The Man in Black quotes from Lost

Morning.

The Man in Black

Mind if I join you?

Please. You want some fish?

The Man in Black

No thank you, I just ate.

I take it you're here because of the ship.

The Man in Black

I am. How did they find the island?

You'll have to ask them when they get here.

The Man in Black

I don't have to ask: you brought them here. Still trying to prove me wrong, aren't you?

You are wrong.

The Man in Black

Am I? They come. They fight. They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same.

It only ends once. Everything that comes before is just progress.

[Pause]

The Man in Black

Do you have any idea how badly I want to kill you?

Yes.

The Man in Black

One of these days, sooner or later, I'm going to find a loophole, my friend.

Well when you do, I'll be right here.

The Man in Black

Always nice talking to you Jacob.

Nice talking to you, too.

[The Man in Blackgets up ends heads off leaving Jacob alone on the beach. The camera pulls back to reveal that both men have been sat below the giant statue that is of a crocodile like figure]

S5 E16 The Incident

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The Man in Black

[Disguised as Locke] Hello, Jacob.

...Guess you found your loophole.

The Man in Black

Indeed, I did. And you have no idea what I've gone through to be here.

You two know each other?

The Man in Black

In a manner of speaking. Do what I asked you to, Benjamin.

Benjamin, whatever he's told you, I want you to understand one thing: you have a choice.

What choice?

You can do what he asks, or you can go, leave us to discuss our... issues.

Oh... so now, after all this time... you've decided to stop ignoring me. Thirty-five years I lived on this island, and all I ever heard was your name, over and over. Richard would bring me your instructions, all those slips of paper, all those lists... and I never questioned anything. I did as I was told. But when I dared to ask to see you myself, I was told, "You have to wait. You have to be patient." But when he asks to see you, he gets marched up here as if he was Moses. So why him? Hmm? What was it that was so wrong with me? What about me?

[spitefully] What about you?

...Ah. Well... [He stabs Jacob twice in the chest and watches as he falls to the ground]

[Quietly] They're coming...

The Man in Black

What? I can't hear ya.

They're coming!

[With this, The Man in Black looks alarmed. He then kicks Jacob into the fire and he and Ben watch him burn]

S5 E16 The Incident

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The Man in Black

[as John Locke] Do you mind if I ask you a question?

I'm a Pisces.

The Man in Black

What happened that day at the cabin? When you first took me to meet Jacob?

Well, you clearly already know that I was talking to an empty chair, John. That I was pretending. Which is not to say that I wasn't as surprised as you were when things started flying around the room.

The Man in Black

But why would go to all the trouble to make something like that up?

I was embarrassed. I didn't want you to know that I had never seen Jacob. So yes, I lied. That's what I do.

The Man in Black

Alright, then.

Why do you want me to kill Jacob, John?

The Man in Black

Because, despite your loyal service to this Island, you got cancer. You had to watch your own daughter gunned down right in front of you. And your reward for those sacrifices? You were banished. And you did all this in the name of a man you'd never even met. So the question is, Ben, why the hell wouldn't you want to kill Jacob?

S5 E16 The Incident

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[Ben and the Man in Black try to follow Richard into the statue]

Richard Alpert

W--what are you doing?

John wants me to join him.

Richard Alpert

You can't bring him in.

The Man in Black

[as John Locke] Why not?

Richard Alpert

Because only our leader can request an audience with Jacob, and there can only be one leader on the Island at a time, John.

The Man in Black

I'm beginning to think you just make these rules up as you go along, Richard.

S5 E17 The Incident Part II

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What are you?

The Man in Black

[disguised as John Locke] I'm not a "what", Ben, I'm a "who".

You're the monster.

The Man in Black

Let's not resort to name calling.

You used me. You couldn't kill him yourself, so you made me do it.

The Man in Black

I didn't make you do anything. You should know, he was very confused when you killed him.

I seriously doubt that Jacob was ever confused.

The Man in Black

I'm not talking about Jacob. I'm talking about John Locke. Do you want to know what he was thinking while you choked the life out of him, Benjamin? What the last thought that ran through his head was? "I don't understand." Isn't that just the saddest thing you've ever heard? But it's fitting in a way because when John first came to the island, he was a very sad man. A victim shouting at the world for being told what he couldn't do, even though they were right. He was weak and pathetic, and irreparably broken, but despite all of that, there was something admirable about him. He was the only one of them who didn't want to leave. The only one who realized how pitiful the life he left behind actually was.

What do you want?

The Man in Black

Well that's the great irony here, Ben, because I want the one thing that John Locke didn't. I want to go home.

S6 E1 LA X

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The Man in Black

Hello, Richard. It's good to see you out of those chains.

Richard

[terrified] You?

The Man in Black

Me. [knocks Richard out and looks around at everyone else] I am very disappointed. In all of you!

S6 E1 LA X

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The Man in Black

You seem to be taking this extremely well.

Taking what extremely well?

The Man in Black

The fact that I'm here.

I don't give a damn if you're dead. Or time travelin' or... ghost of Christmas past. All I care about is this whiskey. So bottoms up. Get the hell out of my house.

S6 E4 The Subsitute

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Do you read?

The Man in Black

Doesn't everybody?

You ever read Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck, it's my favorite.

The Man in Black

No, a little after my time.

It's about these two guys, George and Lenny. Lenny's kinda slow... causin' George problems... so George walks him into the woods and tells him to look out yonder and picture the pretty little house they're gonna live in some day. Then he shoots Lenny in the back of the head.

The Man in Black

That doesn't sound like a very happy ending.

[Sawyer puts a gun to the back of MIB's head] It ain't.

The Man in Black

Something on your mind, James?

I'm wondering what would happen if I was to put a bullet in your head?

The Man in Black

Let's find out?

[Sawyer hesitates and lowers the gun] What are you?

The Man in Black

What I am is trapped. And I've been trapped for so long that I don't even remember what it feels like to be free. Maybe you can understand that. But before I was trapped, I was a man, James. Just like you.

I'm havin' a hard time believin' that...

The Man in Black

You can believe whatever you want, that's the truth. I know what it's like to feel joy... to feel pain, anger, fear... to experience betrayal. I know what it's like to lose someone you love. So if you wanna shoot me, shoot me. But you're so close, James. It would be such a shame to turn back now.

S6 E4 The Subsitute

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The Man in Black

You're a candidate.

And what does that mean?

The Man in Black

It means you have three choices. You can do nothing and see how it all plays out. [Marks off John Locke's name on the wall] And maybe your name will get marked off. Or you can step up and replace Jacob and be the protector of the Island.

Protect it from what?

The Man in Black

From nothing, James. That's the real joke; there is nothing to protect it from. It's just a damn island! And it will be perfectly fine without you or me or anyone else whose lives Jacob wasted.

You said there were three choices.

The Man in Black

The third choice is we just go. We just get the hell off this Island. Never look back. So tell me, James. Are you ready to go home.