Father Jack Landry quotes from V

Father Jack Landry

Under the right conditions and enough time gratitude can morph into worship -- or even worse: devotion.

Father Jack

If we wage war against the V's, if we strike preemptively, there is zero margin of error for us. Zero! Either we value life or we are the V's.

Erica

The Visitors, they traced the call.

Jack

How's that possible?

Erica

How is any of this possible? Dale was my partner, he was one of them. He's been my partner for 7 years, long before the ships showed up. Anyone could be a Visitor. Jack, go home. Jack, go home.

Jack

What?

Erica

Go home. Act normal. Pretend this never happened.

Jack

Wait, we can't just walk away from this.

Erica

We can't attack it head-on. It's too dangerous. I have to figure out what to do. Go home. Don't trust anyone. Anyone.

Jack

You're an FBI agent?

Erica

You're a friggin' priest?

Jack

I wanna be useful. I wanna be able to look people in the eye and say, "God loves you and everything's gonna be fine." How do I tell them that? I don't even know what to tell myself anymore.

Erica

I know how you feel.

Jack

Why are the V's doing it like this? Why the infiltration? Why the sleeper cells? Why don't they just annihilate us and get it over with?

Erica

Because they're smart and patient and whatever their plan is, they need us for something. And until we figure out what that is we have to fight them the same way they're fighting us: one step at a time.

Father Jack

I feel like something's changed inside me.

Erica

We're all changing. I just made a deal with the Devil. I broke every oath that I have sworn to protect. I don't know what I'm thinking.

Father Jack

You're thinking about protecting your son, the ones you love.

Erica

Sometimes you have to lie to people to protect them.

Father Jack

Am I talking to the FBI Agent or the mother?

Father Jack

Until we know for a fact he's not who he says he is, we treat him with decency.

Kyle

Human decency's a privilege, father. He's lost his. And, when we prove to you that he's lying, you're gonna lose yours, too.

Father Jack

I won't ever forget what one life is worth. If we're gonna win this war, we can't go off the rails. We can't lose sight of who we are.

Erica

Jack is right. We can never be like them.

Ryan

Anna's lying. They're never leaving.

Jack

Then why make the announcement?

Hobbes

Oh, it's theater. The boo-hoo, the attack on the princess. She's putting on a show.

Ryan

Hobbes is right. Anna could've healed Lisa's wounds, but instead she left them for the world to see.

Erica

Question is, why? What is her interest in you and Parker?

Hobbes

I don't know.

Erica

Well, we need to find out. Joshua said that Anna is the one who beat Lisa. Slashed her face. She broke her legs.

Jack

Wait, Anna did that?

Erica

Yes.

Jack

How could she do that to her own daughter?

Ryan

Because she's not human. She's a Visitor. There's nothing that she won't do to get what she wants.

Val has changed me. She allowed me to see the beauty in humanity. It was her love that enabled me to fight off Anna's bliss. But without her, I just don't think I can do it anymore.

Father Jack

None of us knows if we can. But with faith we can and, with faith, we do. That's all you can do, Ryan. That's all any of us can do.

Jack

Look, Ryan, I know that...Val's funeral was this morning, and I get that anger is easier than grief. So you can get all pissed off at what we're dealing with and go after them. We can do that, and we will. But you can't carry all this into that fight.

Ryan

Yeah? How come I can't?

Jack

Because if you shut it out, you'll lose sight of what you're really fighting for.

Erica

As much as I would love to take Anna out, I can't agree to this.

Kyle

Erica, we can end this war in one swift blow. This is our shot.

Father Jack Landry

Yeah, and how many innocents go with her?

Erica

Don't do this, Ryan. Don't put me in a position tonight where I have to make a choice. Because if I have to... I will take you down

Kyle

I thought you were done with the priest routine.

Jack

Well, it doesn't work like that. Wherever I walk, He walks.

Kyle

Try to keep Him contained to your corner, all right?

Jack

Why, you afraid of what He's gonna find in yours?

Hobbes

I'm surprised you didn't bring a hatbox.

Jack

Don't worry I won't crowd your closet space. I'll leave plenty of room for all your cool black T-shirts.