Preacher (TV Series)

Call and Response (2016)

W. Earl Brown: Hugo Root

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• Hugo Root : I see that you are no stranger to our criminal justice system.

  Cassidy : Uh oh, manila folder time.

  Hugo Root : Assault and battery in Las Vegas.

  Cassidy : Let me just say I... Do you know what? I told him right from the get-go, I don't... I don't like magicians.

• Hugo Root : Vampires, government agents, psychopathic preachers. It's all an unmitigated monster swamp.

  Cassidy : That's true. Plonkers and gobshites as far as the eye can see. Still, nobody's perfect. You know?

• Cassidy : And what about you... Sheriff? All this. Last I checked, this kinda questioning was illegal.

  Hugo Root : Not in Texas.

  [Cocks gun] 

  Hugo Root : Not when a man's looking for his son.

  Cassidy : Are you really looking for him, though, is what I'm wondering? Just come on, be honest with me now, right. Could there not be... like a teeny-tiny part of you that'd be happy if he was just gone?

  Hugo Root : Eugene's a good boy.

  Cassidy : I know. I know that. But he's sort of annoyingly good, though. Am I right? Always talking, asking his bloody questions, and that face, I just... I honestly... I don't know how you do it. Having to wake up to that giant, puckered arseface staring at you across the breakfast table day after day...

  [Root shoots Cassidy six times, Cassidy falls to the cell floor groaning] 

  Cassidy : You'll see. This just proves my point exactly. Nobody's perfect.

  Hugo Root : [Root unlocks the cell door]  You can go.

  Cassidy : [Laying on the cell floor groaning]  Ahh. Good. I got to be someplace.