Backstrom (TV Series)
Dragon Slayer (2015)
Rainn Wilson: Everett Backstrom
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Quotes
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Dr. Deb Chaman : [Giving Backstrom a physical exam] Are you still drinking?
Everett Backstrom : Absolutely not!
Dr. Deb Chaman : When a patient says "Absolutely not!", he's absolutely lying.
Everett Backstrom : If you Hindus are so smart, how come 98 percent of you live at the dump?
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Charles Turner : I didn't kill Toby, and that's the truth.
Everett Backstrom : I don't care about the truth. I care about a conviction!
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Everett Backstrom : [Mentally trying to understand Dr. Chaman by momentarily assuming his persona] I'm a Hindu. I believe after we die, we come back to life. So why am I a doctor? Why am I working so hard at keeping people alive? Because I realize that reincarnation is a load of crap. We've only got one life, and it's meaningless. I'm terrified of death.
Dr. Deb Chaman : And you aren't?
Everett Backstrom : Absolutely not!
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Det. Lt. Everett Backstrom : [thoughtfully] I'm a soft boy... pretending to be a hard man... I need a gun, where do I go? My dad the anti-gun senator? Nope. The guys on my rugby team who are afraid of shoe polish? Uh-uh. To my girlfriend, the low-life stripper. And where does she get it? From her boyfriend, the low-life drug dealer. We know you loaded the gun, we found your fingerprints on the bullets.
Cassandra : [crying] Ok, I gave Toby the gun, but only because I was afraid for his life. I didn't know it was broken.
Det. Lt. Everett Backstrom : How do you know... NOW?
Cassandra : [glaring] You're a racist pig who hates women!
Det. Lt. Everett Backstrom : THERE she is... good.
[laughs]
Cassandra : [evil grin] I lost the boy I love. Who do you think people will believe?
Det. Lt. Everett Backstrom : [looks Cassandra dead in the eyes] I'm a stripper, who sends a boy that loves her to his death. Why does she hate him so much? Because there was a moment in which he made me believe in him. True love. White knights. But someone as corrupt as me... can never have faith in a person like that. I stood on the cusp of an extraordinary life, and I chose the wrong path. Like everybody always does.
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Det. Sgt. John Almond : Did you drop out of school because of Toby Percival?
Archie Danforth : Yes! Toby diminished me as a man.
Det. Sgt. John Almond : Diminished you how exactly?
Archie Danforth : Rugby team hazing.
Det. Sgt. John Almond : Rugby. That a team sport?
Archie Danforth : Yes.
Det. Sgt. John Almond : Thought it was something like... handball.
Det. Lt. Everett Backstrom : English people call it soccer.
Archie Danforth : Rugby is *not* soccer.
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Det. Lt. Everett Backstrom : [Referring to Nadia] We're not sleeping together. She's some kind of genius.
Dr. Deb Chaman : The first statement proves the second.
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Det. Lt. Everett Backstrom : I don't see the worst in everyone, I see the everyone in everyone.