenders buying and selling where they should have been a-praying. He called their church a den of thieves. And he turned over their tables. He cast out the robbers! He cast them out! He cast them out! Hallelujah! He cast them out! And like Jesus, like Jesus, like Jesus, we must never be afraid to strike out against those who practice evil! We must take the high road of righteousness, even if it means walking, walking and leaving our own flesh and blood behind. Because there is no greater piety, brothers and sisters, - than the love of God. Amen to that! He is my one true father. There is no other. There is no other, Preacher. There's no other.

Bo Crowder

As a churchgoing man, I admire your turnaround, Boyd. I could never walk the path, though I understood its virtue. Your change has been remarkable, son. Having said that, you are getting severely goddamn close to meeting your maker.

Boyd Crowder

You know, I continue to tell myself that you are not an evil man, because I believe that in your heart, you have the ability to do the right thing. But I will tell you something, Daddy, and you mark my words. Now, you bring meth into our homes, and I will destroy it.

Boyd Crowder

You think that's funny?

Bo Crowder

You know what's funny? You destroy me or my shit, it's the same thing as destroying yourself. That there is Crowder gospel. You mark them damn words, son.

Boyd Crowder

For years I lusted after you, and I was far from subtle. Well, that was wrong. And not only because you were my brother's wife, but because it was unseemly, unwanted and it made you uncomfortable.

Ava Crowder

If by uncomfortable you mean it made my skin crawl, then yes.

Boyd Crowder

Where you going?

Raylan Givens

I'm going after the young lady with the automatic weapon.

Boyd Crowder

I'll get her.

Raylan Givens

What are you gonna do after you get her?

Boyd Crowder

I ain't quite figured that out yet. Are you gonna shoot to stop me?

Raylan Givens

Maybe.

Boyd Crowder

I'm pretty sure you're empty.

Raylan Givens

You gonna bet your life on that?

Boyd Crowder

No Raylan, I'm gonna bet my life on you being the only friend I have left in this world.

Boyd Crowder

My outlaw ways are behind me.

Raylan Givens

Just you saying that scares the shit out of me.

Boyd Crowder

I was wondering if back when we were digging coal together that you had an inkling of the man that I might someday become.

Raylan Givens

You mean just 40 and still single?

Ava Crowder

Why did you agree to rob that mine in the first place?

Boyd Crowder

Because it's what I do. It's who I am, Ava. As hard as I've been trying to pretend otherwise. Everybody else seems to know that but me.

Did she screw all your relatives? Or just you two?

Boyd Crowder

Now sir, I know you have an investigation to conduct but if you disrespect Ava one more time, I'm gonna come across this table.

Art Mullen

I think a threat against a federal officer would be a little more specific. Something more along the lines of, "If you disrespect Miss Crowder again I'll beat the ever loving shit out of ya".

Raylan Givens

I'm surprised to see you here.

Boyd Crowder

Without shackles or an attorney present? It's a little strange for me too.

Boyd Crowder

Well, now, more than once we've found ourselves on the same side of a fight.

Raylan Givens

Okay. Well, I'm on assignment by the federal government. You're a hired gun thug for a crooked company. Now, the only thing that we're on the same side of is, like, this car.

Ava Crowder

You sure you know what you're doing?

Boyd Crowder

I'm making it up as I go, but I sure am happy you elected to come along.

Raylan Givens

Give me one reason why I shouldn't come up there and kick the living shit out of you.

Boyd Crowder

I'll give you 15 reasons in the mag, and one in the chamber.