Mr. Burke? I know you can hear me. Since you are my very favorite new patient, I'll make you a deal. Be a good sport, come on out. I'll give you a present. The present is anesthesia for your surgery, Mr. Burke. I hope you understand that the sedative I gave you upstairs will render you unconscious any moment now. If you don't come out and surrender, I promise you won't roll into surgery right away. You'll wake up on the operating table, but you won't be able to move. And this is because of the monster dose of suxamethonium I'll have administered. The only movement you'll be capable of is blinking. The surgery will take hours, and you'll be awake, alive, and alert for every agonizing second. I know you can hear me, Mr. Burke, because I'm standing outside the room where you are hiding, hiding in a corner, hoping I'll walk blindly past.
Characters
Ethan BurkeMatt Dillon · 16 quotes
David PilcherToby Jones · 7 quotes
Arnold PopeTerrence Howard · 5 quotes
Kate HewsonCarla Gugino · 5 quotes
Nurse PamMelissa Leo · 5 quotes
Harold BallingerReed Diamond · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Ethan Burke & David Pilcher (4), Ethan Burke & Arnold Pope (3), Ethan Burke & Nurse Pam (3)
S1 E15Unfinished Business
You didn't make it too far, did you?
How do I get out of here?
You don't.
Do not try to leave. Do not discuss the past. Do not discuss your life before. Always answer the phone if it rings.
I hear you paid Patricia Evans a visit. Here the poor woman is grieving over her dead husband, and you go banging on her door like a drunken Bible salesman.
I didn't know Evans was married with a baby.
You think the baby did it, huh?
Maybe I can help you, hmm?
I thought you worked upstairs.
I go where I'm needed. Do you need me, Mr. Burke?
No.
Were you able to reach your wife? I know you really wanted to talk to her. Bet when you two get back together, you're gonna bang her brains out, huh?
The more you see, the less anything makes sense in this town. When I first woke up here, I was so disoriented that I believed them when they told me I lived here. I remember walking around in this fog with no competing memories. Eventually, they came back, and now I just keep my head down, I go to work, I go home. And I know this isn't my life. Didn't take me too long to realize that it was the fear that keeps everybody in line here.
As I've said many times before it is not just my job to keep this town safe. It's everybody's! We cannot tolerate people who don't play by the rules!
This isn't an ordinary town. You know that.
You are very right about that. This is no ordinary town. This is an extraordinary town.
Mr. Burke, see, you have one of two choices. You can either find your place and follow the rules, or you can keep searching to find what's behind door number three. I guarantee you, you and your family will be much safer if you follow the rules.
Just stay away from my family or I'm gonna kill you.
This is my town.
All right, boys. Let's not escalate.
[to Ethan] You think you want to know the truth, but you don't. It's worse than anything you could even imagine.
So what are your impressions of our little town so far?
Oh, I-I just love it here.
Yeah.
I think it's great the, uh, mountains, the pine trees, the look of fear in everyone's eyes.
So, how does everybody feel about the, uh, public executions?
Friends, neighbors, let's all raise a glass to our new Sheriff, Ethan Burke! I'm sure all our heads are spinning with how quickly he's risen in the ranks. Great power requires great responsibility. Someone who understands that those who break the law need to be punished swiftly and whenever necessary, severely to the fullest extent of our laws.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Pam. That was very, very kind. I just want to say that, uh, it's an honor to be of service. And I want everyone here tonight to know that as long as I'm Sheriff of Wayward Pines, I will do everything in my power to ensure that the evils of this town are brought to light and that the true criminals are brought to justice.
Perhaps the best things in this world require the biggest sacrifice.
"Before I built a wall, I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out." That's Robert Frost. Which is it? Is it keeping us in? Or something else out?
Why don't you tell me?
Most people want to leave when they first get here, just like you. But I didn't. It let me be someone new, you know, forget my past. Problem is, you can't forget forever. It'll catch up to you. It's caught up to me. There's only one way out. But this is the end for me.
Your mind is lashing out, Ethan. It doesn't want to accept the truth, but trust your own eyes, everything you've seen today. There's nothing for you out here. The world you know is gone. And our species has evolved into something less than human. All that is left of civilization, all that remains is Wayward Pines.
What do you want from me?
I want you to come with me. And I'll show you how, together, we can change things for the better. [screeching in distance] Or if you prefer, you can discover for yourself what is out here. It's your choice, Ethan.
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