Sling Blade (1996)

Natalie Canerday: Linda Wheatley

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• Doyle : [Karl enters the bedroom, startling Doyle and Linda]  Hey! What the God damn hell you doing, Karl? 'The fuck you doing up in the middle of the night?

  Linda : What you want, Hon?

  Karl : I wanna be baptized.

  Doyle : Well get baptized then, I don't give a shit. Call up a fuckin' preacher, Goddammit, we can't baptize ya.

• Doyle : Hey is this the kind of retard that drools and rubs shit in his hair and all that, 'cause I'm gonna have a hard time eatin' 'round that kind of thing now. Just like I am with antique furniture and midgets. You know that, I can't so much as drink a damn glass of water around a midget or a piece of antique furniture.

  Linda : Doyle, you're awful. You shouldn't be that way.

  Doyle : I ain't saying it's right, I'm just telling the damn truth. He'll make me sick. I know it.

• Linda Wheatley : I'm gonna make some coffee. Karl, you want some coffee?

  Karl : Coffee makes me nervous when I drink it. Mmm.

• Linda : Frank's always after a father figure and Lord knows Doyle ain't one with his mean ass.

  Vaughan Cunningham : What about me?

  Linda : Frank doesn't really see you as a guy-guy.

  Vaughan Cunningham : Oh, and Karl's a guy-guy?

• Doyle : [to Vaughan and Karl]  Hey! I said get out of my house! That goes for cocksuckers and retards! Now get up off your asses'n go! Go on!

  Linda : This is not your house, Doyle. This is my house and I decide who goes and who stays. You got a house, why don't you get some of your girlfriends and go home to it?

  Doyle : You know better than to talk to me like that when I'm hurtin', Linda. Don't make me knock the piss outta you.

  Vaughan Cunningham : Don't you touch her.

  Doyle : That's funny, Vaughan. Linda, go to bed and take little snot-nose here with you.

  Linda : You're not staying here tonight. Go get sober before you come back, I'm tired of my child seeing this. Now you get your ass straight or I'll lock your ass out of my life for good.

  Doyle : If you even think about leaving me, Linda, I told you: I'm gonna kill you deader than a door nail.

  Linda : That might be better than this.

  Vaughan Cunningham : All right, I'm a witness. I heard you threatening her.

  Doyle : Hey, you get the

  [shouts] 

  Doyle : fuck out now!

• Doyle : What am I supposed to do about supper while you're out runnin' around with that fag?

  Linda : You're not crippled, get in there and make it yourself.

  Doyle : Talkin' back and everything. That kinda makes me horny, Linda.

  Linda : Frank, maybe you better go play in your room if Doyle's gonna talk nasty.

  Frank : I don't wanna go play in my room.

  Doyle : He don't wanna go play in his room. Let's all just sit here and be a family. Until your mentally retarded friend and your homosexual friend get here.

• Linda : This is not your house, Doyle. This is my house and I decide who goes and who stays. You got a house, why don't you get some of your girlfriends and go home to it?

  Doyle : You know better than to talk to me like that when I'm hurtin', Linda. Don't make me knock the piss outta you.

  Vaughan : Don't you touch her.

  Doyle : That's funny, Vaughan. Linda, go to bed and take little snot-nose here with you.

  Linda : You're not staying here tonight. Go get sober before you come back, I'm tired of my child seeing this. Now you get your ass straight or I'll lock your ass out of my life for good.

  Doyle : If you even think about leaving me, Linda, I told you: I'm gonna kill you deader than a door nail.

  Linda : That might be better than this.

• Doyle : You know what, by God?

  Linda : What?

  Doyle : I know what I oughta do tonight.

  Linda : Please don't.

  Doyle : Mmm-hmm. I'm gonna call up Morris and have him get the band together. We're gonna have a party. Party our asses off. I'd love to show them that damn Karl. They'd get a real kick out of him. You know they would.

  Linda : Please, Doyle, not tonight. They always stay until morning, I'll just give out.

  Doyle : You ain't gotta do nothing, Linda. Just put some chips in a bowl and run ice out to us when we look low.

  Frank : Last time you got angry and ran Morris and them off and told them to stay away from here.

  Doyle : That ain't none of your damn business, besides, that's the way friends do one another! Fuck it, I'm calling them up.

• Vaughan Cunningham : [about potted meat]  They aren't moving too well, but I'll tell you what, I'll give a couple cans free to the right kid.

  Frank : I don't like potted meat. Daddy used to say they was made out of lips, peckers and intestines.

  Linda : Frank, don't talk that way.

  [about Karl] 

  Linda : Who's that strange looking man? He follow you in here?

• Linda Wheatley : Karl, you know what? Melinda here was voted employee of the month at the dollar store last February. Isn't that something?

  Karl : Yes ma'am, I reckon.

  Melinda : Well, when you like pricing items as much as I do, it's just bound to happen sooner or later, I guess.

• Vaughan Cunningham : Listen, everyone, I've had a few glasses of wine and that tends to make me emotional. It came over me in a rush. I just want you to know that I care about each and every person at this table.

  Linda : Thank you, Vaughan. We care about you too, don't we?

  Melinda , Frank , Albert : Yes.

  Karl : Yes, Sir.