The Station Agent

Finbar McBride:
It's funny how people see me and treat me, since I'm really just a simple, boring person.

Joe Oramas:
Hey, Olivia, you got a garlic press?

Olivia Harris:
No.

Joe Oramas:
How can you not have a garlic press?

Olivia Harris:
[both she and Fin are smiling, looking at him] Still no!

Joe Oramas:
Alright, you keep talking! I'm gonna go cook without the garlic press!

[turns back to kitchen]

Olivia Harris:
[to Fin] I'm not used to having people in my house... especially loud people.

Finbar McBride:
It's a nice house.

Olivia Harris:
Yeah. David bought it as a get-away place... so I moved down here and got away.

Finbar McBride:
Where did you used to live?

Olivia Harris:
Princeton.

[glancing at Fin]

Olivia Harris:
I know... I didn't get very far. But I just couldn't stay there another minute. Everyone looking at me... the poor woman whose son died.

[a bit of silence falls between them]

Olivia Harris:
How about you? What made you pick Newfoundland?

Finbar McBride:
[smiling mystically] I wanted to live near Joe!

[Laughter spreads out gradually from them]

Joe Oramas:
[leaning over the rail, shouting] Guys!

[Fin and Olivia burst into laughter]

Joe Oramas:
Would you come up here and talk? Seriously, this sucks!

[the two keep laughing crazily]

Joe Oramas:
Hey listen, if you guys do something later, can I join you?

Finbar McBride:
We're not gonna do something.

Joe Oramas:
No, I know, but if you do, can I join you?

Finbar McBride:
We're not gonna do something later.

Joe Oramas:
Okay, but, if you do?

Finbar McBride:
Okay.

Joe Oramas:
Cool.

Finbar McBride:
Well, there are people called train chasers. They follow a train and they film it.

Olivia Harris:
Are you a train chaser?

Finbar McBride:
No.

Olivia Harris:
How come?

Finbar McBride:
I don't know how to drive a car. And I don't own a camera.

Olivia Harris:
That'd do it.

Finbar McBride:
You said you weren't going to talk to me if I sat here, Joe.

Joe Oramas:
I haven't said anything in like twenty minutes.

[Fin checks his pocket watch]

Finbar McBride:
Nine.

Joe Oramas:
You timed me?

Finbar McBride:
Mm-hmm.

Joe Oramas:
That's cold, bro.

Finbar McBride:
I'm retired, actually.

Emily:
Aren't you a little young to be retired?

Finbar McBride:
No, dwarves retire early. Common fact.

Emily:
Yeah, *lazy* dwarves.

[last lines]

Joe Oramas:
It's the librarian fantasy, man. Glasses off, hair down, books flying.

Finbar McBride:
She doesn't wear glasses.

Olivia Harris:
Well, buy her some, it's worth it.

Joe Oramas:
Trains are really cool.

Olivia Harris:
They are.

Finbar McBride:
[smoking marijuana] So are horses.

Joe Oramas:
What?

Finbar McBride:
I was just thinking that.

Joe Oramas:
Give me the joint, man.

[first lines]

Henry Styles:
Morning, professor.

Finbar McBride:
Good morning.

Joe Oramas:
Hey, man, let me ask you a personal question. You've had sex before, right?

Finbar McBride:
Yes.

Joe Oramas:
With a regular sized chick?

Finbar McBride:
With a regular sized chick.

Olivia Harris:
Would you do me a favor and not look at me right now?

Joe Oramas:
Do they have clubs for you people?

Finbar McBride:
What?

Joe Oramas:
You know, for train watchers.

Finbar McBride:
Here I am! Take a look. TAKE A LOOK!