Chance
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Chance: Besides the occasional lapse in judgement, I think you could really help people. You deserve that. I think you should go back to school, you should get your degree and get out there, and you can be for patients what you've always been for me.
Lucy: Yeah, okay, I will.
Chance: Good.
Lucy: And I want you to figure out how to be in the world in a way that doesn't hurt you. You deserve that.
D: My name is Darius Pringle.
Lorena: Apology accepted.
Chance: Honestly, I don't regret it. I don't regret what I've done or what I've asked you to do on my behalf. I'm guilty of it. I'm going to take responsibility for it. That's probably the best thing I can do for Nicole right now.
D: Pretty stupid, getting locked up and leaving her over a fuckin' moral abstraction.
Chance: Is it? An abstraction, I mean. Because it feels real to me. I felt guilty because I wasn't able to do more. So, I did more. And I reinforced the cycle of fallout that we're all trapped in because I wanted to have control. But I didn't have control because no one has control.
D: So, why you did it doesn't matter? All intents and purposes, you and Matty Willis are the same? And Wade Pardo and Lambert? Because you're not.
Chance: Everyone's got to take responsibility for what we're doing, for what we've done to each other. I can't ask of other people something that I won't ask of myself.
Lorena: This is crazy, you and me, whatever. I don't even know what this is. It feels like a story or something, it's not even real.
D: It's as real as it gets.
Chance: What about us? Who helps us when we sit in so much misery that it starts to leak out around the edges? Don't tell me you haven't felt the weight of that.
Clayton: Of course I do. That's when I go somewhere and sit on a beach and thank my lucky fucking stars.
Chance: I'm not talking about burnout. I'm talking about a fundamental shift in psyche. There are no excuses, there's only reasons. It's only a threshold, after which I cannot sit and inhale my patients' pain without doing something, without at least breathing it out. So yeah, I breathed it out. And in that breath was fire. And I liked it.
Nicole: There was this girl. I thought she was my friend. And I found out she was spreading shit about me all over the internet, so I broke her nose with a book. I'm not sorry. And I don't like this game. Or this place. I'm a straight-A student, not a drug addict. But I would do what put me here again in a hot minute.
Bruce: Okay, so you believe the punishment fit her crime? Your former friend?
Nicole: Yep.
Bruce: So, violence was the answer? Is the answer?
Nicole: Well, if it means making things right...
Bruce: Making things right. What does that mean to you, making things right? Does that mean she should apologize? Take everything back, promise she'll never do it again? So, is that what happened after you broke her nose? Did she make things right?
Nicole: Well, you tell me what you think I should have done then. Just eat it? What about what she did?
Bruce: What about it? This is not the last time something like this is going to happen to you or to any of us. Terrible, painful, unjust shit will happen again and again and again. And the only part of any of it that you'll ever be able to control is how you react. You'd do what you did again in a hot minute, that's what you said. But you said it to me here, in this place. And that girl, whatever her name is? She's at home, eating hot food and sleeping in a bed. You're here.
I just want you to know, Mr. Winter, that you're going to have to prove that at the time you committed all those murders, that you were laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act. Basically that you didn't understand your actions any more than would an infant, a brute, or a wild beast.
Frank [to Winter]
I just wanted to believe that someone wanted to save me, that you wanted to, more than I wanted to know you were lying. And I was right to do that, because you... you did save me. You hurt me to save me, and now here we are.
Winter [to Chance]
Christina: I feel like we don't eat as well as we should. Maybe. I don't know. Feel like if we put good stuff in, we'd feel better.
Nicole: No, for sure. If I ate more organic food, no way I would have assaulted Pepper.
[Chance] is a good person. He's fucking crazy, but he's always been there for me. Maybe not exactly when I though he should be, I guess. But times that it turned out to actually matter, looking back. Before I left to have Willow, I never saw it. But going away and being back now, I can't believe that I didn't. The burnout. The weight on him. How he hears and sees what he hears and sees everyday, and then he has to just go back to living in the world. I don't want to give him anything else bad to think about. I don't want to weigh on him. I won't.
Lucy
Those that are good must suffer the same as those who are bad. He has to suffer. Like I have.
Winter
D: Perception is reality. And perception is formed right off the bat. You have to figure out who to impress and who to knock off.
N. How?
D: By paying attention. Who are people afraid of? Who's the enforcer? Who's sitting together at meals? And if you're ever in doubt about if somebody wants to hurt you, hurt them first.
