Fear the Walking Dead (TV Series)

Grotesque (2016)

Frank Dillane: Nick Clark

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Quotes 

• [Sofia warns Nick not to go north] 

  Nick Clark : Is there a place to go for people like Celia?

  Sofia : There was talk of heading north to the city. There are more there who embrace the dead. But there has been talk of a hundred places. It's not safe to go alone, Nick. The north road is full of La Manas. They are the worst of men and this is the lawless world they've been waiting for.

• [in a flashback, Nick plays thumb wars with Gloria while in rehab with her] 

  Gloria : Your thumbs are freakishly long.

  Nick Clark : Dexterous thumbs. Dexterous thumbs. Look, you're pathetic. You know that?

  Nick Clark : [Nick feels Gloria's thumb get more aggressive]  Oh, type A girl doesn't like losing.

  Gloria : Type A girl doesn't lose.

• [in a flashback, Gloria tries to help Nick practice on expressing his feelings] 

  Gloria : So after your three weeks in rehab, Nick, exploring your thoughts and feelings about your drug use, are there things you need to say to me?

  Nick Clark : You?

  Gloria : Pretend I'm your dad.

  Nick Clark : Start with my mom.

  Gloria : Why?

  Nick Clark : She's like a school counselor. She has degrees in this shit. My dad...

  Gloria : [Nick pauses]  What?

  Nick Clark : He wouldn't hurt a fly.

• [in a flashback, Nick sits with Gloria at rehab as the two of them wait for their parents] 

  Nick Clark : You okay?

  Gloria : Not really.

  Nick Clark : They're probably more nervous than you are.

  [Gloria smiles] 

• [in a flashback, Nick wishes Gloria good luck as she prepares to leave rehab] 

  Nick Clark : Good luck.

  Gloria : [Gloria smiles]  All will be well in the garden.

• [in a flashback, Madison tells her son Nick in rehab that his father passed away] 

  Nick Clark : No dad?

  Madison Clark : Daddy's not coming.

  Nick Clark : Couldn't get out of bed?

  Madison Clark : He - He was in an accident.

  Nick Clark : At the site?

  Madison Clark : Coming home. It was a head-on collision.

  Madison Clark : [Madison starts to cry as Nick remains silent]  He didn't make it, baby. He didn't make it.

  Madison Clark : [Madison tries to hold Nick as he pulls away]  They say he didn't suffer.

  Nick Clark : They say?

  Nick Clark : [as Nick screams]  No!

• [in a flashback, Gloria asks Nick about the book he's reading] 

  Gloria : Is it good?

  Nick Clark : My dad gave it to me.

  Gloria : He gave you a lot of books.

  Nick Clark : It was his way of connecting.

  Gloria : But is it good?

  Nick Clark : It reminds me of him. It's just a lot of people feeling shit and not saying anything about it.

• [in a flashback, Gloria asks Nick a second time about the book he's reading] 

  Gloria : What's it about?

  Nick Clark : Grotesques.

  Gloria : Please expand.

• [in a flashback, Nick tells Gloria what happens to something you hold for too long] 

  Nick Clark : When you hold on to something for too long or too hard, you corrupt it.

  Gloria : Sounds like a page-turner.

  Nick Clark : That's what my mom used to say.

• [Alejandro tells Nick that Death is not to be feared] 

  Alejandro : Strange. Luciana said you were brave.

  Nick Clark : I'm not.

  Alejandro : No, you are foolish. Death is not to be feared, but it shouldn't be pursued. There's a difference.

• [Alejandro asks Nick about the herd of Infected he was walking with] 

  Alejandro : My friends say you were walking with the dead.

  Nick Clark : Safety in numbers.

  Alejandro : That is strange company.

  Nick Clark : Safer than the men with guns.

• [Alejandro tells Nick that he should be dead from his leg wound] 

  Alejandro : That's a long walk. You should be dead.

  Nick Clark : Coulda, shoulda, woulda. Story of my life.

• [last lines] 

  Alejandro : [Alejandro asks Nick why did he come north to where they are]  Why come all this way?

  Nick Clark : I want to be where the dead aren't monsters.

• [in a flashback, Nick expresses his feelings to Gloria while in rehab, who pretends to be his dad] 

  Nick Clark : You're always tired when you get home from work. You just skip dinner and go to your room. And if I go in there to talk to you, it's like you do listen and I can tell you hear me, but it's not like you're there. You used to be there. And then you stopped. And I don't know why you did that.

  Nick Clark : [Nick pauses before continuing]  Fathers are supposed to show sons how to be a man in the world, but I guess the world is too much for you.