Veronica Fisher quotes from Shameless

Veronica

Okay, here we go. Two beautiful girls ready to show their mommy off at school. Oh, I am so excited to be class parent. I need a break from the adults. Hey, how many voters did you register yesterday Three in five hours. So many good Black folks died from the virus or moving away. I'm starting to think we should give up and leave the South Side to the gentrifiers. Hey, those gentrifiers buy weed, the expensive stuff with the weird names. I had some hipster kid come in for an edible yesterday. He said that we're the up-and-coming... neighborhood, said we're the next Pilsen.

Kevin

Pilsen? The place where they do art walks?

Veronica

Yeah, and the fancy food trucks. The other kids are gonna be so jealous of you. You guys have the sexiest mama on the South Side. A- and the smartest. Damn right, the smartest. Girls, in 2021, we are ignoring the male gaze and focusing on our minds. It's where the energy needs to go.

Kevin

Well, this male gaze is gonna focus on you walking out that door. [Veronica turns head in recognition]

Kevin

Mm, don't you look beautiful!

Veronica

No, sir. You let Lip hide stolen motorcycles in Kev-Fit. You and I don't have anything to say to each other until this is over.

Kevin

It's only for a couple of days! Did you see that chopper? I've always wanted a chopper like that. I'd be ten times more fuckable in a chopper.

Veronica

If you get on that chopper, you're never gonna get... [ turns head in reference to daughters and says softly] ..fucked again.

Kevin

Brad's got a buyer in Indiana. Him and Lip are running two of them there today.

Veronica

Get rid of them. All of them.

Kevin

Yes, ma'am. Girls, you ready to go to school?

Veronica

[Following daughters] Where the hell are they going?

Kevin

Girls?

Veronica

Who's in there? [Walking to closet with Liam holding daughters breakfast plates] Liam?

Liam

Hi.

Kevin

Christ, Liam!

Veronica

What are you doing here?

Liam

Lip's selling the house.

Veronica

Lip's selling the house?

Kevin

What?

Liam

Everyone's moving on with their lives, and I'm gonna end up homeless. Can I live with you?

Kevin

You got this?

Veronica

Yeah, I got it.

Kevin

All right, cool. Girls, let's go.

Veronica

[Extends hand to Liam who takes it and gets up] Come on. I gotta go sign in voters. It's election day. But in the meantime, you and I are gonna talk about why young Black men can't go around breaking into people's houses. Come on.

Kevin

All right, my love, I let ya sleep in. I even turned a blind eye when you moved from the bed to the couch and slept some more. But now it's time to carpet denim.

Veronica

What?

Kevin

Carpet denim. It's Latin for wake up!

Veronica

Oh, I just wanna sleep. Please.

Kevin

You wanna talk about it?

Veronica

My mama's moving. She's abandoning us. What's there to talk about?

Kevin

Oh, we can go visit for holidays and stuff. Who doesn't wanna spend Christmas in Kentucky? V, if you don't get up, we're gonna be late opening the Alibi.

Veronica

Who cares?

Kevin

What about the girls? We gotta get them ready... you don't want me doing their hair, do you?

Veronica

Who cares?

Kevin

V, you're the one who always says that a white woman can take her daughter to school lookin' any old way, but if a Black woman does it, people start to question whether she's a fit mother...

Veronica

Go away!

Kevin

Is there anything I can do to get you up?

Veronica

Okay, fine.

Kevin

Oh.

Veronica

Heh, I'm up.

Kevin

Okay, great!

Veronica

[Heading upstairs] I'm goin' back upstairs and gettin' into bed. You keep botherin' me, I'ma stab your ass.

Frank

We’re not doing this, telling you what happened on Shameless last week anymore. We’re sick of it.

Lip

Yeah, we quit.

Debbie

It’s over.

Ian

Just not doin’ it.

Carl

It insults your intelligence.

Veronica

They don’t pay us enough.

Kevin

What, they pay you guys for this?

Frank

[They all turn heads to Kevin] Yeah. You don’t get paid?

Debbie

Are you kidding?

Ian

Of course.

Kevin

Well, fuck me! [They all snicker]

Mickey

[Ian pulse checks an unresponsive Frank on the couch] Is he dead?

Ian

Faint pulse. Hypoxic.

Kevin

High what?

Veronica

Barely breathing.

Debbie

What’s that smell?

Grampy went tinkle in his pants.

Debbie

Ugh, damn it. Not on the new couch.

Carl

[Walks up] Hey, what’s goin’ on?

Ian

Frank OD’d again.

Carl

How much heroin did he do?

Kevin

Wow.

Tami

Oh. And he’s not dead?

Lip

Yet another disadvantage to decades of copious narcotics use.

Debbie

Should we, like, call the paramedics or something?

Lip

No, he’s done this before a bunch of times.

Liam

He may be trying to kill himself. He’s been depressed. The dementia’s getting bad.

Veronica

Hand me that syringe. [Ian hands her one and she pricks Frank's hand]

Ugh!

Mickey

Sheesh.

Veronica

Unresponsive to pain.

Ian

Stroke?

Veronica

Or he’s already brain-dead. That happens with overdoses.

Mickey

I guess it’s up to us to finish him off. Quick so*t to the head, dump his body in the lake. I don’t think anybody’s gonna miss him. What? We’d just be helpin’ Mr. Fuckup finish the job.

You could pillow him. That’s what my dad did to my grandpa so we could sell his double-wide. Couldn’t afford his oxygen refills anymore.

Tami

Who is that?

Lip

Debbie’s got a new friend.

Hey, you check his pockets, see if he got any money on him?

Carl

Trust me, he doesn’t.