True Blood (TV Series)

Jesus Gonna Be Here (2014)

Nelsan Ellis: Lafayette Reynolds

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• James : I am sorry about your cousin.

  Lafayette Reynolds : You know, I feel relieved. How fucked up is that? I guess because I grieved the first time she died. And the second time she died, I don't feel nothing inside.

  James : All my friends died in Vietnam. All of 'em. Their bodies would be brought home on this plane. Wood coffins, a flag draped over top. A notification officer and a chaplain would show up in town. And they'd drive down the road in their Ford Galaxy and-and all the moms and all the dads would come out onto their front porch and they would hold their breath and wait to see which house the officer stopped at.

  Lafayette Reynolds : You served?

  James : I was a draft dodger, a pacifist. I don't believe in violence in any form.

  Lafayette Reynolds : If I had lived then, I'd be right there with you.

  James : One day I was home for Christmas, and the officer came to my best friend's house. Danny Monoghan. He-he lived right across the street. Danny and I, we were, um... well, he was... the officer delivered the news that Danny had died during the Battle of Hue; mortar attack. So I went across the street to pay my respects to Danny's family. Danny's dad, Mr. Monoghan, he grabbed Danny's old Louisville Slugger. It's the same bat Danny and I had used all through high school. And he beat me with it right in the middle of the street.

  Lafayette Reynolds : Fuck.

  James : Called me a "hippie faggot" and just left me there to die. This vampire in town took pity on me. Made me a vampire that night. So, if you ask me, there's zero point in feeling pain or fear, grief, or regret. You can laugh, you can cry, you can smoke out. It doesn't matter. To Tara or to the universe. It makes no fucking difference.

  Lafayette Reynolds : You are one metaphysical fuck.