Francis quotes from The Penguin

Don't you see, dear? What you did wasn't impulsive; it was instinctual. You shot that junkie pissant because you wanted to. Just like that. Oh, you're so close now, to having everything you ever wanted, everything you deserve. You wanna run? You wanna hide? No... This city is meant to be yours, sweetheart. What are you gonna do to get it?

If my sons are nothing, what am I?

I had enough to give, Oswald. I had enough to give all three of you. You didn't have to lead 'em down there, you didn't have to take 'em from me. They were my babies! My world! Your brothers! You're a disappointment. You're a waste of space. I wake up every goddamn day, sick that I'm your mother. She's right. She's fuckin' right. I should've let Rex kill you when I had the chance. [Francis breaks a beer bottle and stabs Oz in the abdomen with the shard.] You're the devil. You're the goddamn devil.

Oz

Shit, Ma, this is Vic--

Get out!

Oz

He's gonna help take care of you! Just in case I need to handle some thing while we're gone, alright?

Huh. "Vic".

Oz

Yeah.

What, is he a nurse?

Oz

Well, kinda.

Vic

No, I'm not a nu--

Oz

Well, he's got nurse-like qualities, alright?

This looks like the apartment I had with my boys. I hate it.

Vic

I used to live over there.

The East Side is cursed. It takes everything from you.

My boy, with such big dreams... Like your father.

Oz

Oh, no, Ma. I ain't like him. I can fix this. It's you and me under one roof now, like it used to be.

Are you trying to kill me?

Oz

No, Ma, I'm trying to protect you. It's better this way, when we're together.

Taking me back here, you're throwing it in my face. What I lost...

Oz

I lost 'em, too.

What kinda man can't take care of his own mother?

This thing I got, it's a goddamn dirty thief; it just keeps taking. I can't do numbers no more. I'm seeing things that ain't real. The boys, sometimes I see 'em. They look at me like, like I ain't theirs. It breaks my goddamn heart.

Oz

I know, ma.

I ain't gonna live like a goddamn vegetable! I just ain't gonna do it! You understand?

Oz

Yeah... No. What do you mean?

If my mind goes before my body's ready. I need you to help me. You gotta help me die.

Oz

Help you die? M- Jesus, ma, you ain't thinking straight!

For now, I am. I won't be one of those pathetic old broads droolin', shittin' themselves, starin' out at nothing, with no- no clue what's going on, knowing just enough to make it worse. If I lose my dignity, what else I got, huh?

'Kay, you wanna know about my boy, Oswald?

Sofia

Please.

He's always two steps ahead. All those years, driving you around, cleaning up after you and your family, he was watchin'. Studyin'. He knows this game better than you. You changed your name! So what? Okay, you think everything's different now. That don't change the game, sweetheart. Drugs is drugs. Crack, Bliss, dope, Drops... it's all the same shit. Same winners, same losers. So, you call yourself whatever the hell you want, but... when my Oswald puts a bullet in that pretty little skull of yours, I'll be tap-dancing on your grave like Ginger fuckin' Rodgers.

I can't do this alone no more. You have to promise me that you're gonna make something of yourself. That you'll get me every goddamn thing I deserve. Lord, I ain't gonna make it! I don't know how else I can live with this, Oswald! But you'll make me happy, 'cause I deserve a happy life! Don't I? Don't I, Oswald? Tell me!

Young Oz

Of course you do, Ma. You deserve the best life. And I'm gonna get it for ya. I promise. And I ain't gonna quit 'til I do.

Sofia

I just wanna know... was it worth it?

Fuck you.

Sofia

Did he give you everything that you wanted?

Fuck you!

Sofia

Did he fulfill his promise?

Oz

Ma! Ma!

Sofia

Or do you wish you would've let Rex take him for that ride? What did you lose by keeping him alive? I know what I lost. What he took from me. He deserves to know what he did to you. How you feel about him and how... how angry you are! Tell him. Tell him.