The Walking Dead (TV Series)

Save the Last One (2011)

Sarah Wayne Callies: Lori Grimes

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Lori Grimes : [Lori sits with Rick who's weak from providing Carl blood transfusions]  Rick, just... You've got to keep your strength up.

• [Rick tells Lori about the story of Shane stealing Principal Kingsley's car] 

  Rick Grimes : Lori, did you... I mean, it was legendary. Did you ever hear about the time Shane stole Kingsley's car?

  Lori Grimes : Yeah.

  Rick Grimes : The Principal's car right out of the teacher's lot in the middle of a school day. Shane steps out of lunch and makes a beeline to Kingsley's Hyundai...

  Rick Grimes : [Rick chuckles]  Wires the ignition, peels out, drives down Dylan drive to that chicken farm out there. You've heard this before, right? So he pulls it into one of the big holding pens. Kingsley, he waxed that thing every month; had the auto shop vacuum it out every week. Shane, he parks it in this huge pen with a couple of hundred Rhode Island reds. He busts open bags of seed in the back seat, rolls down all the windows, and then starts sprinting back to school. It's three miles away easy. He's back in time to finish his sandwich before the bell. And then the bell rings. Shane gets up and when he runs into Kingsley in the hallway he looks out the window and says, 'Principal Kingsley, your Coupe's gone.'

  Rick Grimes : [Rick chuckles]  Coupe, like chicken coop.

  Lori Grimes : I get it.

  Rick Grimes : Of course you do. You've heard this story 1,000 times. What you said before, you're right. Shane's gonna make it back with what the doctor needs. He'll make it back.

• [Lori tells Rick that maybe this isn't a world for children anymore] 

  Lori Grimes : Maybe this isn't a world for children anymore.

  Rick Grimes : Yeah well, we have a child. Carl is here in this world now.

  Lori Grimes : Maybe he shouldn't be. Maybe this is how it's supposed to be.

  Rick Grimes : You can't mean that. Okay. All right. I can understand that thought crossing your mind.

  Lori Grimes : It didn't cross my mind, Rick. I can't stop thinking it.

• [Lori tells Rick it would be better for Carl to die there on Hershel's farm] 

  Lori Grimes : Why do we want Carl to live in this world? To have this life? So he can see more people torn apart in front of him? So that he can be hungry and scared for however long he has before he...

  Lori Grimes : [Lori starts to tear up]  So he can run and run and run and run, and then even if he survives, he ends up... he ends up just another animal who doesn't know anything except survival? If he... if he dies tonight, it ends for him.

  Lori Grimes : [Lori starts to cry]  Tell me why it would be better another way.

• [Lori tries to tell Rick that she thinks Jenner was right at the CDC] 

  Rick Grimes : What changed?

  Lori Grimes : What?

  Rick Grimes : Jenner offered us a way out. You asked him to let us keep trying. You-You begged him. 'For as long as we can,' you said. What changed?

  Lori Grimes : There was a moment the other day... it was just a second but I forgot Jacqui was dead. I turned around, I wanted to tell her something. I almost said her name. It was just a second and then I remembered. But then I realized she didn't have to see any of it. The highway, the herds, Sophia, Carl getting shot... She didn't... She doesn't have to be afraid anymore. Hungry. Angry. It hasn't stopped happening, Rick. It's like we live with a knife at our throats every second of every day. But Jacqui doesn't. Not anymore. And then... I thought, 'Maybe Jenner was right.'

  Rick Grimes : I don't accept that. I can't accept that. That man surrendered. It doesn't matter... it doesn't matter what he said. None of it. You really think it would be better if Carl... if we just gave up?

  Lori Grimes : [Lori in a low voice]  Tell me why it would be better the other way. Please.

• [Carl wakes up from his bed to tell Lori and Rick about the deer he saw] 

  Carl Grimes : You should have seen it.

  Lori Grimes : What?

  Carl Grimes : The deer. It was so pretty, Mom. It was so close. I've never been...

  Rick Grimes : [Lori and Rick watch Carl's expression go silent]  Carl?

  Lori Grimes : What is happening?

  Hershel Greene : [as Carl starts going into a seizure, Lori holds him down]  Don't. It's a seizure. If you hold him down, you could hurt him.

  Lori Grimes : You can't stop it?

  Hershel Greene : He has to just go through it.

• [Hershel tells Lori and Rick they have to make a choice about Carl living or dying] 

  Hershel Greene : He's still losing blood faster than we can replace it. And with the swelling in his abdomen we can't wait any longer or he's just going to slip away. Now I need to know right now if you want me to do this, because I think your boy is out of time. You have to make a choice.

  Lori Grimes : [Lori looks to Hershel]  A choice?

  Rick Grimes : [Rick looks to Lori]  A choice. You have to tell me what it is. You have to tell me what it is.

  Lori Grimes : [Lori looks to Carl in bed]  We do it.