Shook (2021)

Emily Goss: Nicole

Quotes 

• Nicole : [video message]  Feel free to help with the packing, the realtor's coming to take pictures next week. And second, I know I've been kind of hard lately...

  Mia : [walks into room]  Diana, turn on the lights in Mom's room.

  [sees her mother's bed, medication bottles, walker, etc] 

  Nicole : I just think when I was taking care of Mom and all her different medications, all these different ones had to be different times an a schedule, and it just, not that I'm trying to make you feel bad or anything, really. I totally signed up to take care of her, and I was happy to, I really was. And um... you're not off the hook, it'll be your turn to take care of me soon. So there's that. Love you.

• Mia : You were in San Fransisco, I called you.

  Nicole : You called San Fransisco, the hotel patched you through to my cell.

  Mia : What?

  Nicole : I found the front-desk clerk on Venmo last week and I made him an offer he couldn't refuse. Sensing a theme?

• Mia : Where did you get a gun?

  Nicole : Mom had it. I guess she didn't think my baseball bat was gonna cut it if we were overtaken by suburban rapists.

  Mia : I can vouch for the bat.

• Nicole : I don't know if you noticed, but there's been a bit of a theme to all this tonight.

  Mia : I know.

  Nicole : You could have been the one to take care of Mom.

  Mia : I know.

  Nicole : You could have been the sick one.

  Mia : I know.

  Nicole : I have to have injections every day! I have the personality changes, the mood swings, fever, trouble breathing, walking! You know it's funny, but that's the one that really pisses me off, walking, it's such a simple thing.

  Mia : I saw you earlier, you walked fine.

  Nicole : Yes, earlier, now, not so much. Tomorrow fine, next week not at all! So here's the theme, I'll give you five minutes on this one, because it's a doozy. Break your leg in five minutes, or Jade dies. I don't care how you do it but you have to do it in five minutes.

• Mia : What did you do?

  Nicole : I feel so much better now that you know.

  Mia : We buried Mom!

  Nicole : Well no, obviously we didn't.

  Mia : How?

  Nicole : People will do anything for money, do you really want to know the details?

• Nicole : I had to.

  Mia : I don't understand!

  Nicole : She wasn't her anymore. She was becoming less her every day.

  Mia : But N...

  Nicole : And now, now she's still her. I know, I know it's crazy.

  Mia : If you know it's crazy, then why are you doing this?

  Nicole : How can you pick Lani over me?

  Mia : Nicole!

  Nicole : I'm your sister, Mia!

  Mia : Yes but, you're sick. Nicole, I...

  Nicole : I didn't plan this part. I only planned the first part, the fake part. But then, after all of this, you still went ahead and you lied to me about Chico. You still couldn't tell me the truth. Still covering up for your friends. I just couldn't take it.

  Mia : This is just Livingston's, this isn't you.

  Nicole : Most of the time it isn't. But sometimes it is.

• Mia : So you paid them?

  Nicole : Are they pieces of shit or what?

  Mia : Nicole...

  Nicole : Put Mom's pension money to good use at least.

  Mia : Nicole!

  Nicole : Do you know how many dogs I killed to set this thing up? What? It was way worse than Lani. She slept with Santi last night by the way, after we were finished recording everything.

  Mia : That's not true.

  Nicole : How do you know?

  Mia : Santi was a virgin, super Catholic, so... I don't know, I doubt it.

  Nicole : [scoffs]  People are so different online. Lani's rich, Santi's a player, you're sweet as an angel. That's your brand, right?

  Mia : I guess.

  Nicole : Makeupbymia. I don't know why you couldn't use your real name.

  Mia : Mia is my real name.

  Nicole : *Middle* name.

  Mia : It sounded nicer.

• Nicole : I really thought you were gonna pick me in the end, but you didn't. And if you didn't pick me now you're not gonna pick me later, not when I can't walk, or feed myself or go to the bathroom by myself.

  Mia : I promised I would take care of you.

  Nicole : Yeah, you did, you promised, but that's just words, it's not real. Just like so much of tonight wasn't real. Nothing about you is real. It's all just carefully curated for online consumption.

  Mia : I'm not like that.

  Nicole : You can't handle me, or sickness, or complicated feelings, so you just bail and live in your fantasy world putting on makeup for your legions of fans.

  Mia : But I did it! I did ALL of your tests!

  Nicole : But for *them*!