Godless (TV Mini Series)

Shot the Head off a Snake (2017)

Griffin Kane: 15 Year Old Roy Goode

Quotes 

• Frank Griffin : Tell me, son. Have you got a pappy?

  15 Year Old Roy Goode : [spits in his eye] 

  Frank Griffin : Me neither.

• Frank Griffin : [watching the boy eat]  You've been poor your whole life, I assume? Life's hard. It's already hard, of course. It's even harder without luck.

  15 Year Old Roy Goode : Bible says that?

  Frank Griffin : Have yourself a look.

  [holds out his Bible] 

  15 Year Old Roy Goode : I can't read.

  Frank Griffin : That's all right. I can read for both of us. You've got a family now, son. These are your brothers, and I aim to be your pappy. And a good one, too. I won't mistreat you. I won't beat you. And I won't ever lie to you. Ever. Welcome home, son.

• Frank Griffin : There's different sorts of men. Some don't have the taste for a fight. But they can talk, they can reason. That's almost as good. Then there's some men who can only talk through their guns or their fists. There ain't no reasoning with a man like that. A man like that comes at you, you best just be prepared to meet him.

  15 Year Old Roy Goode : Prepared how?

  Frank Griffin : That's what I aim to teach you.

• 15 Year Old Roy Goode : I want to shoot a real gun.

  Frank Griffin : What are you gonna shoot at?

  15 Year Old Roy Goode : Any man who tries to shoot me.

  Frank Griffin : [chuckles]  Let's say you get shot, anyhow. Then what?

  15 Year Old Roy Goode : Then I guess I die.

  Frank Griffin : And would that be so bad? Death ain't such a big deal. It's dying that's no goddamn fun. Ain't nothing scarier than a man with a gun. And ain't nothing more helpless than a man without one.