Justified quotes

Ty Walker

Choo-Choo's a rock. He'd never give us up.

Avery Markham

Not on purpose. Feds have got guys that spend their whole lives tying people in knots—

Ty Walker

I'm not— [pauses] Choo-Choo and I were in the sandbox together.

Avery Markham

I know.

Ty Walker

I was in the Humvee right behind his when he got blown up. I.E.D. flipped them over, then landed on our hood. Crushed their gunner like a bug on our windshield. Choo-Choo's in the captain's seat. [laughs bitterly] We got that door open... You wouldn't think anybody could be alive in there. Medics picking splinters of the driver's bones out of his face. He lives through that? No.

Avery Markham

One morning when I was in the Corps, we found a dead Cong who'd stepped in a punji pit in the dark. Thing about punji sticks, they're not meant to kill. A dead soldier reduces the force against you by one, but a wounded soldier slows down a whole unit. Cong used to cover their stakes with human shit, make the wounds infect. But rather than being a drag on his comrades, make them carry him back, this feller just decided to put a gun in his mouth.

Ty Walker

One man dies so the others can live.

Avery Markham

Anybody can run a peacetime command. Real leadership's about making the hard choices.

Rachel Brooks

I don't want this guy going all Eric Frein on us, hole up at some derelict airport for weeks while we're out here chasing our own dicks.

Tim Gutterson

Sounds really strange when you say that.

Rachel Brooks

I'm running shit. I get to use the expression.

Ty Walker

I never went to college myself. Joined the army right out of high school. Gave me some notion of fraternity.

And we thank you for your service. Now, if you're done whipping your army pud in there, I got to shit.

Ty Walker

Begging the question, will your brother over there step in when I split your skull open?

Art Mullen

[to Raylan about his daughter Willa] Oh, my goodness. What a relief. She doesn't look like you. Good for her.

Winona Hawkins

[to Raylan] I'm saying I love you and I miss you and I want you to come home, and I don't care where home is. I don't care if it's here or in Miami or in the hills. It doesn't matter to me. But if you want it, I want you by my side raising our daughter. So, I guess what I'm saying is you can be with me and still be you, if that's something you want.

Ty Walker

[holding two EMTs at gunpoint] "Be on the lookout, bearded sasquatch man, possible gunshot wound", is that right? [kills one EMT] That sound right?!

Yes, yes! Jesus!

Ty Walker

Didn't realize they were gonna send me a couple of heroes. All I wanted was that kit patch myself up. See a man I got to see, do a job I got to do. That's all. Then they send me a pair of heroes.

He was a hero. Put me in the back, strap me down. I-I won't be able to move or call anyone. And you can take the kit. You can take the kit and get away.

Ty Walker

Yeah, I could do that. But it's been such a day!

[about Raylan's parents] And how about the manner in which they were buried?

Raylan Givens

I wasn't around, but I guarantee you he put her in the cheapest piece of shit available.

Likely an unvaulted wooden casket.

Raylan Givens

Mm-hmm.

And him?

Raylan Givens

I put him in the cheapest piece of shit available.

Zachariah Randolph

A man died, Boyd.

Boyd Crowder

A man you ain't known a goddamn week!

Zachariah Randolph

Well, I can see you really torn up about it. Real leader of men, ain't ya?

Boyd Crowder

It ain't the first man I've lost doing a job, Zachariah, and the job ain't over yet.

Raylan Givens

Harlan. Hell of a place to make your fortune.

Avery Markham

Fortune? Hell, I'm putting down roots.

Raylan Givens

Tough to do in quicksand.

Raylan Givens

Let's just say you're putting down roots, I'm pulling up. Sick of the past.

Avery Markham

True. Past is a shadow. Always there behind you.

Raylan Givens

In Harlan, shit, it ain't behind you. It's vertical. Dig down another layer, turn up some horror.

Raylan Givens

I been lying to you, Boyd.

Boyd Crowder

Well, now we're getting somewhere.

Raylan Givens

Keeping up the fiction that I got all manner of things tying me to Kentucky things that forestall my moving to Florida. But there is only the one thing: you.

Boyd Crowder

You wanna lean in for a kiss?

Raylan Givens

Is that what you think this is, another one of your love stories?

Boyd Crowder

Oh, well, I do like happy endings.

Raylan Givens

Well, this is one of them classic stories, where the hero gets his man, then he rides off into the sunset.

Boyd Crowder

Or maybe it's like that other classic, where a guy chases a whale to the ends of the Earth, only to drown for his troubles.

Raylan Givens

I got to admit, there's a small part of me that's gonna miss this when it's over.

Boyd Crowder

Well, don't eulogize the past till the future gets its turn.

When I was just a pup, my mama used to say I tended to leap before I looked.

Well, if you're done looking, now would be a good time to scoot your ass on out of here.

Name's Boon. Pleased to meet you.

Raylan Givens

I wouldn't rush to judgment on that.

Raylan Givens

You got more balls than sense, you know that, girl?

Ain't that what they say about you?

My fix is the same as yours, Mr. Markham. Promise of legal weed. The difference is, I've been here for generations. You all knew my daddy. [crowd murmuring in agreement] You all know me. Know that I'm Harlan through and through. And so is my partner.

Avery Markham

And who might that be?

The only other soul I know who cares about this place as much as I do: Boyd Crowder. [to the crowd] Every one of you who has been approached about your property, this is my offer. I will give you cash for your land, same as Markham, but the difference is I don't want to move you guys out. Just want to move some seed in. And along with that seed, we bring security and protection now and in perpetuity. Hire the locals to help with the farming, pay it back. You think Avery Markham and his city mousette ain't gonna cut and run win or lose? She look like Harlan to you? Throw in with me, and we'll make Harlan prosperous our own selves. Give this county back to the people the way we all know it should be!