Mags Bennett quotes from Justified

Mags Bennett

You pick the devil you run with.

Mags Bennett

[to Hobart Curtis] Wherever your boys grow up, do you think they'd be better off doing it with or without their daddy? You figure out that next time before you open your mouth to me.

Mags Bennett

I had every intention of living a simple life. Raising my boys, keeping house... then Pervis got killed, and I accepted this role, did what I had to do for my family. I may not have lived the life I wanted, but I'll be damned if my grandchildren are gonna live it the same way. I got Doyle's boys a path out of this holler, and nothing is more important to me than that.

Mags Bennett

[after poisoning Walt] Oh, this is the bad part, but it doesn't last long. Mixture's all natural, from up in the hills. All kinds of knowledge up in the hills. Something my grandmama taught me. She learned it from her grandmama.

Loretta?

Mags Bennett

I'll raise her myself. Don't you think that'll be better for her? Then the way it's been around here with you and your sadness. All the troubles of your hard life, it's all gone now. You get to know the mystery, Walt. You get to see your Sally Ann again.

Doyle Bennett

I had nothing to do with it.

Mags Bennett

Other than shootin' a couple of assholes to keep 'em from talking.

Doyle Bennett

Yeah, well... that.

Mags Bennett

We need to talk.

Dickie Bennett

Can I get you something, mama?

Mags Bennett

Nothing's gonna take the taste away from my boys going behind my back.

Coover Bennett

Mama, w-we never went behind—

Mags Bennett

Cashing McCready's draw checks? How long did you think it'd take before that'd come back on us?

Coover Bennett

Mama, that's that federal. He's aiming for trouble with us, always has been.

Mags Bennett

'Cause of your actions! Starting with hiring that pederast to do a job I give you.

Coover Bennett

I'm sorry, Mama.

Mags Bennett

Coover, I know you're sorry. That's why it's gonna hurt so much to have to do this.

Dickie Bennett

Hey, now! Hey, hey, now! Hey! Hey!

Doyle Bennett

Put your hand on the stump! Put your hand on the stump! Mags: Take what's coming.

Coover Bennett

Mama.

Mags Bennett

I'm saving your gun hand, now.

Coover Bennett

Mama, don't hurt me.

Mags Bennett

Cross me again, and I will leave you nothing.

Coover Bennett

Mama!

Dickie Bennett

You ain't got to do this.

Mags Bennett

You shut your mouth! 'Cause you're crippled to the point of worthlessness it ain't you down on that table. As it is, I have to hurt Coover. And I like Coover.

Carol Johnson

There have been some threats.

Mags Bennett

Oh, well, that's just awful.

Carol Johnson

Part of the job, I suppose.

Mags Bennett

Yeah, it's not easy being a strong woman. Take it from me. But you just keep doing what you're doing. Don't let them see you sweat.

Mags Bennett

Apparently, Black Pike is here to help us realize God's great plan. And all they're asking us to let them do, is cut the top off our mountain. Well, my people pioneered this valley when George Washington was president of the United States. And as long as we've been here, the story's always been the same: the big money men come in, take the timber and the coal and the strength of our people. And what do they leave behind? Poundments full of poison slurry and valleys full of toxic trash! Yeah! You know what happens when 500 million gallons of slurry breaks loose? The gates of hell open!

Carol Johnson

Those poundments are built strong to keep the slurry back.

Mags Bennett

The gates of hell open, and all that waste rolls down through the hollers and poisons the water and the land and everything it touches! Mining company has a has a word for those leavings doesn't it? "The spoil. The spoil"! And that is what our lives will be if Black Pike has their way with our mountain.

Carol Johnson

With all due respect, Mrs. Bennett, Black Pike will replace the mountaintops and leave money a lot of money in the pockets of the working people of Bennett and Harlan counties.

Mags Bennett

Is that a fact?

Carol Johnson

Yes, ma'am, that is a fact.

Mags Bennett

Well, that's something to consider. 'Cause it ain't an easy life here. No, ma'am. To an outsider, it's probably hard to understand why we're all not just lining up and saying, "Where do we sign?" But we got our own kind of food, our own music. Our own liquor! We got our own way of courting, and raising children! And our own way of living and dying. And to protect all that, we have got to say "No, thank you" to Miss Carol Johnson here and Black Pike Mining.

Carol Johnson

Getting this property seized is an inevitability.

Mags Bennett

You wouldn't be the first who tried, Missy Thing. Now, sit your bony ass down and listen to my counteroffer while there's still pieces of you big enough to find!

Mags Bennett

You did kill my baby.

Raylan Givens

Yeah.

Mags Bennett

But I was the one that let him become a nitwit. Now, I'm not taking the blame, mind you. Coover had plenty of time to straighten himself out. And you did save Loretta. Saved me from living out my days with her blood on me. I'm not sure it makes us exactly even, but I made a deal with your Aunt Helen to keep the lid on, and I intend to honor it.

Mags Bennett

Tell me it wasn't you.

Dickie Bennett

Hey, hey, listen to me. Mama... I love you, and I always tried to do what you wanted, but ever since Coover you just ain't been thinking right.

Mags Bennett

I am still the head of this family.

Dickie Bennett

Yeah, and why is it, Mama, that the head of this family gave away this family's territory... to Boyd Crowder, no less?

Mags Bennett

Boy, you don't know what you talking about.

Dickie Bennett

What I know is Boyd Crowder robbed us point blank at the shed, and Arlo helped him. What I know is Boyd ran off Rodney, told him he was the swinging dick around these parts! You, you gave Boyd an inch, he took a country mile. That's what I know.

Mags Bennett

If you had a problem, you should have come to me, like always.

Dickie Bennett

Even after you disowned me? No, I don't think so. You know, you can just go off. Go make all your big future plans, Mama. Go on, get Doyle and his tads their seat in future land, tomorrow land. I'll tell you what, I am living in the here and now, in Harlan County, and I ain't about to sit by and watch while a Crowder takes and takes and takes what's ours!

Doyle Bennett

You need to watch yourself, boy.

Dickie Bennett

It's my turn now.

Mags Bennett

You want to be in charge? Is that what this is about?

Dickie Bennett

I want... what's coming to me.

Mags Bennett

Okay, Mr. President.

Dickie Bennett

I want what's coming to me!

Mags Bennett

Helen is dead. Everyone know that you're to blame. Raylan's already been at the store, what are you gonna do when he catches up to you?

Dickie Bennett

That ain't gonna happen. We're gonna throw Raylan off that scent, give him a damn good reason to stand down.

Doyle Bennett

Yeah? How's that?

Dickie Bennett

Jed's gonna get himself killed resisting arrest.

Doyle Bennett

...Goddamn. You gonna ask that of me after everything I done for you?

Dickie Bennett

I'm gonna tell you where he hides his share of the money. You find that and his shotgun, and you match his blood with the drops I made sure to leave at the scene... there you have it.

Mags Bennett

Dickie, I swear - your actions jeopardize my plans in anyway, I will let you swing for it.

Dickie Bennett

By which I believe you mean, "that's a damn good plan you got there, my darling son!"

Raylan Givens

Mags? What did you do?

Mags Bennett

Same thing I did to Loretta's daddy. It's too late. It was already in the glass, not in the jar. [starts to convulse] This is the hard part. Put an end to my troubles. Get to see my boys again. Get to know the mystery.