Life, Season 2

[While Ted and Charlie take Rachel back to Charlie's house]

Charlie Crews:
Ted?

Ted Early:
Yeah?

Crews:
If anyone tries to stop us go ahead and take my gun and shoot them dead on the spot, you hear me.

Crews:
I saw that commercial, the moth on the cotton ball.

Brenford:
It's a butterfly on a cloud.

Crews:
Oh... now I get it. [pause] Frozen solid.

Reese:
Do you have to touch everything?

Tidwell:
Who do you like? For the killing?

Reese:
Oh... well the research assistant had means and the animal rights group had motivation.

Tidwell:
Married? The dead guy, was he married?

Crews:
No.

Tidwell:
Then the assistant is your killer. Human nature. Men and women working together always end up banging and most people are killed by the person they're banging.

Reese:
Well, that's just not true.

Tidwell:
Yeah, it's a fact. Come on, Crews, back me up on this.

Crews:
Well, you two work together. When you have sex who's going to kill who?

Reese:
If I have sex with him you're going to kill me immediately.

Crews:
[looks at Tidwell] She's an aggressive female.

Ted:
That was your partner... she says there's a dead guy... she wants to know if you want to catch who killed him.

Zen recording:
[voiceover] Chasing after the world brings only chaos. Allowing it to come to be brings only peace. Retreat from the world and it will pursue you. To exist, to allow the world to exist, all things at once, all things as one. This is the path to serenity, to balance, see yourself as part of the world.

Zen recording:
[voiceover] The greatest mistake is to be continually fearful of making one. Stumble may prevent a fall. To say that we have made mistakes is to say that we are alive. When we cease to make mistakes that is the moment when we cease to be. The Buddha was once asked if he'd ever made a mistakes, he answered "I am making a mistake even now.. Nothing more."

Rachel:
Even after what I saw, I thought you did it.

Charlie:
You want to know something? For a few years, when I was in prison, Rachel, I thought I did it too.

Rachel:
Is that the absolute truth you tell a total stranger?

Charlie:
Yeah, I guess it is.

Crews:
It is not what we carry with us but what we let go that defines who we are.

Ted Earley:
How do you know this?

Amanda Puryer:
I know everything.

Ted Earley:
What's that like?

Amanda Puryer:
Almost always disappointing.

Robert Stark:
[On delivering an M-4 carbine to Crews] It's not Zen Charlie.

Charlie Crews:
It'll just have to do until Zen comes along.

Charlie Crews:
Just breathe.

Zen recording:
[voiceover] What we learned as children, that one plus one equals two, we know to be false. One plus one equals one. We even have a word for when you, plus another, equals one. That word is love.

Boy:
Is that a real gun?

Crews:
Yes, it is.

Boy:
Can I touch it?

Crews:
No, you cannot.

Mother:
He wants to be a policeman when he grows up.

Boy:
You ever shoot anybody?

Crews:
Violence against one, is violence against all. Violence against all, is violence against myself.

Boy:
Yeah. But did you ever shoot anybody?

Crews:
Nobody. [leans in closer] That didn't have it coming.

Patrick Bridger:
I'm not talking to you!

Charlie Crews:
You just did.

Jack Reese:
What's with that car?

Charlie Crews:
It's just an object — doesn't have any meaning. Even if it did, it would be in Italian, so I wouldn't understand it anyway.

Crews:
I think you might wanna help us.

Frat Boy:
And why's that?

Crews:
You want the short answer or the long answer?

Frat Boy:
Short.

Crews:
'Cause.

Frat Boy:
Okay, the long.

Crews:
Because I am about three seconds from deciding that I just do not like you.

Professor Halliday:
You don't need locks for a prison. Just prisoners.

Earley:
There are naked women in the pool.

Crews:
Ted, I have made a decision.

Earley:
What's that, Charlie?

Crews:
I'm going swimming.

Earley:
No man would hold that against you.

Mickey Rayborn:
I think this is a kidnapping.

Charlie Crews:
"Kidnapping." What does that really mean? We're not kids. No one's napping. We're just two guys talking, that's all.

Mickey Rayborn:
No, no. You misunderstand me. This isn't kidnapping. This, detective, is kidnapping.

Crews:
[observing a beekeeper] 30% of our food supply is dependent on bees for pollination. Fruits, nuts, vegetables, all need bees.

Reese:
Well, I'm pretty sure you don't need bees to make a bacon cheeseburger.

Rachel Seybolt:
You don't have to drive around in a car full of bullet holes, you know.

Crews:
Yeah I do. Maybe just for a little while longer.

Tidwell:
Oh, you must be the grown up.

Bodner:
Special Agent Bodner, FBI.

Crews:
Are you all Special Agents? Because if you're all special, then none of you are really special then, right?

Bodner:
Trust me, I'm special.

Doctor:
Here you are. It's an unusual request, detective. Most people wouldn't want to have the bullet that shot them.

Crews:
Well, someone gave it to me. It would be rude just to throw it away.

Zen recording:
[voiceover] When I wish to forgive another, what do I mean? I mean I wish to forgive myself. When I wish to harm another, what do I mean? I mean I wish to harm myself. Close your eyes and think of the world as seen from space. From that distance it is calm, silent, at peace. One.

Crews:
[holding up the bullet he has just melted down and re-cast] Calm, silent, at peace. One.

Crews:
You ever have a nickname?

Reese:
Nope. I never did.

Crews:
Would you like one?

Reese:
No!

Crews:
Come on, I'm real good at 'em. Want me to give you one?

Reese:
Crews...

Crews:
That's my name. It would be confusing if your nickname was my name.

Crews:
The Buddha said we live our lives pretending to be someone else.

Reese:
Oh he said that, did he?

Crews:
Who did the Buddha pretend to be? He was the Buddha! …Okay, I know you’re pretty sure you’re not pretending to be someone else, but maybe Reese, maybe you’re pretending to be yourself!

Reese:
How could I pretend to be myself?

Crews:
Maybe the Buddha was pretending to be the Buddha. That makes sense.

Crews:
Most likely, these companies didn't do anything. Let's go find out who these companies didn't do anything to.

Reese:
Who these companies didn't do anything to? Do you have to talk like that?

Crews:
Like what? I don't think I talk differently than anyone else does. Maybe, sometimes, I don't not say things that other people don't not say, but most other people don't not say the same things I don't. You know what I'm saying?

Flight Attendant:
Is there anything else you need?

Crews:
Well, if it's a specific question, I don't need anything. If it's a more general question...

Erin Cordette:
Excuse me. [leading him away]

Crews:
...Sometimes I think I don't need anything, but I do, and just don't know it.

Crews:
You wanna know how to beat it?

Reese:
You can beat a lie detector?

Crews:
Yeah, it's easy. You just tell the truth.

Ted Earley:
Charlie. What are you thinking?

Charlie Crews:
I'm thinking about what I want and what I need.

Ted Earley:
What do you want?

Charlie Crews:
I want a peaceful soul.

Ted Earley:
And what do you need?

Charlie Crews:
I need a bigger gun.

[SPOILER]

Charlie Crews:
Do you know how I got through twelve years of prison?

Roman Nevikov:
[laughing] Your Zen?

[Charlie delivers a devastatingly fast chop to the throat, and watches Roman choke to death.]

Charlie Crews:
Like that.