Tim McManus quotes from Oz

Ryan O'Reily

McManus! I fucked up a lot of people's lives.

Tim McManus

Yeah.

Ryan O'Reily

My brother Cyril got slow because of me. We were at this funeral and there was this chick there that I used to date. [Flashbacks of Cyril being injured as Ryan talks.] She was there with her new boyfriend, some wise guy. But she and me, we're still hot for each other. Cyril got brain-damaged defending me. When the doctors told me that Cyril would never be the same again, that he would have the mind of a five-year-old, fuck, it crushed me. So I got wasted. I lost control. Everything I've done since I've gotten here was to protect my ass so I could make parole. But what I feel for Gloria, it blinded me. So I lost control again. So now Cyril's in Oz and he's gonna be here for 60 years and he got raped by Schillinger and he's afraid. So I gotta stay here with Cyril. I gotta protect my brother. For once in my fucking life, I'm gonna be his big brother.

Tim McManus

You had Cyril kill Gloria's husband?

Ryan O'Reily

Yes.

Tim McManus

You'll be brought up on charges.

Ryan O'Reily

That's what I deserve.

They broke both his arms and his legs?

Hey, what's he do if he gets an itch?

He looked like a fucking pretzel.

Bob Rebadow

That's because he was in love with Keller.

Agamemnon Busmalis

Love hurts.

Kareem Said

Schillinger did this.

Ryan O'Reily

Fucking Schillinger did this, man.

Yo, I want to move in here.

Why?

It's a better view.

Tim McManus

How'd this happen? Who took Beecher to the gym?

I don't know, but I'll find out.

Tim McManus

Metzger, I know who you are. I know what you are.

All I am is a highly trained underpaid member of the Correctional Officers Benevolent Association. But if I am what you think I am you should tiptoe.

Tim McManus

Is that a threat?

I'm merely reminding you who your friends are. Remember who you want standing next to you when one of these fucks comes after you with a knife.

Tim McManus

So before Metzger came to town, he lived in Montana where he was part of the White Supremacy Warriors.

Sister Peter Marie

You sure of this, Tim?

Tim McManus

I got a friend who works in the FBI who verified it.

Leo Glynn

Even so, you can't fire a man for what he did 15 years ago. I need proof that he's in cahoots with Vern Schillinger, that he's responsible for what happened to Busmalis, Beecher, and the others.

Tim McManus

Nobody will testify against Metzger.

Leo Glynn

Well, the union's not gonna let us do anything without evidence. He's also very popular with the other CO's. I don't need any more morale problems.

Tim McManus

So we let him stay on board till maybe he kills somebody?

Leo Glynn

I have no choice.

Tim McManus

Even though he thinks of you as a nigger?

Leo Glynn

What did you say?

Tim McManus

A nigger.

Leo Glynn

If you're trying to piss me off, you're succeeding. I don't want Metzger in this building one minute longer than you do. But if I'm going to take him down, I'm gonna need ammunition.

Tim McManus

All right. I'll see what I can do.

McManus

At Attica, you organized a boxing program, right?

Murphy

Yeah.

McManus

Maybe we could try something like that here.

Murphy

Great, now all we need is time, gloves, and a good insurance policy.

Leo Glynn

What the hell happened?

Tim McManus

Howell and Diane got into a fight. Over me.

Leo Glynn

Christ.

Tim McManus

Look, don't. OK, Leo, I don't want to hear any of your sanctimonious bullshit.

Leo Glynn

I don't care what you want to hear. It's time you started taking responsibility for the shitstorms you create.

Tim McManus

What? That's all I do, all day, every day, is take responsibility, Leo. For every fucking thing in Em City. And all I've ever looked to you for is a little support.

Leo Glynn

I supported you.

Tim McManus

Yeah, like with the thing with Wangler? You took his side right away.

Leo Glynn

I did not!

Tim McManus

Yeah, you took his fucking side! Like you always do. Like you do with Hill, like you do with Said, and even Clayton Hughes. All the brothers. No matter which side of the law.

Leo Glynn

Are you saying I do that because they're black?

Tim McManus

Well, read the score card, pal, and add it up for yourself.

Leo Glynn

Fuck you, McManus!

Tim McManus

Yeah, fuck me!

Dr. Gloria Nathan

Guys, guys, everybody's listening.

Murphy

Like a cannibal?

McManus

A cannibal eats somebody else's flesh.

Murphy

So what do you call a guy who eats his own flesh?

McManus

Inventive.

McManus

She fell in love with a bobby?

No, not a bobby, Tim! He's a guard. He guards the queen.

McManus

Well, then I'm sure they'll have a lot in fucking common!

Adebisi's turned Em City into a fucking Zulu nation.

What the fuck are we supposed to do?

Create our own country. [goes to McManus' office in Unit B] McManus, we gotta talk.

Tim McManus

Make an appointment with my secretary.

This is serious.

Tim McManus

Yeah, I can tell. You've got that Schillinger scowl going.

Your precious little dream, your Emerald City, is now a ghetto. You been there lately? Crap all over the floors, drugs everywhere, the lack of primary colours.

Tim McManus

Well, that Unit is no longer my responsibility.

Hey, I got no problem with that. What we don't want is that new attitude over there to come wafting this way. They hear about what's going on, empowerment, they're gonna want the same thing here.

Tim McManus

And you're suggesting what? That we make Unit B all white?

Yes.

Tim McManus

Get the fuck away from me.

Hey, let the niggers have Em City. Fuck, let them have the whole goddamn prison as long as we're safe over here.

Tim McManus

Goodbye, Vern.

[kicks office door open] Don't be a bigger fool than you've already been.

Tim McManus

[presses alarm button] Lockdown! Lock the unit down!

You'll see! You'll wish you listened to me, McManus!

Tim McManus

Now!

McManus

Any questions?

Keller

Uh, yes, Mr. McManus, sir! Just how big is your penis?

Murphy

If you're so afraid of the work, LoPresti, go back to selling used cars.

McManus

You see?

Don't be an asshole.

We start off with $10, and the category today, Tim, is vocabulary. And the question is:what is a tittle?

Tim McManus

I think I know this. I'm gonna humor you, I'm gonna ask for a hint. Did you cover this in sixth grade English, Robert?

Well, first off, I'm in high school. And yeah, they did cover this... In the third grade.

Would you like to give him a hint, Robert?

It comes with crosses on T's.

Tim McManus

I saw a show where they were discussing tittles, and it wasn't punctuation.

Yeah, it's not punctuation. It's a diacritical mark.

Tobias Beecher

Kid's right.

Tim McManus

You're a good guy, Robert, but I've been around a little longer. A tittle is a breast implant.

Leave it to McManus to go for breasts.

No, in fact, it is the dot above an "I."

Enrique Morales

Dumb ass.

I always knew McManus was an idiot. Now everybody else does, too.

Omar White

Yo, man, don't be fucking dogging McManus out, all right?

Oh, I'm sorry, White. I forgot you've been sucking his cock these days.

Omar White

I'm not sucking his cock, fag.

Then... You must be taking it up the ass.