Brothers & Sisters

As a follow-up to yesterday’s recap, here are some memorable lines from the episode “Moral Hazard.” Did I miss one of your favorites? Share it in the comments.

Sarah: Is this what you do? You decimate companies, then give them a pep talk?

Graham: If there’s some sort of familial dysfunction when it comes to communicating, that’s not my problem.

Sarah: Losing Ojai will be hard enough for mom. She doesn’t have to know what you did. Nobody ever does.

Nora: Unfortunately? Unfortunately? No, no, “unfortunately” is “oops, I dented the car fender. I spilled red wine on the sofa.” Unfortunately is not “I ruined Ojai.”

Scotty: Kevin, it’s lunch, not my bar mitzvah.

Scotty: Okay, Kevin, there is no way you care this much about the carbon footprint of this loft. I wish you did, but you don’t. I know why you’ve been acting guilty lately. And I’ve been letting you go on in this overapologizing, “please Scotty” mode. But it’s too much.
Kevin: What do you mean?
Scotty: Kevin, just because I didn’t like the incredibly lame way you pseudo-proposed to me over a hospital bill doesn’t mean I’m not happy with our relationship exactly as it is now.

Tommy: She was sleeping with Graham, okay? She lost all objectivity. Those are the facts. I’m sorry.
Sarah: You’re not above sleeping with an employee yourself, Tommy.
Tommy: She was an office manager, okay? I wasn’t making multi-million-dollar deals with her.

Justin: God, Kevin, how are you not getting this? Look, I know you’re gay, but you have eyes, you know, she’s, she’s not like, unattractive, you know?
Kevin: You’re attracted to our sister?
Justin: Because I thought she wasn’t! That’s what I’m saying!

Justin: Kev, I’m making up hot chicks that I’m supposedly dating so I can avoid her.
Kevin: Stop talking.
Justin: I told you, I’m the most disgusting person in the world.
Kevin: Okay, okay, let’s just talk about this rationally. It’s … it’s not entirely abnormal that you could possibly have these feelings, okay? You weren’t raised together, you, you know, you met as adults. And you clearly have boundary issues. So you just need a little time out to stop thinking about … inbreeding.

Kevin: Do not talk to her about — do not talk to anyone about this. Seriously, I love you, and I get that because she’s not a sister you might have thought things might have worked out a little more complicated. But she is, okay? So you just have to put that in a box or behind you or somewhere and forget about it, and never ever speak of this again.
Justin: Look, Kev –
Kevin: Shh.
Justin: Kevin, I just –
Kevin: Shh.

Sarah: I’m glad my father’s dead. It would kill him to see what a mistake it was leaving me in charge.

Sarah: Kevin, I had a fling. One fling. After my incredibly excruciating divorce. And yes, for a minute, I was … I was having fun. I was actually having a good time.

Sarah: I asked Saul to pass on a message like some 16-year-old girl with a crush.

Sarah: This is Dad’s legacy, Mom. He put me in charge. He left it up to me.
Nora: Well, maybe he shouldn’t have, Sarah. Ojai was his company, not yours. You should never have been pressured to walk in his footsteps. He never gave you that choice. He picked you. From the time you were a little girl, he saw something in you. And I … I let him have you. Sarah, listen to me. If Ojai goes down, maybe it’s a good thing. Maybe it’s time to let it go. And then, finally, you could be your own person.
Sarah: I am, Mom. Dad didn’t force this on me. I wanted it. I always did.

Rebecca: Maybe you’re incapable of loving anybody. I mean, look how everybody leaves you.
Holly: You sent him away, didn’t you — David. That’s why he left.
Rebecca: You know, at least he cared. He knew what that family meant to me. I walked into that house and looked at those photographs — some lost girl looking for roots — and they accepted me, and they loved me.
Holly: Yeah, you know, you are right. I cannot compete with the Walkers.
Rebecca: No, you can’t compete. You’re not a mother. Not like Nora.
Holly: Nora had a husband and a family and money. I scraped together everything for us. I took care of you every single day of your life. Do you know I wasn’t much older than you when I got pregnant? Can you imagine that? Being here by yourself and trying to support a child? But I did it. And if I had to give up some of my dreams, so be it. Because from then on, I put you first. And now you have the audacity to treat me like a second-class citizen? And I allowed it, because I knew that it was not easy for you. But I am done with that. From now on, if you want to hurt me, you hurt me from somewhere else. I want you out of this house.

Saul: I didn’t risk Ojai Foods to make money, Kevin. I did it to try and save my life. I want out. I want to be free.
Kevin: Just say it. I love you, and it’s okay.
Saul: I’m a gay man, Kevin. Tell me how I can be a gay man, at my age?
Kevin: I don’t know how to be a gay man at my age. But I do understand you’re afraid.
Saul: I want my time back.
Kevin: That’s the one trick none of us can pull off. Saul, if you think this family is going to sit back and watch you waste the time that you do have punishing yourself, then you’re mistaken.

Graham: Well, I am a consultant, and you make the decisions. So … what do you advise we do?
Sarah: Walk away from the table.

Nora: Ojai’s going to be okay. They’re merging with Walker Landing. And Holly made it happen. Can you believe it? I never thought I’d actually be grateful to her.
Justin: She was lying, Mom.
Nora: No, no, no. They signed the papers. I was there –
Justin: Not about the business. About Rebecca being our sister.
Nora: What?
Justin: It was all a lie. She took a test. Dad wasn’t her father. She’s not a Walker. She never was.

Kevin: First, I was dealing with the family business being obliterated when Justin announced he has, on occasion, been attracted to Rebecca, our sister.
Scotty: What?
Kevin: Believe me, it goes on. Then Sarah calls me over because she’s agonizing over dating the guy whose deal obliterated the family business. But, the piece de resistance, Saul, who signed off on the deal that got the business obliterated, after being arrested for D.U.I., for plowing his car into a tree ’cause apparently he’s lost the will to live, finally came out to me.
Scotty: Oh my god, is he okay?
Kevin: He will be, I think. But, you know, it’s like … all these crazy people in my family are in this insane freefall and completely incapable of being happy. And then I look at Saul, who’s missed his life entirely. And I realize how lucky I am because I get to come home to someone who is kind and caring and changes the lightbulbs. And … marry me.
Scotty: What?
Kevin: I mean it. I don’t want to wait. I don’t want — I want to make this official.
Scotty: Because I changed the lightbulbs?
Kevin: No … well, yeah, kind of. Because, Scotty, that’s who you are. I am completely, completely in love with you. I even love the things about you that I hate. Because you make me feel like I don’t have to be anyone other than who I am. And to me, that feels like family. And that’s what I want us to be. I want us to be a family because that never ends. I’m doing this all wrong. (Gets down on one knee) Scotty, I am asking you, will you please marry me?
Scotty: (Kneels too) Yes. Yes, Kevin, I’ll marry you.

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