Episode Report Card Erin: A+ | 114 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well.
By Erin | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on 2007.03.05
Linderman goes to put his pot pies in the oven as Nathan looks around to see if they're really alone. Linderman continues yammering about food and even though it's totally enjoyable and I've watched it now five times, it doesn't really have anything to do with this scene, so I'm going to jump ahead to the part where Linderman asks Nathan if he's happy. "Not especially," says Nathan. "I guess I have a few issues that plague me." "Oh, dear," says Linderman with a barely-disguised sneer. "I'm sorry to hear that. You see, I think there comes a time in a man's life where he has to ask himself whether he wants a life of happiness or a life of meaning." Nathan says he'd like to have both. Linderman chuckles and says that can't be done because those are two very different paths. "I mean, to be truly happy, a man must live absolutely in the present, and with no thought of what's gone before, and no thought of what lies ahead. Butâ¦a life of meaning, a man is condemned to wallow in the past, and obsess about the future." Nathan stares at him as Linderman says that he guesses Nathan's done quite a bit of obsessing about his own future these last few days. And that's when Nathan reaches into his pocket and pulls out the gun.
Linderman just glances at it. "Mmm," he says with a raised eyebrow. "Now you can't have any of my pot pie." BEST LINE EVER. Nathan cocks his head to the side as if to say, "Did I hear you right? No pot pie? Oh, woe is me. I'm going to shoot you now, if that's okay." "I won't hold it against you," says Linderman. "Lots of men have tried to kill me." Nathan cocks the gun and raises it. "Then I'll be the last." "Of course, you can pull that trigger, Nathan," says Linderman. "But you'd be taking both of our lives. You'll be dead within moments. Or I could offer you something." Nathan's not interested in anything Linderman has to offer. "I think you are," says Linderman with a smile. "I think there are things you need to hear. Things that I know about. That you can fly, for instance? Or about your brother Peter. Hmm? And his smallâ¦problem. Your daughter, even. And all those others out there like you." During this little speech, the expression on Nathan's face ranges from resignation to surprise to curiosity. It's unbelievable. The Pasdar is the shiznit, people. He really is.