Kevin Garvey quotes from The Leftovers

Kevin Garvey

Nobody's ready to feel better. Ready to fuckin' explode.

Kevin Garvey

[to the Guilty Remnant] Where's Patti? Get all your people together here in 5 minutes from all your fuckin' houses. I'll wait...It's just been made clear to me that it's officially open season on you people. Now, the ideal thing would be for you all to stay off the streets, but we all know that's not gonna happen, is it? Whistles. Keep these on you at all times. Use them. I got my people on extra patrols, and they're ready to respond. This doesn't have to happen again, but that's on you. No one understands whatever it is you believe in. They don't give a shit long as you leave them alone. But if you keep following people around, buying up their homes, painting everything white, breaking into their houses, they will retaliate. Any questions? I'll take them in writing. Thank you for your time.

This guy, this hippie with a red headband, walks right up to me and says, "Do you wanna talk to God?" So I said, "Fuck, yeah, I wanna talk to God." And he said, "Then you've gotta talk in God's tongue, mate." God's tongue, it turns out, is an experimental, high-end hallucinogen this guy brews in his basement. And I wake up two weeks later in a hotel room in Perth on the opposite fucking coast.

They are not our dogs.

Kevin Garvey

What?

You said they were our dogs. They're not. Not anymore.

Kevin Garvey

Am I awake?

Heh! Well, you are now, Chief.

Kevin Garvey

Is she OK?

Aimee

She's Jill.

Kevin Garvey

What does that mean?

Aimee

She doesn't really do OK.

Kevin Garvey

It's Meg, right? Do you still talk?

Meg Abbott

Yes.

Kevin Garvey

Where's Laurie?

Meg Abbott

I don't know.

Kevin Garvey

Is she OK?

Meg Abbott

I don't know.

Kevin Garvey

I'm the only person that gives a shit about you people, and you won't even tell me where my wife is?

Meg Abbott

She's not your wife anymore.

Patti Levin

Boy are you fucked.

Kevin Garvey

Tell me.

Patti Levin

You're wondering if I have a sense of debt to you for saving my life. Maybe, I'll change my mind about decimating yours?

Kevin Garvey

But you won't.

Patti Levin

No, I won't. Oh, it's a pickle- can't let me go, won't let me die. Oh what to do, Kevin, what to fucking do?

Kevin Garvey

What do you want?

Patti Levin

I want you to understand.

Kevin Garvey

Understand what?

Patti Levin

Ever think about the fourteenth? The fourteenth of October? The great vanishing, the Sudden Departure, the clusterfuck of the modern era. When's the last time you really thought about it?

Kevin Garvey

I don't.

Patti Levin

Me, I think about it every fuckin' waking moment. I mean come on, what else is there to think about?

Kevin Garvey

So you know where they went- what happened?

Patti Levin

It doesn't matter what happened! But the difference between you and me is that I accept that it did. And while you push it aside, while you ignore it, we strip ourselves of everything that distracts us from it. We strip away the colorful diversions that keep us from remembering. We strip away attachment, fear, and love, and hatred, and anger, until we are... erased. Until we are a blank slate. We are living reminders of what you try so desperately to forget. And we are ready. And we are waiting. Because it's not gonna' be long now.

Kevin Garvey

Now I know why you don't fuckin' talk. I've gotta' hand it to you Patti that is such an impressive line of fuckin' bullshit.

Patti Levin

Well Laurie obviously disagrees with you.

Kevin Garvey

Laurie didn't join you to become a living fucking reminder.

Patti Levin

Then why did she?

Kevin Garvey

Because I failed her.

Patti Levin

Oh, you think she came to us because of you? Because of what you did with your dirty dick? Yes, Kevin, there was a time when I told Laurie everything. And then there was a time when she told me everything. But she came to me because I could offer her something that you could not: purpose. That's all any of us want now, every single one of us. Not answers, not love- just a reason to exist. Something to live for. Something to die for.

Kevin Garvey

Did Gladys have a purpose?

Patti Levin

Ah, you remember her name!

Kevin Garvey

Of course I remember her fucking name.

Patti Levin

Well Kevin, that was the point! That woman was brutally murdered- death by a hundred stones- and now, she can't be forgotten.

Kevin Garvey

Did you murder her?

Patti Levin

[pause] She was okay with it. And when Laurie's time comes she will be okay with it too. And it's coming. So soon. And you are all ready, all you need is just a little push.

Kevin Garvey

You want me to kill you.

Patti Levin

Oh Kevin, you can't kill me, you don't have the fuckin' balls. I want you to commit. I want you to finish what you started. I want you to go all the way. I want you to say you understand.

Kevin Garvey

Understand what?

Patti Levin

What happened! What's happening. To me. To you. Oh vanity of Sleep, Hope, Dream, endless Desire, the Horses of Disaster plunge through the heavy clay: Beloved, let your eyes half close and your heart beat over my heart, and you hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest, And hiding their tossing manes, and tumultuous feet. Kevin? Kevin. Kevin Garvey. You don't have to hide from me.

Kevin Garvey

[stares a moment] You're going home. [kneels and starts cutting her loose] You're not gonna' tell anyone what I did to you. Because I'll fuckin' tell them. Lose my fuckin' job, so fuckin' be it. But I am not gonna' lose my mind listening to the words coming out of your fucking mouth. No, Patti. No. I don't understand you.

Patti Levin

[picks up a piece of broken glass as Kevin walks toward the door to leave] Kevin!

Patti Levin

You do understand.

Kevin Garvey

Oh Jesus! Oh God! [rushes to Patti and lowers her to the floor, removing the shard from her neck] What the fuck did you do? What the fuck did you do?

Patti Levin

You understand...

Kevin Garvey

I think something's fucking wrong with me.

I think you're right.

Kevin Garvey

Why isn't it enough?

Because every man rebels against the idea that 'this is fucking it.' Fights windmills, saves fucking damsels, all in search of greater purpose. [pause] You have no greater purpose. Because - 'it' - is enough... So cut the shit, K?

Well, I was in prison.

Kevin Garvey

Oh, yeah? Well, how long were you there for?

Six years, 119 days.

Erika Murphy

They think you're kidding.

Oh, sorry, no. I really was. Travis County Unit. Go ahead. Go ahead and ask.

What?

What I did. It's what everybody wants to know.

Nora Durst

Oh, that's none of our business.

Kevin Garvey

What'd you do?

Huh. Attempted murder.

Kevin Garvey

What happened?

Well, didn't try hard enough.

Kevin Garvey

We need to talk.

Nora Durst

Can we do this tomorrow?

Kevin Garvey

It's important.

Nora Durst

Yes, honey, I know it's important, but can we just...

Kevin Garvey

I need to talk to you now, Nora. Have you been noticing that I've been kind of losing my mind? What? I'm letting you handcuff me to the bed every night And we're acting like that's totally normal. I left the baby, I forgot the baby and you act like that's no big deal.

Nora Durst

You had your hands full. It happens.

Kevin Garvey

I'm seeing someone.

Nora Durst

What?

Kevin Garvey

Um, I've been seeing someone.

Nora Durst

Who?

Kevin Garvey

Patti Levin. She ran the Guilty Remnant in Mapleton.

Nora Durst

But she's dead.

Kevin Garvey

It started happening right after we found Lily, when you moved in. I thought she'd go away when we came here. She didn't.

Nora Durst

Are you seeing her right now?

Kevin Garvey

Yeah.

Nora Durst

Is she talking to you?

Kevin Garvey

Yeah.

Nora Durst

What's she saying?

Kevin Garvey

She's saying... she's saying I never should have told you about her. And that I just made a big mistake.

Truth is, along with our missing fuckin' savior we also appear to be short some apostles- our friend Matthew, conspicuously absent. Fortunately I will play the part of Peter.

[to John] You're already John. [to Michael] What about you kid, you wanna' be Simon? Bartholemew?

[groggily] Pass.

Ah, nah, we all have to be somebody. Somebody who was there at Christ's last huzzah.

So that would make me Mary Magdalene.

That would be Nora- also conspicuously absent. You, Doctor Garvey, are one apostle, and one apostle only: Thomas. Doubting Thomas.

Hmm.

When I first started hearing voices back in Mapleton, everyone around me told me I was fuckin' nuts. Everyone. Except you. You were the one person who believed me, who told me those voices were really there. Next thing I knew I was locked up in a fuckin' mental institution.

So you're wrong, Pop. I'm not Thomas, I'm Judas. Doubting is easy, because doubting costs you nothing. But Judas? He was surrounded by people going on and on about how special Jesus was, but he betrayed him anyway, because he was sure. He believed in something. And he acted on it.

And he killed himself.

Sweetie? [stroking Michael's shoulder]

[increasingly groggy] Judas collected his thirty pieces of silvers and then he hung himself...

You alright?

If he was so sure why'd he kill himself? [falling asleep]

Well, Michael, I was not aware of that part of the story. I have no idea why he killed himself... Did he leave a note?

Hey... [getting groggy] You... Hey? You alright?

He's fine. He's just sleeping.

[surveys the room, finally looking at the dog; smiles] I borrowed your pills.