Slasher (TV Series)

As Water Is Corrupted Unless It Moves (2016)

Brandon Jay McLaren: Dylan Bennett

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• Sarah Bennett : You know, I hate him. He is ineffectual, incompetent, rude...

  Dylan Bennett : Yeah, well, he's a cop, love. That's how they are.

  Sarah Bennett : Cam's not.

  Dylan Bennett : Well, Cam's not in charge. Vaughn is. So what's the use of butting heads with him, you know?

• Sarah Bennett : You know, Tom Winston has made more breaks in this case than Chief Vaughn.

  Dylan Bennett : Well, maybe it's time for Tom... to speak to the residents of Waterbury directly.

  Sarah Bennett : Okay, right, Dylan, um, I need you to be my husband right now, not a journalist.

  Dylan Bennett : I'm speaking to you as your husband.

  Sarah Bennett : Are you kidding? That would be like giving Charles Manson his own talk show.

  Dylan Bennett : Then you take it. Seriously, let me interview you. I mean, somebody's gonna do the story on you eventually, right?

  Sarah Bennett : So why not you?

  Dylan Bennett : Your husband. Someone you trust.

  Sarah Bennett : And I could talk about anything?

  Dylan Bennett : Anything. No holds barred.

• Dylan Bennett : Your parents were murdered by Tom Winston nearly 30 years ago. And recently, your grandmother has come to the same fate. If you could look the Executioner in his eyes...

  Sarah Bennett : No. No, I think you mean if I could look him in the mask. He's too much of a coward to show his face.

  Dylan Bennett : ...what would you say?

  Sarah Bennett : I would say... I would say that Brenda Merritt did a terrible thing, and my grandmother deserved to be punished. But you took the law into your own hands and on whose authority?

  Dylan Bennett : And I-I think he would probably say God's authority.

  Sarah Bennett : Well, I'm not really religious, but I think the Bible's pretty clear: "thou shalt not kill"?

• Alison Sutherland : What are you doing for dinner?

  Dylan Bennett : No plans. Why?

  Alison Sutherland : Because you're gonna have dinner with me tonight. Me and Lisa-Ann Follows.

  Dylan Bennett : *The* Lisa-Ann Follows?

  Alison Sutherland : Mm-hmm. She's flying up from New York to cover the murders, needs some local experts, and dinner's our audition.

  [he lets out a snickering laugh] 

  Alison Sutherland : You should maybe wear something tighter. Tight.

  Dylan Bennett : I-I can do tight. Yeah, no. Tight's good.

• Lisa-Ann Follows : Now, this original Executioner, the one rotting in jail, have you met him?

  Dylan Bennett : Uh, no, I have not.

  Lisa-Ann Follows : I think you should try to book him.

  Dylan Bennett : Yeah.

  Lisa-Ann Follows : It's ratings dynamite.

• Lisa-Ann Follows : I was living in L.A. when the Grim Sleeper was killing black women. I have had... mass murderers, wife killers, terrorists, kidnappers. You name it, the dregs of society on my show. Takes a lot to shake me. But these killings scare the shit out of me.

  Alison Sutherland : I know exactly what you're saying. When the original murders took place, it was...

  Lisa-Ann Follows : Your wife's parents were the victims?

  Dylan Bennett : Yeah. Yeah, yeah, they were.

  Lisa-Ann Follows : I can't even imagine.

  Dylan Bennett : Oh, it was terrible.

  Lisa-Ann Follows : Actually, I can, because you did such an incredible job telling Sarah's story, all of these stories, bringing them to life.

  Dylan Bennett : Thank you. Uh, you know, with material like this, i-it kind of writes itself, you know?

  Lisa-Ann Follows : Okay. Dylan... if this is gonna work, you need to drop all of the "gee-golly, aw-shucks" polite crap or I'll eat you up and spit you out like a bad piece of sushi. Do you want that? You don't want that.

  Dylan Bennett : These murders have terrorized this community. The Executioner has acted like judge, jury, and hangman. If we don't give a voice to these people, who will? We owe it to them.

• Dylan Bennett : I don't get it. Why snakes?

  Chief Iain Vaughn : [simultaneously with Sarah]  It was sloth. You're thrown into a...

  Sarah Bennett : Because of biblical interest.

  Chief Iain Vaughn : Goes back to the seven deadly sins. Punishment for sloth is being thrown into a pit of vipers. Did I get that right, Sarah?

  Sarah Bennett : So, Trent's not the Executioner. He's a victim.

  Chief Iain Vaughn : Looks that way.

  Sgt. Cam Henry : Sloth? It does make sense. Trent McBride is the last person I'd call lazy. I mean, he was June's partner for years. He was a paramedic. He... he competed in a bunch of Ironmans.

  Chief Iain Vaughn : That's why we've got to look into this guy's past, see if he's got any skeletons hanging in his closet.

  Sarah Bennett : So you're back to square one. How many times is that now?

  Chief Iain Vaughn : Look, I get it, Sarah. You don't like me. You think I suck at my job. Well, lucky for me... I don't give a shit. You have yourself a nice day now.

• Sgt. Cam Henry : Well, the truck was found abandoned, not too far from where your grandmother was forced off the road.

  Dylan Bennett : Who did it belong to?

  Sgt. Cam Henry : Trent McBride. Verna McBride's nephew.

  Sarah Bennett : Her nephew?

  Dylan Bennett : There's no way that's a coincidence.

  Sarah Bennett : So you're saying he's the Executioner?

  Sgt. Cam Henry : Well, Trent inherited Verna McBride's entire estate, and he did have a falling out with Justin Faysal over his property.

  Sarah Bennett : But my grandmother...

  Sgt. Cam Henry : We're working on that. We will bring Trent in, and we will question him. This nightmare might finally come to an end.

• Dylan Bennett : You're angry.

  Sarah Bennett : Yeah, of course I'm angry. And I'm sad and I'm upset, but I'm not afraid.

  Dylan Bennett : No?

  Sarah Bennett : When something like this happens... you know, at first you're numb.

  Dylan Bennett : Mm.

  Sarah Bennett : And then when you start to be able to wrap your mind around it, your imagination can take you to some pretty dark places. You think about what your loved ones went through before they died, about how terrified they were, about how much they suffered. And then you find the pain and the rage, and you want revenge. I despise the Executioner's actions, but I don't hate him. Because hate is just fear, and I am not afraid. The Executioner's afraid. He's a coward. Him, Tom Winston, anyone who's ever taken the life of another person... cowards.

  Tom Winston : [reading the article in his prison cell]  I'm a coward? I'm a coward? I'M A COWARD?

  [tearing the paper up and throwing belongings around] 

  Tom Winston : TOM WINSTON IS A COWARD? HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU! DAMN YOU! HOW DARE YOU TALK TO ME? YOU DON'T FUCKING KNOW ME! YOU FELT PAIN? YOU FELT PAIN? I'M THE COWARD?

• Dylan Bennett : So let's, uh, bury the water symposium stories as far back in the paper as possible.

  Alison Sutherland : It's an important issue up here.

  Dylan Bennett : [pantomiming weighing the two stories]  Psycho killer is stalking our town's citizens... shoreline water erosion. Yeah, little bit of a toss-up, right?

• Dylan Bennett : I met with Tom Winston.

  Alison Sutherland : Sarah didn't tell me.

  Dylan Bennett : You called Sarah? Are you kidding me?

  Alison Sutherland : No, she came in, with an actual lead on an actual story. One that I wanted you to write, but instead I did my own shit job of it because you wouldn't answer your phone.

  Dylan Bennett : Okay, I'm here. What is it?

  Alison Sutherland : When I hired you, I took a chance. Yeah, you'd written for some major publications, but you have never run a paper, okay? I hope you don't forget that.

  Dylan Bennett : Send me over what you got; I'll get right on it.

• Sarah Bennett : I thought writing was your thing.

  Dylan Bennett : Well, it is my thing, darling, but it's a dying thing. What, you don't want me to do it?

  Sarah Bennett : No, I'm just surprised. You know, i-it's TV, it's a big shift.

  Dylan Bennett : Yeah, but it's still journalism. You don't have to watch if it's gonna make you weird.

  Sarah Bennett : Of course I'm gonna watch. I mean, just... you have to wear makeup?

  Dylan Bennett : You'd like that, wouldn't you?

• Alison Sutherland : Where the hell have you been? You leave work. You don't tell me where you're going. You don't answer your phone.

  Dylan Bennett : I was out hunting a story. But if you prefer me sitting at my desk from 9 to 5, we can have that kind of thing...

  Alison Sutherland : No, I'm asking for some common courtesy.

  Dylan Bennett : Yeah, and I'm asking for the same, 'cause I don't really appreciate being made to feel like a teenager cutting class.

• Sarah Bennett : So, I spoke to Tom Winston.

  Dylan Bennett : And what'd he have to say?

  Sarah Bennett : He said he'd do it.

  Dylan Bennett : Huh.

  Sarah Bennett : For a lock of my hair.

  Dylan Bennett : That's creepy.

  Sarah Bennett : Yeah.

  Dylan Bennett : Wow. For what?

  Sarah Bennett : I don't... I don't know, and I don't wanna know.

• Tom Winston : How much does Sarah know?

  Dylan Bennett : I'm sorry?

  Tom Winston : How much does Sarah know?

  Dylan Bennett : About me being here? Well, she gave me your conditions, that's...

  Tom Winston : How much does Sarah know about you?

  Dylan Bennett : I'm not sure I follow. I'm the one here to interview you, not the other way around.

  Tom Winston : Sarah might have told you. I don't always read the letters that are sent to me...

  [taking some out and sliding them over to him] 

  Tom Winston : ...but I do keep them, and I got a great memory... for names.

  [on the top envelope, Dylan sees his own name in the corner designated for return addresses] 

  Tom Winston : So again, Dylan, how much does Sarah know?

• Lisa-Ann Follows : I'm attracted to the story for a bunch of reasons. One, it's great drama. Who doesn't love a series of murders in a small town? Two, it's got an incredible backstory.

  Dylan Bennett : Mm-hmm.

  Lisa-Ann Follows : And it's happening in real time. Three, it's not on the radar. Not yet. That's why I wanted to be here first. Trust me, I'm not in Waterbury for the fine dining.