Come on inside, little priest. To the right, little priest. Take the bride's path. This is Carcosa.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Do you wanna know what they did to me? What I will do to all the sons and daughters of man.
What are you doing here?
Nothin'. Nurse said I could come in.
Are you watching me sleep?
Well you know what, I just got here; I was gonna leave, but then you woke up - Jesus, what's your fuckin' problem?
Nothin', what's your problem?
Not a care in the world.
We didn't get 'em all.
Yeah, and we ain't gonna get 'em all. That ain't what kind of world it is. But we got ours.
I'm not supposed to be here.
Yeah... well, I'll come back by tomorrow, buddy.
Why?
Don't ever change, man.
There was a moment-- I know when I was under in the dark that something... whatever I'd been reduced to, you know, not even consciousness. It was a vague awareness in the dark, and I could-- I could feel my definitions fading. And beneath that... darkness, there was another kind. It was--it was deeper, warm, you know, like a substance. I could feel, man, and I knew, I knew my daughter waited for me there. So clear. I could feel her. [Voice trembling] I could feel... I could feel a piece of my--my pop, too. It was like I was a part of everything that I ever loved, and we were all... the 3 of us, just-- just fadin' out. And all I had to do was let go... and I did. I said, Darkness, yeah, yeah." And I disappeared. But I could-- I could still feel her love there, even more than before. Nothing... There was nothing but that love. [Sobbing] Then I woke up.
Once there was only dark. If you ask me, the light's winning.
Never do anything out of hunger. Not even eating.
EBEliot Bezzerides
I am not comfortable imposing my will on anyone and I haven't been since 1978.
ABAntigone "Ani" Bezzerides
Not even to stop them walking into a river.
EBEliot Bezzerides
Yes, not even then. And if your mother's flair for drama had been more present in her acting, she might have gone on to great things. [pause] These totems, they watch over departed spirits. I've always felt your mother among them.
ABAntigone "Ani" Bezzerides
You won't even own it a little.
EBEliot Bezzerides
She abandoned the two of you, I didn't. You should spend less time in a state of resistance making up problems for yourself.
ABAntigone "Ani" Bezzerides
What does that mean?
EBEliot Bezzerides
A failed marriage, a few relationships, you're angry at the entire world and men in particular out of a false sense of entitlement for something you never received. Your entire personality is an extended criticism of my values. Meant, I'm sure, to compel me into engagement through argument. Do you even like what you do? Or is it just a reflexive urge toward authority out of defiance?
ABAntigone "Ani" Bezzerides
Talk to your daughter, prick. Help her.
EBEliot Bezzerides
I just did.
I used - I used to want to be an astronaut. But astronauts don't even go to the moon anymore.
[Velcoro beats up the father of Aspen Conroy, a boy who bullies his son]
ACAspen Conroy
Stop!
Stop? Stop? I thought that got you off, kid, seeing people in pain. If you ever bully or hurt anybody again, I'll come back and butt-fuck your father with your mom's headless corpse on this goddamn lawn. Twelve years old, my ass. Fuck. You.
A good woman mitigates our baser tendencies.
How’d a water stain get there?
[Camera cuts up to two brown stains on the ceiling above Frank.]
It rained maybe twice this last year. It’s like everything’s papier-mache.
JSJordan Semyon
Stop thinking.
I don’t like being on a ledge.
JSJordan Semyon
Nobody gets rich on their own money.
I never really knew what to do with it. Money.
[Camera cuts to show the outside of Frank’s house.]
I see that about myself.
JSJordan Semyon
You always said you want lots of land.
Yes, but you need children to leave it to. It’s never really yours. You don’t take it with you.
JSJordan Semyon
You don’t take anything with you.
Just yourself. Whatever that was.
JSJordan Semyon
I’ve worked my whole life. Same as you. And not being poor is better than the opposite.
My old man back in Chicago, when I was a kid… [laughs] He used to lock me in the basement when he’d go on a bender. Usually last the night. Let me out the next day. Thought he was keeping me safe, I guess. This one time, I was six - he puts me down there. I wake up and it’s locked. It had happened before. Anyways, so I guess he ended up arrested, I guess.
JSJordan Semyon
God, baby.
Well, by the second morning I was out of food. The third day the light bulb burnt out. Pitch black in there. That’s when the rats started coming out. I dozed off and I felt a thing nibbling my finger. I woke up, it was, you know, chewing my finger.
JSJordan Semyon
What did you do?
I grabbed it in the dark with my hands, I started smashing. And I just kept smashing it until it was nothing but goo in my hands. Two more days I was in there. In the dark. 'Til my dad comes home.
JSJordan Semyon
Sometimes I wonder how many things you have like that. That I don’t know about.
Ever since, I wondered: what if he never comes home? What if I’m still in that basement in the dark? What if I died there? That’s what that reminds me of.
JSJordan Semyon
What?
The water stain. Something’s trying to tell me that it’s all paper-mache. Something’s telling me to wake up, like… like I’m not real. Like I’m only dreaming.
Sometimes, a good beating provokes personal growth.
Somebody was looking for something. Explains the torture.
ABAntigone "Ani" Bezzarides
Maybe. [glancing at Caspere's pornographic art] Guy thought about fucking a lot.
[about e-cigarettes] I tried one of those once. Felt like it was smoking me. Maybe it’s just a little too close to sucking a robot’s dick. I dunno.
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