Rectify

Ted Talbot Jr.:
[reading to Lezley] "Love may be of the seen and of the unseen, of the present, of the absent. Consequently, a thing to be loved is not so adapted to faith, as a thing to be hoped for, since hope is always of the absent and the unseen.

Lezley:
You socialize, like, at night? After dark?

Daniel Holden:
In theory.

Lezley:
Well, in theory, I'm having a party tonight. My address is on the card. So, if you're intrigued by the wild, weird, and wonderful... Okay, can't guarantee the "wonderful." But the others... [chuckles] Oh, good Lord God. Anyway, you'd be more than welcome.

Daniel Holden:
Why would you invite me to your home?

Lezley:
You want me to be honest?

Daniel Holden:
I would, yes.

Lezley:
You're about the loneliest person I've ever seen. And if you come to one of my parties, son, you may still be lonely, but you will not be alone. Or sober, if you so choose. Name's Lezley, with a "Z."

Daniel Holden:
Daniel. With a "D."

Lezley:
Okay, Daniel with a "D."

Daniel Holden:
Young man knows more than he lets on. What else do you know, Jared?

Jared Talbot:
I don't know.

Daniel Holden:
You don't know what else you know?

Jared Talbot:
No.

Daniel Holden:
It's a family disease. How did Gaines die?

Amantha Holden:
Regret or cancer. I forget.

Janet Talbot:
[finding him in the garage] Hard to believe we used to park cars in here.

Daniel Holden:
Yes, we are what we don't throw away.

Janet Talbot:
You won't ever speak to him again the way you spoke to him this morning. I won't allow it.

Ted Talbot Sr.:
You won't allow it?

Janet Talbot:
He won't be treated like that in his own home.

Ted Talbot Sr.:
Which is my home, too.

Janet Talbot:
It was his first.

Lionel:
"Occupy Movement," pinpoint its failure.

Daniel Holden:
Occupy what?

Lionel:
Exactly. All I know is revolution ain't never been fomented by poor people sitting on their ass in tents.

Daniel Holden:
Uh, the Russian Revolution was started by peasants.

Lionel:
Peasants, huh?

Daniel Holden:
I don't know if they lived in tents, though.

Lionel:
Tolstoy here talking about the Russian revolution like he was there.

Lionel:
Look, any man reads a newspaper knows Dan with a "D" Holden's overdue a little excess - a little indulgence of the senses. Some late-night, low-light intermingling and inter-tangling.

Daniel Holden:
I hope you're suggesting girls.

Lionel:
Half of which at this party want to sleep with you. The other half are afraid of you, and half of them still want to sleep with you. It ain't even about luck at this point.

Daniel Holden:
And that's how you reach enlightenment?

Lionel:
Who gives a sh*t? Come on, buddy. It's time to join the human race, in all its permutations.

Daniel Holden:
What's your game, Lezley?

Lionel:
You already know what to do, Daniel. Just got to remember it. Take in everything, Dan. Everything.

Kerwin Whitman:
Of Human Bondage? You want me to read a book called "Of Human Bondage"?

Daniel Holden:
It's not that kind of bondage.

Kerwin Whitman:
Hey, will I be glad when you get past your dead white men writing about lily white Europe stage?

Daniel Holden:
I am on kind of a jag.

Kerwin Whitman:
I'll give your dead Somerset Maugham a shot when you're done, but if it don't grab me early, I'm setting it down.

Daniel Holden:
No rules for a club that's not a club.

Senator Roland Foulkes:
This is messed up as a pile of hangers.

Kerwin Whitman:
I can't do time the way you do it.

Daniel Holden:
I don't do time.

Kerwin Whitman:
That's what I'm talking about. I can't do time by not doing time the way you do time.

Daniel Holden:
I can't quite get a handle on the concept of time yet. There have been moments here today where I feel like I've only been gone a few weeks, and I'm still in high school. But mostly it seems like I was always there. So you may have to tell me, Mother.

Janet Talbot:
Tell you?

Daniel Holden:
When it's time for me to leave.

Jon Stern:
If you don't get here soon, I may have to recruit some people in the crowd to play the family.

Amantha:
At least pick ones who are glad he's still alive.

Amantha:
I just wanted it to be special for you, honey.

Daniel Holden:
I would say you succeeded.

Daniel Holden:
Thank you, Amantha. For everything.

Amantha:
You're quite welcome, brother. Anytime.

Daniel Holden:
We're lost, aren't we?

Amantha:
Totally.

Daniel Holden:
I'm not sure what to make of this drastic change of course in my life. I'm certainly not against it.

Daniel Holden:
I had convinced myself that kind of optimism served no useful purpose in the world where I existed. Obviously, this radical belief system was flawed and was, ironically, a kind of fantasy itself.

Daniel Holden:
At the least I feel that those specific coping skills were best suited to the life there, behind me. I doubt there will serve me so well for the life in front of me, so I will seriously need to reconsider my world view.

Daniel Holden:
[commenting on gallows humor] We call it lethal injection humor - more humane, but not as funny.

Jon Stern:
Post-traumatic Ted syndrome.

Jared:
Well, you can go a lot of ways, but one of my favorites is called "Dazed and Confused".

Daniel Holden:
I like the title.

Amantha:
Can I at least flip him the bird?

Jon Stern:
No.

[first lines]

Amantha Holden:
You do windows now?

Daniel Holden:
Side effect of the coma.

Amantha Holden:
Doctor didn't mention that as a possibility.

Daniel Holden:
[grunts] It's rare.

Amantha Holden:
[voice breaking] I thought we were gonna lose you.

Daniel Holden:
No crying, sister.

Amantha Holden:
Sorry.

Daniel Holden:
Emotion is for losers.

Daniel Holden:
[sitting in the car] It's mostly buttons and knobs now, there's no... everything's rounder.

Janet Talbot:
Hmm. I never really thought about it before, but I think you're right.

Daniel Holden:
More curves, less angles.

Daniel Holden:
[about Daniel] That boy sees a pile of sh*t on the ground, he's gonna make every damn effort to step in it!

Dotty:
[taking breakfast order] Over easy?

Jon Stern:
I don't think that would travel too well.

Dotty:
Where you headed?

Jon Stern:
Death row.

Dotty:
[speechless]

Jon Stern:
Kidding.

Amantha Holden:
This is not a game, Daniel!

Daniel Holden:
Isn't it? You're too sure about things, Amantha.

Jon Stern:
Sorry everything's cold, it takes a while to get it through all of the protocol.

Hollis:
Strip-searched my hash browns, huh? Bunch of animals.

Ted Talbot Jr.:
Why does everything got to be so goddamn polite in this relationship?

Tawney Talbot:
Do you want me to start talking like you, Teddy? That make you happy?

Peggy:
[joining him in front of a painting] What do you think?

Daniel Holden:
What do I think? Well, I think I have looked at this painting for so long in a in a book that somehow my brain has trivialized it. And, uh, now as I stand here in front of the real thing, I feel, if anything, disappointment.

Peggy:
Oh, that's too bad.

Daniel Holden:
Well, not at the painting itself. More at my brain, I guess.

Peggy:
I think the brain's afraid of being in a state of constant wonder. It's for safety reasons or something.

Daniel Holden:
I suppose it's inevitable.

Peggy:
Usually by the time we're four.

Daniel Holden:
Then there's the the issue of great expectations.

Peggy:
Something the brain doesn't seem the least bit interested in protecting us from.

Daniel Holden:
[chuckles] No.

Peggy:
Well, I think we should reinstate wonder, banish expectation.

Daniel Holden:
I concur.

Florine:
Donald, are you in A.A.?

Daniel Holden:
Uh, no.

Florine:
Well, thank God. We've lost so many to them.

Florine:
Why on earth would you memorize Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the brain"?

Peggy:
It's a short story, Florine.

Florine:
I don't care if it was a haiku. It was sad enough to read. It'd be torture to memorize.

Daniel Holden:
No, it was it was calming, actually.

Florine:
Okay. More please.

Daniel Holden:
I don't know why, exactly. Well, it was it was during a period of my life where I was having some difficulties dealing with the passage of time, in a traditional sense. And since Mr. Wolff's short story deals partly with the bending of time, well, in memorizing it, or in taking the action of memorizing it, I too was able to bend time, in a way. Or at least... experience... it differently.

Peggy:
Nicely defended, Donald.

Daniel Holden:
Mrs. Whitman?

Mrs. Whitman:
Yes, Daniel.

Daniel Holden:
Thank you for, um well, for Kerwin. He was a good person, and he was my friend. I miss him every day.

Ted Talbot Jr.:
He may have patted them down some to keep them in place, but this felt more like some kind of symbolic thing, all right? Not like he was trying to shove a pound of grounds up my b-hole! I mean, it's all in hindsight, Carl.

Sheriff Carl Daggett:
[stifling a grin]

Ted Talbot Jr.:
Really?

Daniel Holden:
It's the beauty, not the ugly, that hurts the most.

[first lines]

The Stranger:
Hey, I know you. So, where you headed?

Daniel Holden:
I don't know. I'm not sure.

The Stranger:
Not all who wander are lost. Yeah. If you get things figured out, you reckon you could help me with a little chore?

Daniel Holden:
I don't mind.

The Stranger:
Can-do attitude...

Kerwin Whitman:
It's weird, isn't it?

Daniel Holden:
What is?

Kerwin Whitman:
That I know exactly when I gonna die.

Daniel Holden:
It's very sad, Kerwin.

Kerwin Whitman:
It has it's pluses. You can grieve your own death.

The Stranger:
It's the beauty that hurts you most, son, not the ugly.

The Stranger:
This is your trip, but you're about to pull a 360.

Ted Sr.:
He came by here. He looked kind of pitiful too.

Ted Jr.:
Yeah, he's got that look down.

Ted Jr.:
So all your sins are forgiven now, huh? That must be load off.

Ted Jr.:
I don't buy your lost soul act for a minute. You don't want to get right with God, you want to get right with my wife. Right in bed with her.

Daniel Holden:
Hey, are you real?

The Stranger:
Am I real? [big belly laugh] I want some of what you're takin'. [drives away]

Ted Jr.:
So you did the deed huh?

Daniel Holden:
I did.

Ted Jr.:
How was it?

Daniel Holden:
Fantastical...

The Stranger:
[after evenly-matched wrestling with Daniel] He's skinny, but he's furkid.

Daniel Holden:
You remember when you where a kid, and you came back to that place you were years later, and everything seemed so small?

Ted Sr.:
Yeah.

Daniel Holden:
It seems bigger now.

Amantha Holden:
So what do we do, call the men in white coats? Are there still men in white coats?

Janet Talbot:
I hope not.

Amantha Holden:
What about the men in white hats?

Janet Talbot:
They never existed.

Amantha Holden:
Deep down you're darker than I am, mother. Admit it.

Janet Talbot:
I don't think I want to do that, Amantha.

Amantha Holden:
Well, I guess we just wait then.

Janet Talbot:
I think so. He'll be...

Amantha Holden:
Up.

Janet Talbot:
I'm gonna start finishing my own sentences.

Amantha Holden:
Please mother, don't take away one of my few pleasures.

Daniel Holden:
It shocked me to find you here. You know, just not used to contemplating all the variables one might encounter. I mean, there were variables inside, but it wasn't like out here, where it's... you know, if you don't have the years of experiences, if there isn't the repetition of everyday living to make things mundane, because mundane is calming and soothing, mundane isn't out of the ordinary. And when everything is out of the ordinary, it can be too much sometimes, you know? Like finding you behind this door, when I didn't even consider there could be somebody else behind this door but my sister. Your mind puts it together, of course, but even just the door opening is still very unreal.

Daniel Holden:
You're elusive, Chet.

Chet:
That's an under-appreciated skill.

Daniel Holden:
So it can be developed?

Chet:
I think so. Probably helps to have a little bit of a knack for it first.

Chet:
I just like to have something to balance out the farce, you know?

Daniel Holden:
I think farcing may be sadder.

Chet:
God, you're right, it's all sad.

Daniel Holden:
And farcical.

Kerwin Whitman:
Look at me. Look at me, brother.

Kerwin Whitman:
I know you didn't do it.

Daniel Holden:
How do you know?

Kerwin Whitman:
Because I know you. Because I know you. Because I know you.

Daniel Holden:
We're a leaky family.

Chet:
My friends think I'm a "sadaholic".

Daniel Holden:
Don't get help.

[first lines]

Detective:
[old interview video] What did you do after you strangled her?

Daniel Holden:
I went and got some flowers.

Detective:
Some flowers.

Daniel Holden:
Wild flowers. Jacob's Ladder.

Detective:
Come again?

Daniel Holden:
It's a wildflower.

Janet Talbot:
Did you jump the gun?

Amantha Holden:
Don't I always?

Janet Talbot:
No. You usually face the gun, Amantha. You always have, ever since you were a child.

Jon Stern:
You doing okay? With things?

Daniel Holden:
I don't think so, Jon. I don't think so.

Jon Stern:
That's not... that's normal.

Daniel Holden:
What is?

Jon Stern:
Not doing okay - considering everything.

Daniel Holden:
I'm going away for a while, to get better. Or different.

Charlie the Chaplain:
Beauty will redeem the world.

Janet Talbot:
[as we walks into the house] I almost called the sheriff. I really didn't want to do that. I know you're not a teenager, Daniel, but but you're also not...

Daniel Holden:
...normal.

Daniel Holden:
[eulogizing Rutherford] Occasionally I would see Mr. Gaines, away from the crowd. Catch his eye and understand just how difficult it is for two people to come together in the face of such intoxicating lunacy.

Darla:
[to Amantha] First your brother shows up at Mr. Gaines' funeral rambling about God knows what, and now here you are acting like... I know you have to live your life. I understand that. I know it's not your fault, the position you're in. But could you go do it somewhere else, please? So that we don't have to think about Hanna and what happened to her that night?

Jon Stern:
How old were you then? Five? Eight?

Amantha Holden:
Jon, please.

Jon Stern:
No. Really.

Darla:
I was old enough.

Jon Stern:
Old enough? For what? To listen to what your parents told you and believe it because they said it was true? Afraid to think for yourself. Scared to look at all the facts. And for what? So you'd never have to admit to yourself that you might be wrong? Could you go do that somewhere else? Please.

Daniel Holden:
I don't know what to do.

Lezley:
That's 'cause you're stuck, Daniel. Surprised you ain't dead.

Daniel Holden:
You're full of sh*t, Lezley.

Lezley:
At least I'm okay with it. You okay with what you are?

Lezley:
I believe forces brought you out to my establishment in search of a stove for your mama's birthday. Same forces will tell you where to go next - if you listen.

Daniel Holden:
Sometimes it's hard to hear.

Lezley:
Yeah. Well, we usually hear better when we're in pain. But, damn, if you ain't got a high threshold. See you around the fringes, buddy...

Charlie the Chaplain:
[about hospice patients] I play music for them. Sometimes that's all I do. Words can pale in comparison.

Daniel Holden:
Yours sure do.

Charlie the Chaplain:
[chuckles]

[last lines]

Woman's Voice:
[night time as he sits on the river's bank] Daniel. Daniel. Daniel?

Judy Dean:
[into TV camera] Why ain't you dead, Daniel Holden? Why ain't you dead?

Senator Roland Foulkes:
How are the biscuits today?

Jon Stern:
Good. Biscuits are good.

Senator Roland Foulkes:
That woman sure knows how to make the dough rise, don't she?

Rutherford Gaines:
Humans don't change that much in fifty years. Or a hundred. Or a thousand. It's the laws that change, the rules of civilization. We just repeat ourselves, everyone with a part to play.

Rutherford Gaines:
Just don't let all this technology wow you, son.

Jon Stern:
How's that?

Rutherford Gaines:
If you think we're in modern times... watch yourself.

Daniel Holden:
I didn't really understand the allegory back then. I will say this mother.

Janet Talbot:
Yes?

Daniel Holden:
Plato was onto something.

Janet Talbot:
He was considered fairly astute.

Kerwin Whitman:
You the most reluctant innocent man I ever seen.

Tawney Talbot:
Was there a church in prison?

Daniel Holden:
There was, but I was only ever allowed visits by the chaplain.

Tawney Talbot:
So you would meet with him?

Daniel Holden:
I would have met with the executioner had he stopped by.

Tawney Talbot:
Did you ever talk about where you think you'll go when you die.

Daniel Holden:
It was kind of expected in the setting.

Daniel Holden:
That it wasn't worth pondering.

Tawney Talbot:
But of course it is! That's what makes us human.

Daniel Holden:
I think what makes us human is the ability to choose to ponder or not to ponder.

Daniel Holden:
Finding peace in the not knowing seems strangely more righteous than the peace that comes from knowing.

Tawney Talbot:
I can see and feel God in all things.

Daniel Holden:
Like Thomas Aquinas.

Tawney Talbot:
I don't know much about him.

Daniel Holden:
He felt that God revealed himself in nature.

Tawney Talbot:
Yes, yes, that's what I feel, in a sense.

Daniel Holden:
He believed that supernatural revelation is faith, and natural revelation is reason, and the two are not contradictory, but complementary.

Tawney Talbot:
You're different from how I thought you'd be.

Daniel Holden:
Different how?

Tawney Talbot:
I don't know. You're above things, like you're pure.

Daniel Holden:
Far from that.

Daniel Holden:
It does something to you, not to be touched in any positive way for so long. You begin to vacillate between being repelled by touch, and seeking it out in any form, even the most negative.

Tawney Talbot:
I'm so sorry.

Daniel Holden:
Out here, you... you're the only touch that soothed me.

Daniel Holden:
[in awe of the huge yarn selection at the box store] I think it's time.

Janet Talbot:
Time?

Daniel Holden:
Time we got into yarn.

Janet Talbot:
[playing along] Oh my, oh yes! I just hope we're not too late.

Daniel Holden:
Late?

Janet Talbot:
The yarn bubble.

Daniel Holden:
Well, we can always fall back on flip flops.

Pastor Beau:
We just think the world of Tawney here. Of course, we just kind of put up with Teddy, you know?

Daniel Holden:
I understand.

Tawney Talbot:
Could you ever accept Christ into your heart?

Daniel Holden:
I don't think Buddha would mind making room, or Confucius. Nietzsche might grumble.

Daniel Holden:
[to Tawney] You're my Beatrice.

Jared Talbot:
Why is efficiency considered showing off in the modern world?

Kerwin Whitman:
What do you say to a little girl who you... What do you say?

Daniel Holden:
Maybe you just let her know who you are now, Kerwin. Who you've become.

Kerwin Whitman:
That's the thing, dude, it's getting hard to remember who I am.

Tawney Talbot:
How is he?

Amantha Holden:
Not good. Thanks for asking...

Tawney Talbot:
Is there anything I can do?

Amantha Holden:
You wouldn't be a brain surgeon by any chance?

Senator Roland Foulkes:
Ah, that's what makes life so interesting and confounding.

Sheriff Carl Daggett:
What's that?

Senator Roland Foulkes:
Variables, Sheriff. Variables.

[last lines]

Kerwin Whitman:
You can come here anytime you want?

Daniel Holden:
In theory, yeah.

Kerwin Whitman:
All I'm sayin'. [indicating the beauty surrounding]

Daniel Holden:
Yeah.

Kerwin Whitman:
All I'm sayin', D. [walking into the woods] All I'm sayin'. All I'm sayin'...

Tawney Talbot:
Personally, I like the fall a lot, but I also... I love it when it rains on a hot summer day, even though that's technically not a season.

Daniel Holden:
What is it that you love about rain on a hot summer's day?

Tawney Talbot:
Hum. Calms me down... makes the plants happy. And the thunder, I love the thunder. It makes me think of God, but not in a bad way.

Daniel Holden:
I'm just so aware that most of what I draw on from inside my head are things I've read about. My real life experiences are actually rather narrow. I don't think about the seasons, not for the longest time, anyway.

Tawney Talbot:
I'm sorry.

Daniel Holden:
I don't mean to sound pitiful.

Tawney Talbot:
Oh no, you don't, not really.

Daniel Holden:
I don't feel that way, sorry for myself. I do feel I am being received sometimes that way, by others. And I know I have a part in that somehow, I just don't have it figured out yet.

Tawney Talbot:
That will probably take some time, figuring things out.

Daniel Holden:
The place where I was had no windows, just these thick walls surrounded by more thick walls. So I never knew if it was raining or even heard the loudest thunder.

Tawney Talbot:
That's so sad.

Daniel Holden:
It's not as bad as it sounds because I didn't sense things in a normal way, I didn't miss them. If I couldn't sense them, they weren't real to me.

Tawney Talbot:
What was real to you, Daniel?

Daniel Holden:
The time in between the seconds. And my books. And my friend.

Daniel Holden:
Now that I'm here in this world where everything's marked by hours or dates or events, I find myself in a state of constant anticipation. What it is I'm anticipating, I'm not always sure, nor is it necessarily a pleasant feeling. But in the case of the inevitable rain and thunder which I am sure to experience, thanks to you Tawney, I am very much looking forward to that.

Tawney Talbot:
It will be glorious, Daniel. You won't be disappointed.

Amantha:
There are people around here, Mom, who want to see Daniel dead, people who would do it themselves if they thought they could get away with it.

Ted Jr.:
So my buddies said you could have conjugal visits on death row. I told them it was all BS, more like an urban legend.

Daniel Holden:
There are no conjugal visits.

Ted Jr.:
I knew it! You couldn't even touch another person, right?

Daniel Holden:
No touching.

Daniel Holden:
Maybe it was when they first saw something akin to optimism on your face, or a bit of peace, or just that moment when you begin to believe that you could survive it in some paradoxical way. I don't know why they did it. Justification is a slippery slope, Ted.

Daniel Holden:
[referring to a bottle of Smart Water] Does this work?

Mr. Patel:
Not miracles, I would think.

Jon Stern:
We were hoping he could be a little more...

Amantha:
Normal?

Jon Stern:
Less esoteric.

Amantha:
Well, we have a unique situation, so by definition...

Amantha:
Does a girl have to come out and say "hold me"?

Marcy:
Guess who came in for lunch today.

Senator Roland Foulkes:
I don't know Marcy, the ghost of Strom Thurmond?

Marcy:
No, that was last week.

Ted Jr.:
I don't want to pray about everything, Tawney, especially not about him and his sh*t!

Jon Stern:
Didn't we just eat?

Amantha:
That was 2 hours ago which around here is like 8 hours in dog years.

Ted Jr.:
What was you and Starman talking about?

Tawney Talbot:
You keep saying he's weird, but I don't see him that way really.

Ted Jr.:
Oh, he's weird.

Daniel Holden:
Word gets back before you do. Decent guys on the row won't look at you now, they're too embarrassed for you. Then there are the ones who when you pass by their cells they look at you with the basest form of curiosity, Ted, like you are some freak show and they want to get all their money's worth because more than anything, they're aroused by another's shame. You know? And there is a very special group on the row, who look at you with this look like... how can I describe it for you Ted so you can really understand it. It's like they pull you into their cell and not just do things to you, but literally consume you. Take your breath. Eat your heart. And sh*t you out like you were nothing. [pause] I'm sorry. I'm sure that was more than you were... But it is difficult to gauge things in this world. Like you, I suppose, hard to know where the lines are.

Amantha:
God, I hate this town.

[first lines]

Daniel Holden:
[reading from pamphlet] Proper prisoner behavior consists fundamentally of the following: Freedom from self-injury. Absence of unhygienic acts. Significant decrease in problematic behaviors.Motivation to change. Absence of destructive behaviors.

Janet Talbot:
[in hospital] Everybody's been so nice here.

Amantha Holden:
It's because we're not in Paulie, mother. You'll notice a difference in tone sometimes when people don't wish you were dead.

Daniel Holden:
Why did you want me to get saved, Tawney?

Tawney Talbot:
'Cause I wanted you to have salvation. I wanted you to know peace, I still want that for you.

Daniel Holden:
And do you know peace, Tawney?

Tawney Talbot:
Sometimes.

Daniel Holden:
And you think that peace comes from God?

Tawney Talbot:
I know it doesn't come from ourselves.

Daniel Holden:
Do you believe that, or do you have to believe that, because otherwise life would be intolerable for you?

Tawney Talbot:
I believe that because it's true.

Daniel Holden:
Or is it true because you believe it?

Tawney Talbot:
Yes, both I guess.

Daniel Holden:
So if I believe there is no God, then there is no God.

Tawney Talbot:
It's not the same thing.

Daniel Holden:
Why not?

Tawney Talbot:
'Cause you're just lost, Daniel.

Daniel Holden:
Something we can agree upon.

Alice Willis:
Where did you go last night, daddy?

Trey Willis:
Oh, come here. [picks her up] You want to get married someday, Alice?

Alice Willis:
I do.

Trey Willis:
Then never ask a man where he's been.

Tawney Talbot:
I can't remember the last time I used a pay phone. The last time I saw one, even.

Daniel Holden:
They're hard to find. But it felt good to use a telephone that wasn't smarter than me.

Jon Stern:
Maybe Daniel will just fire me.

Amantha Holden:
He won't fire you. You're free.

Jon Stern:
Well, at least he's getting his money's worth.

Daniel Holden:
You're afraid, Wendall.

Wendall Jelks:
Sh*t, boy. I ain't scared of nothing.

Daniel Holden:
I've never realized it 'til just now.

Wendall Jelks:
What am I afraid of?

Daniel Holden:
Silence.

Wendall Jelks:
Just 'cause a man likes to talk don't mean he's afraid.

Daniel Holden:
Ah, there's more than one kind of silence. In the real world you can live in denial, but not in here, not with your death on the docket. How long you got left, Wendall? I bet you already know. I bet you're counting the days. And I bet you're terrified.

Wendall Jelks:
Do you think you're above it, Holden? Hmm? We ain't that different, you and me. Two sides of the same coin.

Daniel Holden:
We're not even the same currency.

Ted Talbot Jr.:
You hardly touched your beer.

Jared Talbot:
Yeah. I don't really like the taste, to be honest.

Ted Talbot Jr.:
First you hate it, then you love it. It's called beer.

Daniel Holden:
I hurt him. Humiliated him. Something I learned in prison. Something to make a man feel powerless. It wasn't rape, but it was violent. And...

Tawney Talbot:
...and what?

Daniel Holden:
Unhinged.

Daniel Holden:
[in prison visiting room] How's the gas company?

Amantha Holden:
They promoted me.

Daniel Holden:
They did?

Amantha Holden:
Senior customer-service specialist. Got my own cubicle and everything.

Daniel Holden:
Just like me.

Amantha Holden:
[big laugh]

Amantha Holden:
I didn't just want to get you out, Daniel. I wanted to clear your name. Our name. And you can say that people are gonna think what they're gonna think, but there is a difference. There is a difference.

Daniel Holden:
Then change your name, Amantha.

[first lines]

Dr. Cassidy:
The body has its own wisdom. There's a logic to how it works. It's important for you to know it's nothing you did. Up to 25% of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. It's very common early on. Usually it's due to chromosomal abnormalities, something not right in the egg, the sperm, the division process. It's nature's way of preventing serious defects.

Amantha Holden:
As long as I can remember, I've had to follow you around, mom. Literally. Couldn't have started out that way. You must have come to me at some point, when I was in my crib. And even when I got you to stop and look at me, to acknowledge my existence, I still couldn't tell what you were thinking. Or feeling. So I always felt like I had to guess, or fill in the blanks, or push for some clue, until you would just get mad at me.

Janet Talbot:
I'm sorry, honey. I really am.

Amantha Holden:
And I know that's your nature, mom. Just like it's Daniel's to be so [sighs] maddeningly private. But because it's not my nature, or because I don't always read between the lines, or understand that language, or because I want people to speak to me in my language sometimes, that does not make me the bad guy.

Janet Talbot:
No, it doesn't. Quite the opposite.

Janet Talbot:
I have lived in this world for some time, Amantha, and one thing I have learned it is not fair, and it is not just. The world is absurd. And if I could just have him, and you, and Jared, and my family, [sighs] What else is there?

Amantha Holden:
I don't know.

[first lines]

Woman's Voice:
[Daniel dreaming] I remember when I was a little girl, my dad took me to the circus, the greatest show on earth. There were clowns and elephants and dancing bears, and a beautiful lady in pink tights flew high above our heads. And as I sat there watching, I had the feeling that something was missing. I don't know what, but when it was all over, I said to myself, "Is that all there is to the circus?"

Trey Willis:
[suddenly along side Daniel] Uh-oh, here comes trouble.

Woman's Voice:
I know what you must be saying to yourselves, "If that's the way she feels about it, why doesn't she just end it all?" Oh, no.

Trey Willis:
Cat's got his tongue.

Woman's Voice:
I'm not ready yet for that final disappointment. For I know just as well as I'm standing here talking to you, when that final moment comes and I'm breathing my last breath, I'll be saying to myself, "Is that all? Is that all there is to dying?"

Trey Willis:
Everything that is good between men and women was written in mud. And butter. And barbecue sauce. You know?

Daniel Holden:
No.

[last lines]

Trey Willis:
[to Daniel] You are who you are. Okay? It's forever. It's like being an Indian or something. I know you. Now you know you. If you ever really forgot.

Kerwin:
“Because I know ya.

Because I know ya.

Because I know ya.”