The Magicians
Wednesdays 9:00 PM on SyFyThe Magicians Season 5 Episode 4: "Magicians Anonymous" Quotes
Overlord Terrence: How do you do? I’m Visigoth Overload Terrance. Apologizes for the mess, but recall I did announce our incursion and asked you most politely to drop all your defenses and surrender, having given my word that you would be absolutely safe.
Alice: The word of a barbarian?
Zelda: Actually, Visigoths are famous for always keeping their word.
Alice: That’s weird.
Overlord Terrence: My dear, if you would be so kind.
Alice: Look, I’m sorry, I’m just a little confused here, but you seem …
Overlord Terrance: Educated? Polite to a fault? We seek to acquire only the deepest knowledge, highest art, and most illuminating philosophy. Is it any wonder a little might rub off?
We seek only those works that transcend appetite and avarice, that touch upon the immutable. That’s why we spend so little time on earth anymore. What’s left to raid – Tent-pole franchises, Jeff Koons, hoodie?
Overlord Terrence
Kady: Socks. None of them match.
Fogg: So this is where they go. If you see a red and orange argyle cashmere, size 13, grab it, please.
Kady: Ugh, I don’t usually say this when I’m this high, but we really need to focus.
Fogg: Exactly, red and orange.
Kady: No, uh, we’re looking for a …
Fogg: Christ, I don’t believe it. There it is. You were right; just needed to focus.
That’s amazing, right. Honestly, fuck Netflix; that is peak television.
Eliot
Emperor: You’re both equally awesome, by which I mean totally fucked up, by which I mean I get you’re on a mission. One of you’s gotta jet, but either one can hang for eternity. You guys decide.
Kady: I’ll stay.
Fogg: No you will not.
Kady: Are you kidding? This place is heroin heaven.
Fogg: And a billion times better than Isabella’s Islay Single Malt. Look it up when you get back. I’m staying.
Kady: You’ve got students counting on you.
Fogg: And I’ve had it with the god damn lot of them, all 40 timelines worth. I never really knew how sick of them I was until I stopped drinking.
Zelda: If I could do it all again, I’d be a better mother, a truer friend. But I wasn’t. I’m not because I’ve given my life to this. It’s all I am; it’s all I have. I can’t lose everything.
Alice: You can. Believe me, I have.
Zelda: I’m sorry about Quentin, but this is different.
Alice: It’s not because whoever, whatever you loved that gets ripped away from you, it stays alive inside of us, in anyone you share it with.
Zelda: I can’t. I can’t. I’m not strong enough.
Clarion: You have one thing to trade Julia for one miracle. So your miracle can be to save your boyfriend or your world.
Julia: But you could save both.
Clarion: You know humans have exploited gods since you staggered upright. The deals that we make need to be strict, so this deal – one book, one miracle.
Julia: You’re really gonna make me choose? The planet or him?
Clarion: Yeah, I know it’s total bullshit, right? You see why I want to be human, like I can’t feel the melodies I’m goddess of, can’t bend the rules I didn’t make.
Julia: Don’t put this on your kind. This is you choosing.
Clarion: But the one who has to choose is you.
Penny: I feel better, so why do I feel like something really shitty went down? Maybe because you’re here.
The Binder: Like all humans, 23 saw little and knew less. What strange, sad, angry, narrow, little lives these humans stumbled.
Penny: OK, just tell me what you did to me.
Clarion: I helped you and now you’re gonna help me.
The Binder: The Binder reminded the goddess he couldn’t be forced to do anything he didn’t wish to.
Clarion: Ah, honey, I don’t force anyone. I just get what I want. Good-bye Julia, and for what it’s worth, I feel like you made the right decision.
Julia: For what it’s worth, go fuck yourself.
Merritt: This happened … this is because of me. I didn’t see it coming, and I never thought it would get this bad.
Penny: Merritt what could you have done?
Merritt: I should have told you the truth. My name – my real name – is Plum, Plum Merritt Chatwin.
Penny: Wait.
Julia: You’re a Chatwin?
Lipson: Wait, what do you mean? Like the kid’s books? I missed an episode.
Merritt: I am so sorry. I was terrified and alone and being here, it was the first time I felt safe, but I’m not. The thing with being a Chatwin is, it’s like a curse. It’s like there are things coming after you that you don’t understand. I don’t know what this signal is, but I know why it’s targeting me, and I’m going to figure out how to fix it.
Overlord Terrence: Funny thing about doing the same thing over and over again: You learn how to do it better. I suppose that’s the true purpose of a library, no? Ah, your treasured tombs. Each one a life, a destiny. I’m most curious about who my next few wives will be. You never know Alice. Let’s go find our books, shall we? Something to add, Madam Librarian?
Zelda: Yes. If you really want to know your future, you better be able to speedread.
Penny: So what do we do now? We try and trade with the Visigoths? What do we have that they want?
Alice: I mean, the overload kind of liked me.
Julia: Off the table.
Zelda: I read most of the books on the convergence, enough to know it can be stopped. It’s almost impossible but not complicated.
Alice: Zelda, please help.
Zelda: Of course. Well, all you have to do is move that?
Julia: Move?
Penny: The fucking moon.
Alice: At least we know where it is.
