The Governor quotes from The Walking Dead

Welcome to Woodbury!

When I asked you where your loyalty was you said it was here. Well prove it. Prove it to us all. Brother against brother. The winner goes free. A fight, to the death!

[to Milton] I told you to kill her but you didn't. And now you're gonna turn and you're gonna tear away the flesh from her bones. In this life now you kill or you die. Or you die and you kill.

I remember the first smoke I ever had. Me and my brother huddled in the garage puffing on one of my dad's Lucky Strikes. He must have smelled the smoke, because he came barging in looking to beat up on us. But my brother got between us. Said he stole them. Wasn't true. It was me. But that was my brother. Hero. He got two black eyes and a broken rib for that. And I got beat anyway.

Go through the fences. Get in your cars, get your guns. We go in, kill them all!

Andrea

So what's your real name? If it's not asking too much.

I never tell.

Andrea

Never say never.

[beat] Never.

What happened tonight is horrible. We haven't have a day like that since the wall was built. I failed in my duty. I should say that we're going be OK, and we're safe we will bury our dead tomorrow and watch TV on the sofa. But I won't. Because I can't. Cause I'm afraid. I'm afraid that the terrorists want what we have! They want to destroy us! And worst. Because one of those terrorists is one of our own. Merle! The man I counted on! Man I trusted. He brought them here! He let them in. How could you! You lied! He betrayed us all! This is one of the terrorists huh. Merle's own brother! So what should we do with them, huh?

Kill them!!!

What? What do you want?

Kill them!!!

You wanted your brother. Now you got him.

I thought you were a cop, not a lawyer.

Rick Grimes

Either way, I don't pretend to be a governor.

Where should we go?

Where ever they let us. There's no use making a plan.

Who?

The roads. The biters.

[Holding up a pawn] What's this one called?

That's a pawn. They're your soldiers.

Do they die?

Sometimes.

Do you lose if they die?

[Glances in the bedroom] No, not necessarily. You can lose a lot of soldiers but still win the game.

That's the king. That's the guy you want to capture.

What're you doing?

You'll see.

Looks like you.

Yeah.

Come on, let's play. [Setting up chess pieces] See, these are pawns...

You can't think forever. Sooner or later, you've got to make a move.

You never let me win anyway.

Well, that wouldn't be winning. That's what my daddy used to say. He used to beat me at chess, too. Heck, he used to beat me at everything.

Was your dad mean?

Sometimes.

Were you bad?

Sometimes.

Man, what happened here? I mean, what the hell is going on in this cabin? Were they storing those biters?

They were his wife and kid, man.

No, they were biters. What about those heads?

Belonged to the guys who did the wrong thing to the wrong man.

Probably best not think too much about it.

Mitch Dolgen

Better listen to One Eye Bri, Pete. I can never tell if he's winking or blinking. But you know how to regulate. Don't you, Bri? He was always like this, Martinez?

Oh, yeah. Ice in the veins. You should have seen him back in the day.

Hershel Greene

If you understand what it's like to have a daughter, then how can you threaten to kill someone else's?

Because they aren't mine.

Rick! Come down here. We need to talk.

Rick Grimes

It's not up to me. There's a council now. They run this place.

Is Hershel on the council? What about Michonne? She on the council, too?

Rick Grimes

I don't make decisions anymore.

You're making the decisions today, Rick. Come down here. Let's have that talk.

Rick Grimes

[points to Tara] You. You in the ponytails. Is this what you want? Is this what any one of you want?

Mitch Dolgen

What we want is what you got. Period. Time for you to leave, asshole.

Rick Grimes

Look, I fought him before. And after, we took in his old friends. They've become leaders in what we have here. Now you put down your weapons, walk through those gates you're one of us. We let go of all of it, and nobody dies. Everyone who's alive right now. Everyone who's made it this far. We've all done the worst kinds of things just to stay alive. But we can still come back. We're not too far gone. We get to come back. I know we all can change.

[quietly] Liar.

Rick Grimes

NO! [draws his revolver & fires at the Governor]