Double Jeopardy (1999)
Davenia McFadden: Evelyn
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Quotes
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[Evelyn watches Libby jog in the rain within the prison fences]
Evelyn Lake : [Evelyn shouts] I got to hand it to you, honey. It's just sheer hate driving you on.
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[Libby takes advice from Margaret and Evelyn on what to tell the parole board]
Libby Parsons : I feel like I've grown these past six years.
Margaret Skolowski : 'Grown'? Honey, they don't want to hear that you've turned into some kind of tree, okay? So you just repeat after me, 'If I could trade places with my husband, I would.'
Libby Parsons : [Libby rolls her eyes] Ugh. 'If I could trade places with my husband, I would.'
Evelyn Lake : That's good. Now, throw in a lot of that born-again-Jesus stuff. They like that.
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[Evelyn and the other inmates bring Libby a birthday cake for her son Matty's birthday, as Libby makes a wish and blows out the candles]
Libby Parsons : You know, Evelyn, I read that even if a child is separated from its mother the day it's born, it never forgets her voice. Think that's true?
Evelyn Lake : [Evelyn smiles] 'Course I do.
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[Libby meets the female inmates Margaret and Evelyn]
Margaret Skolowski : Who's this?
Evelyn Lake : Rich-bitch from Whidbey island. She ain't gonna make it.
Margaret Skolowski : What do you think, a year?
Evelyn Lake : Five cartons says she offs herself inside of six months.
Margaret Skolowski : Deal.
Libby Parsons : Get away from me.
Evelyn Lake : Hey, take it easy. We're your new best friends.
Margaret Skolowski : Heard you did your husband. He probably deserved it.
Evelyn Lake : Mine did.
[Margaret and Evelyn walk off smiling]
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[Evelyn and Margaret give Libby some encouragement to find her son]
Evelyn Lake : Heard you're tryin' to reach your friend, the one with your boy.
Libby Parsons : Yeah, I can't find 'em. They disappeared.
Margaret Skolowski : Oh, hon - If you could disappear that easy, believe you me, I wouldn't be here right now.
Evelyn Lake : [Evelyn chuckles] Me, either.
Margaret Skolowski : Think. Use your head. There's gotta be a way to track him down.