The Affair
Sundays 9:00 PM on ShowtimeThe Affair Season 1 Episode 4: "4" Quotes
Alison: Can I ask you something?
Noah: Anything.
Alison: What do you see now, when you look at me?
Noah: What do you think I see?
Alison: Death.
Noah: No.
Alison: What do you see then? You don't want this.
Noah: Alison, I'm a grown man. I know what I want.
Cole has this tattoo on his back of the angel Gabriel and it's the first thing I see every fucking morning and I want to die.
Alison
Alison: I had a son.
Noah: Had?
Alison: He drowned.
But let me make one thing very clear, there's nothing about you that seems easy and whatever darkness you think you're hiding, well it's written all over your fuckin' face. And you know what? I kinda like it!
Noah
Trust you? Are you insane? You're a married man with four kids who's cheating on his wife.
Alison
Noah: I can't make you out. There's about an hour before the boat leaves. Are there any other incredibly depressing places you want to tour like a graveyard or an old gallows in town you want to check out?
Alison: Screw you.
Noah: That's a much better idea.
Alison: They say if you listen closely to the wind, you can hear the sound of the little boy who died on the ship calling for his mother.
Noah: Jesus.
Alison: There's no wind today. I've heard it before. You don't have to believe me, but I have.
Noah: I still hear my mother's voice. I still talk to her. Starting right after she died, I'd be on my way to school or going to sleep at night.
Alison: What does she say?
Noah: That's the crazy thing. I don't know what she's saying. I hear her voice and I know she's trying to tell me something, but they're just sounds, not words. It's like she's speaking in the language of the dead and I can't understand it. I think she's saying something like let it go. It sounds a little like 'let it go.'
Noah: I don't want to hurt you.
Alison: Me?
Noah: I'm never going to leave my wife.
Alison: I would never expect you to.
Noah: She can never find out.
Alison: I understand.
Noah: You still want to do this?
Alison: Yes.
Noah: This is complicated for me, Alison. I realize it all seems pretty simple to you but I try to live my life above board. If I have sex with you...
Alison: If you have sex with me? Whose hand was in my underwear last week?
Noah: That's not the same thing.
Alison: Of course it is.
Noah: Let me ask you something.
Alison: Of course.
Noah: Are you a good person?
Alison: What?
Noah: I mean, do you consider yourself a good person.
Alison: No.
What now, friend?
Noah
Noah: How about you? How many?
Alison: Thousands.
