Underground Season 2 Episode 2: "Things Unsaid" Quotes
I have sat on this bench waiting for John to get out of court a thousand times. When he had a case, he would throw himself into it so completely that he practically lived here. That's what I loved about him. He really believed he could make a difference. He devoted his life to this place, and not one goddamn person cares about getting justice for his murder. A good man, the best man, was shot in broad daylight and everyone is calling it a senseless act. It's just...it's just an excuse so nobody has to take responsibility for allowing this world to be senseless.
Elizabeth
Georgia: So, what? You take my gun from your purse and you make someone take responsibility? A judge? A deputy?
Elizabeth: You said it. We have to disrupt their happy little lives.
Georgia: That's not what I meant. This is not justice. It won't make anything good and fair.
Elizabeth: John would've stop--
Georgia: You wouldn't be doing it for John. You'd be doing it for yourself.
Elizabeth: Leave me alone, please.
Georgia: I am not going anywhere.
I ain't mean to hurt you; you know that right? Them pretty eyes. That low honey voice. I would do anything for you. I know you feel the same. There's a girl gon need ya help. You gon help her for me?
Hicks
Clara: You got chillin?
Ernestine: Yes.
Clara: And?
Ernestine: And they were the best thing in my life.
French: I used to love the taste of those berries on your lips back when you was carrying Sam.
Ernestine: Funny how a memory can take hold of the senses. The smell. The taste. Maybe it means something.
French: What those berries taste like?
Ernestine: Happiness.
Ernestine: I couldn't let what happened to you, happen to Sam.
French: You let your heart go cold. He felt it. Rosalee, too. That's why she ran.
Ernestine: No, my children know how much I love them.
French: That's right, you loved them so much that you opened your legs whenever the master called, to protect them. Killed for them. You loved them so much that after James you made sho you couldn't have no more. Your children are the worst thing that ever happened to you. And here you are picking raspberry leaves for that girl and her baby.
Hey guys, sorry, the wagon was a little cramped so I decided to stretch my legs.
Noah
You doing it wrong. You know I could have fixed it a couple hours ago. Been back on the road to wherever ya'll taking me, right now. But that's alright.Got myself a nice bit of sleep. It was lovely [laughs]. Ya still doing it wrong. Y'all think y'all too good to talk to me? Ya ain't. You out here handling the cattle with your rundown wagon, trudging through the mud, and the heat. Seems to me that make you the slave. And that man in the carriage? Oh he the master.
Noah
Scotsman: Five months you spent in that jail making this instead of trying to escape...what that tells me is that we don't need you.
Noah: What it should tell you is that I'm a patient man. The type that spent three days and three nights destroying a wagon you can't seem to fix. It should tell you that I care enough about somebody that I'mma get back to them no matter what.
Scotsman: But you didna go nowhere. You're right back here in chains.
Noah: I won't always be, and when I ain't, first thing I'mma do is get that ring.
Noah: Everybody back up! You remember what I told you? First thing?
Hostage: Give him the ring. Do it.
Noah: Anyone moves, anyone tries to follow me, and your master gets it.
Cato: The problem is he's not the master. I am.
Biographer: To be the most notorious slave catcher, one would think you'd have caught the most notorious runaway.
Patty: Harriet Tubman. That's not a question.
Biographer: Fair enough, I suppose my question is, why shouldn't I be writing the book about her?
All I know is they call her the black rose.
Ida
