Mystic River

Whitey Powers: So the wife left you six months ago? Sean Devine: So? Whitey Powers: So Jenny Coughlin there with the body, voice and the cuffs... This girl, she makes gay guys rethink their orientation. Sean Devine: So, what's your point? Whitey Powers: The girl just wants to bed you, not wed you. You don't even blink? She wants to worship at the temple of Devine.

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Jimmy Markum: Did you ever think about how one little choice could change a whole life? I heard Hitler's mother wanted to abort him. At the last minute, she changed her mind. See what I mean? Sean Devine: What do you mean, Jimmy? Jimmy Markum: What if you or I had gotten into that car instead of Dave Boyle? Sean Devine: What car? You're losing me here. Jimmy Markum: If I'd gotten into that car that day, my life would have been a different thing. My first wife, Marita, Katie's mother...she was a beautiful woman. Regal. As a lot of Latin women are, and she knew it. You had to have balls to go near her, and I did. Eighteen years old, the two of us. She was carrying Katie. Now, here's the thing, Sean. If I'd gotten into that car, I'd be a basket case. I never would have had the juice to go near her. And Katie never would have been born. And she never would have been murdered. You know?

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Whitey Powers: Your pal Markum, the moment I laid eyes on him, I could tell he'd done time. They never lose that tension, it settles in their shoulders. Sean Devine: He lost his daughter. That's what's in his shoulders. Whitey Powers: No, that's in his stomach. The tension in his shoulders, that's prison.

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Theo: So how are you handling all this so far? Jimmy Markum: It hasn't really sunk in, Theo. Theo: Yeah? It's gonna hurt like hell when it does. When my Janey died, I was no good for six months...but my kids were all grown up. I had that luxury. You, you got domestic responsibilities. Jimmy Markum: Domestic responsibilities? Theo: Yeah, you gotta take care of my daughter and those girls. That's your first priority. Jimmy Markum: Oh, you figured that might have slipped my mind? Theo: It just needed to be said, that's all. You'll come through because you're a man. Like I said to Annabeth, your wedding day. I said, 'You got yourself a real old-school man there.' Jimmy Markum: Like they put her in a bag. Theo: What? Jimmy Markum: That's what Katie looked like when I saw her in the morgue. Like they put her in a bag and then they beat the bag with pipes. Theo: Well... Jimmy Markum: Janey died in her sleep, all due respect. She went to sleep, she never woke up. Peaceful. Theo: You don't need

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Jimmy Markum: I just can't let anything get fucked up in these next few days. Because it's all anybody will remember about her. One thing you could say about Katie, even when she was little...that girl was neat. When I got out of the joint...you know, after Marita died...I remember, I was more afraid of my little daughter...than I ever was of being in prison. I loved her...most...because when we were sitting in that kitchen that night...it was like we were the last two people on Earth. You know, forgotten. Unwanted. And it's really starting to piss me off, Dave, because I can't cry for her. My own little daughter, and I can't even cry for her. Dave Boyle: Jimmy...you're crying now.

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Brendan Harris: I loved her so much. I'm never gonna feel that again. It doesn't happen twice. Sean Devine: Doesn't happen once most times.

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