Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)

The Fire and the Wood (2003)

John Kassir: Mime God

Quotes 

• Joan : This is why people hate mimes.

  Mime God : People don't really hate mimes. They just say that they do. It's the opposite of opera.

  Joan : Isn't there a law that says you can't talk to people?

  Mime God : Hey, Joan, I remain silent, I get criticized for that, too.

• Joan : God, I'm not getting it. I joined AP Chem, but so what? I have to do what you want, obviously; you're God. I just... I don't get it.

  Mime God : [performing in mime as he talks]  AP Chem brings Adam Rove into your home, where he tells your mother about a car in the impound. Now your brother has a car. Get it?

  Joan : I-I got Kevin his car?

  Mime God : Me working through you, working through Adam, working through your mother, working through your...

  Joan : Can you stop all this? It's very distracting.

  [he stops] 

  Joan : Thank you.

  Mime God : What Kevin does with that car depends upon his own free will, which is another reality strand. Back on this strand, your father meets Adam, which compels him to exchange pleasantries with Adam's father, who passes on his inflated impressions of your father to his counterpart at the fire department, who happens to be the brother-in-law of an arson investigator, who risks his job to pass information to your father so that he can arrest an arsonist.

  Joan : Wait, wait, wait, wait. I caught an arsonist?

  Mime God : That's just on the Adam Rove reality strand.

  Joan : How far does this go?

  Mime God : All the way, baby.

  Joan : Always for the better?

  Mime God : [pantomiming being blown away by the wind]  Better is how it works with me. An infinite good in an infinite universe. Trust in me, Joan. That's all I ask.