Orphan Black (TV Series)

Variations Under Domestication (2013)

Tatiana Maslany: Sarah Manning, Alison Hendrix, Cosima Niehaus

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• [Cosima tells Sarah that she might have a monitor dilemma] 

  Cosima Niehaus : I may have a monitor dilemma of my own. Um, I'm new here this semester. I didn't bring anybody with me, but, uh, someone wants to be friends.

  Sarah Manning : Just stay away from them, Cos. Stick to the science, yeah?

  Cosima Niehaus : 'Stick to the science? What am I, the geek monkey, now?

  Sarah Manning : Seriously! Paul's a bad arse, okay? He's ex-military. If somebody's trying to get close to you, just stay away.

  Cosima Niehaus : Right, the old "'Do as I say, not as I do'?

• [Donnie is questioned by Sarah who's impersonating Alison] 

  Donnie Hendrix : [Donnie hears the voices of the neighbors]  The whole neighborhood is here? What kind of irrational nonsense is going through that head of yours?

  Sarah Manning : Hey, watch your tone, Donnie!

  Donnie Hendrix : Alison, get your frazzled, PMS shit together!

  Sarah Manning : Hey! You watch your tone! Your wife is the rock of this family! You will no longer speak down to her! Am I clear?

  Donnie Hendrix : [Donnie nervously responds]  Yeah.

• [the neighbor Aynsley asks Alison where her husband Donnie is] 

  Aynsley Norris : Where is Donnie?

  Aynsley Norris : [Alison continues to walk away]  Oh, my God. Why isn't he helping you with this?

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison sluggishly replies]  He's tied up.

• [Alison says she's a horrible person while talking to Sarah on the couch] 

  Alison Hendrix : I tortured my husband, I messed up my family, and you're the only person I can talk to, and you're just another version of me.

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah pats Alison's leg]  Come on.

  Alison Hendrix : I'm a horrible person. I'm not even a real person.

• [Alison tells Sarah that she has no bartender for her potluck party] 

  Alison Hendrix : I have no gift bags; no ice; and no bartender, because my husband is tied to a chair.

  Sarah Manning : Alison, you need to take a deep breath.

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison takes a drink with some pills]  I hate yoga.

• [Sarah tells Paul that her and her sisters are clones] 

  Sarah Manning : Clones.

  Paul Dierden : Clones?

  Sarah Manning : Well, we don't use the C-word. That's Alison's rule.

• [Sarah practices her voice to sound like Alison] 

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah puts her lipstick on in a hand mirror]  Hello, Donnie. Hello, Donnie. Donnie.

• [Alison asks Donnie if she's sick like the German] 

  Alison Hendrix : Am I sick, like the German?

  Donnie Hendrix : What German? Who's German?

• [Charity asks the very drunk Alison if she has any crackers] 

  Charity Simms : Crackers.

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison holds a wine bottle and wine glass]  Hmm! What?

  Charity Simms : Do you have any crackers?

  Alison Hendrix : How should I know, Charity? Why don't you go check the cracker cupboard?

• [Paul and Sarah agree that they both weren't being honest to each other] 

  Paul Dierden : I'm not doing any of this by choice.

  Sarah Manning : Right, so, they forced you to be Beth's monitor for two years, without ever knowing why.

  Paul Dierden : You're some kind of hustler. You understand leverage, right? The difference is, you chose to infiltrate Beth's life, to screw her boyfriend, right on this counter.

  Sarah Manning : And you weren't even you.

  Paul Dierden : And you weren't you, either.

• [Alison tortures Donnie by burning him with her glue gun] 

  Alison Hendrix : You moved the files.

  Donnie Hendrix : Files? What files?

  Alison Hendrix : Your files that you have on me. From your box. Your special box.

  Donnie Hendrix : [Donnie screams when Alison puts glue to his chest]  Aaah! Aaah! Ohhh! Oh, ohh!

  Donnie Hendrix : [Donnie tries blowing down at his chest]  Have you lost your mind!

  Alison Hendrix : I know what you do, Donnie!

  Donnie Hendrix : What? What do I do?

  Alison Hendrix : You spy. You perform medical examinations on me in my sleep...

  Donnie Hendrix : What?

  Alison Hendrix : You turned my whole life into a big, embarrassing lie; and you switched the files in your special box for porno DVDs of 'Big'...

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison slaps Donnie]  'Boob'...

  Alison Hendrix : [and slaps him again]  'Blowies'!

  [and again] 

• [Cosima sees Dr. Aldous Leekie for the first time as he gives a speech to what the Neolution is] 

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : Neolution... A philosophy of today for tomorrow, rooted in our past, in the evolution of the human organism. But before we go to the future, let me take you back 3,000 years, to the great Greek philosopher Plato and his twilight years.

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : [Leekie in a hoarse voice as the audience laughs]  Poor old Plato was going blind... Going lame, and losing his hearing!

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : Now, imagine if he knew we could correct his sight, restore his hearing, and replace his ailing body parts with titanium ones. Plato would've thought we were gods! But we're not, we're just fundamentally flawed human beings.

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : [Leekie sees Cosima in the audience]  Your glasses, for example, make you somewhat, um, platonic. But within the very near future, I'll be able to offer you the ability to see into a spectrum never before seen by the naked eye... infrared, x-rays, ultraviolet. Are you interested?

  Cosima Niehaus : [Cosima makes a joke]  Maybe I'll just start with basic Lasik.

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : [as the audience laughs]  And so you should. That's making an evolutionary choice. Neolution gives us the opportunity at a self-directed evolution and I believe that's not only a choice, but a human right.

• [Aynsley questions Sarah who impersonates Alison in the garage] 

  Aynsley Norris : Alison! I just c... did you fly down here?

  Sarah Manning : What?

  Aynsley Norris : I literally just put you to bed.

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah smiles]  I... I got up.

• [Delphine teaches Cosima a very French thing to do after jogging] 

  Delphine Cormier : You know what's a very French thing to do?

  Cosima Niehaus : What?

  Delphine Cormier : [Delphine lights a cigarette]  After a jogging like this, we like to smoke a nice little cigarette.

  Cosima Niehaus : Did you say 'a jogging'?

  Delphine Cormier : Yes.

  Cosima Niehaus : [Cosima chuckles]  You did. Okay, just checking.

• [Charity and Meera watch how drunk Alison is getting at her own potluck party] 

  Charity Simms : She's drunk already?

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison bumps into a chair while carrying a tray of appetizers]  Whoopsie-whoo! Who put that chair there? Did you want any?

  Charity Simms : And where the hell's Donnie?

• [Alison sits on the couch when she realizes she was wrong about Donnie] 

  Alison Hendrix : I screwed up, didn't I? It's not Donnie, is it? It's not him. But I whacked him and it felt so good.

• [Delphine and Cosima while at Dr. Leekie's seminar debate with each other on what a Neolution is not] 

  Delphine Cormier : Neolution is not Eugenical.

  Cosima Niehaus : Okay, so what is it? Is it Utopian?

  Delphine Cormier : Neotopian, maybe?

• [Vic tells Sarah that her situation must be so confusing] 

  Vic : So, you faked your own death so... You could move on to a new scam, hmm? Who are you now, Sarah?

  Vic : [Vic chuckles]  Sarah, it must be so confusing.

  Sarah Manning : You have no idea.

• [Alison asks Donnie where he disappeared to in the middle of the night] 

  Alison Hendrix : Where did you go in the middle of the night, Donnie?

  Donnie Hendrix : Uh, I don't know, Never-Never Land?

• [Donnie wakes up to see himself tied to a chair in Alison's craft room] 

  Donnie Hendrix : Why am I tied to the chair?

  Alison Hendrix : Shh! Shh! Tell me what was really in the box, Donnie?

  Donnie Hendrix : What?

  Alison Hendrix : Your special box. What was inside of it?

  Donnie Hendrix : Are you out of your mind? Untie me.

• [Alison threatens Donnie by getting her glue gun out] 

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison twirls a scissors holder]  Don't worry, honey. It's all good. Isn't that what you always tell me?

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison grabs for the glue gun]  Think about what you really want to get off your chest.

  Donnie Hendrix : Or what, you're going to stick sequins on me?

• [Sarah arrives to Alison's house who's having an emergency] 

  Sarah Manning : Eh, what's the emergency?

  Alison Hendrix : Umm... You might want to sit down for this.

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah walks in cautiously]  I'll stand, thanks.

  Alison Hendrix : [when Alison opens the door to her crafts room]  Okay.

  Donnie Hendrix : [Donnie tries talking through the wag covering his mouth]  Alison? Alison?

  Sarah Manning : Who's that?

  Alison Hendrix : Donnie?

  Sarah Manning : Who's Donnie?

  Alison Hendrix : He's my husband.

  Sarah Manning : What?

  Alison Hendrix : I think he's my watcher!

  Sarah Manning : Jesus Christ, Alison! What have you done?

• [Alison's neighbors arrive to her home early for their scheduled potluck party] 

  Aynsley Norris : Don't worry, we'll get this party started.

  Alison Hendrix : Okay.

  Chad Norris : What's up, Hendrix?

  Alison Hendrix : Hello. Hi! Hi!

  Meera Kumar : [the neighbor Meera sees Alison in her pajamas still]  Is this a pajama party?

• [Sarah tells Alison that she needs to kick her neighbors out] 

  Sarah Manning : A potluck, seriously?

  Alison Hendrix : Seriously.

  Sarah Manning : Okay, you got to kick them out.

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison takes a drink]  I can't back out of the monthly potluck. It's my turn.

• [Alison tells Sarah that she needs to interrogate Donnie] 

  Alison Hendrix : You interrogate Donnie.

  Sarah Manning : What?

  Alison Hendrix : Yes. You are the expert. Go in there and get that lying bastard to confess.

  Sarah Manning : Wh... Are you serious?

  Alison Hendrix : Be me. Put this on.

  Sarah Manning : What if he's just your husband?

  Alison Hendrix : Sarah, I need you to help me with this. I impersonated you in front of your daughter. Now, it's your turn.

• [Sarah makes a call to Felix so that he can be the bartender to Alison's potluck party] 

  Felix Dawkins : No, no, I can't bar tend. I've got a very handsome guest here.

  Sarah Manning : Please tell me you're not with the morgue attendant again.

  Felix Dawkins : No, but I plan to be.

• [Sarah asks Felix how fast can he get to Alison's place] 

  Sarah Manning : How soon can you be here?

  Felix Dawkins : To Scarberia?

  Sarah Manning : Yeah. And dress suburban.

  Felix Dawkins : You've got to be joking.

  Sarah Manning : I know, it sucks to be my sister.

• [Sarah greets Felix who arrives to Alison's potluck party dressed in suburban clothes] 

  Felix Dawkins : [Sarah laughs]  Oh, shit, I totally thought you were Alison. Have you looked in the mirror? There's a thing on your head.

  Sarah Manning : Shit, as they say, is completely sideways, Fe.

• [Alison is greeted by Aynsley's husband Chad] 

  Chad Norris : Hey, ladies!

  Aynsley Norris : Incoming.

  Chad Norris : [to Alison]  I am all over those sexy stretchies. You been working your glutes again? What's your program?

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison's voice quickly snaps]  Why is everybody asking me so many goddamn questions!

• [Sarah tries to convince the drinking Alison that Donnie is not her monitor] 

  Sarah Manning : Look, Paul's military. He's a professional. You've known Donnie since, what?

  Alison Hendrix : High school.

  Sarah Manning : Right, high school, yeah? So how could he be your monitor?

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison in a crying voice]  So he's just Donnie, eating, farting Donnie?

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison finishes her glass of wine]  My monitor is probably one of those bitches upstairs.

  Sarah Manning : Look, Alison, just... Alison?

  [when Sarah notices that Alison passes out on the couch] 

• [Cosima introduces herself to Dr. Leekie as he speaks French to her and Delphine] 

  Delphine Cormier : You speak French.

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : Yes. I have a neurolingual chip.

  Cosima Niehaus : [Cosima smiles]  Bullshit.

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : [Leekie smiles]  Good, a skeptic.

• [Cosima sees a group of Dr. Leekie's 'Freaky Leekie' followers] 

  Cosima Niehaus : Are they from the Dyad Institute?

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : Ah, my 'Freaky Leekies', as they've been dubbed in the media. It was once asked what my perfect human would look like. I offhandedly suggested silver-gray hair and one white eye.

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : [Leekie whispers to Cosima]  Little did I know.

• [Dr. Leekie asks Cosima what field of science is she in] 

  Delphine Cormier : You know, I'm in immunology.

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : [to Cosima]  Mm. And you?

  Cosima Niehaus : Um. Evo-devo, so, whenever somebody talks about the future, I always say 'Show, don't tell.'

  Dr. Aldous Leekie : [Leekie smiles]  I hope you'll give me the chance.

• [Felix bumps into who he thinks is Alison at the potluck party] 

  Felix Dawkins : Mmm! Alison. Another pint of chablis?

  Sarah Manning : It's me, Fe.

  Felix Dawkins : Oh, shit. Sorry.

• [Delphine asks Cosima if she smokes] 

  Delphine Cormier : [Delphine offers Cosima a cigarette]  You smoke? Do you want one?

  Cosima Niehaus : No, just pot for me.

  Delphine Cormier : Ooh, really?

  Cosima Niehaus : Yes, I'm from San Fran, so...

  Delphine Cormier : Ooh.

  Cosima Niehaus : I am going to get you so baked one day.

• [Delphine kisses Cosima for the first time] 

  Delphine Cormier : It's, um, it's really nice to make a friend in the Brave New World.

  Cosima Niehaus : [Cosima smiles]  Yeah.

  Delphine Cormier : I have to go.

  Cosima Niehaus : Okay, yeah.

  [when Delphine kisses Cosima on both corners of her lips] 

• [Donnie asks to be untied once again] 

  Donnie Hendrix : Alison. Please untie me.

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah continues impersonating Alison]  I can't, until the party's over.

  Donnie Hendrix : [Donnie tearfully responds]  I bought mulled wine.

• [Paul arrives at Alison's home when he finds Alison passed out on the couch] 

  Paul Dierden : [Paul slaps her lightly in the face]  Are you Sarah?

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison moans]  Mm! Alison.

  Alison Hendrix : [Alison whispers before rolling on her side in the couch]  You want some of this? Come to bed with me.

• [the neighbor Aynsley sees Paul and Vic leave Alison's bedroom] 

  Aynsley Norris : Who was that?

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah continues impersonating Sarah]  Uh, wh-which one?

  Aynsley Norris : The impossibly handsome one, obviously.

  Sarah Manning : Oh, a friend from university. College.

• [Aynsley notices the different shirt Sarah's wearing while impersonating Alison] 

  Aynsley Norris : You've changed your shirt since the party started.

  Sarah Manning : Oh, one of the kids must've spilled something on it.

  Aynsley Norris : [Aynsley smiles]  One of the kids.

  Sarah Manning : I should get back to the kitchen.

  Aynsley Norris : You're acting very strange. I'm going to get to the bottom of it.

• [Paul holds Vic to the ground with a nail gun to his head] 

  Vic : [Vic screams to Sarah]  Sarah, could you please tell him. Could you please call him off! Could you call this guy off! I don't know anything!

  Paul Dierden : Be a man, Vic!

  Vic : [Vic calmly replies]  All right. Okay, I'm a man.

  Paul Dierden : You are putting me in a very precarious position, Sarah. I can't have any loose ends with this thing. This guy seems like a very loose end.

  Sarah Manning : [Sarah screams]  He doesn't know anything, Paul!

• [Donnie tells Alison what was in his special box] 

  Alison Hendrix : Donnie, about my little, uh, breakdown...

  Donnie Hendrix : No. No, no, no. It's my fault. You're right... You are the rock of this family. I'm so sorry. Of course you knew. It wasn't just porn in my special box. You remember Ginny Nusbaum?

  Alison Hendrix : From college?

  Donnie Hendrix : I don't know how to say this, but she and I had an affair once. Okay, twice, but you and I were broken up. We traded letters for a few years after it ended... Dirty talk, mostly...

  Alison Hendrix : Tsk.

  Donnie Hendrix : Then, she got Lupus and I never heard from her again.

  Alison Hendrix : She got Lupus?

  Donnie Hendrix : I don't know what happened to her. I'm so sorry. I was just trying to hold on to something personal, something... I'm sorry.

  [as Donnie cries in Alison's arms]