The Walking Dead (TV Series)

Better Angels (2012)

Jon Bernthal: Shane Walsh

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• [Shane tells Rick to raise his gun] 

  Shane Walsh : Come on, man. Raise your gun.

  Rick Grimes : No. No, I will not.

  Shane Walsh : What happened, Rick? I thought you weren't the good guy anymore. Ain't that what you said? Even right here, right now, you ain't gonna fight for 'em? I'm a better father than you, Rick. I'm better for Lori than you, man. It's 'cause I'm a better man than you, Rick. 'Cause I can be here and I'll fight for it. You come back here and you just destroy everything! You got a broken woman. Y-You got a weak boy. You ain't got the first clue on how to fix it.

  Shane Walsh : [Shane cocks his gun]  Raise your gun.

  Rick Grimes : [Rick in a low voice]  You're gonna have to kill an unarmed man.

• [Rick tells Shane that he won't be able to live with himself if he kills him] 

  Rick Grimes : I thought we worked this all out.

  Shane Walsh : [Shane chuckles]  We tried to kill each other man. What you think? We just gonna forget about it all? We gonna ride off into the sunset together?

  Rick Grimes : You're gonna kill me in cold blood? Fuck my wife? Have my children... my children... call you daddy? Is that what you want? That life won't be worth a damn. I know you. You won't be able to live with this.

  Shane Walsh : What you know about what I can live with? You got no idea what I can live with, what I live with! You wanna talk about what I can do, Rick? How about what you can do? Here I am.

• [Shane tells the group that Randall got the jump on him] 

  Shane Walsh : Hey, look, there ain't no use in tracking him, okay? He went that way. We need to pair up. We spread out, we just chase him down. That's it.

  Daryl Dixon : Kid weighs a buck-25 soaking wet. You trying to tell us he got the jump on you?

  Shane Walsh : I say a rock pretty much evens those odds, wouldn't you?

• [Shane walks Rick out into the empty field to kill him] 

  Rick Grimes : So this is where you planned to do it?

  Shane Walsh : It's a good place as any.

  Rick Grimes : At least have the balls to call this what it is... murder.

• [Rick tells Shane that nobody will believe his story] 

  Rick Grimes : You really believe if you walk back onto that farm alone... no me, no Randall...

  Shane Walsh : I want you to hush up.

  Rick Grimes : You really believe they're gonna buy whatever bullshit story you cook up?

  Shane Walsh : That's just it. It ain't no story. I saw that prisoner shoot you down. I ran after him. I snapped his neck. It ain't gonna be easy, but Lori and Carl... they'll get over you. They done it before. They just gonna have to.

  [Shane cocks his gun at Rick] 

• [Shane walks Randall deeper into the woods] 

  Randall Culver : Hey, you ain't gotta be so rough. We're on the same side now. You're gonna like it with us. Gets a little crazy sometimes, but it's a tough bunch of guys. You'll fit in good.

  Shane Walsh : Less talking, more walking.

  Randall Culver : Look, I run my mouth when I get nervous. I can't help it. I got a lot going on, you know?

  Shane Walsh : [Shane looks back towards the farm]  It ain't all about you.

  Randall Culver : I... I ain't saying it's about me. Just trying to...

  [when Randall screams before the sound of a snap] 

• [Shane tells Carl that he's responsible for the death of Dale] 

  Carl Grimes : Dale. It's my fault that he died.

  Shane Walsh : Carl, why would you say that, man? He got bit by a walker. Why you say...

  Carl Grimes : I saw that walker. I was gonna shoot it. When he was stuck in the mud. I was... I was throwing rocks at him and stuff. But I was gonna do it... shoot it right in the head. And it... it got free, came after me and... I ran away. If I had killed it, Dale would still be here.

  Shane Walsh : [Shane holds out his gun to give to Carl]  Carl, I want you to stop that, okay? This ain't your fault. But you need to hold onto this. You need to protect yourself. As long as I'm around you, nothing's gonna happen to you, Carl. But I can't keep my eyes on you 24/7. Only you can do that. Carl, take it.

  Carl Grimes : I'm never touching another gun again.

• [Lori talks to Shane as he fixes some boards on Hershel's property] 

  Lori Grimes : Wouldn't that be easier if you waited for some help?

  Shane Walsh : Ain't no use waiting for something that ain't gonna come. No, I'll just... just do it all myself.

  Lori Grimes : Yeah, you always do, just like that time you showed up Rick fixing our sink.

  Shane Walsh : Yeah. Just so you know, that's not the reason your basement flooded. You can thank Rick for that... using rubber washers with a metal pipe.

• [Lori thanks Shane for keeping her alive while apologizing for hurting him] 

  Lori Grimes : I made a mess of things. I put you and Rick at odds. I don't even know whose baby this is. I can't imagine how hard that is on you. You led us out of Atlanta with no thought for yourself. Do you remember that night? The flames, the...

  Lori Grimes : [Lori tears up]  And I'm sitting in our car thinking 'We're gonna be all right. He's gonna make it all right. We'll get out of here.' And I never thanked you for that. Even though things got... confused between us, you were there for me. You were there for me. Thank you.

  Shane Walsh : [Shane whispers]  You don't need to thank me for that.

  Lori Grimes : [Lori's voice cracks]  Of course I do. Of course I do.

  Shane Walsh : No, you...

  Lori Grimes : Whatever happened between us, whatever the hell we thought it was... and not just you, but... I'm sorry, Shane. Please believe me. I am so sorry.

  [as Lori walks away crying] 

• [Shane unties Randall out in the woods] 

  Randall Culver : So you're not gonna kill me?

  Shane Walsh : Come on, man. If I was, you'd be dead.