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Intro to Knots (2013)

Donald Glover: Troy Barnes

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• Jeff Winger : Annie, what is this?

  Annie Edison : Oh, I know we said no gifts, but I couldn't resist.

  Jeff Winger : You realise you've just put your friends in a very awkward position. A gift creates obligation.

  Annie Edison : I don't see it that way.

  Jeff Winger : Well, I do, and I think the others will too.

  Shirley Bennett : [knocks on the door and comes in]  Merry Christmas! I know we said no gifts, but I couldn't resist.

  Jeff Winger : Oh, who couldn't have seen that coming?

  Shirley Bennett : Oh, Annie, I love what you did with the place.

  Annie Edison : It's a work in progress.

  Troy Barnes : [he and Britta come in]  Good tidings, fellow Christmas celebrators. And to all a good wassailing.

  Britta Perry : I know we said no gifts, but we couldn't resist.

  Jeff Winger : There is a real problem with resistance in this group.

• Professor Cornwallis : This is actually a felony. I mean, I will call the police, and you will all go to jail.

  Jeff Winger : Let me explain to you why you won't do that.

  Troy Barnes : First, he's tied up.

• Annie Edison : No one wants to screw the group.

  Jeff Winger : Oh, you see that, professor? Your offer actually made it harder for you to get untied, because no one wants to be the betrayer.

  Professor Cornwallis : Beware the Ides of March, Mr. Winger. Everyone wants to be the betrayer.

  Jeff Winger : What the hell is your game?

  Professor Cornwallis : I'm trying to teach you history. Your failure will be the same as any self-obsessed nation. You only care about each other when you're winning. The Romans loved Rome when it was raping half the world, but when Hannibal came charging over the Alps, the Romans turned on themselves as quickly as you can say, "e pluribus unum."

  Troy Barnes : I'm pretty sure it's "anus."

• Professor Cornwallis : Enough. It's time to stop arsing about and get serious. So let's hear it from the one person who needs that "A" the most and can't possibly abide by an "F," the one person on pace to become class Valedictorian.

  Annie Edison : I would never turn against the group.

  Professor Cornwallis : I'm not talking about you, Miss Edison.

  Annie Edison : What? Abed?

  [Abed shrugs] 

  Annie Edison : Jeff?

  [Jeff glares] 

  Troy Barnes : [blithely]  Is it me?

  Annie Edison : [incredulously]  Oh, my God, *Britta*?

  Shirley Bennett : [indignantly]  First of all, it's me, and, second of all, you put Britta ahead of me?

  Britta Perry : [aggrievedly]  None taken.

• Annie Edison : Well, now that we are all here, I have some good news and some bad news.

  Troy Barnes : Great. Black licorice?

• Jeff Winger : Can I show you around, starting with the bar?

  Professor Cornwallis : A lovely place. Very feminine.

  Britta Perry : [gasps]  Did you hear him use "feminine" as an insult? Typical phallo-centric worldview. I bet he gave us a failing grade because he could tell my section was written by a strong, independent...

  Troy Barnes : Would you excuse me? I've just seen an old friend.

• Professor Cornwallis : Usually, the cracks are hidden within the alliances. So let's see. In any group of seven, there's bound to be some romantic entanglements. See, I've noticed that the damaged blonde is dating the childish black one, I wonder, does anyone take issue with that pairing?

  Jeff Winger : You're fishing, professor. No one has anything against Britta and Troy dating.

  Britta Perry : And that's coming from Jeff, and we used to date, so...

  Jeff Winger : Britta, information is ammo. And what we did was not dating.

  Britta Perry : Uh.

  Professor Cornwallis : Ah. A little friction. That usually indicates heat.

  Troy Barnes : Heat? There's no heat. If there was heat, I'd be nervous, and, if I was nervous, I'd be rambling, and I'm definitely not rambling, so there's no heat.

  Professor Cornwallis : Ah, well, I think we found our triangle. Thank you and welcome to the party, Troy.

  Troy Barnes : He knows my name.

  Jeff Winger : Guys, keep it together.

  [microwave beeps] 

  Abed Nadir : [chuckles, returns to a silent room]  I missed something great, didn't I?

• Professor Cornwallis : Why in God's name would I leave?

  [all scream] 

  Professor Cornwallis : This is just getting interesting. Now, one of you untied me. I wonder who it was. Who is the Benedict Arnold, the true hero of this story?

  Annie Edison : Oh, no, what's gonna happen when we find out who betrayed us?

  Shirley Bennett : [suspiciously]  I wonder why you're so scared.

  Annie Edison : It wasn't me.

  Troy Barnes : Can we just say a ghost did it again?

  Britta Perry : We're gonna find out who did it when we get our grade.

  Professor Cornwallis : No, we'll have to find out now. Otherwise, the lesson isn't complete.

  Jeff Winger : But the lesson is complete, professor. You know what you taught us tonight? That, yes, empires fall, but we're no empire. We're just a bunch of flawed, selfish people. And that's not our weakness. It's our strength. The one thing that we can count on at any given moment is that the six of us are paying for a mistake made by one of us. And that means, at any given moment, one of us is screwing up so badly, that he or she is gonna forgive whoever screws up next. Now I'm gonna do something that Octavian never would... yeah, I read the book. I'm gonna say that whoever untied the professor... I don't give a crap. Because whoever it was, I know it was some flawed, selfish, weak, hopeless soul like me.

  Jeff Winger : Exactly what the betrayer would say.