The Leftovers (TV Series)

Cairo (2014)

Ann Dowd: Patti Levin

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Quotes 

• Kevin Garvey : You want me to kill you.

  Patti Levin : Oh Kevin, you can't kill me, you don't have the fuckin' balls. I want you to commit. I want you to finish what you started. I want you to go all the way. I want you to say you understand.

  Kevin Garvey : Understand what?

  Patti Levin : What happened! What's happening. To me. To you. Oh vanity of Sleep, Hope, Dream, endless Desire, the Horses of Disaster plunge through the heavy clay: Beloved, let your eyes half close and your heart beat over my heart, and you hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest, And hiding their tossing manes, and tumultuous feet. Kevin? Kevin. Kevin Garvey. You don't have to hide from me.

  Kevin Garvey : [stares a moment. looks over at a toolbox. gets up and retrieves a gutting knife from it, and stalks back over to stand in front of Patti bound to a chair]  You're going home.

  [kneels and starts cutting her loose] 

  Kevin Garvey : You're not gonna' tell anyone what I did to you. Because I'll fuckin' tell them. Lose my fuckin' job, so fuckin' be it. But I am not gonna' lose my mind listening to the words coming out of your fucking mouth. No, Patti. No. I don't understand you.

  Patti Levin : [picks up a piece of broken glass as Kevin walks toward the door to leave]  Kevin!

  [he turns to face her] 

  Patti Levin : You do understand.

  [Patti stabs herself in the neck, blood pouring down her body as she collapses] 

  Kevin Garvey : Oh Jesus! Oh God!

  [rushes to Patti and lowers her to the floor, removing the shard from her neck] 

  Kevin Garvey : What the fuck did you do? What the fuck did you do?

  Patti Levin : [last words]  You understand...

• Patti Levin : Boy are you fucked.

  Kevin Garvey : Tell me.

  Patti Levin : You're wondering if I have a sense of debt to you for saving my life. Maybe, I'll change my mind about decimating yours?

  Kevin Garvey : But you won't.

  Patti Levin : No, I won't. Oh, it's a pickle- can't let me go, won't let me die. Oh what to do, Kevin, what to fucking do?

  Kevin Garvey : What do you want?

  Patti Levin : I want you do understand.

  Kevin Garvey : Understand what?

  Patti Levin : Ever think about the fourteenth? The fourteenth of October? The great vanishing, the Sudden Departure, the clusterfuck of the modern era. When's the last time you really thought about it?

  Patti Levin : I don't.

  Patti Levin : Me, I think about it every fuckin' waking moment. I mean come on, what else is there to think about?

  Kevin Garvey : So you know where they went- what happened?

  Patti Levin : It doesn't matter what happened! But the difference between you and me is that I accept that it did. And while you push it aside, while you ignore it, we strip ourselves of everything that distracts us from it. We strip away the colorful diversions that keep us from remembering. We strip away attachment, fear, and love, and hatred, and anger, until we are... erased. Until we are a blank slate. We are living reminders of what you try so desperately to forget. And we are ready. And we are waiting. Because it's not gonna' be long now.

  Kevin Garvey : Now I know why you don't fuckin' talk. I've gotta' hand it to you Patti that is such an impressive line of fuckin' bullshit.

  Patti Levin : Well Laurie obviously disagrees with you.

  Kevin Garvey : Laurie didn't join you to become a living fucking reminder.

  Patti Levin : Then why did she?

  Kevin Garvey : Because I failed her.

  Patti Levin : Oh, you think she came to us because of you? Because of what you did with your dirty dick? Yes, Kevin, there was a time when I told Laurie everything. And then there was a time when she told me everything. But she came to me because I could offer her something that you could not: purpose. That's all any of us want now, every single one of us. Not answers, not love- just a reason to exist. Something to live for. Something to die for.

  Patti Levin : Did Gladys have a purpose?

  Patti Levin : Ah, you remember her name!

  Kevin Garvey : Of course I remember her fucking name.

  Patti Levin : Well Kevin, that was the point! That woman was brutally murdered- death by a hundred stones- and now, she can't be forgotten.

  Patti Levin : Did you murder her?

  Patti Levin : [pause]  She was okay with it. And when Laurie's time comes she will be okay with it too. And it's coming. So soon. And you are all ready, all you need is just a little push.