Orphan Black (TV Series)

Effects of External Conditions (2013)

Tatiana Maslany: Sarah Manning, Alison Hendrix, Cosima Niehaus, Helena

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• [Alison practices her British accent in front of Felix] 

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison closes her eyes]  The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

  Felix : Okay, Eliza. Holy shit. We need to pull a full reverse Pygmalion here.

• [Sarah tells Cosima that Helena thinks her and Sarah have a connection] 

  Cosima Niehaus : So, the woman Beth shot and Helena are connected. Holy watershed. Okay, Beth probably shot Maggie Chen on purpose. She never told us anything about this.

  Sarah Manning : Yeah, she never told her partner, either. I can't keep doing this, Cosima. Helena was here. She was Beth. She's going to get us both busted, unless I meet her, alone.

  Cosima Niehaus : Oh, my God. Bad idea.

  Sarah Manning : Yeah, she thinks we have a connection.

  Cosima Niehaus : Do you?

  Sarah Manning : Yeah, we're clones.

• [Cosima tells Felix and Sarah a little bit about the fish knife] 

  Cosima Niehaus : Wow, rich, man. This looks like a new blade insert in a much older handle, so the fish is a bitch, semiotically speaking, like a universal wayback symbol of fecundity. But these wings, though, they're...

  Felix Dawkins : Seriously, what is she on about?

  Sarah Manning : Quiet. She's just weird.

• [Alison asks Sarah why one of the clones would be killing them] 

  Alison Hendrix : Why would one of us be killing us? What is wrong with her?

  Sarah Manning : Bad breath. Batshit crazy.

• [Alison tells Donnie that she just needs some time to herself] 

  Alison Hendrix : I just need some time to myself. You have your usual Thursday-night drinks with clients, right?

  Donnie Hendrix : Yes.

  Alison Hendrix : So I'll see you when you come crashing in at 3:00 am, normal time.

  Donnie Hendrix : I don't crash in.

  Donnie Hendrix : [Donnie mumbles on the way out of the room]  One time.

• [Sarah speaks to Helena for the first time over the phone] 

  Sarah Manning : What do you want from me? You could've killed me, but here we are.

  Helena : You didn't feel it?

  Sarah Manning : What?

  Helena : We have a connection.

  Sarah Manning : Uh, you mean when I stuck that piece of rebar in your liver? How's that going?

• [Sarah tells Felix about her one really idiotic idea] 

  Sarah Manning : I do have one really idiotic idea.

  Felix Dawkins : [Felix gasps]  Oh, good.

  Sarah Manning : I need to be in two places at once, yeah?

  Felix Dawkins : Yeah...

  Sarah Manning : Well, if anybody can do that, we can.

  Felix Dawkins : Are you effing serious?

  Sarah Manning : Yeah, suddenly, I am.

• [Alison tells Felix that Sarah is no stretch to impersonate] 

  Alison Hendrix : Well, I did just play Annelle in 'Steel Magnolias'.

  Felix Dawkins : Seriously?

  Alison Hendrix : Mm-hmm. Glendale community theatre.

  Felix Dawkins : Annelle, Annelle... oh, my God! The Daryl Hannah part?

  Alison Hendrix : Yeah.

  Felix Dawkins : Terrible casting.

  Alison Hendrix : It was actually very good acting, Felix. Trust me, Sarah's no stretch. I got great reviews.

  Felix Dawkins : From the whole neighborhood, I'm sure.

• [Felix tells Sarah that there's no way she's going back to being a cop] 

  Felix : No way. You're not going back to being Beth. Impersonating a dead officer, that's like a whole new crime.

  Sarah Manning : I think I'm safest with the cops, to be honest with you.

  Felix : Did that actually just come out of your mouth?

• [Alison learns of Sarah's plan to see Kira] 

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison laughs in distress]  I'm sorry, but she wants me to impersonate her, in front of her own daughter, who she hasn't seen in almost a year?

  Felix : 10 months.

  Alison Hendrix : This is terrible parenting, Felix.

• [Felix continues to help Alison with her British accent] 

  Felix : These are your worst clothes?

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison talks with an Australian accent]  Well, I'm sorry, mate, but I don't shop secondhand.

  Felix : No, no, my God, no. It's not 'mate', all right? It's more like, um, it's like 'might'.

  Alison Hendrix : 'Might'.

  Felix : Yeah.

  Alison Hendrix : 'Ello, 'might'.

  Felix : Yeah, that's better. But, look, you're going to have to get past Mrs. S, so you really got to play the dreary history there, you know? I mean, you basically won't talk.

• [Cosima tells Sarah that she needs to find Helena to get answers] 

  Cosima Niehaus : If she's not dead, we need to find her, find out what she knows.

  Felix Dawkins : Are you mad? She's a homicidal maniac.

  Cosima Niehaus : Yeah, but we need to find out who she is, Sarah. She's... She's... She found us. She's got answers.

  Sarah Manning : The only way I'm going to do that is go back to being a cop.

• [Kira questions the impersonating Alison] 

  Kira : What do you call me?

  Alison Hendrix : Monkey.

  Kira : What else?

  Alison Hendrix : Monkey... bum? Face?

  Kira : Where's my mum?

• [Sarah tells Felix she's between a rock and a hard place] 

  Sarah Manning : Rock and a hard place, here, Fe.

  Felix Dawkins : Yeah, your permanent address.

• [Cosima asks Sarah if she told any of the news of a fish knife to Alison] 

  Cosima Niehaus : Hey, you didn't show this to Alison, by any chance, did you?

  Sarah Manning : Are you joking? She'd crap her lululemons.

• [Art and Sarah find the stolen bike of their murderer] 

  Detective Art Bell : Our killer made a pit-stop. That's his bike.

  Sarah Manning : They got him?

  Detective Art Bell : No, but we got a witness.

  Detective Art Bell : [as the two walk into the home that the suspect broke into]  Just follow the bloody brick road.

• [the detectives arrive to Helena's secret location] 

  Detective Angela DeAngelis : Ho-ly shit. It's the same figures as the fortune teller.

  Detective Art Bell : She saying she's a serial killer?

  Detective Angela DeAngelis : Could be her single victim, our Jane Doe, over and over again.

  Sarah Manning : Or she just draws like a third-grader.

• [Detective DeAngelis tells Sarah the woman-on-woman crimes are personal] 

  Detective Angela DeAngelis : My crime-psych guy says biblically messed up or not, woman-on-woman means its got to be personal, whether it's her first or 15th kill.

  Sarah Manning : Yeah, no, that makes sense.

  Detective Angela DeAngelis : So we're back to Jane Doe and who she was to Jane Death.

• [Sarah sits down to talk with the injured Helena] 

  Sarah Manning : You wanted to talk? Let's talk.

  Helena : I think I'm dying.

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah kicks out a chair]  Yeah, I think I'll watch.

• [Sarah holds her gun on Helena in the apartment] 

  Sarah Manning : They told you you were the original, didn't they? Your people! It's not true, what they said! We're genetic identicals.

  Helena : Let me save you.

  Sarah Manning : You, me, Beth, the German you killed! We're all made the same. Whoever told you different hates you as much as they hate us.

  Helena : You're wrong.

  Sarah Manning : [Helena stands up]  What happened to you, Helena? Stay back!

  Helena : [Helena puts her head to Sarah's gun barrel]  Can you feel it?

• [Cosima and Sarah discuss the church-related mission of Helena] 

  Cosima Niehaus : So, the fish reads Christian and, and crafted onto a weapon? A personal crusade.

  Sarah Manning : Great. Is that it?

  Cosima Niehaus : You know, when I'm seeing this branded onto Maggie Chen, I'm thinking that she's not a lone warrior. To extreme creationist types, we would be abominations. Like, not God's children, but, but, Satan's.

  Sarah Manning : So they hate us and she's killing us, even though she's identical to us?

  Cosima Niehaus : Well, but if you were a messed-up, abused loner whose faith compelled you to belong and somebody that you trusted told you that this was the way to redeem yourself in the eyes of God, I mean...

  Sarah Manning : Yeah, I might become an angry angel, too.

• [first lines] 

  Helena : [Helena does some self surgery on herself while in a family's bathroom, mumbling to herself the last words Sarah told her]  'I'm not Beth.' 'I'm not Beth.' 'I'm not Beth.'

• [Sarah tells Felix that she can continue to shadow Art to find out more about Helena] 

  Sarah Manning : Look, Art's already looking for the killer. I shadow him as Beth, I let them figure out what's happened to her, and then, when I find that out, I can jump off and deal.

  Felix Dawkins : 'Deal'? I'm beginning to realize crazy's genetic.

• [Felix tells Cosima that his sister Sarah is sane in comparison to the rest of the clones] 

  Cosima Niehaus : Well, yeah, bad brain chemistry can be genetic, but environment... that's individual, right? I mean, that's the whole nature/nurture question right there.

  Felix : Okay, let's talk nature. Out of 9, so far, one's a psycho who killed 4 others, one committed suicide, one is a bloody soccer mum, and then, there's you. My crazy sister is sane, by comparison.

  Sarah Manning : Thanks, Fe.

• [Donnie questions Alison about sending the kids to her parents house] 

  Donnie Hendrix : You're sending the kids to your parents on a school morning.

  Alison Hendrix : Well, they're staying the night.

  Donnie Hendrix : That's not an answer.

  Alison Hendrix : Well, you didn't pose it as a question, did you, Donnie?

• [Art tells Sarah it's a good day to be alive after she saved his life the day before] 

  Sarah Manning : How's your head?

  Detective Art Bell : Probably about the same as yours. It's a good day to be alive, Beth. My kids thank you. Hell, even my ex thanks you.

  Sarah Manning : Yeah, don't mention it.

  Detective Art Bell : I didn't. They did it.

• [Helena tells Sarah that the both of them should meet] 

  Helena : You're doing police work, but how long can that last, when the real police find me? You are me, I'm you, we're both the victim and the cop.

  Sarah Manning : Yeah, that would be bad for both of us.

  Helena : So come see me, discuss.

• [Art, DeAngelis, and Sarah arrive to the location Helena lead them to] 

  Detective Art Bell : [as the detectives exit the vehicle]  What?

  Sarah Manning : Anybody else feel like they have a target on their back?

• [Sarah tells Felix that she can't make it to see Kira for dinner] 

  Sarah Manning : There's no way I can make dinner with Kira tonight.

  Felix Dawkins : Well, you've got to.

  Sarah Manning : I can't. I'm stuck with Art and this bitch is right on top of me.

• [Felix arrives at Alison's house] 

  Alison Hendrix : [about Sarah]  What happened? Is she okay?

  Felix : Yeah, she's okay. She's fine.

  Alison Hendrix : That doesn't sound okay.

• [Felix tells Alison that she's a punk now that she's going to be impersonating Sarah] 

  Felix : This shirt is all wrong.

  Alison Hendrix : [as Felix starts to scissor into Alison's shirt]  Hey! Hey, hey!

  Felix : Not 'Hey'! You're a punk. Be one.

  Alison Hendrix : Oi!

• [Alison impersonates Sarah and tells Felix that she wants a cigarette] 

  Alison Hendrix : I'm gasping for a fag.

  Felix : No, you're not. Sarah never smoked.

• [Felix sees Alison over-slouching in her Sarah walk] 

  Felix Dawkins : Over-slouching. You're over-slouching.

  Alison Hendrix : Shut up.

  Felix Dawkins : Now you got it.

• [Sarah leaves Art a voice message telling him the truth] 

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah in her British accent]  Art, if you're hearing this, you found the body. It's not Beth. It's me. My name is Sarah Manning and... you're about the only person I trust to figure the whole thing out.

• [Sarah asks Helena on where she came from] 

  Helena : Where did you come from?

  Sarah Manning : I came out of the woodwork. Where did you come from?

  Helena : God sent me.

  Sarah Manning : Right, so you don't know, either.

  Helena : You don't know God.

• [Helena tells Sarah that the clones are poor copies] 

  Helena : I can save you.

  Sarah Manning : Right, because we have a connection.

  Helena : I can see a light in you.

  Sarah Manning : There's a light in all of us.

  Helena : No! N-No! The others, poor copies of God's image of human beings.

• [Alison tells Kira the truth about Sarah and her sisters] 

  Kira : How can you be my auntie Alison? My mum doesn't have any sisters. My mum doesn't even have a mum.

  Alison Hendrix : Well, it's very complicated. But, Kira, I'm sorry about this, but it's very important that you keep this a secret, right? Promise?

• [last lines] 

  Detective Art Bell : [Sarah tells Art and Lt. Gavin that she quits the police force]  What is it with you?

  Lieutenant Gavin Hardcastle : Walking out's not the answer, Childs.

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah puts her badge on the desk]  So how does this go? Something like this?