Monsieur Spade (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.6 (2024)

Alfre Woodard: Virginia Dell

Quotes 

• Father Morgan : The church bears no responsibility for anything that's happened here.

  Virginia Dell : Oh, you must have that tattooed to the inside of your eyelids.

• Virginia Dell : I would think a man of your experience would not have gotten within a hundred miles of such a rat fuck. Not to mention turning the whole affair into such a mess.

  Sam Spade : Well, they made the mess, I just tried to clean it up.

  Virginia Dell : You pick up vomit with a teaspoon, you make a bigger mess.

  Sam Spade : What a swell metaphor.

  Virginia Dell : I read a lot of e.e. cummings.

• Virginia Dell : It's not our world anymore, Monsieur Spade.

• Virginia Dell : My grandfather died of a cerebral hemorrhage when he was fifty nine. His last words to my grandmother were, 'Ruth, I have a headache'. My grandmother's last words to him were, 'Who the hell is Ruth?', her name being Betty. So, indeed, who was Ruth? Some buried secret? Or some buried nonsense? That is my job, to sort the secrets from the nonsense. I promise you, if you carry a secret in my presence, you won't carry it for long. Do not fool yourselves. You cannot lie to me. You cannot hide anything for me. So, let's just agree to share then, okay? Good. Let's begin.

• Virginia Dell : You're really going to sit there and tell me that you have never had to be your worst in order to do your best?

  Sam Spade : I make decisions, and I live by them, for better or for worse.

• Father Morgan : Sorry I'm late everybody, but getting to this town is a pain in the ass.

  Virginia Dell : More pain to come, Father.

  Father Morgan : Great.

• Virginia Dell : Take you, for example - you wanna be left alone. You live in a quiet little village where the locals know just enough about you to leave you be.

  Sam Spade : You've read my mail.

• Sam Spade : You have an interesting accent. What part of Canada are you from, exactly?

  Virginia Dell : The South.

  Sam Spade : I'm guessing somewhere below Niagara Falls.

• Sam Spade : He's just going through a phase.

  Virginia Dell : A phase? Like acne?

  Sam Spade : He's a passionate kid that watched the fight come home. He's just on the make for a sense of purpose.

  Virginia Dell : Well, get him a dog, or get him laid, so he can find a new one.

• Virginia Dell : One phone call to anyone heavier would have ended the whole thing before it got this far.

  Sam Spade : A call to who? You? I don't know who you are or who you work for, and we both know you're about as Canadian as sweet potato pie.