Slasher (TV Series)

Like as Fire Eateth Up and Burneth Wood (2016)

Wendy Crewson: Brenda Merritt

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• Sgt. Cam Henry : So when I finished my shift, I drove by to check in on things on my way home, and I found Constable Sharma on the ground, out cold.

  Dylan Bennett : Okay, what about the phone call?

  Chief Iain Vaughn : We traced the number to Verna McBride's cell. Phone was missing at the murder scene.

  Brenda Merritt : So, then it's the Executioner for sure.

  Chief Iain Vaughn : This is not the Executioner. This is whoever killed Mrs. McBride.

  Dylan Bennett : Stop bullshitting and just call it what it is.

  Sgt. Cam Henry : Dylan, you're upset.

  Dylan Bennett : Yeah, I'm upset, man. He was in our house.

  Sarah Bennett : I can't stay here.

  Brenda Merritt : All right, that's it. Let's hit the road. Let's go.

  Dylan Bennett : Brenda, can you please, for once, can you just...

  Brenda Merritt : Dylan, I am so tired of biting my tongue and worrying about your...

  Dylan Bennett : Really? When have you ever done either of those things? I don't think I was there.

• Sonja Edwards : Brenda, why are you here?

  Brenda Merritt : Because Ada was my best friend.

  Sonja Edwards : A best friend that you never visit.

  Brenda Merritt : I live three hours away. I...

  Sonja Edwards : I'm talking about before you left.

  Brenda Merritt : Oh, okay, sure. Fine, you're right. I'm a terrible friend. Guilty as charged. What else do you want me to say? I'm here now. I'm trying to make up for lost time, now.

  Sonja Edwards : Well, for who? For Ada? She has no idea that you're here. And if it's for me, I'm not interested.

  Brenda Merritt : We used to be friends, Sonja.

  Sonja Edwards : Yep, we did. But I don't have the capacity to help you clear your conscience.

  Brenda Merritt : You really have to get over something that happened decades ago.

  Sonja Edwards : I'm not the one looking for absolution.

  Brenda Merritt : Too bad that hunk of cement didn't fall a little more to the left.

• Brenda Merritt : We packed a bag for you.

  Sarah Bennett : He's not coming.

  Brenda Merritt : Oh, really. Well, I'm not taking the bag back in.

  Sarah Bennett : No, Dylan can take it. Want me to drive?

  Brenda Merritt : Babe. My hands are kind of tied here, babe. I wish you would understand.

• Ronald Edwards : Chino! Your finest single malt. Ed.

  [seeing Brenda] 

  Ronald Edwards : Brenda.

  Brenda Merritt : Ronald. Join me.

  Ronald Edwards : I've gotta get home.

  Brenda Merritt : Come on. Don't bullshit a bullshitter. You just ordered a drink.

• Brenda Merritt : [after nearly hitting another car]  Sarah, sweetheart. Are you okay?

  Sarah Bennett : Yeah, yeah. You?

  Brenda Merritt : Yeah.

  Sarah Bennett : Okay. We, uh... we-we need to get out of here before he comes back for me, okay?

  Brenda Merritt : Who?

  Sarah Bennett : Who do you think?

  [trying to start the car, it stalls] 

  Sarah Bennett : No, no, no. Shit, shit, shit!

  [seeing Brenda take a pistol out of the glove compartment] 

  Sarah Bennett : What the...?

  Brenda Merritt : You think I returned to this shithole without packing a little heat?

• Ronald Edwards : [having a quickie in the bar hallway]  Oh, my god. You are as beautiful now as you were when we were teenagers.

  [noticing her stop] 

  Ronald Edwards : What's wrong?

  Brenda Merritt : Don't. No.

  Ronald Edwards : What's wrong? What's wrong? Say it. What's going on?

  Brenda Merritt : [straightening her clothes]  Sonja's waiting.

  Ronald Edwards : Oh, no. She... she knows I work late.

  Brenda Merritt : Ronnie, don't.

  Ronald Edwards : Come on. You know you want this as bad as I do.

  Brenda Merritt : Ronnie. Your ass feels like a ripe cauliflower. You've got as much hair on your back as on your head, and that dick of yours has always been two sizes too small. So, no. I really do not want this.

• Brenda Merritt : My friend Ada? The one in the nursing home? She's in there... she's the way she is because of me. I didn't mean to hurt her. Ronnie and me, we'd fallen in love. Right, Ronald Edwards.

  Sarah Bennett : Grandma, what did you do?

  Brenda Merritt : The night of our prom, I wanted to hurt Sonja. So I waited on that bridge, and when they drove by, I... I was aiming for the driver. Ada wasn't supposed to be there. She wasn't even supposed to be in the car.

  Sarah Bennett : No. When we go back to Waterbury, you are going to the police and you are gonna tell them the truth.

  Brenda Merritt : Sarah, no. No. I have lived with this my entire life. With the guilt and with hating myself. I have paid my dues, and I refuse to go jail for the rest of my life for a mistake... a mistake I made as a teenager.

  Sarah Bennett : A mistake? It's attempted murder.

  Brenda Merritt : Oh, Sarah. We're in danger.

  Sarah Bennett : Yeah. Because of you.