The Walking Dead (TV Series)

Four Walls and a Roof (2014)

Seth Gilliam: Gabriel Stokes

Quotes 

• [Gabriel see's the dead bodies of Gareth's group in his Church] 

  Father Gabriel Stokes : This is the Lord's house.

  Maggie Greene : No. It's just four walls and a roof.

• [Rick questions Gabriel about his sins at the Church] 

  Rick Grimes : [Rick quotes the writing scratched into the outside wall of the Church]  You'll burn for this. That was for you. Why?

  Rick Grimes : [Rick grabs Gabriel by the shirt and screams at him]  What are you going to burn for Gabriel? What? What did you do? What did you do?

  Father Gabriel Stokes : I lock the doors at night. I always lock the doors at night. I always lock the doors at night. They started coming, my congregation. Atlanta was bombed the night before and they were scared. They were looking for a safe place a place where they felt safe. And it was so early, so early. The doors were still locked. You see... it was my choice. There were so many of them and they were trying to pry the shutters and banging on the sidings, screaming at me. So the dead came for them. Women... children.

  Father Gabriel Stokes : [Father Gabriel begins to cry]  Entire families calling my name as they were torn apart, begging me for mercy. Begging me for mercy. Damning me to hell. I buried their bones. I buried it all. The Lord sent you here to finally punish me. I'm damned. I was damned before. I always lock the doors. I always lock the doors.

• [last lines] 

  Father Gabriel Stokes : [Michonne and Gabriel talk on the steps of the Church]  I can't sleep. And now, sitting in there... quiet. It isn't just what happened last night. Saying what happened before... out loud... I see it all again. I hear them.

  Michonne : That won't stop. But it won't be all the time.

  [Michonne hears rustling in the bushes and finds Daryl] 

  Michonne : Where's Carol?

  Daryl Dixon : Come on out.