Orphan Black (TV Series)

Variation Under Nature (2013)

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

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Quotes 

• [Sarah and Felix hear somebody come up to Beth's front door] 

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah whispers]  Hide!

  Felix Dawkins : [Felix whispers back]  You cannot hide in minimalist furniture!

• [Cosima tells Sarah that she broke the first rule of clone club] 

  Cosima Niehaus : You just broke the first rule of clone club.

  Sarah Manning : What, 'Never tell anyone about clone club'?

• [Felix questions Sarah about clones existing] 

  Felix Dawkins : You've got to be kidding me. Clones? Clones?

  Sarah Manning : They're not me. They're not. They're completely different people.

  Felix Dawkins : Soccer-mum Sarah, dreadlock science-geek Sarah? Arguably more attractive than the real Sarah.

  Sarah Manning : Yeah, I was there, thank you.

• [Helena reveals herself to Sarah for the first time] 

  Helena : [with a knife in her hand]  Good riddance, Elizabeth Childs.

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah screams to not get stabbed]  I'm not Beth!

  Helena : [Sarah gasps to see the female suspect is another clone]  Dirty little copy cop. Who are you?

• [Sarah calls Cosima on the phone and asks about their fingerprints] 

  Sarah Manning : I can't talk, or meet. Just answer the question.

  Cosima Niehaus : Oh, okay, okay. Um... Our fingerprints are close enough to flag a match, yeah. Why?

  Sarah Manning : Beth's partner found the German... or at least part of her.

  Cosima Niehaus : Part of her?

  Sarah Manning : Yeah, I messed up when I buried her. They have a fingerprint, Cosima.

  Cosima Niehaus : Oh, wait, are you being Beth right now?

  Sarah Manning : Yes! Yes. I'm at the bloody crime scene, pretending to be a bloody cop, so I need to know if the bloody fingerprints will flag a bloody match!

• [Sarah makes a joke to Cosima about being genetically identical] 

  Sarah Manning : Just answer me one thing...

  Cosima Niehaus : Anything, yes.

  Sarah Manning : If we're genetically identical, do you get that little patch of dry skin between your eyebrows?

  Cosima Niehaus : [Cosima laughs]  That's good. Try to keep your sense of humor. Beth couldn't.

• [Sarah makes the decision to help her sister clones] 

  Sarah Manning : Bloody Mrs S. She's right.

  Felix Dawkins : Really?

  Sarah Manning : What kind of mother am I if I snatch my own daughter?

  Felix Dawkins : A crap one, I agree.

  Sarah Manning : And if I rob Alison, run now and never tell my...

  Felix Dawkins : Clones?

  Sarah Manning : Oh, God, we do have to find another word for that.

• [Sarah radios-in to the police dispatcher] 

  Sarah Manning : Heading for the 10-45. Roger.

  Female Police Dispatcher : Responder, please identify.

  Sarah Manning : Uh...

  Detective Art Bell : [Art shakes his head]  Fifty-five.

  Sarah Manning : Fifty-five heading for the 10-45, Roger. Out.

• [Art tries to talk to the murderer on the phone on why they killed Katja Obinger] 

  Detective Art Bell : So you didn't like her very much. How about you tell us her name.

  Helena : [in an electronic voice on the phone]  She expired at Allenside Park.

  Detective Angela DeAngelis : [the killer hangs up]  So, what, Stephen Hawking did it?

• [Felix listens to Sarah make out with Paul as Paul leaves the house] 

  Felix Dawkins : [Felix comes out from hiding]  Oh. My. God. Oh! She doesn't want to break up with big-dick Paul, unh. He smells it in her musk. You are stuffed!

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah smiles]  Oh, holy shit.

  Felix Dawkins : Oh, don't worry, I bet he's wanking already.

  Sarah Manning : Oh, he'd better be.

  Felix Dawkins : Oh! Paul, all soapy.

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah closes her eyes]  No, no, no, no! Ugh, ah! Eye on the prize, okay?

• [Art sees Sarah do perfect at the shooting range] 

  Detective Art Bell : Maybe it's your lady-grip walther.

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah smiles]  You like your big Glock, don't ya?

• [Sarah finds out from Alison that they're all clones] 

  Sarah Manning : How are we all related?

  Alison Hendrix : We're not!

  Cosima Niehaus : Well, we are, by nature. She's referring to nurture.

  Alison Hendrix : Just give us the briefcase that you got from the German.

  Sarah Manning : I'm not giving you shit 'til you give me some answers.

  Alison Hendrix : You don't rate answers.

  Cosima Niehaus : Alison!

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison responds agitated sounding]  Fine! She wants in? We're clones. We're someone's experiment and they're killing us off! Is that helpful? Hmm?

• [Art speaks on the phone to the murderer of Katja Obinger] 

  Helena : [on the phone with a voice change app]  She was just one of a few, unfit for family, horse glue.

• [Cosima tells Sarah that Katja Obinger told the clones that they're being hunted] 

  Cosima Niehaus : So, six months ago, Katja contacted Beth with this crazy story about her genetic identicals being hunted in Europe.

  Sarah Manning : 'Hunted'?

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah scoffs]  Brilliant.

• [Sarah talks to Mrs. S. for the first time] 

  Mrs. S : I've seen your elaborate ruses and guises before, but how do you do this, how do you fake your own demise beneath a train?

  Sarah Manning : Wouldn't you rather know why?

  Mrs. S : I don't care to know why.

  Sarah Manning : Because I saw a way to dump Vic and get out of that life and get away with Kira.

  Mrs. S : Ha! Take her on the run with you? Brilliant. New clothes and a Jaguar do not a mother make.

• [Alison tells Sarah her opinion of whom Beth was to her] 

  Alison Hendrix : I need to protect my family, so Beth taught me how to shoot. For that, I am grateful to her.

  Sarah Manning : I'm sorry you lost her, but anything you can tell me about her will help.

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison scoffs]  I fail to see how someone like you can fill Beth's shoes. Truth is, I barely knew Beth. She was all business, but I admired her. She didn't pry. She was discreet. She didn't bring her foster brother to my house.

  Sarah Manning : I didn't know the rules of clone club, did I?

  Alison Hendrix : Can you not use the C-word? Please.

• [the bartender sees both Sarah and Cosima sitting at the bar] 

  Bartender : [the bartender points to Cosima, then Sarah]  Let me guess... You're the smart one, and you're the wild one.

  Sarah Manning : Would you believe we're clones?

  Sarah Manning : [the bartender scoffs]  Bourbon, rocks.

• [Alison teaches Sarah how to shoot in an open field] 

  Alison Hendrix : [Sarah misses all of her targets]  Okay, reload, try again. So, most city cops carry Glocks, but a Walther P99, it has an optional-sized hand grip. It's good for women, Beth said, particularly women living their lives like rats in a lab.

• [first lines] 

  Cosima Niehaus : [Cosima asks Sarah a little bit about herself]  Okay, define 'Orphan', Sarah.

  Sarah Manning : Orphan, orphanage.

  Cosima Niehaus : So, you don't know your birth parents?

  Sarah Manning : No, I was fostered out, then legally adopted and I came here.

  Cosima Niehaus : When?

  Sarah Manning : Adopted? Like 8. Came here around 12.

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison comments]  Heartbreaking.

• [Alison tells Cosima that Sarah is some kind of lowlife grifter] 

  Alison Hendrix : This one's some kind of lowlife grifter! How do we know she didn't push her?

  Sarah Manning : Oi! I already told you... I didn't want to be her. I got stuck! I was running from my own shit.

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison sarcastically replies]  I can only imagine.

• [Sarah remains silent after finding out she could be a clone] 

  Cosima Niehaus : Sorry. I wanted to float that whole clone thing a lot softer.

• [Sarah punches Alison for pointing a gun at Felix] 

  Sarah Manning : You point a gun at my brother again, I will kick the living shite out of you!

• [Sarah talks to herself in the mirror while dressed like Beth] 

  Sarah Manning : Am I going insane?

• [Sarah tells Cosima on the phone about her criminal record] 

  Cosima Niehaus : They'd need to use Interpol to find the German, which is unlikely, um, but if one of us had a criminal record here...

  Cosima Niehaus : [Sarah remains silent]  Do you have a criminal record?

  Sarah Manning : Just petty fraud, assault, whatever. Wasted youth, all right? If the body matches me, the cops will see a mugshot of somebody who looks like Beth, only it's yours truly, and I'm already supposed to be dead.

  Cosima Niehaus : Wow. Wow, welcome to the trip, man.

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah takes a deep breath]  That is not helpful.

• [Sarah sees her and Cosima in the mirror together behind the bar] 

  Cosima Niehaus : Don't worry, you get used to it.

  Sarah Manning : To clones? Yeah, I'm not buying that.

  Cosima Niehaus : How many of us do you have to meet, Sarah?

• [Cosima asks for Sarah's help to find out who's killing them] 

  Cosima Niehaus : So Beth used facial-recognition software to find driver's licenses in North America. Two matches.

  Sarah Manning : You and soccer bitch.

  Cosima Niehaus : Yeah, right. But who is the original? Who's created us? Who's killing us? We need to know, but, we lost our cop, so, however you manage to get into her shoes, we really need you to stay there.

  Sarah Manning : Stay a cop to help you?

  Cosima Niehaus : To help us. Help us find out who's killing us.

• [Sarah tells Alison that she needs to see her first thing in the morning] 

  Sarah Manning : It has to be this morning. Art's got me chasing down motorcycle models from tire tracks and I'm shooting bloody targets at a gun range tomorrow.

  Alison Hendrix : Well, I can't just conjure a sitter out of thin air. It's weekend primetime, Sarah.

  Sarah Manning : Well, then, we're all screwed. Aren't we?

• [Alison tells Sarah that her bottom line is her children] 

  Alison Hendrix : So my bottom line is my children can't know their mother is a freak. Things have to stay on a need-to-know basis.

  Sarah Manning : Yeah, I'm fine with that.

  Alison Hendrix : Good. So, we've made a decision to trust you.

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah smiles]  Really?

  Alison Hendrix : Sarah, this is my life now and I'm doing the best I can.

• [Alison tells Sarah about the $75,000 in Beth's bank account] 

  Alison Hendrix : So Beth had, um, a substantial sum, sort of a fund she used to buy information we couldn't get officially.

  Sarah Manning : Okay.

  Alison Hendrix : We were a cop, a scientist, and myself. The fund was how I could contribute.

  Sarah Manning : How much?

  Alison Hendrix : $75,000. You could rob me blind. But we're hoping you realize you can't run from this. So, can you con her bank, or not?

  Alison Hendrix : [Sarah nods up and down]  Good.

• [Alison arrives home to find that Felix dressed her kids up into cross-dressers] 

  Alison Hendrix : Oh, Gemma!

  Gemma Hendrix : Look, mom, we're cross-dressers!

• [Paul asks Sarah how she'd feel if he started acting schizo like her] 

  Paul Dierden : How would you like it if I started pulling this schizophrenic hot-and-cold crap on you?

  Sarah Manning : Maybe you should, Paul. I mean, seriously, where are we going with this?

  [as Paul shoves his lips into Sarah's] 

• [Art and Sarah follow the tip on the stolen Suzuki motorcycle] 

  Ukrainian Landlady : Upstairs! My son no here.

  Detective Art Bell : [as the landlady closes the door Art looks to Sarah]  Thank you. I thought you were the one who's supposed to deal with the non-English-speaking majority.

  Sarah Manning : Yeah, my Ukrainian sucks.

• [Sarah and Art find the apartment to the suspect on the motorcycle] 

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah reads out of a book]  'For you formed my inward parts; You knitted me together in my... '

  Detective Art Bell : [Art reads the blood on the wall]  'Mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.' Bibles, dolls. This perp's got some deep-seated spiritual problems.

• [Art thanks Sarah for saving his life] 

  Sarah Manning : [as Art walks forward at Sarah]  Hey, you're not going to hug me, are ya?

  Detective Art Bell : [Art then walks past Sarah]  See you in the morning.

• [last lines] 

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah sits in the car with Felix, wanting to make peace with Mrs. S and her sister clones]  Mrs. S gave me one visit. I need to get it right.

  Felix Dawkins : Okay, well, this has taken years off my life. Now can you please tell me what in the hell happened to your face.

  [as the two laugh]