Bob Rebadow quotes from Oz

Rebadow

In all my years at Oz, I've learned one rule: accept the hand you're dealt.

Bob Rebadow

An extraordinary experience watching the life fade from someone's eyes. Even as he was dying, Hernandez's instinct was to kill me for killing him. Survival meant less to him than revenge.

Bob Rebadow

Bachelor parties are one part alcohol, one part strippers. We're in short supply of both.

Rebadow

God comes to visit me every once in a while. Actually, he comes more often than I'd like but it's God. What can I say? That I'm busy, that I'm in the shower? He knows.

We talking about a burning bush here?

Rebadow

No, it's more like a strobe. A little too flashy, a little cheesy for my taste.

Bob Rebadow

I'm sorry that you're ill.

Kareem Said

And who told you that I was ill?

Bob Rebadow

God.

Kareem Said

Oh, yes. You talk to God.

Bob Rebadow

When he's in town.

Kareem Said

Well, in Islam, we believe that only two people spoke to God directly. Mohammad], and praise be to him, and Moses. So, you see, you are in excellent company.

Bob Rebadow

You think I'm lying or deluded.

Kareem Said

Oh, yes.

Bob Rebadow

I may well be. I do know sometimes I can see inside men's souls.

Kareem Said

And can you see into mine, old man?

Bob Rebadow

Yes.

Kareem Said

And what is there?

Bob Rebadow

Anger.

Kareem Said

Yes, I am angry. I am angry at a society that cripples my people and infects their bodies.

Bob Rebadow

No, you're angry at God.

Kareem Said

I am not. My illness is Allah's will and I accept the bad as well as the good that God gives me.

Bob Rebadow

Still, you're angry at him and afraid. Afraid of dying.

Kareem Said

That is not true.

Bob Rebadow

You watched Jefferson Keane die, die gladly. Keane embraced death like a lover, like a traveler going home. You saw that and you were afraid. You realized you aren't as willing to go.

Beecher

Who are you?

Busmalis

Agamemnon Busmalis, a.k.a. 'The Mole'.

Rebadow

The Mole?

Busmalis

I dig. I can dig anywhere. I'm gonna dig my way out of Oz.

Miguel Alvarez

Hey, Rebadow. Y'know, I think I got you. I think I got a piece of information for you.

Bob Rebadow

Really?

Miguel Alvarez

Mm-hmm. It's about Glynn and his daughter.

Bob Rebadow

You mean that she was brutally raped and is in the hospital?

Miguel Alvarez

Shit, how'd you know that? Well, I know one thing I know you don't know.

Bob Rebadow

What's that?

Miguel Alvarez

Who raped Glynn's daughter.

Bob Rebadow

You're right, I don't.

Miguel Alvarez

Yeah, I do.

Bob Rebadow

How do you know who did it?

Miguel Alvarez

Oh, that's because I was just talking to him on the phone.

Busmalis

Relax. You're suffering from PBS.

Rebadow

PBS?

Busmalis

Pre-Bunny Syndrome. It happens quite often in my line of work. You dig and dig and dig, and just before you have to make like a little bunny and go through the hole, you panic.

Rebadow

This is real? Pre-Bunny Syndrome?

Busmalis

Oh, yeah. I mean, I made the name up, but sure.

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.

Ryan O'Reily

Jesus Christ. Why they gotta show that?

Don't be a vag, O'Reily.

Ryan O'Reily

Hey, pal, I'm no vag but why they gotta put that stuff on TV?

Bob Rebadow

It's evidence in Coyle's trial.

Ryan O'Reily

Evidence, fine. But show it in the Goddamned courtroom and not on the fucking local news. Hey how would you like it if you came home, you put the tube on, there's your grandmother with her guts spilling out for everyone to fucking see?

James Devlin

You know, when I was first elected Governor, crime was out of control, but we went to work, fighting for three strikes and you're out...

Bob Rebadow

That bastard's running for another term after all the crap he’s pulled.

Agamemnon Busmalis

I’m voting for him.

Bob Rebadow

What? Why?

Agamemnon Busmalis

Well, things are better now then they were 4 years ago.

Bob Rebadow

Better for who? Not for us.

Agamemnon Busmalis

Well, in general life has improved across the state since Devlin took office. The economy is up, crime is down.

You’d actually vote for that asshole?

Agamemnon Busmalis

Yes.

Augustus Hill

You can’t vote. You were convicted of a felony. You are no longer eligible to vote.

Agamemnon Busmalis

Really?

Augustus Hill

Really.

Agamemnon Busmalis

Oh, well, that’s okay. I never used to vote anyway.

The courage to lead. James Devlin, Governor.

Hey. I'm real sorry about little Alex.

Bob Rebadow

You know, you try to prepare for a death, but always secretly you believe there's a chance that the doctors were wrong, that they'll find a cure, and that as long as he's alive there's time. So, while you think you're stealing yourself, all you're really doing is waiting on the miracle, which is why, when death comes, it's so horrible, because you realize...you weren't prepared at all.

But you knew last night.

Bob Rebadow

On some level. 30-something years ago it was a power outage that saved me from execution, but last night the electricity finally came back to finish the job, except so much time had passed that my grandson was now in the chair. I never really liked this hat, but now that he's passed away, I understand this hat. This was my Grandson at his most alive.

Yo, Rebadow, over here.

Bob Rebadow

What do you want today, Pablo?

I want to know what the fuck your problem is, man. I mean, why are you treating Ms. C like a bitch?

Bob Rebadow

She's not a bitch.

That's right. She's a nice lady. She's helping me ride out my time, and yet you're bringing her the fuck down. And the cancer? It ain't that big a deal. That's right, she told me yesterday. I guess she needed someone to talk to since you're acting like my younger fucking sister. Maria freaked out when my momma got breast cancer. Of course, she was eight. And mi Madre? She squashed that disease like it was a cockroach. I bet that's something you can identify with.