Richard Burton - The Greatest Poem in the English Language

I will Teach You Infinities -

I Will Say to You of 
The Greatest Poem in The English Language -

The Present Tense of The Verb "To Be".

Now, One Asks,

"What is the Present Tense of The Verb "To Be"...

Now - I shall speak it for You :-

I am

Thou art

She is...

...He is

We are

You are

They are




TIG: 
Sorry, brother. I should have stayed. 
Had your back. I mean, just turning in this SA tag-- 
I don't know, man-- was just kind of lost in this cartel sh1t. 

I love you, Clay. I do. 

I guess I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around you stepping down. 

I don't know... 
I don't know what I'm gonna look like when that happens, you know? 
(door opens) 

GEMMA: 
This is not your fault, baby. Oh, honey. 
(Tig cries) 
It's okay, sweetheart. It's okay. 

(Tig sobbing) 
Oh. He knows you love him. 
It's okay, really. 
(Tig sniffles) 

TIG: 
Yeah. Thanks. 
Ah, sh1t. sh1t. 
How are you? 

GEMMA: 
I'm fine. 

GEMMA: 
Where's Jax? TIG: Oh, he's at the clubhouse. 
Uh... give me a minute, yeah? 

GEMMA: 
Okay. Sorry. 

JAX: 
I've been looking for you. Shut the door. What happened to Piney? 

GEMMA: 
Clay killed him. 
(Jax sighs) 

JAX: 
Look, I know Clay and Piney were beefing over this cartel sh1t... 

GEMMA: - 
It wasn't over the cartel. 
It was over these. 

Maureen Ashby put them in your bag before you left Belfast. They're letters from your father. 

-Tara found them before you did. 

JAX: 
Tara had these? 
Why didn't she tell me? 

GEMMA: 
She knew they would break your heart. 
Same way they did mine. 

When Thomas got sick, your dad stopped going to Belfast... 
started writing to Maureen. 

JAX: 
What does this have to do with Clay? 

GEMMA: 
JT and Kellan decided to get the MC out of guns, away from the IRA. 

Clay thought it was a mistake. 

He was afraid John would destroy the club. 
So he decided to kill him. 

The first time... he sent John into a Mayan ambush, unprotected. 

Your dad made it out. 
But he knew it was Clay who'd set it up. 
And he knew Clay would try again. 
He predicted it would be mechanical. 

He was right. 

JAX: 
The accident. 

GEMMA: 
The only person JT ever let work on his bike was Lowell Sr. Clay must have... paid him off or threatened him. 
He had to be the one who sabotaged the Panhead. 

JAX: 
Lowell Sr. was killed by the Mayans a week later. 

GEMMA: 
Yeah. Clay buried the secret. (sighs)

 JAX: 
How do you know all this? 

GEMMA: 
The letters. The speculation. The Mayan ambush. 
John knew Clay would kill him. 
And Clay knew those letters would prove it. 


Enough to get him voted out, undo everything he'd worked for. 

JAX: 
Piney got ahold of these. 

GEMMA: 
He must have threatened Clay. 

JAX (quietly): 
Oh, my God. 

GEMMA: 
That's not all. I found the cover letter Maureen wrote telling you to read them. It was in your house. I knew Tara was the one who'd found them. I... I panicked. I told Clay. 

JAX: 
Clay knew... that Tara had these? 

GEMMA: 
He tried to kill Tara. That thing that happened in the park, that wasn't the cartel. That was guys Clay hired to kill your wife, Jax. 

JAX: 
How did you get them? 

GEMMA: 
Tara gave them to me. Don't be upset with her. 
She didn't want you to read them. 
She didn't know what you might do. 

JAX: 
Why are you telling me this, Mom? Why now? 

GEMMA: 
Because I know how dangerous secrets can be. 
And it's time we all knew the truth. 

Clay Morrow killed your father. 

Stole that seat away from this family. 
Gunned down your father's best friend. 
And he tried to kill your wife. 

He's a murderous traitor. 
And there's only one thing to do now, Jackson. 

For your father, your family and your club. 
It's in you. It's who you are. 

Clay has to die. 

Read 'em. See him in your father's own hand. 
And then you kill him, Jax. 

You kill Clay before he's on his feet and strikes first. 
And when it's done... you take your place at the head of this table... 

Where a Teller belongs. 
Where you belong.

The Non-Problem of Male Fierceness

When a Man tells you, in every second that you spend in his company 

By His Every Word,

Every Gesture, 

Every Deed

By His very Energy -

"I Shot a Man in Reno Just to Watch Him Die."

You are NOT Required to Be Polite to Such a Man.

To Do So would be 

Contemptible.

And a 

DIS-GRACE.

So, When You Meet Me,

Have Some Courtesy.

Have Some Sympathy.

And Some Taste.

STARLING

Barney, back when you turned Dr. Lecter over to the Tennessee Police -

BARNEY

They weren't civil to him.  

And they're all dead now.

STARLING

Yeah.  They only managed to survive his company three days.  

You survived him six years at the asylum.  

How'd you do that?

It wasn't just being civil.

BARNEY

Yes, it was.

INT. APARTMENT BUILDING - UPSTAIRS HALL - DAY

     Starling knocks.  Waits.  The door opens and the orderly

     peers out with the dead dove in his hands.

                          STARLING

               Hi, Barney.  I need to talk with -

                          BARNEY

               Would you agree, for the record, Officer

               Starling, I've not been read my rights?

                          STARLING

               This is just informal.  I just need to

               ask you about some stuff.

                          BARNEY

               How about saying it into your handbag?

     Starling opens her purse and speaks down into it as though

     there were a troll inside -

                          STARLING

               I have not Mirandized Barney.  He is

               unaware of his rights.

     Barney widens the door so she can come in.

     INT. BARNEY'S APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS

     Barney sets the dove on a desk and drags a computer mouse

     to the "file close" x.  Just before the screen reverts to the

     AOL Welcome page, Starling glimpses the site he was on when

     she interrupted him with her knock - stock quotes.

                          STARLING

               How you been?

     He doesn't answer.  Sits his huge frame down on his desk

     chair.  She moves some newspapers aside on a couch, one of

     which shows a photo of her from the Drumgo raid.  They

     consider each other for a moment.  Eventually -

                          STARLING

               Barney, back when you turned Dr. Lecter

               over to the Tennessee Police -

                          BARNEY

               They weren't civil to him.  And they're

               all dead now.

                          STARLING

               Yeah.  They only managed to survive his

               company three days.  You survived him six

               years at the asylum.  How'd you do that?

               It wasn't just being civil.

                          BARNEY

               Yes, it was.

     They both hear something - a flutter - and glance out to the

     fire escape.  The dead dove's mate has landed on the railing.

                          STARLING

               Did you ever think, once he escaped,

               he might come after you?

                          BARNEY

               No.  He told me once that, whenever

               feasible, he preferred to eat the rude.

               "Free-range rude," he called them.

     He smiles.  Glances out the window again to the cooing dove.

     Picks up the dead one, carries it out and sets it down on the

     wet grating.

                          STARLING

               Any idea what happened to all his stuff?

               His books and papers and drawings and -

                          BARNEY

               Everything got thrown out when the place

               closed.

     He comes back in.  She starts to say something, hesitates.

     Once she starts on this subject, she knows one of them will

     wind up very unhappy.

                          STARLING

               Barney, I just found out that Dr.

               Lecter's signed copy of The Joy of

               Cooking went to a private collector for

               sixteen thousand dollars.

                          BARNEY

               It was probably a fake.

                          STARLING

               The seller's affidavit of ownership

               was signed, Karen Phlox.  You know Karen

               Phlox?  You should.  "She" filled out

               your employment application, only at the

               bottom she signed it, Barney.  Same thing

               on your tax returns.

     Long silence.  Then Barney sighs.

                          BARNEY

               You want the book?  Maybe I could get

               it back.

                          STARLING

               I want the x-ray.  From when you broke

               his arm after he attacked that nurse.

     Barney gets up again, but doesn't run off to get it.  He

     slowly paces around.

                          BARNEY

               We talked about a lot of things, late at

               night, after all the screaming died down.

               We talked about you sometimes.  Want to

               know what he said?

                          STARLING

               No, just the x-ray.

                          BARNEY

               Is there a reward?

                          STARLING

               Yeah.  The reward is I don't have my

               friend the Postal Inspector nail you on

               Use of the Mails to Defraud, you don't

               get ten years, and you don't come out

               with a janitor's job and a room at the Y,

               sitting on the side of your bunk at night

               listening to yourself cough.

     He stares at her, gets up finally, disappears into the

     bedroom.  Starling looks out to the fire escape again.  The

     surviving dove has dropped down and is now walking in circles

     around its lifeless mate.

     Barney returns with a file box and a large envelope.  Hands

     it all to her.  She unfurls the string-clasp.  Pulls out an x-

     ray of an arm.  A radiologist's and Lecter's names are on it.

                          BARNEY

               I'm not a bad guy.

                          STARLING

               I didn't say you were.

                          BARNEY

               Dr. Chilton is a bad guy.  After your

               first visit, he began taping your conver-

               sations with Dr. Lecter.

     He produces from his jacket pocket several cassette tapes.

     As he hands them to her -

                          BARNEY

               I was good to you.  Tried to make it

               easy for you the first time you came down

               to the violent ward to interview Dr.

               Lecter.  Remember?

                          STARLING

               Yes.

                          BARNEY

               You remember saying thank you?

     She doesn't because she didn't, and now regrets it.

                          STARLING

               I'm sorry.  Thank you.

                          BARNEY

               You mean it?

                          STARLING

               Yes.

                          BARNEY

               I'm going to show you something then.

               I don't have to show it to you, remember

               that.  But I believe your gratitude is

               sincere.

     He goes to a fuse box on the wall.  Takes something out of

     it.  Turns around to face Starling, wearing the famous mask

     from Silence of the Lambs, and her hand flashes toward her

     sidearm, a movement quickly stopped.

                          BARNEY

               This is my retirement fund.

                   (removes the mask)

               If you'll let me keep it.  I can a lot

               of money for this and get out of here for

               good.  I want to travel, and see every

               Vermeer in the world before I die.

     She thinks about it, doesn't immediately answer him.  He

     walks out onto the fire escape again and addresses the bird -

                          BARNEY

               Go on.  You've grieved long enough.

     He shoos the dove away, picks up the dead one, comes back

     in and drops it in the wastebasket by his desk.

                          STARLING

               What did he say?  About me?  Late at

               night.

                          BARNEY

               We were talking about inherited, hard-

               wired behavior.  He was using genetics in

               roller pigeons as an example.

               They go way up in the air and roll over

               backwards in a display, falling toward

               the ground.  There are shallow rollers

               and deep rollers.  You can't breed two

               deep rollers or the offspring will roll

               all the way down, crash and die.  He

               said, "Officer Starling is a deep roller,

               Barney.  Let's hope one of her parents

               was not."

     As Starling gets up and gathers everything except the mask,

     she hears the surviving dove call out once from somewhere in

     the trees.

     INT. FBI LAB - DAY

     The two x-rays, one overlaid on the other, clipped to a

     light box.  A technician adjusts them so the bone structures

     correspond in position as closely as possible and points out

     to Starling -

                          TECHNICIAN

               They're the same arm.  The discrepancy is

               the dates.  This one -

     He slides the x-rays apart, touches a thin gray line on one

     of them -

                          TECHNICIAN

               - shows the hairline fracture he

               sustained in the fight with the orderly.

               This one -

                   (the other x-ray)

               - the more recent one, supposedly,

               doesn't.  This is the newer of the two -

                   (the other one)

               - the one from the asylum.

     INT. BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE - LATER

     Starling puts the earliest-dated cassette into a player,

     presses "play," walks up to the blackboard and under Verger's

     heading - below "Meat-packing heir" and some other notes -

     writes, "He lies."  From the tape player -

                          LECTER'S VOICE

               Surely the odd confluence of events

               hasn't escaped you, Clarice.  Jack Craw-

               ford dangles you in front of me, then I

               give you a bit of help.  Do you think

               it's because I like to look at you and

               imagine how good you would taste?

     There's a pause.  Starling, remembering the moment clearly

     even now, mouths along with her recorded voice -

                          STARLING'S VOICE

               I don't know.  Is it?

     INT. CELL - BALTIMORE STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE CRIMINALLY

     INSANE - DAY - (FLASHBACK - 1994)

     It's Lecter's cell.  And it's almost pitch black.  Then,

     as he turns a rheostat, the lights slowly rise, revealing the

     cell to be almost empty, stripped of its books.  He's lying

     on his cot.

                          LECTER

               I've been in this room for eight years,

               Clarice.  I know they will never - ever -

               let me out while I'm alive.  What I want

               ... is a view.