Nicole Quotes in Dawn of the Dead (2004)

[C.J. is on the roof of Andy's Gun Works with a sniper rifle preparing to shoot a propane tank]

Nicole: [in the store with Kenneth, Michael, and Terry] How will we know if he hits it?

[there's a huge explosion]

Nicole: Chips, come here. Come on, Chips!

Monica: [mocking] Come on, Chips.

Nicole: Buff, I don't see why we have to invite every single senior.

Buffy: Because it's the senior dance. It's just a shot in the dark.

Nicole: You got a C-plus? I can't believe I cheated off of you.

Buffy: Excuse me for not knowing about El Salvador, like I'm ever going to Spain anyway.

Buffy: [Trying to come up with an issues-related theme for their school dance] The environment.

Nicole: The homelesses?

Kimberly: [to Nicole] Oh, please.

Jennifer: Are there any good sicknesses that aren't too depressing?

Buffy: Guys. The environment. I'm telling you, it's totally key. The earth is in terrible shape, we could all die, and besides, Sting's doing it.

Kimberly: Buffy? What's your sitch? You're acting like the thing from another tax bracket. It's too weird.

Buffy: Listen, a lot's been going on you guys, okay? And I really wanted to talk to you guys about it. See, um, a couple of weeks ago, I met this guy-...

Kimberly: Oh my god, you're having an affair?

Nicole: Cool!

Jennifer: Does Jeffrey know?

Buffy: It's not about that. He's, like, old. He's fifty.

Kimberly, Nicole, Jennifer: Ewwwww!

Jennifer: Gross!

Buffy: Haven't you guys noticed what's been going on here? The strange things? Have you noticed people disappearing, turning up dead?

Nicole: What are you talking about?

Kimberly: Weird? You mean like hanging around with that homeless Poke?

Buffy: Pike.

Nicole: [gasp] Eww, you're having an affair with him?

Jennifer: He doesn't look fifty.

Buffy: Guys, I think reality stepped out of here about five minutes ago.

[last lines]

Tony: Nicole! Nicole.

Nicole: Tony! Tony!

Jake Hayes: Is this fish?

Nicole: Yeah, of course. You love fish.

Jake Hayes: That's right. I love fish, but that's before I became a vegetarian. Oh, waiter, waiter! I can't eat this. Can you get me something else? How about a steak, medium well, please.

Nicole: Who'd shooting at us?

Jake Hayes: Rival antique dealers!

Zoe: [as the girls walk back to their cabin, Hallie is riding on Nicole's back] I swear, I heard that girl sneezing all the way across the mess hall this morning.

Hallie: [laughs, and then lets out a yawn] I'm so tired. I'm crawling back into bed, and sleeping till lunch.

Nicole: [lets Hallie off her back and stares in shock] That does not sound like a possibility, babe.

Hallie: [shrugs] Why not?

Nicole: [pointing] *That's* why not!

Hallie: [looks in the direction that Nicole is pointing, and sees their cots are perched on the roof, as "Hail Brittania" plays] No way!

Nicole: Would you like me to stay behind and help you?

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: That is a generous offer, Nicole. But I am quite sensitive to office gender politics. And in today's world, the slightest gesture can be misinterpreted as harrasment. And it is late, and I would prefer not to put you or me into that delicate situation. Agreed?

Nicole: Yes, I agree.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: [gives her a quick kiss on her lips] Well, lets seal it with a kiss. And I'll get back to work.

[slaps her on her butt as she goes out]

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Yes, politics. Where greed wears the mask of morality.

Nicole: That's good. Did you say that?

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: [looks around] Yes, I did.

Nicole: Do you live alone, Inspector?

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Yes, I do.

Nicole: Do you ever get lonely?

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: No. Not since the Internet.

Nicole: I've been looking for you two all over! Were the hell have you been?

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Clouseau.

Ticket Checker: I'm sorry, but your name is not on the list.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Not on the list?

Ponton: Dreyfus must have made sure you cannot get in.

[Nicole makes a bird call, motioning for Clouseau and Ponton to meet her]

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Ponton...

[Clouseau hums as he and Ponton stroll away from the main gate to meet Nicole]

Nicole: Inspector, here is your bag.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Good work, Nicole.

Ponton: What is that?

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Camouflage, let's go!

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Nicole?

Nicole: Yes?

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: One last thing...

Nicole: Yes?

[Clouseau removes Nicole's glasses]

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: It's evening, and you look beautiful without your glasses.

Nicole: Thank you, Inspector.

[Nicole squints, and bumps into a tree]

Nicole: Oh, ow!

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: [Clouseau and Ponton arrive, wearing wallpaper pattern disguises] Good work, Ponton, we're in! Look, it's the killer! After him!

Palace Guard: [Clouseau and Ponton take off their masks; the palace guard arrives] Stop! Turn around. Who are you? What are you doing here?

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: We are - we are, we are two, we are - I'll tell you exactly who we are.

Ponton: Yes.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: We are -

[Nicole arrives]

Nicole: I have been looking for you two everywhere. Where the hell have you been?

Palace Guard: You know these two?

Nicole: [slightly annoyed] Of course I know them: they are Xania's back-up dancers. They go on in the third act with the Komodo dragon and the snow machine. Why do you think they are dressed like that, for fun?

Palace Guard: Prove it.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: I don't have to prove -

[the palace guard cocks his gun; Clouseau starts to dance and Ponton joins in the dance number while Xania continues singing]

Nicole: [Clouseau and Ponton pant for breath after they've finished dancing] Can't you see these dancers are exhausted? Go and fetch them some water!

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: [the palace guard leaves] That was fantastic!

Nicole: [giggles] You think so?

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: You are... an amazing woman.

Ponton: [Clouseau approaches Nicole to kiss her, only to be interrupted by Ponton] Inspector, the killer!

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: [Clouseau returns and kisses Nicole] Now I am ready to catch a killer!

Nicole: [as the rest of the kids run from a group of bullies known as "The Nasties"] Come on!

Bastian: Why? Who are they?

Nicole: The Nasties!

Nicole: You don't seem like you're from around here.

Brandon: Where... where do I seem like I'm from?

Nicole: Someplace... beautiful.

Antonio: You? You need to become an agent and represent me there. That's what we're hoping for, why I hooked you up with the job, right? He could make so much money off me...

Nicole: That's such a good idea.

Nicole: In the grand scheme of Hollywood, you're nobody really.

Michael Maerd: Why would you say that?

Nicole: Because you need to come back down to Earth... that's all.

Nicole: You should let Antonio direct it. He's going to be famous soon.

Tom Mastro: I saw his short. He and it fucking sucks!

Nicole: Oh yeah, like you would know after a few weeks of a shitty no name film school. Try graduating high school first. All you are is a thief.

Tom Mastro: Sorry, my daddy didn't put me through a four year school. And after watching that piece of shit short... he didn't look like he was paying attention to dick anyway.

Nicole: I'm leaving. Have fun doing your stupid movie together.

Nicole: So much for film school.

Tom Mastro: Well, I'm about to make your boyfriend's movie.

Nicole: You scratch my kitchen table?

Tom Mastro: Sorry, I left the camera there accidentally.

Nicole: That's not the point. You stay here for free, eat here for...

Tom Mastro: I'm just trying to get on my feet.

Nicole: Your sister called me. Told me you were going back. Said that you took supervisor job back at the warehouse. It'll be better this time. You'll see. Funny how I'm staying and you're leaving.

Michael Maerd: Yeah. Funny.

Nicole: You ordered? What did you get me?

Michael Maerd: A "burger".

Nicole: Thank you.

Nicole: Can you sign this?

Michael Maerd: What is it?

Nicole: A contract... And my dad already signed it as a witness. It says that we'll only live in LA for 3 years or until I'm done with law school...

Michael Maerd: But it's already been a year. I just started on my first desk.

Nicole: Two years then. I figure it will be up on your 28th birthday... and then we'll move back to Florida so we can live near my family.

Michael Maerd: But what if something happens for me here?

Nicole: What? When? All you do is work as an assistant and read old movie scripts.

Michael Maerd: You know where I'm from. I've come this far. I'm here for a reason!

Nicole: I heard one of your pledges died. Is that true?

Mitch: Well, yes, but Blue was really old. And I feel pretty confident when we get the autopsy back it'll say natural causes.

Nicole: What's the best case scenario?

[... ]

Nicole: Look, the one thing I like about getting married is that you get to stand up in front of everyone you care about and state for the record that you believe in the best case scenario.

Nicole: So, I take it you're not in a frat?

Casey: No, because I'm not angry and secretly gay.

Nicole: Muriel...

Cheryl: Wait. Let her finish her Orgasm.

Tania: He says they're not sleeping together. She only sucks him off.

Cheryl: Why?

Tania: Out of respect for me.

Nicole: Bitch.

Peter 'Chook' Vernell: I love ya.

[Muriel looks through the small gap in the door and looks shocked]

Nicole: Yeah but you love Tanya too.

Peter 'Chook' Vernell: Don't worry about it.

[Chook and Nicole start going at it on the washing machine]

Nicole: [Out of breath] Chook

Peter 'Chook' Vernell: What?

Nicole: Shut the door

[Chook leans over and they both slam the door shut Muriel leans back and hears Chook and Nicole grunting in the laundry room]

Nicole: People invite us to parties because they know we have a good time. We're mad.

Janine: Pah-ty, pah-ty, pah-ty.

Nicole: It's our ee-mage.

Muriel: We're mad!

Nicole: What did I do to deserve this chain reaction of shit all the time?

T.J.: Sorry I broke your lamp.

Nicole: It's okay.

T.J.: And I'm sorry I called you a fat prostitute.

Nicole: It's okay.

T.J.: You are not fat.

Nicole: Hey, Bagel Guy.

The Bagel Guy: You know my name?

Nicole: You never think about me anymore? Not even just a little?

Matt: Let me put it this way: I have thought about you - about us - a lot, but tonight, when you came in, was the first time I didn't get all fucked up about it.

Nicole: [as she's getting thrown out of Matt's apartment] Matt, I am... so mad that I have... I have to tell you. Watching you standing up for yourself like this has never made me so... so... hot. I *like* this. Where have *you* been? You can slam that door in my face if you want, but I'll just be on the other side, even hotter. Holy Hell! Slam that door in my dirty, bad, bad face. Oh, God, Matt, slam it!

[slam]

Nicole: Who are we making jealous?

Chase: Everyone Nicole... everyone.

Nicole: Prince charming is a dick, bring on the frogs.

Chase: Ribbit.

Chase: I was hoping I could ask to cut in.

Nicole: Well Ray left, but it's okay with me... I bet you can still catch him if you hurry.

Chase: actually I wanted to dance with you.

Nicole: There are rules, you know.

Brad Seldon: [Brad is drunk] "Rules"?

Nicole: Rules!

Brad Seldon: What rules?

Ray: Seniors rule!

Nicole: You don't send Designated Dave to ask if I'll go with you if you don't plan on following through with the offer.

Brad Seldon: I was going to. I-I-I was going to. It's-It's just that...

Chase: [mockingly] He just - He-He-He just - He just - He-He...

Nicole: Shut up!

Brad Seldon: I don't know. I - I fell in love.

Nicole: Its called an easy-out-clause because its supposed to be EASY

Mr. Hammond: We're moving in together.

[Nicole and Chase give one another a surprised look]

Mrs. Maris: Obviously, we all need to think about what this means.

Nicole: Sure, well... tell you what. Why don't you two think about it here, and we'll go think about it in the treehouse.

[Nicole is crossing out guys in her yearbook]

Nicole: Moron. One eyebrow. Taking GEORGANNE WARNER. Failed health. Taking Sue. Taking Dee Vine.

[She scribbles a guy's face out]

Nicole: Refers to himself as "The De-Virginator".

Sue Ryan: It's easy to be a bitch now that Brad Seldon's available.

Nicole: It's easy to be a bitch either way.

Nicole: You know, I still have the letter you wrote me in 7th grade.

Chase: Burn it.

Nicole: You said, uh - You said you hated me, and there was sonething in there about how the only way you'd ever touch me again was if you came down with leprosy.

Chase: Sorry about that.

Nicole: Don't be. I deserved it. I'm the one who should be sorry. Chase, when your mom got sick...

Chase: Please Nicole lets not do this.

Nicole: I want to, I've wanted to say this for 5 years now. When your mom got sick, I couldn't bear to go over to your house it was too hard, I was too scared. I just wanted to cry all the time. Everytime I saw her, everytime I saw you. Even when we were together, you wouldn't say anything you would just sit there. So when you started wigging out in school, skipping, pulling fire alarms, I just acted like I didn't know you.

Chase: Well I'm over it now.

Nicole: Well, good night.

Chase: Yeah.

Mrs. Maris: We're moving in together.

Nicole: What?

Mr. Hammond: Maybe we should think about this.

Nicole: Okay, you think about it here and we'll think about it in the tree-house.

Sue Ryan: It's easy to be a bitch now that Brad Seldon is available.

Nicole: It's easy to be a bitch either way.

[Chase and Nicole are kissing]

Nicole: Oh, hey Dulcie.

Dulcie: Get a room.

Alicia DeGasario: Nicole, I'm honestly sorry about how things worked out. I really thought Brad was gonna ask you.

Nicole: He did. But I already had a date. He was bummed, so I let him know you were easy.

Andre: Are you out of your mind? What the hell were you thinking about?

Nicole: You're yelling.

Andre: Of course I'm yelling! My daughter tells some stranger that her father is her, her...

Nicole: *Lover*!

Andre: Oh, God! I hate that word. It's so... so graphic. Who else thinks this?

Nicole: A few of the other people.

Andre: How many of them?

Nicole: All of them.

Andre: All of them! Incroyable! I've been walking around here with you the past few days. They think I'm child molester!

Nicole: [she starts to cry] You're yelling again.

Andre: Why... why do you make up such stories?

Nicole: I don't know. It just comes naturally to me.

Andre: So it's genetic. Is that it?

Nicole: Yes. No! I don't know.

Andre: You have to tell him the truth.

Nicole: I tried to. Believe me, it's not that easy. I care about him.

Andre: [he smiles at her] Do you love him?

Nicole: Yes, I think so. I mean, yes, I do.

Andre: Has he done anything to you?

Nicole: No, he hasn't done anything to me. Besides, if I tell him I made all this up, he'll hate me. He'll think I'm some kind of liar.

Andre: You are.

Andre: How did it go?

Nicole: He's very impressed by you. He thinks you're a great guy.

Andre: [sarcastically] What a relief.

Nicole: And I told him I'm staying with you.

Andre: Isn't he jealous?

Nicole: I told him there's nothing to be jealous of. That there's nothing between us anymore because of... Promise you won't get mad?

Andre: Why do I get so frightened every time you ask me that?

Nicole: Because of your heart.

Andre: My heart? What about my heart?

Nicole: I told him you were dying.

Andre: I'm dying now.

[everyone in the balcony looks at him]

Nicole: Daddy. I told him I had to stay with you for your final days.

Andre: *My final days*? What's the matter with you?

Nicole: I don't know once I start lying, I can't stop. It's kind of addictive.

Andre: What I'm dying of?

Nicole: A rare disease you caught in Africa.

Andre: When was I in Africa?

Nicole: During the Hundred Years War.

Andre: The Hundred Years War was in the Middle Ages, in Europe!

Nicole: He didn't seem to notice.

Andre: Why not the Crusades?

[Nicole rolls her eyes at him]

[Nicole stands up, wearing a thong bathing suit]

Andre: What - what's that?

Nicole: What's the matter?

Andre: What are you wearing?

Nicole: My bathing suit!

Andre: The whole thing?

Nicole: What, you don't like it?

Andre: Are you sure you didn't leave part of it in the box?

Nicole: Get real, Andre. Everybody's wearing them.

Andre: Everyone's staring at you!

Nicole: No, everyone's staring at you.

Andre: I insist you change!

Nicole: And I insist you loosen up, Andre, dear.

[Kisses him on the cheek]

Stella: Now she's French.

Nicole: You know, one these days I'm leaving and I'm never coming back.

Megan: Fine. Go live with you father.

Nicole: Oh, you're such a bitch.

Andre: To you I probably seem old.

Nicole: You are old.

Nicole: Daddy, can I talk to you about something?

Andre: Of course. You can talk to me about anything.

Nicole: Anything?

Andre: Anything at all. What is it? Tell me.

Nicole: Promise not to yell.

Andre: I promise. Now tell me.

Nicole: It's really not that bad.

Andre: Tell me.

Nicole: You said you wouldn't yell.

Andre: That was not yelling, trust me.

Nicole: I told Ben you weren't my father.

Andre: Why?

Nicole: Because I wanted to impress him.

Andre: What did you tell him I was? A famous pianist? A wirter? What?

Nicole: [she takes a deep breath] I told him you were my lover.

Andre: Are you serious?

Nicole: Yes.

Nicole: My whole life will be ruined.

Andre: No. No, no. Your life will not be ruined. Mine maybe, but yours won't.

Nicole: He'll hate me!

Andre: No, no, he won't hate you.

Nicole: Yes, he will! I'm going to die!

Nicole: Do you want to take a shower with me?

Matt: Yeah uh... see actually I'm good right now. I just actually... I took a shower.

Jacob: [Listening in from another room with Zack and some other friends] Come on.

Zack: [Drops head onto arms] I hate - I hate him.

Nicole: I know that I fucked up, but, like, what is this with all the cameras? Like, are you fucking kidding me? Like, you would do that to me? Look I didn't do anything on purpose just to hurt you.

[points at camera]

Nicole: You're doing this on purpose just to hurt me, Matt.

Nicole: That's when you need to say, "Buddy boy, it's time to shit or get off the pot."

Sarah: And I would be the "shit" part of that analogy?

Nicole: [entering, modeling outfit] What do you think?

Claire Hopkins: Classy. Yet slutty.

Nicole: I know!

[to Rachel]

Nicole: I told you she'd love it!

Rachel: She said it was slutty.

Nicole: And classy.

Nicole: [entering, modeling outfit] What do you think?

Claire: Classy. Yet slutty.

Nicole: I know!

[to Rachel]

Nicole: I told you she'd love it!

Rachel: She said it was slutty.

Nicole: And classy.

Nicole: [entering, modeling outfit] What do you think?

Claire Hopkins: Classy. Yet slutty.

Nicole: I know!

[to Rachel]

Nicole: I told you she'd love it!

Rachel: She said it was slutty.

Nicole: And classy.

Nicole: So you and your dad are not so Disney these days, huh?

Ashley: It's Sharon and me... we're the total train wreck.

Nicole: Why would you walk away from a great career in homicide to join my unit?

Jeffrey: Well, I figure it's pretty much the same skill set. Except here I get to deal with living victims for a change.

Nicole: What is your history with children?

Jeffrey: Well, I was one once.

[snickers]

Nicole: The difference between a youth at risk and a young person with their whole life ahead of them, is care and concern.

Nicole: If I showed you pictures related to my work, most of you would cry. The awful truth is that there are no happy endings in my line of work. There are only stories that just stop. On a good day, I capture the scum of the Earth. On a good day, I help a damaged young person take a step forward on a very long journey through the kind of nightmare that would ruin this lovely dinner. Listen. You don't want me in your life. You never want me to come into the picture. Not with your child. So please, write big checks, and maybe none of you will ever have to see me again.

Jeffrey: [about Matthew] Hey. He reminds me of someone.

Nicole: Somebody from your past?

Jeffrey: Yeah, from my past.

Nicole: This is the present.

Nicole: What's your sign?

Darkman: Stop, that's my sign.

Nicole: You think you're a right player, don't you?

Richard: So do you.

Andrew: I'm just gonna lay it out there. This is why I don't think we should be together. And I've thought about it a lot and this is what's gonna happen. I'm gonna keep pursuing what I'm pursuing. And because I'm doing that, it's gonna take up more and more of my time. And I'm not gonna be able to spend as much time with you. And when I do spend time with you, I'm gonna be thinking about drumming. And I'm gonna be thinking about jazz music, my charts, all that. And because of that, you're gonna start to resent me. And you're gonna tell me to ease up on the drumming, spend more time with you because you're not feeling important. And I'm not gonna be able to do that. And really, I'm gonna start to resent you for even asking me to stop drumming. And we're just gonna start to hate each other. And it's gonna get very... It's gonna be ugly. And so for those reasons, I'd rather just, you know, break it off clean... because I wanna be great.

Nicole: And you're not?

Andrew: I wanna be one of the greats.

Nicole: And I would stop you from doing that?

Andrew: Yeah.

Nicole: You know I would stop you from doing that. You know, for a fact?

Andrew: Yes.

Nicole: And I'd barely see you anyway?

Andrew: Yeah.

Nicole: And when I do see you, you'd treat me like shit because I'm just some girl who doesn't know what she wants. And you have a path, and you're gonna be great, and I'm going to be forgotten, and therefore you won't be able to give me the time of day because you have bigger things to pursue?

Andrew: That's exactly my point.

Nicole: What the fuck is wrong with you? You're right, we should not be dating.

Nicole: You know how everyone's always saying seize the moment? I don't know, I'm kinda thinking it's the other way around. You know, like the moment seizes us.

Mason: Yeah. Yeah, I know. It's constant - -the moment. It's just... It's like it's always right now, you know?

Nicole: Yeah.

Whip: There's whole lot of people out there whose mothers die and they don't fucking drink.

Nicole: You are sick, Whip.

Whip: Yeah, well, I embrace it, shit! I choose to drink.

Nicole: You do?

Whip: Yes, I do.

Nicole: You choose it? Well, I don't see a whole lot of choice going on here!

Whip: I choose to drink! And I blame myself! I am happy to! And you know why? Because I choose to drink! I got an ex-wife and a son I never talk to! And you know why? Because I choose to drink!

Andy Evans: [forcefully] So I raped you? I could have any girl in this school I wanted. Willingly! Why would I rape you? You're not even attractive.

Melinda Sordino: [tries to run but is grabbed by Andy] No! No, no!

Andy Evans: You really screwed things up for me! You know that?

Melinda Sordino: No, help me!

Andy Evans: You are going to go to every single person in this school and tell them that you lied!

[Melinda throws chemicals in Andy's eyes]

Andy Evans: Ah! My eyes!

Melinda Sordino: [screaming] No! Get off of me! Get off!

Nicole: [from outside of the closet] What's going on in there? Open this door right now!

[sees Melinda holding a shard of glass to Andy's neck]

Nicole: Come out, Melinda.

[to Andy]

Nicole: What the hell is wrong with you?

Andy Evans: [panting in pain] Um.

Nicole: Answer me! Everybody knows what you did. Say something, asshole!

Andy Evans: [Melinda walks away] Please, no!

Nicole: Don't move!

Andy Evans: I can't see!

Nicole: You're not going anywhere.

Andy Evans: Please move! I can't see anything!

Mr. Neck: [yells down the hall] Hey! What's going on down there?

[to Melinda]

Mr. Neck: What happened? Melinda?

Carlos: You're crazy...

Nicole: ...and you're beautiful.

Nicole: [crying] Why do you hate me so much? How could you tell the only person in the world that I love, that I care about so much, how could you tell him to stay away from me? Do you think that the only thing I'll ever do to someone is screw them up? That I'm not worth loving?

Nicole: There are millions of people in this world, but in the end it all comes down to one. I still panic sometimes, forget to breathe, but I know that there's something beautiful in my imperfections; the beauty that he held up for me to see. The strength that I will never be able to say.

Nicole: You can be anywhere where when your life begins. You meet the right person and anything is possible.

Carlos: Come to get me into trouble again?

Nicole: Nah. We're off duty. We're not troublemakers, we're innocent. Don't we look innocent together?

Courtney Oakley: What kind of daughter are you?

Nicole: Not yours.

Courtney Oakley: Thank god for that.

Nicole: We forgot to wear our blue.

Maddy: Shit. I forgot to wear anything.

Nicole: You can be anywhere when your life begins. When the future opens up in front of you. And you may not even realize it at first, but it's already happening.

Nicole: I want to be good for you.

Nicole: I'm seventeen, I'm supposed to get out of control.

Nicole: If you marry an Iranian man, you automatically become an Iranian citizen. The laws regarding women are very strict. You cannot travel anywhere without written permission. You have no rights to the children. They go to the man in a divorce. I'm sorry, but you *will* have to go back to your husband.

Betty Mahmoody: But we'll never get out of Iran. We're being held hostage! It was almost impossible to come here!

Nicole: Mrs. Mahmoody, there are many American women here in similar circumstances.

[pauses]

Nicole: May I ask you why you came to Iran?

Betty Mahmoody: [pauses] I don't know. I don't know.

Mason: Nicole, did the Pied Piper take the children away because he was mad that the town didn't pay him?

Nicole: That's right.

Mason: Well, if he knew magic, if he could get the kids into the mountain, why couldn't he use his magic pipe to make the people pay him for getting rid of the rats?

Nicole: Because... he wanted them to be punished.

Mason: So he was mean?

Nicole: No, not mean, just... very angry.

Mary: (Speaking of a new computer, a gift) From Mr. Stephens... That was him on the phone just now. He was calling to see how you were.

Nicole: Who's Mr. Stephens?

Sam: Uh, he's a lawyer. He's our lawyer.

Nicole: You and Mom have a lawyer?

Sam: Well, yes. He's your lawyer, too.

Nicole: My lawyer. Why do I need a lawyer?

Mary: Well maybe we shouldn't be talking about this just now, with you barely home. Aren't you hungry, honey? You want me to fix you something?

Nicole: No. What's this lawyer business?

Nicole: No matter what I'm asked I'lltell the truth.

Mitchell Stephens: It's not going to be easy Nicole.

Nicole: I won't lie.

Sam: Nicole, tomorrow Mr. Stephens wants you to make your deposition at the community center. Thought I'd take you over.

Nicole: Great.

Sam: You seem, uh, I don't know. Distant, I guess. Hard to talk to.

Nicole: We didn't used to have to talk a lot, did we Daddy?

Sam: What do you mean?

Nicole: I mean, I'm a wheelchair girl now. And it's hard to pretend that I'm a beautiful rock star. Remember, Daddy? That beautiful stage that you were gonna build for me. You were gonna light it with nothing but candles.

Nicole: As you see her, two years later, I wonder if you realize something. I wonder if you understand that all of us - Dolores, me, the children who survived, the children who didn't - that we're all citizens of a different town now. A place with its own special rules and its own special laws. A town of people living in the sweet hereafter.

Mia: Am I alive?

Nicole: No, you are dead, this is Heaven and I am Virgin Mary.

Nicole: Come on, she's not a murderer. She's an ex-nun, for Christ's sake!

Voguel: I remember them. They disappeared overnight like dial phones.

Nicole: Still, if it's all the same to you, I'd rather not hang over fried chicken.

Nicole: [It's a quiet night and Nicole, drinking something in a cup, is looking Mia lighting candles in an open-air altar of the school] What do your saints say?

Mia: I'm brooding. I'm not praying.

Nicole: Lost your faith, ah? I've never really had any to begin with, I guess. Never believed in any of it. God, the Virgin Mary, that life begins at 40... and the people are all just basically good inside.

Mia: Pretty soon we'll be the same person.

Nicole: See how nice things turned out?

[She stops talking and seems to meditate briefly about something important]

Nicole: I'm going inside.

[about Mia's changing the terrible diet his husband used to martyrize the whole school before he was killing by Nicole and her]

Nicole: You know? It wasn't too smart changing the food like that, he never would've done that if he was alive.

Mia: What is the point in killing him then? I like making it better for the boys.

Nicole: [She starts to leave the place] Still, if it's all the same with you I'd rather not hang for fried chicken.

Mia: Nicole, why did you kill him?

[Nicole stops, with her back to Mia and staring at her above her shoulder]

Mia: You could've left him. You could've left here.

Nicole: I was understimated.

Nicole: Killing him is a good thing. Like planting a tree.

Mia: Maybe there is a God.

Nicole: What are you talking about?

Mia: I haven't believed fot so long... So when the pool was empty I thought: maybe there is a God. And He knows what we did. And He's coming for us.

Nicole: It's not God, Honey. That's a lady detective with one breast.

Mia: You're always laughing at me. So was Guy. He must be laughing now.

Nicole: I'm not laughing at you, Mia.

Mia: You are. A little. Inside. It's lonely without God, isn't it?

Nicole: It's just lonely... Period.

Mia: I'm not gonna be able to do this.

Nicole: Well, I suggest you try. It isn't like you burnt the toast, Mia. You killed your husband. It's all off the chart demerit-wise. Understand?

Mia: You are so calm. Look at you. Your hair is done. You've got makeup on.

Nicole: This is a day like any other day. We did what we have to do and it's done. Ok? It was self-defense. You've been taking it fot too long and you finally said fuck off. Good for you. Fuck him. Fuck them.

Mia: Everything but fuck you.

Nicole: Roughly. Now, come on!

[clapping her hands like a teacher to a pupil]

Nicole: Places!

Voguel: My idea of the Heaven is a place where they screw you barefoot!

Nicole: [Laughing] You make me wanna pass a hat for it.

Voguel: [Smiling] Don't feel sorry for me!

[about his ex]

Voguel: I got him be left

[Pointing her removed breast]

Voguel: Every cloud has a silver lining, and he was too dull to kill

[She stops to smile. About Mia]

Voguel: What about her? Did she want to kill her husband?

Nicole: Why would she want do that?

Voguel: Maybe she found out you were sleeping with him

[She walks to her car to leave]

Nicole: [Ironic] Oh, that's so clever! Who did you ask, one of the faculty or any of the students? Oh, I know! You read it in the brochure, all right?

Voguel: So she knew?

Nicole: Of course she knew! Ask her! Come on, she's not a murderer. She's an ex-nun, for Christ sake.

Voguel: [Laughing again] I remember them! They disappeared overnight, like dial phones.

[Serious again]

Voguel: Whay about you? What if he wouldn't leave her?

Nicole: Honey, if I couldn't get a man to leave her I wouldn't kill him, I'd kill myself.

Voguel: [Going into her car] Well, he has lef her. Apparently. One way or another. Well...

[about to start the car]

Voguel: Unless there's anything else...

Nicole: Yeah, there is, one more thing!

[She goes to Voguel's car window in a satisfied, accomplice and smiling mood]

Nicole: Guy did it barefoot!

Voguel: [She put a gum in her mouth pulling a face of sarcastic wisdom. Before starting the car and leaving the place] "Did", Miss Horner? Don't you mean "DOES"?

Mia: [the ex-nun defies] I can go to the police. I can tell them what we did.

Nicole: What YOU did.

Mia: We both did it.

Nicole: Yeah, well. I don't think they'll see that as beneficial to me. They'll say the wife gets the school, the money, his investment, her freedom... And what did the other woman get?

[Significative silence]

Nicole: Nothing. That's how they'll look at it.

Mia: [Coming very close to Nicole, with complicity] I'll say we were lovers.

Nicole: Well. You can take the girl out of the convent.

Mia: I thought we had the same reason.

Nicole: We did have the same reason

[as for the money Mia has just found out that Guy cheated Nicole]

Nicole: I just had an extra one

[Caressing Mia with cherish]

Nicole: I'm sorry I lied to you. I couldn't do it now.

Mia: If you hadn't found this... you'd killed the one person who could have told you where it was.

Nicole: He said we were partners. And then he acted alone

[She kisses softly Mia on her neck]

Nicole: Why don't you take him off speed dial?

Nicole: If you give him the school, he'll just sell it, and then where would all the future Lee Harvey Oswalds come from?

Nicole: You knew about her?

Mia: Yeah , from last fall , right after you came!

Nicole: And why didn't you tell me about her?

Mia: Why should I make hurt like I was?

[Nicole lights her cigarette]

Leo: Second-hand smoke kills, you know.

Nicole: [blowing smoke in Leo's face] Not reliably.

Nicole: One good drink oughta do it!

Nicole: [to Mia referring to Edie] That woman has enough drugs over there to relax China.

Nicole: [to Mia with sarcasm] Let me tell you one thing from one saint to another: You should keep right on praying. Wear your knees out that way for a change!

Nicole: It isn't like you burnt the toast, Mia. You murdered your husband! It's off the chart demeritwise.

Nicole: Who's Gertrude?

Jamie: Miss Illuminati 1896!

[Jamie comes out of the confessional and tells them she has to pray for 20 minutes]

Nicole: What did she do?

Kelsey: ...What didn't she do?

Nicole: You people are insane, any game that starts with a rotting pig's head is not going to end with a giant teddy bear.

Nicole: You're not taking this very seriously.

Robert: On the contrary, I take this a lot more seriously than someone who thinks a drug-addled pop star reject is just the guy to follow down the fucking elevator shaft.