Bloody Homecoming (2013)

Rae Latt: Mrs. Patterson

Quotes 

• Mrs. Patterson : Wake up, Mr. Mathis, we stopped giving naps after kindergarten. I'd hate to see you miss graduation, *again*.

• Mrs. Patterson : Isn't it wonderful? We're all finally having ourselves a real homecoming here again.

  Miss Russell : No, I think it's a huge mistake.

• Principal Patterson : What's going on out here?

  Steve Stein : Oh shit.

  Mrs. Patterson : Shouldn't you all be at the dance?

  Loren Gregory : Those asshole senior linemen wouldn't let us into the dance, Principal Patterson.

• Mrs. Patterson : Perhaps you'd like to give your thoughts on the narrative position of "Oroonoko"?

  Loren Gregory : Oh uh, the narrator inherits her stature from her ancestors without choice, Behn doesn't want to discriminate against Oroonoko because she knows he's her equal even though he's a slave. Behn has to stay in her place to keep things status quo.

  Mrs. Patterson : Well put, Loren. Now can anyone think of modern day parallels to this view?

  [no one answers] 

  Mrs. Patterson : Well, high school is one with a plethora or viewpoints from ethnicity, to gender, to something as intimate as who we fall in love with. In Oroonoko, Behn unveils that it is within our nature to set boundaries on ourselves, because they ultimately help us survive.

• Mrs. Patterson : [sees the threatening notes]  What're those?

  Principal Patterson : Oh, some prankster put them in all those lockers of the kids responsible for that Billy Corbin mess.

  Mrs. Patterson : Mess? Dan, we lost a student.

  Principal Patterson : I know, and it's been a real mess I've had to deal with ever since. You've no idea how much money this school lost, not only in property-code violations, but also in losing that Corbin kid too. He had the best damn arm in the state.

  Mrs. Patterson : I heard his father stopped by today.

  Principal Patterson : He got word of those notes.

  Mrs. Patterson : Do they have any idea who did it?

  Principal Patterson : He thinks one of those kids did it. I can't say I blame him. They ruined this town and got away without so much as a scratch.

  Mrs. Patterson : Well it's in the past, what's done is done, we just have to let it go, right?

  Principal Patterson : Try telling that to Corbin. He thinks all this is gonna send his wife screaming back to the nuthouse. Hell, probably better than living with that nightmare of a man.

  Mrs. Patterson : Dan, that's a terrible thing to say. Poor Vivian, I mean she lost a son. I can only imagine what it's like to lose a child.

  Principal Patterson : [bitterly]  Since you were never able to have them, that sounds about right.

• Mrs. Patterson : Everyone open to page 32 of Aphra Behn's "Oroonoko" for discussion.

• Mrs. Patterson : [Loren's tied up, surrounded by the principal and her dead friends, as she screams for help the killer arrives and unmasks]  You're wasting your breath, Loren.

  Loren Gregory : Mrs. Patterson?

  Mrs. Patterson : [takes off the fire gear]  I don't know what happened to that bratty friend, Jaclyn, I can't seem to find her again. But your little Steve, he's just a wet spot under the bleachers. I suppose I could have mopped him up and put him in a little bucket to join you, but really, I am just so exhausted. You kids put up way more of a fight that I expected.

  [Loren cries] 

  Mrs. Patterson : Aw, don't do that. It's so pathetic.

  Loren Gregory : But why are you doing this? I don't understand!

  Mrs. Patterson : What don't you understand, Loren?

  Loren Gregory : Why would you do this? You were always so nice.

  Mrs. Patterson : Yes, I *am* nice, Loren! And look where it's gotten me, teaching literature at this low-brow, small-town high school, under the supervision of that manipulative bastard husband who cheats on me every chance he gets. But he's finally gonna get what he deserves tonight.

  Loren Gregory : But my friends, we didn't do anything to you!

  Mrs. Patterson : Of course you did. What, you think this was all for nothing, that I'm just some psychopathic lunatic?

  Loren Gregory : W-what did we do?

  Mrs. Patterson : You... took, my Billy away.

  Loren Gregory : What are you talking about?

  Mrs. Patterson : Is that so hard to believe that Billy Corbin could want a disgusting old hag like me? Because he did, and he had me too.

  Loren Gregory : You and Billy were screwing?

  Mrs. Patterson : Is that such an outlandish concept for a teacher to be screwing her student? I don't think it's unheard of.

  [turns to her husband who's also tied and gagged] 

  Mrs. Patterson : Do you, dear?

  Loren Gregory : But you're married to him!

  Mrs. Patterson : That disgusting excuse for a human being? Dan... Dan! He was never married to me, he was married to his career. But Billy, Billy was different, he was Godsent, failing class, needed tutoring, one thing led to another, it was so beautiful... and then *she* came along. Sweet, beautiful, innocent Annie Morgan, she became all he ever talked about. Everybody just *loved* Annie. What a disgusting little creature, and *you*, her best friend, her biggest accomplice. I know what you did, Loren! I know you're more responsible for Billy's death than anyone!

  Loren Gregory : He was going to *rape* her! I didn't mean to kill him. If I hadn't locked him in that closet, he would have attacked us. He wasn't a good person, Mrs. Patterson, he was probably just using you to get good grades, just like he used everyone else to get what he wanted.

  Mrs. Patterson : [slaps Loren]  That's a lie! He loved me, I know he did!

  Loren Gregory : Billy Corbin didn't love anyone but himself, and you know it!

  Mrs. Patterson : [draws back]  Well, it doesn't really matter anymore, does it? Cuz Billy's gone, and just a short time, you will be too. You and your little friends are gonna burn, just like you did to my Billy.

  [pours gasoline on Loren, her husband, and all the dead bodies, lights a match] 

  Mrs. Patterson : Any last words, Loren?

  Loren Gregory : [defiant]  Go to hell.

  Mrs. Patterson : You first.