Janet Gavin quotes from Rescue Me

Janet

[to Tommy, about their dead son] You know the only thing good outta this? Is that I don't have to watch Connor grow up and turn out exactly like you.

Janet

You know, I guess when people are looking that far down their noses at you, you want to give them a good goddamn show. Yeah, you like it? I think we can go. You know, I'm not a fashion designer, but here's a fashion tip for you - never wear yellow because kids might try to ride you to school.

Tommy

Let me tell you something, okay?

Janet

Hey, don't you threaten me.

Tommy

If I want to threaten you, I will! Okay? You start a shit storm about my kids with me, you take 'em anywhere you want, I will hunt you down and I will find you. Four corners of the Earth, I will find you and I will take those kids back. That's not a threat, that's a goddamn promise, bitch.

Janet

[at the hospital] Tommy, I can't get any answers in there.

Tommy

You know what? [grabs her arm and pushes her against the building, and pins her there] Hey, what did I tell you, huh? What did I tell you?

Janet

Get the hell off of me!

Tommy

I told you to get your priorities straight, huh. Get your shit together. You wanted to be in charge of the kids, and what happened? She's lying in a hospital bed while you're trying to get laid with you loser goddamn boyfriend! [they shove each other and he finally lets her go]

Janet

And where have you been?!

Tommy

Where was I? At work! Paying your goddamn bills!

Janet

Tommy, this isn't about our bullshit. This is about our little girl in there.

Tommy

Don't tell me.

Janet

Goddamn you, Tommy.

Tommy

It's on your head!

Tommy

And what are we doing?

Janet

We're gonna go upstairs.

Tommy

Oh, we are?

Janet

Mm hmm.

Tommy

Okay. Now, not that I don't wanna go upstairs, but okay, where are we going with this?

Janet

What, you don't want me?

Tommy

No, that's not what I said. I did not say that. What --

Janet

Tommy, we were always at our best [kisses him] when we were in bed. A million problems everywhere else, but in bed... [kisses him] Come on.

Tommy

Alright.

Janet

Tommy, nothing's changed.

Tommy

I didn't come over to you last night, you came lookin' for-- and now you're going to tell me that it shouldn't have happened?

Janet

I was drunk, I was frustrated. I'm tired of being alone.

Tommy

You're not alone, okay? I live across the street. Which you gladly took advantage of last night.

Janet

But you don't understand. I need something more-- something that I can't get from you. [Tommy makes a face] Yes, the sex was great. But the sex is always great with us, Tommy. We've never had a problem connecting on a physical level, but an emotional level--

Tommy

Oh, Jesus Christ. I knew that was what you were going to say!

Janet

Hey, I can't do this anymore, I'm tired of being this lonely.

Tommy

You know what? You're nuts, you should see a shrink because you are--

Janet

I am sorry.

Tommy

You're sorry? Bullshit. You come over my house. You lure me into bed, you bang me, you get my hopes up and now you're sorry?

Janet

I wanted to see if it still worked.

Tommy

If what worked? My dick?

Tommy

[about Colleen] I'm not exactly over here doin' a jig because she turned into a lezbo.

Janet

Hey, Tom. She is not a lesbian.

Tommy

She has a girlfriend.

Janet

She's 15 years old. She's only had one boyfriend. When she's had to deal with 5 or 6 guys, then I can see her going gay.

Tommy

I think you asked for what? Four grand? There's about six or seven here.

Janet

Where did you get it, Tom?

Tommy

The harder I work, the luckier I goddamned get.

Janet

I don't wanna go to court.

Tommy

You try takin' these kids away from me again--

Janet

I don't wanna take them again. You know this whole thing? I didn't get angry, I got sad. My whole head went back to when we first met... Our wedding, how funny you were, Colleen being born. Those Beatles songs that you used to sing to her to make her fall asleep. Those sweet little horse-clown pictures that you used to draw for Katy. (Janet starts crying) You know Tommy, I couldn't even move for almost a day, and then I couldn't stop crying. I need my kids. But at least three or four times a day when I had them Connor and Katy would look at me and ask where you were. "Is Daddy coming for the weekend?" "Is Daddy coming for Christmas." "Where's Daddy now?" "Is Daddy dead, you would tell us if Daddy died, right mom?" I was in a hospital for a couple of weeks. But I uh got some counseling. And I got back up on my feet. The thing is while I was there, I got my head straightened out enough that I got a little perspective. I think for the sake of the kids, and from what we used to be like, before Jimmy died. I think we oughta give it one last go.

Tommy

One last go? That's a hell of a way to jump start a relationship.

Janet

Until death do us part, right?

Tommy

Right.

Janet

Since when do you hate pulp?

Tommy

Ever since they started takin' the time to take the goddamn pulp out. Since then, okay?

Janet

Honey, I'm sorry. I didn't know you had a thing with the pulp.

Tommy

Yeah. I hate all pulp. I hate orange juice pulp. I hate that stupid British band named Pulp. Pulp Fiction. Quentin Tarantino, what's with that goddamn head by the way. Is that not the biggest head in the history of heads? He turns sideways it's like you're lookin' at a map of the New Jersey coastline. And Kill Bill what a piece of shit. And then there's a Kill Bill 2 what's that about? Jesus Christ.

Janet

Tommy, the kids.

Tommy

Kids, when you grow up don't see either one of the Kill Bill's they both suck, okay?

Janet

Colleen called her teacher a bitch and slapped one of her classmates, so they want her to see a counselor, I think it has to do with Connor and you not being around any more.

Tommy

You're right. It has nothing to do with the fact that you're sleeping with and living with her uncle.

I have a lot of cop friends back from when Johnny and I were married. I heard about the two of you. You've been a busy girl.

Janet

No busier than you.

Oh, you mean me and Tommy? That's such a big surprise for me, I mean he was never really my type. Then I bumped into him a coupla weeks--

Janet

You actually think that I believe this bullshit?

Oh, why? I'm not good enough for Tommy?

Oh, yeah I think it is.

Janet

Well, it's not. Look, we were never close, and frankly I never liked you.

Really?

Janet

Yeah. But then you did one thing that I could never do. You broke free. You got away from the neighborhood and all the petty family bullshit. You broke away and started a whole new life for yourself. And I respected you for that so much, but now here you are all dressed up, dead center in a pile of shit. Welcome home, Angie.

Oh, no I already got my welcome home when I made it with your husband. Don't worry about those frown lines, sweetie. Just keep smiling no one's gonna notice.

Janet

Why didn't you listen to me?

Tommy

When?

Janet

Six years ago when I asked you to spend more time with the kids, to spend more time at home, to spend more time with me. All you had to do was to listen to me! All that was required was that you hear the words!

Tommy

I heard the words, okay. I quit drinking, I quit my third job, I was home every Saturday.

Janet

No, you were always playing softball every Saturday during the summer. All winter you played hockey, all spring, all fall, and the only reason that you quit drinking was because Lou said to you that the chief said something to him---

Tommy

That wasn't the only reason.

Janet

--- not because of me! Not because of the kids! Goddammit, Tommy! [she grabs his coat and shakes him and starts hitting him] All you had to do was listen!

Tommy

[pinning her against the wall] Goddammit, stop! Are you gonna tell me that simply because I didn't listen well enough that you have ruined my life so far beyond what I could ever imagine? And that's why, because I didn't listen hard enough, and that's why, you're sucking my brother's cock?

Janet

Goddammit, Tommy, he was there when I needed someone I was scared shitless -- I just buried my only son.

Tommy

So did I.

Janet

And what did you need, Tommy?

Tommy

Ah, Goddammit! What did I need--

Janet

You know, I needed you! The old you. I needed someone to hold me in my bed at night when I cried. I needed someone to help me after I was done helping the girls wipe away their tears. But, the old you? He was gone. He's buried, with all of your lost brothers and you know what? You can tell all of your lost brothers to go to hell because we're here, and they're not.

Tommy

[coming up with a plan about the baby] Alright, so you know what we do, we pretend that we're together, and when the baby's born I'll help you raise it, and if it's a boy, grand slam because that solves my dad's problem with the male heir thing...

Janet

Okay, and what if the baby looks like Johnny? [Tommy scoffs] What?

Tommy

Like that's a possibility.

Janet

Uh, yeah.

Tommy

Both of Angie's kids look just like Angie, okay? Nothing like Johnny, okay? My sperm versus Johnny's sperm, are you kiddin' me?

Janet

Oh my gosh... okay.

Tommy

My sperm are like... they have ant strength, they can lift other sperm outta the way, okay?

Tommy

Colleen is smoking pot!

Janet

I know.

Tommy

You know? What do you mean 'you know'?

Janet

And it's good pot, not the cheap shit we used to get.

Tommy

Great, great. That's a great attitdude. You know, I told you years ago, that pot is a gateway drug--- So she comes home tonight, not only is she high, she's drunk. Drunk. Yeah, shitfaced. Puked. Yeah.

Janet

Was she driving?

Tommy

No, I think her 50 year old boyfriend was handling the driving responsiblities.

Janet

He's 26. And that's good, that's good.

Tommy

Why's that good?

Janet

Because he doesn't drink.

Tommy

Okay. I'm pretty sure she's bangin' this guy.

Janet

I know. She's on the pill.

Tommy

You put her on the pill? In-insane. Just totally-- ... You-- you got the whole toolbox goin' here, booze, penises, ... I-- I can't believe that I'm finally the moral compass in this family.