Taboo
Tuesdays 10:00 PM on FXTaboo Season 1 Episode 3: "Episode 3" Quotes
Thorne [to Delaney]: It excites me: the thought of it. When I realize the woman beneath me is capable of what she did. Now I know the secret in her head, and it makes me so hard, and so angry. And she likes it. Since you came back, our fucking has become almost murderous. It exhausts us. I have this wicked, wicked thing beneath me, and it's my life long duty to punish her. It exhausts us both, beautiful exhaustion. And in the morning I read the Gazette, and she eats her toast, like a sweet little bird. I didn't come to sell you insurance Mr. Delaney. I came to thank you.
Strange: You do realize this whole business is about revenge.
Coop: And why would James Delaney hate the India so? What the hell did you do to him, Stuart? Always assume I just know.
Strange: Then know this. Delaney will as easily sell Nootka to the Americans, if they offer him the same monopoly.
Coop: Now there, the King and the Company may be able to find our common cause.
Explain this. I have the very same mark on me, when I was taken prisoner in Africa. What is it? You tell me. You don't speak, but you do have answers. You do. And you will give me answers.
Delaney [to Brace]
Now we know the savage boy is cunning, too. And when peace comes, and this border is drawn, it will not be by soldiers, but by more fucking lawyers. And not only can we not resolve this disaster by killing Delaney, it is now in our urgent interest to keep the bastard alive.
Strange
Prince Regent: Who is this man?
Coop: An adventurer, of very poor repute. Stories of madness, savagery, theft, and worse.
Prince Regent: Then, Mr. Coop, he is a man that you will be able to do business with.
Dumbarton: So what do you want?
Delaney: Tea.
Dumbarton: Tea?
Delaney: You tell Carlsbad that I want tea.
Dumbarton: You know, Carlsbad said that Delaney might just be crazy enough to take us all on: The King, the Company, and the free 15. Maybe she was right.
Delaney: Well, you tell Carlsbad, from me, that I will cede sovereignty of Nootka Sound to whichever nation offers me the monopoly of the trade of furs for tea, from Fort George to Canton. A monopoly. That's what I want. All the tea in China.
The British want you dead. We want you alive, so that's something, huh? You take pain like a stone. That's something you picked up in Africa, maybe.
Dumbarton
