Promised Land
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Billy: Lettie, it won't be easy, but you need to tell Joe I'm back.
Lettie: When the time is right.
Billy: When is that? What are you waiting for?
Lettie: What are you waiting for?
Margaret: Just curious, does Joe keep your balls in his pocket or the humidor next to his cigars?
Wayne: No need to get hysterical or bitchy about this.
Margaret: Oh, I never get hysterical when it comes to business. Bitchy's another story.
Joe: Where are you from?
Daniela: El Salvador.
Joe: Oh, I have always wanted to go there. Most Americans think that we are all one culture. "your people."
Daniela: I know what you mean. Still, there is one thing that unites us.
Joe: The language.
Daniela: The struggle, Sir.
Margaret: Tell me, if you care so much about Carmen, why is it that her only real creative opportunity hs come from me not you and Joe?
Lettie: You really think that one job will make her forget the fact that you left?
Margaret: I was pushed out.
Lettie: You abandoned your family.
Marget: You stole it, and I was left to rebuild my life from nothing, so don't act so innocent in this, old friend.
Lettie: I don't know what game you're playing, Margaret, but when you and Joe go to war, it's usually other people who get hurt. That's not going to be Carmen.
Margaret: She's my daughter, Lettie.
Lettie: When it's convenient.
Michael: I'm glad someone appreciates your talent because I gotta say nobody in your family seems to.
Carmen: Not nobody.
Veronica, you're the new CEO. Stand up for yourself more than I'm standing up for you right now.
Antonio
Lettie: Our son's a drug addict. He skipped school today, came home wasted. I lied for him told the principal he sick. Covered for him because I knew how you'd react.
Joe: I'm going to kill that boy.
Lettie: You won't do anything, Joe. I let you drive away one of my sons. I'll be damned if I let you drive away another.
Oh, sweetie. If my father knew you were here, he would chop you up and use you as fertilizer for next year's Chardonnay.
Carmen
You want to be in this business? Welcome to the NFL. Outbid me if you want it so bad, or come back home.
Joe
Mateo: You're scared.
Joe: Of what? Competing against you?
Mateo: Of what I know. Is that right, Carlos?
Antonio: The other night at the anniversary party, Mateo said a name, Carlos Rincón. Do you have any idea who that is?
Margaret: No.
Antonio: Well, whoever he is, just hearing his name gave Joe a start. He tried to hide it, but I don't ever think I've seen my pops so rattled.
Margaret: Then let's try to find out who this Carlos Rincón is.
