Something evil has taken root. Some disease. Some horrible, horrible strain. A pestilence that's overrunning the city. It's turning people into hungry vermin.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
What I find fascinating is how love is considered a gift, A blessing, with no acceptance to the fact that it also binds And chokes and strangles.
AEAugustin "Gus" Elizalde
What are you?
I am your salvation or your downfall. Your choice.
Ha! Ha! I think the Third Reich is in its death throes.
Very likely.
But suppose a new Reich rose from the ashes of this one, led by a new Führer, who's able to deliver everything Hitler promised and more.
I think that would be a very sad day for humanity.
Quite the opposite, my friend. It's what humanity craves: a strong leader, a visionary...
Visionary? Hitler is a megalomaniac who declared himself dictator.
Wrong! Hitler was elected democratically! He went before the Reichstag. He asked the elected representatives of the people to grant him extraordinary powers! And they did by an overwhelming majority!
Because they were terrified.
Yes! Terrified of democracy! They had lived through the chaos of the Weimar Republic: governments gridlocked by parties and bickering! They realized Plato was right: the republic can only be led by a philosopher king with the wisdom to look after the needs of the many.
Unless you are a Jew.
Ah You see? This is the problem. You take all of this too personally.
After the murder of my family, I suppose I do.
Oh, the nobility of the victim! I see. You comfort yourself with the fantasy that you're morally superior to me, but you're not. First day you arrived, I asked if anyone was a carpenter, and you eagerly threw up your hands! And from that day on, you've labored here, working on behalf of the Third Reich!
I had no choice!
Yes, you have! But you're afraid of the choice.
[to Setrakian] I give you another day of life, Jew, for services rendered.
You look like a bunch of looters to me.
We're from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Who are you?
I'm a looter.
Any reward for turning you in?
No, sorry.
Too bad for me. Very good for you.
I need the rules. What kills these things, aside from direct sunlight?
The brainstem must be destroyed or severed from the spinal cord.
So, beheading or rebar bashing.
JKJim Kent
Once I turn, I'm gonna go after them, right?
The ones you love, yes. The cruelest feature of this dark curse is that the bond that joins you in life, human love, is corrupted into the need to consume those closest to you.
How would you have handled it, hmm? Teach me something.
If someone was going to help him die, it should have been one of us. Someone who loved him.
Oh. But you weren't ready to do it.
I can't teach you how to be a human being. Eat your bologna.
Nikki, the girl I was with at the store, she, um, stole all my money. Every last penny that I had.
This is why I don't have roommates.
Yeah that, and 'cause you're 40.
Why did you call him a vampire?
Because that's what he turned into.
My dad didn't use that word.
He will. Trust me. There's power in naming things.
Mourn Matt's passing, then move on. Life will insist. You mustn't fail life.
FMr. Fitzwilliams
My employer is misguided.
Misguided is not the bloody word I would use.
FMr. Fitzwilliams
I don't agree with what he's doing, so I can hardly carry out an order to kill the people who are trying to make it right.
I'm sick of this Brooklyn-pride shit. Save it for somebody who cares.
You're used to having the last word, huh, Doc? How does it feel to know that a pawnbroker and a rat killer know more than you do, huh?
You've been waiting for this your whole life, haven't you? Congratulations on the vampire apocalypse.
The first will be last, the last shall be first, Doc.
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