1883 (TV Mini Series)

The Crossing (2022)

LaMonica Garrett: Thomas

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• Shea Brennan : It shocks me, Thomas, that they haven't quit yet.

  Thomas : I don't know why them folks'd want to go home. Their home sound like hell.

  Shea Brennan : 'Cuz it's the hell they know. Most terrifyin' thing on this planet is the unknown.

  Thomas : That's 'cuz you ain't never been whipped, Captain. Let someone put a whip to your back, tell me the unknown is what scares you. These folks ain't never goin' home.

• Wade : [mounts horse, reins and rides off]  Well, have a look around, Captain. We're starving already.

  Shea Brennan : [discontented]  This talking back is getting contagious.

  Thomas : [sardonically]  You need to have a word with that farmer. A word that sticks. Let me do it, I'll make sure it sticks.

  [Shea chuckles quietly] 

• Thomas : [Noemi prepares a bowl of stew for Thomas]  Oh, no, don't go wasting your supplies on me, ma'am. You just just keep them children fed. You fed, too.

  Noemi : I would have no supplies if it weren't for you.

  Thomas : [doffs his hat and receives the bowl, Noemi sits at Thomas' feet watching him eat]  What're you doing?

  Noemi : Watching.

  Thomas : Don't do that.

  Noemi : Why not?

  Thomas : [contemplative]  Marrying a black man ain't gonna solve your problems, ma'am. It's gonna create a whole bunch of new ones.

  Noemi : [smiles]  This is free country.

  Thomas : There's degrees of free, ma'am.

  Noemi : What does that mean? Government can tell me who to love?

  Thomas : Your government says you can't swim. Can't protect yourself. Damn right government can tell you who to love. And how to love 'em. They shouldn't. But they can.

  Noemi : Then we go somewhere they can't.

  Thomas : [chuckles with a faint smile, slightly shakes his head]  Ma'am, you don't want nuthin' to do with me. I'm too old. Too set in my ways. I don't like talking. I like sleeping outside and I like bathing in a river. That ain't what a woman wants.

  Noemi : Men have no idea what women want.

  Thomas : [chuckles]  Can't argue that.

  Noemi : Know why? Because they never ask.

  Thomas : What do you want?

  Noemi : I want to watch you eat.

  Thomas : [grumbles relentingly and takes another spoonful]  Okay.