Red Dead Redemption (2010 Video Game)

Rob Wiethoff: John Marston

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• John Marston : It's you, or me. And the way I see it... it might as well be you.

• Captain Vicente De Santa : Something doesn't feel right.

  John Marston : Maybe you just need to take a piss or something.

• The Strange Man : Ain't this a beautiful spot?

  John Marston : Sure. What are you doing here?

  The Strange Man : My accounts. I'm an accountant.

  John Marston : Is that so?

  The Strange Man : In a way.

  John Marston : What's your name?

  The Strange Man : You know, its the darndest thing, but I can't remember.

  John Marston : Tell me your damn name and where you know me from!

  The Strange Man : Well, I know you from Mexico, and I know you from back out West. I know you from all over.

  John Marston : Tell me your name, or I won't be responsible for my actions.

  The Strange Man : Oh, but you will. You will be responsible. This is a fine spot. See you around, cowboy.

  John Marston : Damn you!

  The Strange Man : [sadly]  Many have.

• John Marston : You can only Shit on people so many times before they decide it's their turn to pull down the pants.

• The Strange Man : Welcome John. John Marston.

  John Marston : Do I know you?

  The Strange Man : I hope so. I seem to know you.

  John Marston : I'm pretty good at remembering faces.

  The Strange Man : Are you? Do you remember Heidi McCourt's face?

  John Marston : Who?

  The Strange Man : She was a girl Dutch van der Linde shot in the head on that raid on the ferry a few years back. Same one you got shot on. Pretty girl... until her eye was hanging out by a tendon, and her brain was plastered over a wall.

  John Marston : Not really.

  The Strange Man : Then why would you remember me, friend? You've forgotten far more important people than me.

• John Marston : When a man with a sing-song accent tells me to fuck off, it's always my concern, boyo.

• John Marston : It ain't exactly a secret I didn't get these scars from falling over in church.

• Abraham Reyes : So what brings you to Mexico, senior Marston?

  John Marston : I'm here for two men.

  Abraham Reyes : [chuckles]  I think you have been around Colonel De Santa a little too long...

  John Marston : Not like that! I'll explain later.

• John Marston : While there are guns and money, there won't be any freedom.

• Bonnie MacFarlane : Are you a religious man?

  John Marston : Not in any real sense. Sometimes I tell myself that things happen for a reason. Like what brought me here was fate come-a-callin. But nobody made my path but me.

  Bonnie MacFarlane : We all need to look for answers somewhere. Some in big ol' books, and others in big bottles of whiskey.

  John Marston : Believing in some kinda divine purpose ain't gonna bring me my wife and kid back. Past is who we are Miss MacFarlane. And there ain't no changing that. Faith is a luxury I can't afford.

• John Marston : [after rescuing Bonnie]  Bonnie are You okay?

  Bonnie MacFarland : I'm fine now Mr Marston. Thank You! Thank You! What the hell took you so long you stupid man?

  John Marston : Well you weren't exactly helping me!

  Bonnie MacFarland : If you think I'm going to lower myself by making a joke about being 'all-tied up' you've got another thing coming. Come on.

• John Marston : [this is said if you don't kill De Santa]  I don't like to kill a man on his knees, Even if he deserves it.

• John Marston : Bill! Bill, I've come for you! Bill Williamson. Come out here right now.

  Bill Williamson : Go away now John, don't make me kill you.

  John Marston : Nobody needs to kill anyone Bill.

  Bill Williamson : You must think I was born yesterday. You always did think I was an idiot.

  John Marston : That ain't fair, Bill. You were as my brother. I've come to try to save you.

  Bill Williamson : [Bill's men emerge]  Do I look like I need saving?

  John Marston : Bill, please. They want to kill us all. I can help you.

  Bill Williamson : Well, you never tried to save me before. You only seemed to save yourself.

  John Marston : Bill, I implore you, think about this.

  Bill Williamson : You implore me? You implore me? You always were one for fancy words. Well, things are different now, John. Now, I'm in charge! No more Dutch, and no more you. Implores. I, I implores you to go back and tell them to send someone just a little bit more impressive next time.

  John Marston : Well...

  [he draws his gun but is shot down] 

  Bill Williamson : Poor John...

• Bonnie MacFarland : I'm very happy I got someone riding with me.

  John Marston : I'm very happy I got a rifle.

• John Marston : I'll put a hole in your hillbilly head and watch your tiny brain drain out.

• Abraham Reyes : Sarcasm, my friend, should be beneath a man such as you.

  John Marston : Very little is beneath a man such as me.

• John Marston : It'll mean that war is brutal, and unnecessary, and good people die. That is all it will mean.

• John Marston : Do I get my $200 back now, or after I've killed you?

• Marshal Leigh Johnson : It's gonna be a bloody job.

  John Marston : I don't know any other kind

• John Marston : [Skinning an Animal]  You stink!

• John Marston : [Skinning an Animal]  ugh, What were you eating?

• John Marston : [Skinning an Animal]  This'll fetch a good price.

• John Marston : [Playing poker]  You born chicken, or just lost your balls?

• John Marston : So I finally met your great leader. He certainly lives up to his reputation.

  Captain Vicente De Santa : What would you know about leadership?

  John Marston : Only that most can't handle power.

  Captain Vicente De Santa : It is easy to criticize power, when you have never had it yourself. Maybe it is because you have never been in the presence of a strong man before. I have seen the pictures of your country in the newspapers. Men preening and decorating themselves like women. Vanity is the legacy the British left behind.

  John Marston : Look, I don't know the fella. Just sayin'... if that's how he treats his own men?

  Captain Vicente De Santa : Colonel Allende controls any situation he is in because he knows the situation can never be allowed to control him. It is what a leader must do. And, in case you had not noticed, we are fighting a war. We're all under a lot of pressure.

  John Marston : Pressure to find young girls?

  Captain Vicente De Santa : The Colonel needs recreation like anybody else. He does not have time to court women. He's waging a war on ignorance, and is impatient for victory. He is trying to inspire wisdom in those more stupid than himself.

• John Marston : You never did tell me why you were never married. Aside from the snobbery, that is.

  Bonnie MacFarlane : You sure ask a lot.

  John Marston : I'm just surprised, that's all. You must've been quite a catch.

  Bonnie MacFarlane : The fact that you're talking in the past says it all.

  John Marston : No... that's not what I meant. You must've had some suitors, that's all I'm sayin'.

  Bonnie MacFarlane : Some, I suppose... here and there. A ranch in the middle of Hennigan's Stead ain't really the place to find a husband. Amos, he's a little... well, you know, countrified.

  John Marston : Where'd you get your airs and graces, Miss MacFarlane?

  Bonnie MacFarlane : From a couple of cheap governesses Pa hired to save us from being savages. I'd like to talk about more than just cattle and chickens sometimes, that's all. And after my brother left, it was up to me to become the man of the ranch. He'd never admit it but my Pa's a lot frailer than he looks.

  John Marston : You're worth two of any man I know, Miss.

  Bonnie MacFarlane : I'll try to take that as a compliment.

• Irish : I've been working like a beaver on your behalf!

  John Marston : You've been working like a weasel on my behalf!

• John Marston : [Skinning an Animal]  Tough one, Ain't ya?

• Colonel Agustin Allende : My people have lived and worked here for a hundred years. We brought civilization, and these people, these fucking monkeys, despise us. We brought them God, and they turned their back on him. Now, I fight to help them from themselves. To save them from themselves. I see in their faces, that they would kill me if they could. They see only a tyrant. That is the way it is. These people need a ruler.

  John Marston : Well, I'm sorry to hear that.

  Colonel Agustin Allende : Sorry? Why be sorry? It is the way of mankind. A fight between two forces. Que sera, sera. What will be, will be. But, I know one thing, Señor Marston. Force, force must be used, if you are to have your own way.

• Drew MacFarlane : So... my daughter informs me that you're here on some secret mission to remove some undesirables from the county.

  John Marston : Something like that. I'm grateful for your hospitality, sir.

  Drew MacFarlane : Ah ya know we've lived here for 30 years now. Came here from the East. The land had never been settled. For 10 years we fought the Indians. Tough men. Then we had outlaws and we had drought, and we had smallpox, terrible winters, cholera. I've buried more of my children than I've raised.

  John Marston : Sorry to hear that sir.

  Drew MacFarlane : I've seen strong men wither and die under that unforgiving sun. That whole herds of cattle take sick and die. But I've never once doubted my life here.

  John Marston : No sir.

  Drew MacFarlane : When I hear about this so-called Federal Government, sending out agents to covertly murder and control people, then I start to worry. I mean, alright, Williamson is a menace and men like him are the plague, but isn't a government agent a worse menace? In all that symbolizes, I mean.

  John Marston : You may be right sir.

• John Marston : You sure have some interesting theories on what the government's doin', sir.

  Drew MacFarlane : They ain't theories, Mr. Marston. I saw the telegram the Marshal got from Blackwater. It ain't exactly a state secret who sent you.

  Bonnie MacFarlane : Well, is he wrong? I saw those men from the train.

  John Marston : The government can go to hell, if you ask me. Those sons-a-bitches'd steal a coin off a dead man's eye.

  Bonnie MacFarlane : Mr Marston!

  Drew MacFarlane : He's right. Now, I don't know much about politics...

  Bonnie MacFarlane : Please Pa, can we just enjoy the ride?

  Drew MacFarlane : ...but I know we're only as free as they say we are. Power is like a drink. The more you have, the more you want. And there's few men who can handle it.

  Bonnie MacFarlane : There's certain things in this country a woman could do much better, if you ask me.

  John Marston : I ain't gonna argue with that, Miss MacFarlane.

• John Marston : Hello, old friend. It's been a long time.

  Javier Escuella : Hello, brother. It's good to see you. I heard you was coming. You took your time, no? Come on, you're not going to shoot your own brother, are you? We was family.

  John Marston : Yeah, we were, then you and Dutch went crazy, and family didn't mean so much.

  Javier Escuella : So now you do the government's work?

  John Marston : And what do you do? You just work for a different government.

  Javier Escuella : Come on, brother, I think we should go our separate ways, huh?

  John Marston : What you and Dutch did was wrong. And the way you left me was wrong. Now, I ain't the judge, but as it turns out, it's you or me, the way I see it, it might as well be you.

  Javier Escuella : We thought you was dead, brother. I promise. I'm telling the truth. Besides, I can give you Bill. And Dutch... Dutch is in Colombia. I can take you straight to him.

  John Marston : You left me to die, to save your own skin and now you expect me to care about you?

  Javier Escuella : You got it all wrong, brother. I've always loved you, even now.

  [he pushes a crate on him and leaps out a window] 

  Javier Escuella : Go back to your farm, John!

• Abraham Reyes : I knew I had heard the name Javier Escuella before. He is from this province. They tell me he was once a notorious bounty hunter, and also one of the early revolutionaries.

  John Marston : That sounds about right.

  Abraham Reyes : All before my rebellious urges took hold, of course. I think I was still travelling in Europe at the time. I was living in Madrid with the ambassador's wife.

  John Marston : That sounds about right, as well. Escuella was always a torn man. A cynic who desperately wanted to be a romantic.

  Abraham Reyes : Whereas you, John, are a romantic who wants to be a cynic.

  John Marston : Javier would die fightin' for what he believed in. He had a lot of passion, but no love. Although he really admired Dutch, of course, but then we all did.

  Abraham Reyes : He was the leader of your little group of fortune hunters, verdad?

  John Marston : When Dutch started fallin' apart, it hit Javier harder than any of us. He went crazy. It was like the one thing he'd ever believed in turned out to be a fraud.

  Abraham Reyes : You talk about him fondly.

  John Marston : It ain't exactly fondness. We was close once. But he never cared for me or anybody else, not any of his so-called brothers. He left me to die, when he had the chance to save me.

  Abraham Reyes : And he didn't teach you any Spanish during all the time you were together?

  John Marston : I remember cabrón being used a lot.

  Abraham Reyes : Well now you get to pay that cabrón a surprise visit.

  John Marston : I ain't here for revenge. I just need him and Williamson.

• Abraham Reyes : Have you ever known power, John?

  John Marston : I'm a semi-literate farmer and hired killer. I ain't in the power game.

  Abraham Reyes : Then you will never have the knowledge that any woman will bear your child? That, for her, it will be an honor?

  John Marston : I've known about enough bastards without making too many more of my own.

  Abraham Reyes : A man like me cannot be with just one woman. It would be an injustice to the people I have devoted my life to serving.

  John Marston : You have an interesting way of servin' the people. Kind of like a national gigolo.

  Abraham Reyes : I owe it to the future of Mexico to breed, my brother. If I can get noble blood flowing through the veins of peasants, can you imagine how great this country can be? An army of Reyes! Of Kings!

  John Marston : I wish I'd never asked...

• John Marston : Where's the gun, Irish?

  Irish : I hear some miners been blabbin' about a machine gun they found. Apparently, they got it stashed up at Gaptooth Breach.

  John Marston : What do miners want with a machine gun?

  Irish : Shoot it at somebody, I suppose. Or sell it. I don't know, I never been down a mine in all me life.

  John Marston : Sounds real fishy to me, Irish. I've just about had it with you and your games. You and West Dickens are so crooked, you could swallow nails and spit out corkscrews.

  Irish : Maybe if you was more cordial with folks, they'd be better inclined to help you.

  John Marston : I saved your life and you repay me by lyin', and nearly getting me killed.

  Irish : Not far now, Johnny. We should go around the side of Gaptooth so the miners don't see us coming.

  John Marston : I still don't know what miners would want with a machine gun.

  Irish : Miners are always flighty bastards. Spend too long without daylight and doxies and it starts playin' with your mind.

  John Marston : I've never heard so much shit come out of one mouth.

• John Marston : [During a gunfight]  You couldn't shoot a fart out of your own ass!

• Abigail Marston : She's pretty.

  John Marston : Like I said 'normal'!

• French - Leander Holland : Something doesn't feel right.

  John Marston : Maybe you just need to take a piss or something.

• Jake : Ain't taken nobody up to the Fort in a long time. Strange place for a decent fella to visit, if you don't mind me sayin'.

  John Marston : Who said I was a decent fella?

• Marshal Leigh Johnson : What are you doing here Mr. Marston, apart from frightening my deputies?

  John Marston : I'm here to capture or kill Bill Williamson.

  Marshal Leigh Johnson : [laughs]  Okay!

  John Marston : Can you help me?

  Marshal Leigh Johnson : He's outside my jurisdiction, he's in the next county. Of course, Bill Williamson and his boys have tended to keep themselves away from my town.

  John Marston : So you're happy to have him out there?

  Marshal Leigh Johnson : Well, I ain't happy, but I also ain't suicidal. My job is to keep this town safe, not clean up all of these 3 counties. It's hard enough around here.

  John Marston : Ya know... I hear you speak, and suddenly I'm reminded of how some of the people I respected most in my life had a problem with authority. What's wrong with you?

  Marshal Leigh Johnson : Well, I'm sure you and your fine friends have enjoyed spending your time running around pursuing noble causes. My cause is to keep this town from turning into a living hell for the folks who live here. Whole world has problems, mister, and I'm here, doing what I can.

• [Seth is riding to Gaptooth Ridge with Marston] 

  Seth Briars : "Have you looked in the cave, Seth?"

  [raises pitch in voice] 

  Seth Briars : "No, it's very dark!"

  John Marston : What did you say?

  Seth Briars : [normal voice]  I-I didn't say nothin'.

  John Marston : I just heard you say somethin'.

  Seth Briars : You're a crazy man. You should get that head looked at.

• John Marston : Even in this new country, memories don't really fade. My father was an illiterate Scot born on the boat into New York. He never saw his homeland, but to hear him talk about it, you'd imagine he only ever ate haggis and wore a kilt. And he hated the English for what they'd done to his great-grandparents that he had never met. People don't forget. Nothing gets forgiven.

• Drew MacFarlane : I don't have a clue, all right, but it's gotta be somethin' to do with that government boy.

  Marshal Leigh Johnson : We'll talk to him, find out what he knows.

  Drew MacFarlane : Fuckin' is.

  [Marston walks in] 

  Drew MacFarlane : [furious]  Where is she, Marston?

  John Marston : Who?

  Drew MacFarlane : Who? My daughter, ya fuckin' scum! Where's Bonnie?

  John Marston : I don't know, I haven't seen her since after the fire. Why?

  Drew MacFarlane : Why? Because she hasn't been seen since yesterday afternoon.

  [to Johnson] 

  Drew MacFarlane : I don't think I can cope! If I lose another child...

  Marshal Leigh Johnson : Now, Drew, nobody's lost anything yet. I'm sure she's fine...

  Outlaw on Horse : [offscreen, outside]  Oh, Mr. Marshal! Mr. Marshal! Come out, come out, wherever you are!

  Marshal Leigh Johnson : Who the hell's that?

  [they walk outside to find a mounted Williamson gang member waiting for them] 

  Outlaw on Horse : Even better. Good day, Mr. MacFarlane.

  Marshal Leigh Johnson : Get down from that horse, boy, or I'll shoot.

  Outlaw on Horse : [laughs]  I wouldn't recommend that, mister. Not if Drew MacFarlane wants to see his Bonnie back in one piece. Hey, Mr. MacFarlane! That's a nice girl you got there.

  Drew MacFarlane : Get down from there!

  Outlaw on Horse : Y'know, part of me's got to thinkin' I should just marry her myself. Give her a baby and that.

  Marshal Leigh Johnson : What do you want?

  Outlaw on Horse : That's better. I want Norman Deek. I want him set free. Then you'll get your daughter back, mister.

  Marshal Leigh Johnson : We don't do deals with outlaws, boy.

  Outlaw on Horse : Yeah, you do! Let's not waste each other's time pretendin' otherwise. Whole government themselves ain't much more than a bunch of crooks! This is the land of opportunity, mister! And I'm givin' you the opportunity to get your daughter back, before 15 friends of mine take out all their anger and their loneliness on her.

  Drew MacFarlane : Where the hell is she?

  Marshal Leigh Johnson : Where is she, boy?

  Outlaw on Horse : Bring Deek up to Tumbleweed in a couple hours. And don't get no funny ideas, or I will slit that whore's throat myself! You boys have a pleasant afternoon. Yah!

  [he rides away] 

  Marshal Leigh Johnson : What do we do?

  John Marston : We do as he says. You and me, Marshal. Mr. MacFarlane, I'll get you your daughter back. I owe her that.

  Drew MacFarlane : [grasps Marston's hand anxiously]  Please do.

• [Marston pushes Deek forward at the entrance to Tumbleweed] 

  Norman Deek : Easy there.

  Marshal Leigh Johnson : John, you'll be exchanging the prisoner for Bonnie in the middle of town. Keep your eyes open. I sincerely doubt these scum plan to play fair.

  Norman Deek : Fair, my ass.

  John Marston : [draws his gun]  You bet. Besides, Norm here's gonna be my shield, ain't ya, Norm?

  Norman Deek : [chuckles nastily]  It'd be my pleasure.