Tim McManus quotes from Oz

Tim McManus

I may be blind, but I'm not dumb.

Tim McManus

All right, listen up, everybody. I'm ba-ack.

McManus

I'm sorry Rebadow, it's your word against his. The word of a correctional officer against the word of an inmate... who is known to talk to God.

McManus

All I know is that the move is temporary. We'll be back someday.

Tim, we gotta talk.

McManus

About what?

About sex.

McManus

Sister, you're insatiable.

Tim McManus

In Em City we treat each other the way that we would like to be treated. We treat each other with respect.

Kareem Said

And what happens when one of us does not respect the other?

Tim McManus

There's violence.

Kareem Said

Then prison life isn't all that different from the outside world.

Tim McManus

Your celebrity status doesn't buy you any extra advantages here. All my prisoners are equal.

Kareem Said

How ironic. To finally be an equal in a place where I do not have the freedom to enjoy it.

Tim McManus

I'm gonna arrange for you to visit your wife in the hospital.

That's very considerate of you. But forgive me, I'm cynical by nature. Why are you being so considerate to me?

Tim McManus

It's hard enough her being this ill without you being able to, uh...

Say goodbye? What do you want from me?

Tim McManus

Your continued patience.

You're gonna find out who killed Dino?

Tim McManus

Yes.

And you're gonna bring him to justice.

Tim McManus

Now you're laughing at me.

As I said, I'm a cynical bastard.

Tim McManus

You are creating a lot of the tension that we're dealing with right here.

James Devlin

How am I doing that?

Tim McManus

Well, you ban smoking, you ban conjugals. Bit by bit you're stripping these men of their basic human needs.

James Devlin

This is a prison. These men are criminals. The whole point is to strip them of their basic human needs. If a kneejerk prissy liberal would see that we wouldn't be having the problems we're having today.

Tim McManus

The campaign is over, Governor, so get off your soapbox.

James Devlin

McManus, when you look at me, what do you see?

Tim McManus

A man.

James Devlin

You've heard of Olympus, right? Mount Olympus, ancient Greece, where the gods lived?

Tim McManus

Yeah.

James Devlin

Well, it was a hierarchy, even among the gods. Mercury was lesser than Apollo, Apollo lesser than Zeus. Now, you run your cellblock and you think you're a god. Glynn runs the whole prison, he thinks he's a greater god. Well, guys, I am Zeus. I am omnipotent. I must be obeyed...or my thunderbolts will strike.

Kenny

I ain't afraid of you.

McManus

(begins choking Kenny, yelling) You afraid of this?! Huh?! ARE YOU AFRAID OF DYING?!

Tobias Beecher

You've got to transfer me to another cell block.

Tim McManus

All the other cell blocks are full.

Tobias Beecher

Well transfer me to another prison.

Tim McManus

Do I look like a travel agent to you?

Schillinger

I had a visit from my sons. They're almost out of their teens now, almost men. Yesterday my boys sat there across from me ranting and raging. They were both fucked up on drugs. They know I hate drugs, that I'm in here because I hate drugs and because I love them. I got about three months until I'm up for parole. All I want to do is get out of here, be there for them. Try to help my kids. That's all.

McManus

If I put you back into Em City, you'll kill Beecher.

Schillinger

If I wanted him dead, he'd already be dead.

McManus

You say you've changed. Why should I believe you?

Schillinger

(smiles) Trust me, McManus. You lose an eye, you get kicked in the balls, you get a face full of shit, you become a different man.

McManus

Who told you?

That Ross was the one that shot you?

McManus

Yeah.

You just did.

So, thank you for last night.

Diane Wittlesey

You wanted Beecher dead, right?

Yeah, I wanted him dead.

Diane Wittlesey

You paid me, right? Two grand?

Yeah.

Diane Wittlesey

Wanna see the body?

Shit. Yeah.

Diane Wittlesey

All right. In here. [She takes him into a room, Beecher walks in.]

What the fuck?

Tobias Beecher

Nice try, Vern baby.

Beecher. [McManus and some COs come in.]

Tim McManus

Got anything to say?

About what? I don't know what you're talking about.

Diane Wittlesey

You wanted Beecher dead, right?

Yeah, I wanted him dead. [tape recording stops]

Tim McManus

You can forget about your parole hearing. Instead, get yourself a good lawyer. We're charging you with conspiracy to commit murder.

This is bullshit. I'm being set up.

Tim McManus

Take him to the Hole.

Ryan O'Reily

McManus, you gotta see that I love her, man.

Tim McManus

Love? What the fuck do you know about love?

Ryan O'Reily

Well, what do you know, huh? What do any of us?

Tim McManus

I know it's not a reason to commit murder.

Ryan O'Reily

Yeah, well then, maybe you've never really been in love.

I say we institute a "no swearing" rule.

El Cid

Fuck you.

Hill

Suck my dick.

Asswipe.

Cocksucker.

Pancamo

You stupid cunt.

Putz.

McManus

If nobody has anything more intelligent to say, this meeting is adjourned.