The Walking Dead (TV Series)

The Well (2016)

Khary Payton: Ezekiel

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• Ezekiel : There's a saying - the pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly.

• Ezekiel : Drink from the well, replenish the well.

• Carol Peletier : Why do you care?

  Ezekiel : Because it makes me feel good.

• Ezekiel : What's that saying? Never bullshit a bullshitter.

• Ezekiel : Keeping a tiger isn't practical, I know. She eats as much as 10 people. She could yank the chain out of my hand, hell, she could yank my arm right off but she hasn't. She won't. I lost a lot, just like everybody else. When it all started to end, I found myself back at the zoo. Shiva was one of the last animals left. She was trapped. Hungry. Alone. Like me. She was the last thing left in this world that I loved. She protected me. She got me here. Made me larger than life and I made this place.

• Ezekiel : Where there is life, there is hope.

• Ezekiel : I was a zookeeper. Shiva, she fell into one of the concrete moats in our exhibit. It was empty. The vets where on their way, but her leg was ripped open. She was going to bleed out. The sound she made... She was in so much pain. I knew the risk, but I had to try. I got my shirt up around her leg and saved her life. After that she never showed so much as a tooth in my direction.

• Ezekiel : People want someone to follow. Its the human nature. They want someone to make them feel safe. People who feel safe are less dangerous, more productive. They see a dude with a tiger, they start telling stories about finding it in the wild. Wrestlnig it into submission, turning it into his pet. They make the guy larger-than-life. A hero! Who am I to burst their bubble?