Door's open. Nothing keeping ya.
My ankle is chained.
Hm. That is predicamental.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Look, I'm just sayin', boring's not the worst thing a person can be, Cassidy.
I think you're wrong. I think boring's the worst.
El Paso Gazette. Young family in Indiana take their children to an amusement park. Three kids. They'd been there for about an hour, playing, having fun. Parents turned around, one of the kids is gone. The little one. The parents is frantic. So they leave the two older kids with this fella sellin' pretzels. And they go in search. About a half-hour, they found him. He was cryin' his eyes out over by the spinnin' teacups or some such. Well, the parents was ecstatic. They was full of "thank yous," "praise the Lords." Celebratory ice cream for everybody. However the other two kids took three days to find the one, naked, stuffed in a drainage ditch down by the interstate. And the hard part in this from a law-enforcement perspective was the old man. He worked in that park for 30 years sellin' pretzels. Never a single complaint or incident. That third baby, they never found at all. This world.
We just want what's inside the preacher.
Yeah, I'm sure you do. Power like that, who wouldn't want it? The question is, what do you want it for? Military? Economics? Mass-scale psycho-sexual mind control?
D--Delivery dropped that off over an hour ago. You're taking the van and handling this right?
I'm on it.
Don't look very on it.
No? This is my "very on it" outfit.
Just...tell me how it feels.
It feels like... there's a big blender in my gut. And inside that blender, there's everything. Love... hate... fire, ice... polonium, ice cream, tarantulas--everything. All of god's creation... inside of me.
My grandfather, Jonas Quincannon. One time, the Gormann Brothers had a pork concern out at Las Cruces. Hoping to move in on his territory, they were pressuring wholesalers, something like that. Uh, anyway, Jonas found out about it. He took care of it. Took care of them. Didn't ask, didn't warn, didn't get angry. Just got what needed doing done. Nobody said a damn word.
But I mean, after that, these two fella come by, right, dressed as cowboy blokes on the outside, but sounded more like two blokes who just stumbled in out of a pub in Clerkenwell, if you know what I'm tryin' to say.
I have no idea.
When will you be back?
Soon.
Be specific.
Very soon.
MMosie
Fun, funny, such a great spirit. But that temper of yours--not even your mama could handle it.
My mama never tried, Mos. She was too busy up there, handlin' all them boners and balls.
Comes to men and their deviancies, I threw my hands up long ago.
Please God! Please God, or whatever the hell you call yourself, I know we hate each other, but please, please, please, just this once, do the right thing here. I'll be good, I swear. I'll be good. I'll be so damn good, you won't even know it's me.
Now, you know the rules. I don't talk how my meat gets made, you don't talk about your magic man in the sky.
No shame in having questions.
I'm not ashamed. And I know what comes next. Nothing.
Maybe. But what if you're wrong? What if there's Judgement?
"Judgement."
What if we're held to account for our actions? What if there's punishment? What if there is fire?
What if there's ice and darkness? What if there's beasts with cloven hooves and tortured children and screams that curdle your blood? What if they tear you apart real slow-like, with chains and spikes? What if it's deeper than that, like some say, and you spend all eternity living your worst memory over and over and over? Or what if you feel nothing? Except for all the pain you caused everybody else? Jeez.
Aren't you afraid?
Nope. Seems to me you are, Preacher.
You kill people?
Not if they don't deserve it.
But you drink blood?
Yeah. Helps me heal. All things bein' equal, I'd rather have single malt.
MMacready
We lost a lot of good men that day. Lost a lot of horses, too.
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