Friday Night Lights, Season 1

Friday Night Lights (2006–2011) is an award winning American television serial drama adapted by Peter Berg, Brian Grazer and David Nevins from a book of the same name. The series details events surrounding the Dillon Panthers, a high school football team based out of fictional Dillon, Texas. The show uses this small town backdrop to address many of the issues that face contemporary Middle America.

Jason:
Took you long enough to get here, man.

Tim:
My truck ain’t running. We’re putting in this four-barrel carb. I hitched a ride, man. Sorry.

Jason:
I’m guessing you know what this is about.

Tim:
I do?

Jason:
Yeah, of course you do. You wanna call yourself my best friend and you haven’t shown up but once since I’ve been in here. Six weeks, man. Six weeks. Let me go ahead and recap my life for you over the last couple of weeks, huh? My day starts out with me laying down on this bed, well pretty much the whole day takes place with me laying down in this bed on my sorry quadriplegic ass. Every day, people come in here poking and prodding me like I'm a piece of meat. Go ahead and stick a catheter in me in places you don’t want to know about. My big adventure of the day is going to the commode ‘cause I gotta go at the same time everyday so I can teach my body how to crap on cue. Impressive, huh? And then Lyla comes running in-(laughing)--I wanna know if she’s as chipper out there as she is in here. ‘Cause I tell you what –I love that girl. I do, I love her more than life itself but I tell you what if she tells me how great everything’s gonna be when I finally get out of here one more time, I’m gonna lose it. Point is this Timmy, while I’m in here dealing with all this, by myself, and my best friend is out there putting a four barrel carb in his damn truck. Is that what’s important right now? Answer me this Timmy, what happened to Texas forever? Huh? What happened to living large? What happened to that eternal bond that you used to love to throw around when I was still healthy and headed towards the NFL? Huh? I need you here Tim! I need you here. I expect---I expect you here. You are my best friend. Grace period's over.

Coach Taylor:
Listen to me. Everything hangs in the balance right here. I have a question and I need some advice from you.

Tami:
Alright.

Coach Taylor:
I need to talk to the guidance counselor, not my wife. I need some unbiased, clear, honest advice. Everything hangs in the balance.

Tami:
Alright, sit down. Come on, sit down.

Coach Taylor:
The Boosters and Buddy want me to fire Mac McGill. I don't wanna fire Mac McGill. Mac McGill is a damn good coach and Mac McGill is important for me in the playoffs. I thought this was going to end a while ago. I didn't think it would go on as far as it did, I was wrong.

Tami:
So what's the question?

Coach Taylor:
The question is what do I do about firing Mac McGill?

Tami:
What did he say?

Coach Taylor:
Honey, you heard what he said. Everyone heard what he said.

Tami:
I know, I know what he said. I want to review, let's review. Let's review the events.

Coach Taylor:
About Smash Williams, he said the black players have a gift for running the ball. That they're fearless.

Tami:
Right. Fearless, they've got a gift. Wasn't there something else in that little phrase?

Coach Taylor:
He said the thing about the junkyard dog thing, as far as the players like Matt Saracen.

Tami:
You mean the white players?

Coach Taylor:
Yes, the white players. He said they don't have the physicality. But he said they have more creative thinking which makes them more suited to lead. That's what he said. It was a stupid thing to say. I understand.

Tami:
Well, I mean, as the guidance counselor I gotta say that that, to me, is a fireable offense. What he said.

Coach Taylor:
Alright let me talk to my wife. Let me talk to the person who cares about me and cares about the team, and also has to understand the relevance and the importance to our future of us winning the regional.

Tami:
There is nothing more clear to me that your team is way more important to you then Mac McGill.

Coach Taylor:
Is there anyone else I can talk to?

Tami:
You can talk to your friend.

Coach Taylor:
What does she have to say?

Tami:
This is not about Mac McGill, it's not about the team. This is about you. You've been put in this position now where you've got to make the decision. If you don't fire him at this point you are condoning what he said.

Coach Taylor:
Honey he said something stupid, he's not a racist. He's a friend.

Tami:
I know, but that is not something for a kids' assistant coach to say. No less for a government employee, which is what he is.

Coach Taylor:
The three of you scare me.

Coach Taylor:
Sunday. Big championship game. How you feeling?

Matt:
Good, I'm feelin' good.

Coach Taylor:
Yeah, you think you're ready?

Matt:
Yeah!

Coach Taylor:
You think he's ready?

Jason:
I don't think he's ready.

Coach Taylor:
I'm not thinking you're ready either.

Jason:
I'm thinking that if he plays up in Dallas like he played last Friday night, they're gonna eat him for breakfast.

Coach Taylor:
That's pretty much what I'm thinking.

Jason:
I think they're gonna squash him.

Coach Taylor:
Pretty much like a bug.

Jason:
Like a flea, Saracen.

Coach Taylor:
So I don't want you restin' on your laurels, you understand me?

Jason:
You don't have any laurels, Saracen.

Coach Taylor:
Not a damn laurel. Here's what's gonna happen: You're gonna be workin' with Jason here.

Matt:
Okay.

Coach Taylor:
You're gonna do everything Jason tells you to. And you're gonna do it 'cause Jason has my blessing. So if he tells you to jump off a cliff, I want you to jump off that cliff. Now you tell me: Saracen, why are you gonna jump off that cliff?

Matt:
'Cause, 'cause he has your blessing?

Coach Taylor:
That's exactly right! [To Jason] You have any problems, you let me know.

Jason:
Thank you, coach.

Coach Taylor:
Have a good day, son. [Leaves the office]

Matt:
All right, coach.

Jason:
What are you still standing there for, Saracen? Go finish your weights, finish your program. Get your plays. Meet me in the film room for lunch. And get used to that because we're gonna be havin' an awful lot of meals together.

Matt:
Well, actually I usually have lunch with Julie.

Jason:
I'll take care of Julie for you, don't worry about it. I'll give her a nice call and tell her there's a new girl in town. And that girl is me! Thank you, Saracen. Hit the weights.

Matt:
Okay. Great.


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