Top 50 Quotes From Travis Manawa

[Chris tells his father Travis that they need Brandon's group]
Chris: We need a group, Dad. We need people. Okay? We need a place with people.
Travis: We had that.
Chris: They look at me different.

[last lines]
Travis: [Madison tells Travis they have to leave from there location on the water] Hey, what's happening? What's going on?
Madison: [Madison points to the found wreckage] Whoever did that... they're coming back

[Travis wakes up to find Madison next to him]
Travis: What are you doing?
Madison: Just thinking.
Travis: Been here all night?
Madison: Pretty much.
Travis: That's a lot of thinking.
Madison: I'm just trying to find the words to say what I want, in a way that you'll hear.

[Lt. Moyers shows Travis the painted skulls on each tank from the soldiers under his command]
Lt. Moyers: Okay, look what we do here. Look. 83 of these. 83 of the rotten bastards, all confirmed.
Travis: That's a lot.
Lt. Moyers: [Lt. Moyers smiles, getting in Travis' face] Yeah, that's a lot. That's a company record.

[Alex tells Travis about what happened to the other survivor Jake on the raft]
Alex: We were floating. He was on fire one second, cold the next. And he was so thirsty, but I ran out of water to give him. Surrounded by it, and all he could do was moan till he lost his voice. His breath got shallow. He looked up at me. I heard the fluid in his chest. I didn't have anything to stop him turning. And he knew that, too. He made me get real close. I could barely hear him. And he whispered, 'Don't let me drown.' So I put my hands around his throat and I squeezed. And then I pushed him out of the raft.
Travis: You did what you had to do.
Alex: I did what you made me do.

[George Geary tells Travis what cities are no longer left]
George: Portland, Seattle, Vancouver.
Travis: The south?
George: San Diego was burned.
Travis: Further south?
George: They shut down the border. No way in or out.
Travis: Oh, God. So what's left?
George: Not a hell of a lot. Interior is no better than the coast. Last time I connected to Joshua Tree, ranger said Petrified forest, gone. JT shut down soon after. That's Cali, that's Arizona. Zion went dark before them. Utah gone. Rocky Mountain station is dead. That's Colorado. That's the continental divide. That's a good goddamn half the country.

[Travis and his family and the Salazar family discuss where to go as they drive in the night]
Travis: Is there somewhere I can take you?
Daniel: You will take us with you.
Travis: To my house?
Daniel: Yes. I'll call my cousin to come and get us, and then we will be even.
Travis: Stop keeping score.
Daniel: I was not the one to start.
Chris: [in the distance, the families start to see the power grid and city lights shutting down to all of southern California] Dad?

[Travis, Madison and her kids arrive home, as Mrs. Cruz from across the street calls out to Travis]
Travis: You're having a party?
Joanna: Yeah. You should come by. Glady's nine. Can you believe that? It's so scary.
Travis: That's great.
Joanna: Got a ton of food. We're getting a bunch of cancels 'cause of that bug going around. So, we'll see you.
Travis: Okay. Okay, thanks.
Travis: [Travis looks over to the next door neighbor Peter packing gallons of water into his trunk, telling Madison] Peter's got the right idea.
[Madison looks over to the neighbor Peter, who coughs into his sleeve]

[Travis fights his son Chris to the ground]
Travis: I should have helped you.
Chris: Look at me. I'm no good. I'm no good.

[Nick tells Travis that he thinks he's going insane for what he saw at the church]
Travis: Nick... you saw what the drugs saw.
Nick: I don't know if what I saw came from the powder. That's the thing. I don't... and if it didn't come from the powder, then it came out of me. My mind. And if that came out of me, then I'm insane, Travis. Yeah, I'm insane.
Nick: [Nick nervously chuckles] I really don't want to be insane.

[Madison and Travis argue in the kitchen]
Travis: Maddy...
Madison: My house is a refugee camp, my daughter's room is an ICU unit for strangers. Someone has to cook, someone has to clean...
Travis: Listen, calm down.
Madison: ...Someone has to watch Nick. And that someone, somehow, is me. 'Cause I don't know where your ex-wife goes.
Travis: She's helping sick people. Is this about Liza?
Madison: What? No, it's about you.
Travis: Me?
Madison: Yeah, you run off to play man of the people...
Travis: I'm not playing...
Madison: ...With your soldier friends...
Travis: This is not easy.
Madison: ...And I could use a little bit of help here!
Alicia: Stop. Oh, my God, just stop it. This domestic bickering like it's normal, like you're normal people in a normal kitchen. It's not normal. Stop it. Stop acting like it is.

[Travis argues with Madison about no longer taking chances to save people]
Travis: Look at us. Look at where we are. We're on this boat with no supplies, no concrete plan. We got an old man, a hurt woman, scared kids, and a corpse. You think bringing those people on board this ship is saving them?
Madison: I think about Matt. I think about our neighbors.
Travis: I think about them, too.
Madison: Yeah, I can't do that anymore. I can't live with that.

[Travis tells Madison that Nick isn't her fault]
Travis: This isn't your fault, Maddy.
Madison: It's in the genes.
Travis: Nick's got problems. Alicia doesn't.
Madison: Well, I'm batting .500.

[Brandon finds Travis and Chris hiding in the dark]
Brandon: We're not gonna hurt you over some refried beans, buddy.
Brandon: [Brandon and his friends chuckle] We're gonna set up camp here, so why don't you just come on out so we don't piss on you in the dark?
Travis: We're here, my son and I.
Brandon: [as Brandon looks at Chris] I believe we already met your son, sir. He demonstrated some major badassery earlier today.

[last lines]
Travis: [Travis and Madison watch the military soldiers in the street] The cavalry has arrived. It's gonna get better now.
Daniel: [Daniel Salazar watches the military in the street, Daniel in Spanish says to his wife] It's already too late.

[Daniel Salazar shows Chris the different ways to know how to use a shotgun]
Daniel: These barrels have a cylinder bore choke, for a wider spread of the ammo. This is the brake. You load here.
Chris: Okay.
Daniel: [Madison pours Salazar a morning cup of coffee] Thank you. These are number eight birdshot. These are double buck. Those will stop something.
Chris: [Daniel Salazar closes the barrels and hands over the gun to Chris] Okay.
Daniel: [Daniel Salazar looks at Travis who enters the room] Feeling better?
Travis: What the hell are you doing?

[Travis gets off the phone with Liza when Madison asks who it was]
Madison: Hey. Was that Liza?
Travis: Yeah. She sends her love. Or something resembling love.

[last lines]
[Liza begs for Travis to do this last favor for her]
Liza: [Liza tells Travis about the infection] I've seen it. I've seen what it does. The bites don't turn you, but the infection's not treatable. The infection kills you like anything else. Then it happens. It doesn't matter how you die, you come back. We all come back. Don't let that happen to me. Don't let our son see that, okay?
Liza: [Liza begins to cry asking Travis to protect their son] You got to protect him from this. Okay? Promise me. Promise. Okay?
[the two put their foreheads to each other while crying]
Travis: I'll protect him. I'll protect him.
[Liza sits to the ground continuing to cry, as Madison hands the gun over to Travis]
Travis: [a gunshot is heard by the others over the ocean, as Travis walks over to the beach, with Madison holding around him as he cries]

[Travis tries to keep the neighbor Doug calm at Lt. Moyers' orders]
Doug: They keep asking me what's happening. They keep asking me if everything's gonna be okay, and I - I don't have the words.
Travis: It is gonna be okay. That's what you say. That's all that you have to say.
Doug: Will they know that I'm lying?
Travis: Doug, your family needs you. Now. They need you to go outside that door, and tell that guard that you're gonna be okay. Show 'em that you're okay. That's all.

[Daniel Salazar talks to Travis about needing to know how to use a gun]
Daniel: The more the boy knows, the safer he'll be.
Travis: Uh-huh.
Madison: I didn't see the harm, Trav.
Travis: You know how I feel about guns.
Daniel: The gun doesn't care how you feel about it.
Travis: That's enough!

[Victor Strand argues for Travis to fix the yacht]
Travis: Hey, man. I am not the help.
Victor: Clearly.
Victor: [Strand changes his tone] I've upset you. Forgive me if I neglect certain niceties in light of our current predicament. You are a skilled technician and a viable member of this team. Now, pretty please, fix the goddamn boat.
[Travis chuckles]

[Chris tells Travis that he needs to let him go]
Chris: Dad, your way, it doesn't work. It can't.
Travis: Chris, I promised your mother that I would take care of you.
Chris: And you are.
Travis: What?
Chris: By letting me go, you are. Dad, you won't do what needs to be done. I'm better off without you. Look, this whole time you had me thinking I was broken. But I wasn't. I'm not. I was just... I was adapting. I'm good now.

[Travis finishes burying the farmer who died in his barn]
Travis: I don't even know your name.

[Baby James tells Travis that he's dead weight]
Travis: You're not sick.
James: [James chuckles] What do you call this?
Travis: You're not dying. You're gonna get better. All you need is time.
James: No, it doesn't matter. What matters is they think I'm dying. That's the deal. I'm dead weight.

[Travis rides in the military Humvee with Lt. Moyers team, as Travis talks to CPL Cole]
CPL: Let me get this straight. You're going downtown, through this mess of DZ flesh-eating whatnot to get some kid who ain't your son, some old woman who ain't your mom, and some lady who ain't your wife?
Travis: Well, actually, she's my ex-wife.
CPL: [Cole laughs aloud] No!

[Nick tells Travis what he remembers about seeing Gloria back at the church]
Nick: Yeah, Glo was... yeah, so she was with me when I scored. Yeah, and she was with me when I nodded. She was there. She was beside me.
Nick: [Nick whispers more frightened] But then... then when I went down... everyone was dead. 'Cause there was blood. Yeah, and it's all over her mouth. You know? Then she came at me.
Travis: What did she do?
Nick: [Nick whispers] Sh - She was eating them. She was eating them.

[Travis argues with Madison that he needs her help]
Travis: When Nick was at his worse I was there for you. Have you forgotten? Every time he disappeared. Every time, every search, every rehab, Who was there for him? Come on, who went out there and found him? Yeah, that's right. I believed he could get better. I believed him because I believed in you.
Madison: It's not about Nick.
Travis: Okay, sure. So all right. What if you're right? What if there's something wrong with Chris? Help me. Help me to help him.
Madison: What do you think I'm trying to do? But he threatened my daughter.
Travis: Our daughter, Maddie, come on. The whole way here, all I heard from you is I need you with me, we need to be a united front. Well, I need you now, Maddie. Where are you?

[Brandon tells Travis that it's moving day for them to leave the barn]
Derek: It's moving day, is what's going on.
Travis: Why?
Derek: We're all out of chickens.
Travis: We should have been eating the eggs. I told you that.
Brandon: I'm gonna be honest with you, teach, your schoolmarm shit's getting old.

[Travis asks Chris what the date is today]
Travis: Remember what the date is?
Chris: What?
Travis: The date.
Chris: No. Dad, I lost track. What does it matter?

[Travis holds a gun on Brandon to not harm Baby James]
Chris: Dad, what are you doing?
Travis: [Travis holds his gun up] Just stay away from him.
Brandon: [Brandon looks to Chris] Relax, bro. He's not gonna do anything with it.
Travis: You're not gonna kill him.
Brandon: And you're not gonna kill us. You don't have the balls to.
Brandon: [Travis shoots a gunshot at Brandon] What the hell?

[Madison looks at the infected neighbor Susan face-to-face]
Madison: What is she?
Travis: Susan. She's your friend.
Madison: All the more reason.
Madison: [Madison tightens her grip to the small hammer to kill her] She's dead.

[Chris suggests to his father Travis that they could head to a river]
Chris: We could go to the border, the river.
Travis: Yeah, but people pressing in from both sides is dangerous.
Chris: But water.
Travis: That's why it's dangerous. Everyone needs it. Everyone goes there to feed. Predators find prey.

[Travis tells Madison he loves her after deciding to stay at the hospital with Nick]
Travis: I love you.
Madison: Well, you're stupid.

[Nick tells Travis that he plans to get clean]
Nick: Hey, it's nothing new. Get my head shrunk, get out, get clean.
Travis: You mean that?
Nick: I always mean it.

[Madison tells Travis that Brandon and Derek deserved to die]
Travis: You need to know who you're leaving with, Maddy. Whoever you think I am... whatever part of me you think is the same, it's not.
Madison: You think I don't know that?
Travis: I know that.
Madison: Travis...
Travis: I'm not sorry. I'm not sorry that they're dead.
Madison: You shouldn't be. They deserved it. I'm no better, Travis. I'm worse.
Madison: [Madison looks to Travis' eyes] You killed, yes. So have I.

[George Geary tells Travis that nature always wins]
George: They aren't infected, Travis. We are. We're the weeds Mother Nature is pulling.
Travis: What's happening is not natural.
George: Oh, it couldn't be more natural. The world couldn't sustain itself so it stood back and said, 'enough.' This is its course correction.
Travis: Nature always wins.

[Baby James sees Travis sit next to him with a gun in his hand]
James: What's with the gun?
Travis: Your buddies, they want to put you down. They're saying that you'd understand.
James: Why do you think I agreed to get in the truck?

[Travis asks the soldier Corporal Cole what happened to his bruised face, which wasn't brusied before]
Travis: Yeah. What happened to your face?
CPL: Nothing, Sir. Momentary lapse of patriotism.

[Chris tells Travis that he needs Brandon and the guys]
Travis: I don't want to be a hero to these guys and neither should you.
Chris: Look, just be careful how you play this, Dad. We need them.
Travis: No, we don't.
Chris: I do.

[Travis asks everyone on deck what's going on]
Travis: What's going on?
Chris: Dad, we're going to shore.
Travis: Like hell you are.

[Madison tries to tell Travis that their group needs a destination and to go with Victor Strand]
Madison: Travis, if we don't have a destination, then we're just drifting, just waiting to die.
Travis: Maddy, no one wants to live more than I do.

[Travis tells Liza what he's seen from the infected]
Liza: What do you know? What have you seen?
Travis: [Travis watches the rioting outside the barber shop] I've seen what people do. What they don't do. It doesn't make sense.
Travis: [Travis begins to whisper] They don't die, Liza. They... come back. Gotta get far away from what's outside. All of us.

[Travis asks Madison what are the chances of them finding each other again?]
Travis: What are the chances?
Madison: Of?
Travis: Two days, I'm walking trying to find my way to the ocean. And when I do finally see the water... I see the hotel lit up like a goddamn beacon and it's you.
Madison: We got lucky.
Travis: Did we?

[Travis wonders how it must be in the mountains while camping outside with Chris]
Travis: Wonder how it is in the mountains now.
Chris: Fewer people. Less dead.

[last lines]
Jack: You're going back to those people? Alex told us what they did. Is that who you really want to be with? The people who abandoned her will abandon you.
Madison: [Madison from the boat] Alicia!
Jack: Alicia, please.
Alicia: I'm sorry.
Jack: [Jack screams as Alicia jumps off the ship] Alicia. Alicia!
Travis: [Travis reaches to grab Alicia out of the water] Alicia.

[Travis tries to ask Chris if he has any remorse for shooting the farmer]
Travis: You killed a man today, Chris. Look at him. The least you could do is let it affect your appetite. I need to know what's going on. What are you thinking, huh? I mean, are you thinking anything?
Chris: He shot James. Dad, he shot my friend. What was I supposed to do?
Travis: He's not your friend.
Chris: He is. They are.
Travis: They are savages.
Chris: So I'm a savage. Is that what you're saying...
Travis: Chris, where the hell is your remorse?

[Travis tells Alex that it costs a part of him to face the violence]
Travis: I have a son. He watches me. Waiting to see how I'll face it, the violence. I tried so hard not to be part of it. I knew it would change me. And that he'd see it. I can't tell you what you want to hear. I'm no better than the man who cut the rope. I cut the rope. What you did to that boy, I did the same. To my son's mother. So I know what it costs. It cost a part of me. How do I get that part back?
Alex: You don't.

[Chris tells Travis that he can't do what needs to be done anymore]
Chris: Want to know the funny part? With Mom, you did it.
Travis: What did I do?
Chris: You found it in you to do what needs to be done. And then you lost it.
Travis: Chris, you have got it all backwards. There is a difference.
Chris: Not anymore.

[Brandon tells Travis the end times made them gods]
Brandon: We got no speed limits, no cops, no money, no work, no bills, no bullshit. We're just living.
Travis: This isn't living.
Brandon: Are you kidding? This is more than living, man. This is supernatural. We were nothing before this, man. We were less than. But now the end times made us gods.

[Chris asks his dad Travis if he remembers the days he went to middle school]
Chris: Remember the first few months of middle school?
Travis: Middle school?
Chris: I would hide every recess because the football guys used to make fun of me. Remember that? What'd you use to tell me?
Travis: I told you to play along. To try to fit in.
Chris: Well?
Travis: The lesson was to play along, to act as if, not to become one of them.
Chris: You don't fit in with these guys. We all know that.