In Plain Sight Quotes
Marshall: Everything matters. Everything you think, feel, but most of all—every thing you do—it all counts.
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Marshall: I find your almost girlish delight disturbing on many levels.
Mary: Come on! It's five days without your standard, whiney, moping witness crap. It's back to basics: hunt, bust, cuff, haul! Then there's the icing on the cake: him. [looks at Marshall's father, Deputy Marshal Seth Mann]
Marshall: You've now crossed over to sadistic glee.
Mary: Are you nervous?
Marshall: No!
Mary: You should be. I'm about to find out so many embarrassing hilarious new secrets, I'm going to have to alphabetize them.
Marshall: I honestly fear for the state of your soul. [stands as his dad approaches]
Seth: Marshall.
Marshall: Dad.
Mary: [sighs] Heaven.
Mary: Come on! It's five days without your standard, whiney, moping witness crap. It's back to basics: hunt, bust, cuff, haul! Then there's the icing on the cake: him. [looks at Marshall's father, Deputy Marshal Seth Mann]
Marshall: You've now crossed over to sadistic glee.
Mary: Are you nervous?
Marshall: No!
Mary: You should be. I'm about to find out so many embarrassing hilarious new secrets, I'm going to have to alphabetize them.
Marshall: I honestly fear for the state of your soul. [stands as his dad approaches]
Seth: Marshall.
Marshall: Dad.
Mary: [sighs] Heaven.
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Seth: So, you seeing anyone?
Marshall: There are a few prospects.
Mary: [laughs]
Marshall: Mary doesn't know about them because I try not to subject people I care about to what I euphemistically refer to as her winning abrasiveness.
Mary: Look, Seth, Marshall's social life is a contradiction in terms, unless you count putting a bookstore clerk in a headlock and telling her about Nietzschean themes in Wagnerian opera.
Marshall: She was interested!
Mary: [pats his shoulder] Shhh. [to Seth] There's so much I want to know. Who was Marshall's first celebrity crush? How old was he when he went to his first Star Trek convention? And when did he start using a curling iron?
Marshall: There are a few prospects.
Mary: [laughs]
Marshall: Mary doesn't know about them because I try not to subject people I care about to what I euphemistically refer to as her winning abrasiveness.
Mary: Look, Seth, Marshall's social life is a contradiction in terms, unless you count putting a bookstore clerk in a headlock and telling her about Nietzschean themes in Wagnerian opera.
Marshall: She was interested!
Mary: [pats his shoulder] Shhh. [to Seth] There's so much I want to know. Who was Marshall's first celebrity crush? How old was he when he went to his first Star Trek convention? And when did he start using a curling iron?
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Mary: How old were you when you first wondered if you were adopted?
Marshall: Four. I did the saliva strip test at eight. Sadly...[shakes head]
Marshall: Four. I did the saliva strip test at eight. Sadly...[shakes head]
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Marshall: If we peel off then he'll know we're ditching him, which means he'll be hunting us, and trust me, even as a kid, hide-and-seek with that man gave me stomach cramps.
Mary: Hey, PD's tagged a van belonging to Liam. I can stake it out with your dad, tell him you had a WITSEC emergency. Good enough?
Marshall: I wish I had had you in high school.
Mary: High school me would have eaten high school you alive.
Mary: Hey, PD's tagged a van belonging to Liam. I can stake it out with your dad, tell him you had a WITSEC emergency. Good enough?
Marshall: I wish I had had you in high school.
Mary: High school me would have eaten high school you alive.
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Mary: [voiceover] Friendship, it's been said, is God's way of apologizing for your family. I don't really subscribe to the God part, but if I did apologizing for family seems like the least he could do.
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Mary: What's that?
Marshall: That would be a painting.
Mary: Oh, God, no. You're not going to try to drag me to another art show, are you? Last time I got cornered by some freak wearing a kilt with a tattoo inside his bottom lip that said "yeah." He showed it to me twice while I was eating!
Marshall: [smiles] No. This is about my witness, Patrick Hill. It might be nothing. How's Mia?
Mary: Level-headed, funny, smart, no trouble whatsoever. She's just— [sighs] I'm sorry I couldn't tell you.
Marshall: Your talent for keeping a confidence is one of your most admirable qualities. Along with the ability to shoot accurately while downing a Big Gulp. Could I help you find something?
Mary: Yeah. There was this witness a while back, a case where the guy was shot and died and they videoed his testimony.
Marshall: U.S. versus Carlton Marchai, first degree felony kidnapping. I'm sending you the link.
Mary: Oh, praise Jesus you have no life!
Marshall: That would be a painting.
Mary: Oh, God, no. You're not going to try to drag me to another art show, are you? Last time I got cornered by some freak wearing a kilt with a tattoo inside his bottom lip that said "yeah." He showed it to me twice while I was eating!
Marshall: [smiles] No. This is about my witness, Patrick Hill. It might be nothing. How's Mia?
Mary: Level-headed, funny, smart, no trouble whatsoever. She's just— [sighs] I'm sorry I couldn't tell you.
Marshall: Your talent for keeping a confidence is one of your most admirable qualities. Along with the ability to shoot accurately while downing a Big Gulp. Could I help you find something?
Mary: Yeah. There was this witness a while back, a case where the guy was shot and died and they videoed his testimony.
Marshall: U.S. versus Carlton Marchai, first degree felony kidnapping. I'm sending you the link.
Mary: Oh, praise Jesus you have no life!
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[Marshall has just learned Patrick brought his boyfriend into WitSec without telling anyone]
Patrick: I'm sorry! I shouldn't have misled you. I should have told you about us. But I... I just couldn't. My family, they'd never understand.
Marshall: Patrick, I don't mean to be glib, but if ever there was an opportunity to let go of what your family thinks, it's in Witness Protection, where you will never see them again!
Bob: [to Marshall] You see? This is what I'm dealing with!
Patrick: I'm sorry! I shouldn't have misled you. I should have told you about us. But I... I just couldn't. My family, they'd never understand.
Marshall: Patrick, I don't mean to be glib, but if ever there was an opportunity to let go of what your family thinks, it's in Witness Protection, where you will never see them again!
Bob: [to Marshall] You see? This is what I'm dealing with!
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Marshall: You leaving early?
Mary: I thought I'd go check on Mia, see if she feels like hanging out tonight.
Marshall: Ah.
Mary: What? What's that mean?
Marshall: It implies understanding.
Mary: No, it implies you think you know something; something even I don't know. "Ah" is Marshall speak for arrogant.
Marshall: You like her.
Mary: I don't hate her.
Marshall: Which for you is tantamount to eternal fealty. Would you go so far as to say under different circumstances you might be, dare I say, friends?
Mary: What's your point?
Marshall: No matter what you do or feel for her, she's not going to be here long and that you can't change.
Mary: Yeah, well, what I can do is make it better. Thanks, sunshine.
Marshall: I know that you can make it better, just don't make it worse for yourself.
Mary: I love when you talk to me in greeting card.
Marshall: I'm serious, Mary. That's why you're so lucky to have me.
Mary: Where I'm smart, you're an idiot.
Marshall: Symbiosis personified.
Mary: I thought I'd go check on Mia, see if she feels like hanging out tonight.
Marshall: Ah.
Mary: What? What's that mean?
Marshall: It implies understanding.
Mary: No, it implies you think you know something; something even I don't know. "Ah" is Marshall speak for arrogant.
Marshall: You like her.
Mary: I don't hate her.
Marshall: Which for you is tantamount to eternal fealty. Would you go so far as to say under different circumstances you might be, dare I say, friends?
Mary: What's your point?
Marshall: No matter what you do or feel for her, she's not going to be here long and that you can't change.
Mary: Yeah, well, what I can do is make it better. Thanks, sunshine.
Marshall: I know that you can make it better, just don't make it worse for yourself.
Mary: I love when you talk to me in greeting card.
Marshall: I'm serious, Mary. That's why you're so lucky to have me.
Mary: Where I'm smart, you're an idiot.
Marshall: Symbiosis personified.
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Mary: [voiceover] I can count the witnesses I've admired on a hand and a half. The ones I liked, fewer still. When it comes to those I was truly friends with I can't put a number on it. I don't need to. It's just Mia. Someone who wouldn't be around very long. I know somewhere a therapist's couch beckons. Mia lived forty-two years. All she wanted in the end was to have made a difference in one life. She did. She absolutely did. I know what she'd say if she heard all this: "Oh, shut up." Her version of rest in peace.
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Brandi: Scott invited me to come to his Gamblers Anonymous meeting. You want to come with?
Mary: No, I'm running late, and shoot me first.
Mary: No, I'm running late, and shoot me first.
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Mary: Holy mother, what is that smell?!
Marshall: Homemade empanadas.
Mary: What kind?
Marshall: [protects the plate] Mine, that's what kind.
Mary: Why do you get the witnesses that cook you food, and I get the ones who can multiply very large numbers in their head?
Marshall: It is commonly referred to as karma.
Mary: [grabs an empanada from the plate]Tu empanadas es mi empanadas.
Marshall: Actually, it would be "tus empanadas son mis empanadas".
Mary: So, in high school, who didn't hate you?
Marshall: Actually, I was both well-liked and widely admired.
Marshall: Homemade empanadas.
Mary: What kind?
Marshall: [protects the plate] Mine, that's what kind.
Mary: Why do you get the witnesses that cook you food, and I get the ones who can multiply very large numbers in their head?
Marshall: It is commonly referred to as karma.
Mary: [grabs an empanada from the plate]Tu empanadas es mi empanadas.
Marshall: Actually, it would be "tus empanadas son mis empanadas".
Mary: So, in high school, who didn't hate you?
Marshall: Actually, I was both well-liked and widely admired.
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Mary: [voiceover] Trusting anything, your family, your instincts, the dim-witted anchor on the ten o'clock news, its all a gamble, with plenty of promises and no guarantees, but I'm finding the longer I live, no matter how often I fall on my face, that folding is for losers. That winners take hits. Call it going all in, call it rolling the dice. Screw hedging your bets, bluff, raise, call, stand, again and again and again...
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Mary: [voiceover] I once dated a guy who loved the independence of living on his own; chugging from the carton in the middle of the night. He said the isolation was a trade-off he could live with. I thought I'd hit the mother lode. Then he told me he was going to clown camp.
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Marshall: The paperwork has your IQ at 142. That's a notch above that of the average itinerant. What's your story?
Walter: I read a biography of Paul Erdos when I was ten. It hooked me. [to Mary] Erdos was a homeless Hungarian mathemetician.
Marshall: Who never settled down. Just roamed the world --
Mary: Terrific. Dueling Marshall's.
Marshall: -- helping people with their math problems. He did a lot of work in set theory.
Mary: Hey, look! A dime!
Walter: I read a biography of Paul Erdos when I was ten. It hooked me. [to Mary] Erdos was a homeless Hungarian mathemetician.
Marshall: Who never settled down. Just roamed the world --
Mary: Terrific. Dueling Marshall's.
Marshall: -- helping people with their math problems. He did a lot of work in set theory.
Mary: Hey, look! A dime!
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Mary: So, long lost mom is a Sherry Greer from Modesto, California.
Marshall: With her social it won't take long to track down where she is.
Mary: Oh, goody.
Marshall: It's possible a positive reunion with Walter's birth mother could heal his primal wound.
Mary: Don't say primal wound.
Marshall: That's what it's called.
Mary: Seriously, I'll give you a hundred dollars if you'll stop.
Marshall: That's what they call many adoptees suffer when taken from their mothers at birth.
Mary: So, what? He's homeless because he's adopted?
Marshall: Maybe unable to bond properly with his adopted family, yes.
Mary: No. I'm a firm believer in ignorant bliss, especially when it comes to family members taking off.
Marshall: Ah, a parallel. How could I have missed it?
Mary: All right, okay. Just don't be surprised when Walter's mom turns out to be something less than Carol Brady.
Marshall: Found her! Sherry's gone back to good, old Modesto. Hmm.
Mary: Hmm, what?
Marshall: She's on husband number four.
Mary: Happy now? Carol Brady's a slut!
Marshall: With her social it won't take long to track down where she is.
Mary: Oh, goody.
Marshall: It's possible a positive reunion with Walter's birth mother could heal his primal wound.
Mary: Don't say primal wound.
Marshall: That's what it's called.
Mary: Seriously, I'll give you a hundred dollars if you'll stop.
Marshall: That's what they call many adoptees suffer when taken from their mothers at birth.
Mary: So, what? He's homeless because he's adopted?
Marshall: Maybe unable to bond properly with his adopted family, yes.
Mary: No. I'm a firm believer in ignorant bliss, especially when it comes to family members taking off.
Marshall: Ah, a parallel. How could I have missed it?
Mary: All right, okay. Just don't be surprised when Walter's mom turns out to be something less than Carol Brady.
Marshall: Found her! Sherry's gone back to good, old Modesto. Hmm.
Mary: Hmm, what?
Marshall: She's on husband number four.
Mary: Happy now? Carol Brady's a slut!
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Marshall: I'll bet I know what you're thinking. Do you want me to tell you?
Mary: Do I ever?
Marshall: Your father's out there somewhere. You know more than you ever have. We can at least try.
Mary: I don't want to try.
Marshall: Sorry, those words coming out of your mouth are disorienting. You don't want answers?
Mary: There's no happy ending to that story, John Boy. Not even the one in my head.
Mary: Do I ever?
Marshall: Your father's out there somewhere. You know more than you ever have. We can at least try.
Mary: I don't want to try.
Marshall: Sorry, those words coming out of your mouth are disorienting. You don't want answers?
Mary: There's no happy ending to that story, John Boy. Not even the one in my head.
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Mary: [voiceover] Split apart, reunited or adjusted for new conditions on the ground, family is a double edged sowrd. They are the best of times, the worst of times, your keys to the kingdom and the skeletons in your closet. If only we didn't have to eat dinner with them.
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Mary: [voiceover] Winston Churchill famously said that democracy is the worst form of government... except for all the others. The same goes for family. Or as we'd say on our side of the pond, nobody picks on my brother but me.
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Mary: [Mary is threatening Brian about Sabrina] I'm gonna break it down for you. If you touch, talk or so much as accidentally glance at Sabrina, I will find you. I will hunt you down like a lioness looking for dinner. I will haunt you in your dreams til you wake up in your little race car bed with your Transformer sheets soaked through.
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Mary: [voiceover] People say "you can't chose your family." What you can do is look deeper than the dinner table, beyond the DNA and redefine the word. No one knows that better than I do.
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Mary: [to Stan, after he assigned Marshall to a case he didn't want] I'm taking Sabrina to Chicago to see her mother today. How am I supposed to revel in Marshall's misery from 1,000 miles away?
Marshall: Sorry to blow your weekend.
Marshall: Sorry to blow your weekend.
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Brian: [to Sabrina] Who's the foxy Gen X-er, Breen? Your sister or your stepmom?
Mary: Too soon to tell. Her dad and I just started Facebook poking.
Mary: Too soon to tell. Her dad and I just started Facebook poking.
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Mary: Okay, now I get to tell you where we're going. Chicago. Exciting, right? Cubs, Second City, deep-dish pizza.
Sabrina: I hate baseball, I don't know what that second thing is, and I'm lactose intolerant. So.
Mary: But we have your sunny disposition. So there's that...
Sabrina: I hate baseball, I don't know what that second thing is, and I'm lactose intolerant. So.
Mary: But we have your sunny disposition. So there's that...
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Mary: [to a priest turned bartender] I'm just saying. Maybe all you've done is gone from offering counsel and absolution to offering counsel and Absolut.
Gabe: Been sitting on that awhile?
Mary: Weeks.
Gabe: Been sitting on that awhile?
Mary: Weeks.
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Mary: I don't know, maybe I should just pick a bar, down some shots and do some cowboy.
Marshall: Uh huh.
Mary: What? What's uh huh?
Marshall: If you feel like you need to get something out of your system. If you need to go do some cowboy.
Mary: What?
Marshall: You've done the cowboy. And when you weren't doing the cowboy, you were the cowboy, like with Raph. You don't need to let off steam, what you need is— I get that you don't like messy, but maybe messy is what you need. Maybe instead of just anyone you should be looking for someone. Someone who challenges you, who calls you on your BS and gets in your face and makes you think. [pauses] What?
Mary: What? I'm thinking.
Marshall: Uh huh.
Mary: What? What's uh huh?
Marshall: If you feel like you need to get something out of your system. If you need to go do some cowboy.
Mary: What?
Marshall: You've done the cowboy. And when you weren't doing the cowboy, you were the cowboy, like with Raph. You don't need to let off steam, what you need is— I get that you don't like messy, but maybe messy is what you need. Maybe instead of just anyone you should be looking for someone. Someone who challenges you, who calls you on your BS and gets in your face and makes you think. [pauses] What?
Mary: What? I'm thinking.
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Mary: I've got a going away present for the priest. I've got the gift of Gabe!
Marshall: Hilarious. You know, giving gifts to witnesses isn't really allowed.
Mary: Yeah. A) No kidding, B) Gabe opted out of WitSec, and C) What's it like for a pussycat to walk around in people clothes?
Marshall: Hilarious. You know, giving gifts to witnesses isn't really allowed.
Mary: Yeah. A) No kidding, B) Gabe opted out of WitSec, and C) What's it like for a pussycat to walk around in people clothes?
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[Father Gabe has opted out of WITSEC]
Gabe: I should be going. I've got to work this weekend. My new parish needs me.
Mary: Of course they need you. A church in Vegas? God knows what those derelicts have been up to.
Gabe: He does, indeed.
Mary: I don't like you opting out of WITSEC. A courtroom full of guilty doesn't make you safe. Even Flora knows that.
Gabe: I'm glad she's coming into the program, but my mind's made up. I've got a new parish, a new city, one last name change. Only the calling's the same. To quote one of the all-time great philosophers...
Mary: Please don't.
Gabe: (imitating Popeye) "I am what I am."
Mary: (laughs) Amen to that. Hey, I got you a little something. Just something.
Gabe: Whoa! Should I open it?
Mary: Uh, in the car. It's a sign. Not your kind. My kind. A sign. You can hang it on your wall.
Gabe: Ah!
Mary: So...
Gabe: Bless you, Mary.
Mary: Take a hike, Father. Oh! Hey, I owe you a punch line.
Gabe: That you do. Let's hear it.
Mary: A priest, a stripper, and a cop walk into a bar. Bartender looks at them and says... "What is this? Some kind of joke?"
Gabe: I should be going. I've got to work this weekend. My new parish needs me.
Mary: Of course they need you. A church in Vegas? God knows what those derelicts have been up to.
Gabe: He does, indeed.
Mary: I don't like you opting out of WITSEC. A courtroom full of guilty doesn't make you safe. Even Flora knows that.
Gabe: I'm glad she's coming into the program, but my mind's made up. I've got a new parish, a new city, one last name change. Only the calling's the same. To quote one of the all-time great philosophers...
Mary: Please don't.
Gabe: (imitating Popeye) "I am what I am."
Mary: (laughs) Amen to that. Hey, I got you a little something. Just something.
Gabe: Whoa! Should I open it?
Mary: Uh, in the car. It's a sign. Not your kind. My kind. A sign. You can hang it on your wall.
Gabe: Ah!
Mary: So...
Gabe: Bless you, Mary.
Mary: Take a hike, Father. Oh! Hey, I owe you a punch line.
Gabe: That you do. Let's hear it.
Mary: A priest, a stripper, and a cop walk into a bar. Bartender looks at them and says... "What is this? Some kind of joke?"
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Mary: [voiceover] I am what many would call, often as accusation, a non-believer. It's a charge I consider unfair, because all of us, no matter the connection we feel or don't, when sitting under the stars, or feeling the world closing in, doing what comes naturally or rearranging the furniture, all of us believe in something. I believe in many things. I believe in first impressions, and second chances. For strippers, priests, and hopeless, hapless sisters. I believe in telling the truth to the people you love at every possible turn. And lying, just a little, at what seems the appropriate time. I believe in finding people you'd run through a brick wall for, and making sure they know it, if not in so many words. But mostly, I believe in justice... sweet, street and otherwise. Justice. That's my church.
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