The Walking Dead (TV Series)

Self Help (2014)

Josh McDermitt: Eugene Porter

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• [Abraham and the group talk about how to get around the hundreds of walkers] 

  Glenn Rhee : We need the map. There's gotta be a detour.

  Sgt. Abraham Ford : I'm not doing it. We detoured and detoured and detoured from Houston to Georgia. I'm not playing that game anymore.

  Glenn Rhee : We are not going through this, okay? It isn't gonna happen.

  Sgt. Abraham Ford : You got a shit storm behind door A and a storm of shit behind door B. If you're lucky, it's walkers or a shot-up truck. But sooner or later you get cornered. You wind up stayin' and you wind up killin'. We don't go back. We can't go back.

  Glenn Rhee : I'm not talking about going back. Just south a few miles.

  Sgt. Abraham Ford : No.

  Dr. Eugene Porter : We already hit a full stop 'cause of an air filter filled compromised by innards. That will happen again.

  Sgt. Abraham Ford : Then we'll hit 'em with the hose.

  Rosita Espinosa : The tank is empty, Abraham.

  Sgt. Abraham Ford : If we floor it...

  Glenn Rhee : We still hit them, they still slow us down, and then they stop us.

  Sgt. Abraham Ford : I'm not saying we just go straight.

  Maggie Greene : That's the way the road goes.

  Rosita Espinosa : Abraham!

  Sgt. Abraham Ford : We can get through! I know it! And that means we are not going south, going around, or going back!

  Rosita Espinosa : [Rosita interrupts Abraham to listen]  No. They're right.

• [Glenn asks Eugene a question after he gives him a scientific answer] 

  Glenn Rhee : Why the hair?

  Dr. Eugene Porter : Because I like it. And no one is takin' a scissor or clipper to it anytime soon. Do you hear me, Ms. Espinosa?

  Rosita Espinosa : [Rosita laughs]  Yes, loud and clear.

  Dr. Eugene Porter : Y'all can laugh all you want.

  Maggie Greene : No one was makin' fun.

  Dr. Eugene Porter : The smartest man I ever met happened to love my hair. My old boss, T. Brooks Ellis, the director of the Human Genome Project. He said my hair made me look like, and I quote, a fun guy, which I am. I just ain't Samson.

  [suddenly there's a blow to the mini-bus] 

• [Glenn and Maggie talk to Eugene about after they arrive in Washington D.C] 

  Maggie Greene : How long will it be? After you get on that terminal and do what you have to do?

  Dr. Eugene Porter : Depends on a number of factors including density of the infected around target sites worldwide.

  Glenn Rhee : Wait, target sites? Are you talking about missiles?

  Dr. Eugene Porter : That's classified.

  Glenn Rhee : I thought we were over that.

  Dr. Eugene Porter : What if we all live?

  Glenn Rhee : The secrets will matter then?

  Dr. Eugene Porter : They might. Anyway, the speed with which things normalize depend on a number of factors including worldwide weather patterns, which were modeled without the assumption that cars, planes, boats, and trains wouldn't be pouring hydrocarbons into the atmosphere this long. Changed the game quite a bit when it comes to air-transmissible pathogens.

• [Sgt. Abraham begins to lose his patience when Glenn and the group help calm him down] 

  Dr. Eugene Porter : Is that your blood?

  Sgt. Abraham Ford : Yeah. Damn thing opened again. I swear, the cut's are finer than frog's hair. They're just big bleeders.

  Maggie Greene : First aid kit's in the bus, I'll see what we have.

  [the mini-bus suddenly goes up in flames] 

  Sgt. Abraham Ford : We're not stopping. We're rolling on. We'll find another vehicle down the road. The mission hasn't changed.

  Dr. Eugene Porter : Devil's advocate, nothing more - We smashed to a stop hard. We spent a lot of time rolling things out of the road. The church is just 15 miles back that way...

  Sgt. Abraham Ford : [Sgt. Abraham begins shouting at Eugene]  No. We don't stop. We don't go back. We're at war and retreat means we lose. The road fights back, the plan gets jacked. You all know that. Now, we will get through this because we have to. Every direction is a question. We don't go back!

  Glenn Rhee : [Glenn pauses Abraham]  Hey, hey, hey. You okay?

  Sgt. Abraham Ford : I am fit as a damn fiddle.

  Glenn Rhee : We are going with you. You are calling this thing. I just need to know you're good.

  Sgt. Abraham Ford : This is how things stop. I can't afford that right now. The world can't afford it. Listen, I took a pretty hard shot to the sack with that crash. I am stressed and depressed to see that ride die, but if you say we're rolling on? I'm good.

  Glenn Rhee : We're rolling on.

  Sgt. Abraham Ford : I'm gonna rub some dirt on it and walk it off.

  Glenn Rhee : Yeah.

  Rosita Espinosa : Find what we need like we always have - On the way.

  Maggie Greene : [Maggie smiles to see the argue has come to a close]  Okay. I'm not rubbing dirt on anything.

• [Tara makes a comment about Eugene's mullet] 

  Tara Chambler : Hey, maybe Rosita can give you a trim while she's at it. Party's getting a little long in the back. Or is it your source of power?

  Dr. Eugene Porter : I ain't slayin' a lion anytime soon. I wouldn't be placin' any wagers on seein' me dispatch a thousand Philistines with a jawbone of an ass.

  Tara Chambler : Oh, so you'll just settle on saving the world, right?

  Dr. Eugene Porter : Yeah.

• [while Tara and Eugene are surrounded by Walkers] 

  Tara Chambler : Come on. I know it sucks and it's scary, but it's time to be brave.

  Dr. Eugene Porter : It isn't voluntary.

  Tara Chambler : It is, when you're screwed either way. So you cut through the choice that might help somebody.

  Tara Chambler : [Tara hands Eugene a knife]  Come on. I'm right behind you.