In Plain Sight Quotes

Dr. Bronstein: How are you feeling?
Mary Shannon: Good. Better. Because if I say anything else, I'm not getting out of here. So, GREAT.
Dr. Bronstein: How's your memory?
Mary Shannon: Fantastic if I was shot by a smudge
Dr. Bronstein: Well, I told you it might come back slowly or in pieces or...
Mary Shannon: Not at all. Which matters no matter what happens, you get to be right and you're not letting me out, are you? And I'm going to be here another week. I knew it.
Dr. Bronstein: Promise me you'll take it slow.
Mary Shannon: Wait, is that condescending doctor talk for I can go?

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Mary Shannon: Help, the absolute worst of the four-letter words, and the one I know best. A six-year-old on tiptoes, peering into Brandy's crib, my mother on the bedroom floor scrounging for the booze. That word coming out of their mouths as a gasp, like destiny, "Help." I've learned over time "Help" doesn't mean grab the other paint roller, or hold the ladder still. It means "Hey, I screwed up, now what're we going to do?" "Help," more than anything, is the not-so-subtle herald of the appearance of "we" - and don't even get me started on "happy to help."

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Mary Shannon: How long had he and Sienna been going out?
Nicole: They weren't going out. Sienna was just being nice to him. He was a virgin, so she's gonna... you know.
Mary Shannon: That *is* nice.

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Mary Shannon: [is in basement after being kidnapped, she has just shot the kidnapper in the basement with her and thinks another kidnapper is coming down-stairs to shoot her, her gun is empty, so she grabs a shovel to smack the assailant's head as he enters the basement, she gets ready to swing the shovel, and as she hears the person coming down the steps, she swings with a lot of force] Uggggggggg
Stan McQueen: [Was the first person coming down the stairs, he ducks as the shovel is being swung]
Mary Shannon: [Realizes that it is Stan and Marshall who came to rescue her and gets this 'Oh thank God' look on her face]
Marshall Mann: [Is amazed to have found Mary alive and well goes over to her and hugs her] [Mary falls into Marshall because of her weakened state, Marshall & Stan each take one of Mary's arms and help her up stairs]

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Mary Shannon: [to Marshall] I just wanna wash the stench of this day off and go to bed.
Marshall Mann: I know, but there are about sixty people in there hiding behind furniture just waiting for you to open the door so they can jump up and yell "surprise."
Mary Shannon: Yuck.
Marshall Mann: C'mon, it's your birthday. This isn't about you. Get ready to act surprised.

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Scott Worley: [walking in the gym to watch Chris play college basketball] Do you play?
Marshall Mann: Badmitten. We played our tournaments here. See this scar? Shuttlecock injury... ended my career.
Scott Worley: [to Mary] Yeah, is he kidding?
Mary Shannon: I don't know. Either way, it's pathetic.
Scott Worley: [moves away from them] Excuse me.
Mary Shannon: [grinning] Way to work "shuttlecock" into the conversation... you jackass.
Marshall Mann: It's one of the funnier words.

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Stan: [speaking of Mary] Yes, Mr. Mayor, I'm still here. Why is she there? Well, Mr. Mayor, she assessed the situation and took a quick, calculated risk and put her life on the line. Quite frankly, sir, no one else had the balls.

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Marshall: What are you doing here?
Mary: Well, Sabrina's mom screwed the pooch; showed up four hours late and cut the weekend short. So sad for them. So sweet for me. Free food; fights; food fights.
Marshall: You're actually hoping for violence.
Mary: I'm not hoping. Rooting.

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Mary: Marshall. Marshall! Can you hear me?
Marshall: I must have bumped my head.
Mary: Yeah, that's what happened. Then you fell on a bullet.
Marshall: Huh?
Mary: You doofus, you got shot.
Marshall: Oh, crap.

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Mary: What do you think?
Marshall: I think if that really was Lola, she knows this is her only shot at Mr. Personality before he talks to the feds.
Mary: Which means she's coming back.
Marshall: Dun, dun, duh.
Mary: That's pretty funny for a guy with a sucking chest wound.
Marshall: I know.

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Mary: How are we doing?
Marshall: Tension pneumothorax.
Mary: That's funny. I was just going to say that.
Marshall: Tube thorocostomy.
Mary: Marshall, if I'm going to help you, you need to speak English.

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Marshall: Liar liar status?
Mary: Pants fully on fire.

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Marshall: As I was saying, imagery and metaphor have been used to sell projects forever.
Mary: Please, Jesus, take me now.
Marshall: Take the Ford Mustang, for instance. It's named for a powerful and agile animal, qualities we also seek in an automobile. It's called transference.
Mary: Okay, what about my Probe? Exactly what image is that supposed to transfer? Because all I'm getting is a paper dress, metal stirrups, and legs akimbo. Exactly what was the thought process behind that marketing coup? Say, Bob, what's a metaphor for an invasive, somewhat humiliating procedure, because we really need something to compete with the Chevy Speculum.

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Mary: The care and feeding of career criminals like Frankie Nuts is a dicey proposition at best. On any given day, I get to play mother, father, best friend, priest, rabbi, marriage counselor, and yes unfortunately occasionally homicide detective which is why I find myself driving my misogynist metaphor across the desert with a busted air conditioner to hunt down the murderer of the son of my murderer witness. No backup. No plan to speak of. No alternative. Also, Frankie Jr. got killed on my watch. That just pisses me off.

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Marshall: Are you going to be like this all day?
Mary: Like what?
Marshall: [Makes cat fighting noise]
Mary: Guess it depends on how long it's going to be my birthday.
Marshall: All day.
Mary: There you go.

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Mary: Before you hear it from someone else, I smacked an indian's johnson with a bar of soap today.
Marshall: Haven't we done enough to those people?

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Mary: [Voiceover] The Federal Witness Protection Program is the most secretive organization in all of law enforcement. We do not talk about what we do. Not to friends, not to family, not even to other U.S. Marshals. Which is why my mother, my sister, and even my boyfriend, who by the way isn't really my boyfriend, all think I'm a glorified messenger with a gun. And why Marshall and I work on the roof of the Sunshine Building, while the rest of the U.S. Marshals reside in the Pete Domenici Federal Courthouse, with their mahogany desks, crystal chandeliers and butlers.

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Mary: I just want to wash the stench of this day off and go to bed.
Marshall: I know, but there are about sixty people in there hiding behind furniture, just waiting for you to open the door so they can jump up and say surprise.
Mary: Yuck.
Marshall: Come on, it's your birthday. This isn't about you. Now get ready to act surprised.
Mary: All right, all right.
Marshall: That's my girl.

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Mary: [Voiceover] We all live in hiding. In one way or another, each of us conceals pieces of ourselves from the rest of the world. Some people hide because their lives depend on it, others because they don't like being seen. And then there are the special cases, the ones who hide because... because... because they just want someone to care enough to look for them.

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Mary: Stan, I suck with kids.
Marshall: So? You suck with grownups, too.
[Mary hits him on the arm]
[Marshall returns hit to Mary's arm]
Mary: Ow! I can't believe you'd hit a girl!
Marshall: You're no girl.

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Mary: How many times a week do people tell you you suck?
Arlo Meyers: Are you going to let her speak to me like this?
Stan: It seems like a valid question.

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(Marshall is wearing the same pajama pants as a 10 year old witness)
Mary: Yeah.
Marshall: We're locked down. Outer perimeter's secure. I’ll be in the other bedroom if you need me.
Mary: Thanks.
Marshall: Good night.
Leo: (snickers)
Marshall: Nice jammies.
Leo: Uh-huh. That guy's supposed to protect me?
Mary: Yeah, but don't let the PJs fool you. That's one bad-ass law man.

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Mary: [After walking in the front door of McRoy's home] Chrome and glass. Kind of cliche for a drug dealer, no?

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Mary: I might have a problem.
Marshall: You think this is new information?
Mary: I don't think I can turn him over.
Marshall: Okay, but you're going to have to feed him and take him for walks.
Mary: I'm serious, Marshall. They'll kill him.
Marshall: I know. Just tell me what you need.
Mary: Okay. Thanks.
Marshall: [Flippantly] Uh-huh.

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Mary: Listen to me. Forget about everything else and just tell the truth. It's all going to work out the way it's supposed to, okay?
Leo Billups: Yeah, and what if the way it's supposed to work out sucks?
Mary: Listen to me. Everything's going to be okay. Do you trust me?
Leo Billups: Like I have a choice. [Walks into the judge's chambers]
Mary: Finally I meet a guy that gets me and he's ten.

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Mary: "Happily ever after", the big lie. Those three insidious words, repeated again and again, promising myself and a gazillion other little girls that some day, sure as the sunset, a man prettier than ourselves would sweep us away. To live our lives forever and a day. Blah blah, blah. Never once mentioning the years of quiet desperation that surely followed. Which is why I pray with all my soul that whoever invented the lethal mantra "happily ever after" died penniless, face down in the gutter, with cats gnawing on his ears.

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Mary: Now then, I want you to understand something. This program is an opportunity very few people get. A shot at fresh start; a do-over of your entire life, but it only works if you make the decision to be a better human being than you've been and allow the possibility of something greater for yourself. And as impossible as it may seem, I've seen even bigger scumbags than you do just that and make it stick.

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Deandra Bevins: Welcome to my home, Mary, and please call me Dee. Only my son's whores are required to call me Deandra.

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Marshall: Despite my athletic prowess and my eagerness to please you, I cannot outrun a horse.

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Mary: What are you doing?
Marshall: What? Nothing. I'm doing my job, keeping my eye on things.
Mary: Look at me.
Marshall: No. Why?
Mary: Because I'm talking to you. Oh my God. You can't look at me. Marshall, for God's sake. It's not like I'm naked.
Marshall: Naked would be better. That makes me feel so dirty.
Mary: Good Lord. Watch the door, Purvis.

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