Wonderfalls (TV Series)

Totem Mole (2004)

Ryan Rajendra Black: Bill Hooton

Quotes 

• Jaye Tyler : We're sort of in the middle of something. So would you mind waiting outside until we're through?

  Bill Hooton : Uh, what are you in the middle of?

  Jaye Tyler : We're having a conversation.

  Bill Hooton : You're having a conversation with my dead grandmother?

  Jaye Tyler : [seeing the woman she was talking to is actually dead, her eyes widen]  Okay, that's just odd.

• Jaye Tyler : Sure, it can be nice on occasion. In a triumph-of-the-human-spirit sort of way, but most of the time, it feels like the universe doing this.

  [taking Bill's hand and softly punching him] 

  Jaye Tyler : "Why are you hitting yourself, Jaye? Why are you hitting yourself?"

  Bill Hooton : Ow! Stop it.

  Jaye Tyler : Well, that's what being special really feels like. At least, that's been my experience.

  Bill Hooton : Maybe you're doing it wrong.

  Jaye Tyler : I don't think there's a right way to do it.

• Bill Hooton : You don't realize how lucky you are.

  Jaye Tyler : You're the lucky one. I'd love to be just an accountant. Well, maybe not an accountant, but something a little more interesti...

  [seeing his look] 

  Jaye Tyler : To me. And yet, equally not special.

  Bill Hooton : Like a retail clerk?

  Jaye Tyler : Preferably more interesting than that. You'd really wanna be me?

  Bill Hooton : Yeah. Pathetic, isn't it?

  Jaye Tyler : We're both pathetic.

  Bill Hooton : But at least you're pathetic with great purpose. I'm pathetic with no purpose. The saddest part is, when I leave here, there's no reason to ever come back.

  Jaye Tyler : You could come back to buy cigarettes.

  Bill Hooton : I don't smoke.

  Jaye Tyler : You could start.

• Bill Hooton : Oh, look. It's the special one. You come to tell me about how special you are?

  [sarcastic] 

  Bill Hooton : 'Cause I'd love to hear more about that. Did my grandma tell you how special you are?

  Jaye Tyler : Sort of.

  Bill Hooton : Did you really talk to her?

  Jaye Tyler : Yeah. Didn't you?

  Bill Hooton : I don't know. It's all kinda hazy.

  Jaye Tyler : It was probably the peyote.

  [seeing his look] 

  Jaye Tyler : Or, maybe you actually talked to her. I don't know.

  Bill Hooton : Why would she talk to me when she has you to talk to?

  Jaye Tyler : It was just one conversation. Okay, so she said I had "great purpose" or whatever. She was vague, at best. Then I talked about me for a while, and... that was it, really.

  Bill Hooton : I wish I had great purpose.

  Jaye Tyler : [wry chuckle]  No, you don't.

  Bill Hooton : Yes, I do.

  Jaye Tyler : [firmly]  No, you don't. You really don't. Having great purpose isn't all it's cracked up to be. I've had great purpose, and I've had no purpose, and I have to say, no purpose is a lot easier. Expectations are low. Nobody asks you for anything. Count your blessings.

• Deanna Littlefoot : Gentlefeather appeared to me.

  Bill Hooton : She appeared to you, too?

  Deanna Littlefoot : A vision in the mist. She spoke of a horse that would guide our people where they long to go. A new direction it wants to run. And, grandson of Gentlefeather, I was told that you would teach me how to ride this horse.

  Bill Hooton : But I don't know anything about riding horses. I'm an accountant.

  Deanna Littlefoot : Yes. Your grandmother told me you were very good at numbers. Let me tell you about my vision. We need an accountant to ride through the land of imperious plenty and bring back a casino with blackjack, poker, and Vegas-style slot machines.