The Magicians (TV Series)
Escape from the Happy Place (2019)
Hale Appleman: Eliot Waugh, Nameless
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Quotes
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Eliot Waugh : My greatest trauma.
Charlton : Someone put a sheet over you and wheeled around your strange bed?
Eliot Waugh : That's Logan Kinnear. Very deceased.
[Points to small kid]
Eliot Waugh : That's me. The first time I ever used magic was, um to kill Logan with that school bus.
Charlton : That is very fuck.
Eliot Waugh : That's, um, still not quite right. It's more of an adverb.
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Charlton : [after being stabbed] Fuck!
Eliot Waugh : You got it right.
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Eliot Waugh : What the fuck?
Charlton : Oh, tell me. I've been trying to understand it. I just can't figure it out. What is "fuck"?
Eliot Waugh : Well um, well, it's sort of like a a chameleon of a word.
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Eliot Waugh : Brace yourselves, everyone, it's daddy issues and dicks from here on out.
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Quentin Coldwater : [after realising Eliot needs to find the memory of what he fears most, so he can find the door that can lead him back to his body] So just figure out what that is and I'll make a distraction, and then--and then you can go there.
Eliot Waugh : I know you're just a memory, but you're a very generous one.
Quentin Coldwater : Well, you sacrifice for the people you love.
Eliot Waugh : [the words suddenly jolts awake the fact that Eliot loves Quentin, it now dawning on Eliot where to go] Oh, shit. I get it. Q, I'm gonna take you up on that. Lead the creatures to my puberty. Go bravely.
Quentin Coldwater : Okay.
[Quentin leaves]
Eliot Waugh : I know where I need to go.
[Cuts to the the memory of the aftermath of Eliot and Quentin's 50 years together, back in Whitespire]
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Eliot Waugh : If I ever get out of here Q, know that when I'm braver it's because I learned it from you.
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Eliot Waugh : [Eliot is temporarily back in his body and the first person he sees is Quentin] Q. Q.
[laughs]
Eliot Waugh : It's me. It's Eliot.
Quentin Coldwater : [Not believing him] Okay, no games, come on. Let's just go.
Eliot Waugh : It's Eliot.
Quentin Coldwater : No, bullshit. Come on.
Eliot Waugh : [Walking closer to Quentin] Fifty years. Who get's proof of concept like that?
Quentin Coldwater : What?
Eliot Waugh : Peaches and plums, motherfucker.
[Pushes Quentin firmly on the shoulder]
Eliot Waugh : I'm alive in here.
[Smiles at Quentin]
Quentin Coldwater : [Quentin finally believes him, staring at Eliot's face] Eliot.
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Eliot Waugh : [Talking about their 50 years together] Did it happen?
Quentin Coldwater : Fifty years.
Eliot Waugh : It happened.
Quentin Coldwater : It was sort of beautiful.
Eliot Waugh : It really was.
Quentin Coldwater : I know this sounds dumb but us. We--You know, think about it. Like, we--we work. And we know it 'cause we've lived it. Who gets that kind of proof of concept?
Eliot Waugh : We were just injected with a half-century of emotion, so I get that maybe you're not thinking clearly.
Quentin Coldwater : No, I'm just saying, what if we... gave it a shot? I mean, would that be that crazy? Why the fuck not? I...
Eliot Waugh : I know you and you... aren't...
Quentin Coldwater : What's the matter?
Eliot Waugh : Don't be naive. It matters. Q, come on. I love you, but... you have to know that that's not me and that's definitely not you, not when... not when we have a choice.
Quentin Coldwater : Okay. I... Okay. Sorry, I...
[Wipes a tear from his eye]
Eliot Waugh : [Present-day Eliot, having been overseeing the whole conversation in his memories, turns to his past self] What the hell is wrong with you? And what the hell are you doing? Someone good and true loves you. And he went out on a limb. And, yeah, it was a little crazy, but you knew. You knew that this was a moment that truly mattered and you just snuffed it out.
[Turns to Quentin]
Eliot Waugh : Q, I'm sorry. I was afraid. And when I'm afraid, I run away.
[Eliot walks and crouches down in front of Quentin, before placing his hand on his face and kisses him tenderly]
Eliot Waugh : If I ever get out of here, Q, know that when I'm braver, it's 'cause I learned it from you.
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Eliot Waugh : If this is all my memory, then they can't really hurt us, right?
Charlton : Would you care to ask the Knight Ora? She was here before you.
Eliot Waugh : I would, actually.
Charlton : Well, you can't. Because she's dead. Dead fuck.
Eliot Waugh : That's not quite right.
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Charlton : Well, the good news: a monster possessed you and is inhabiting your body.
Eliot Waugh : What?
Charlton : He normally tears people to shreds, so believe me, this is preferable.
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Margo Hanson : Now... I don't say this lightly, but I think this might be our best party yet.
Eliot Waugh : And I say this with the weight of my whole heart... I concur.