Carnivàle, SEASON 1

Management:
You have made this choice before.

Ben Hawkins:
What do you know about that?

Management:
I know that you are capable of making such a choice. Capable of saying "this one deserves to live, this one deserves to die".

Ben Hawkins:
No, that ain't my place.

Management:
If that is true, my friend, then why is such a choice possible? Why are you not like other men, left behind to bury your dead, gnash your teeth and cry out to God, "Why her, Lord, why not another?" The answer is self-evident. It is your place, Ben Hawkins; it cannot be escaped. It can only be accepted… Her life for another's. It is the only way… You may go now.