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The warden is correct. I have served in many correctional facilities, but what he didn't say was that, like most of you, I come from the streets. I'm not some candy-ass, white liberal looking to turn you into better citizens. I intend to meet with each of you individually, but until that time, keep one principle in mind: don't fuck with Querns.
You only see the world as black and white. Trust me, life is gray, as gray as these fucking walls.
It's funny, I can't cry. I don't have any tears left.
The criminal mind-- For the past 200 years, scientists, sociologists and other folks who fret about such things, have debated whether a person commits a violent act because of their environment or their biological makeup. What turns on the red crime light in a man's brain? lf we find the cause, can we eliminate the effect? Can we end violence now and forever?
Beecher hasn't been out of his cell for two solid days. He just lies in his bunk sobbing like a wuss.
Good. That's what's truly elegant about this plan of mine. We don't physically touch Beecher, and yet the damage done is far more hideous.
Genetics or environment? Like in everything else, society searches for the magic bullet-- the easy answer, 'cause the more complex the answer is, the more terrified we become. Is the root of violence much deeper, much darker? How about pure evil? Maybe we human creatures are inherently evil. Maybe evil is ingrained, embedded in our souls. Flip Wilson used to joke, The Devil made me do it. Maybe he was right. Or maybe not.
[points to forehead injury sustained at the gym] How the fuck is this you watching my back?
I got a CO there as soon as I could.
You should have pulled those apes off me.
Apes, yeah. Niggers, yeah. I jump in and save you, afucking white redneck asshole, I might as well pack up and leaveOz.
Well, then maybe you better start packing, 'causeanything like this fucking happens again, everyone's gonna knowwho you are, and you're a dead man, Johnny.
Chucky, are you afraid of dying?
No.
(knocking on cell door) What the fuck you doing with a cigarette, Pancamo?
Smoking it.
Put it out, now! Or I'm coming in there.
Now, her I'm afraid of.
The man's dying, Leo. I think in this case, ending his life would be a blessing.
But that's euthanasia. I thought your church was against euthanasia.
My church is against a lot of things I'm not.
[to Schillinger] Hey, Vern. Four marriages, I never had any kids, so I don't know dick about parenting, but you, fuck, you deserve some sort of prize. One son, you give him drugs knowing he'll OD. The other you set up for lethal injection. You're father of the fucking year, but you know what the best news is? When both your sons are dead, that'll be the end of it, 'cause you ain't making any more children. Not in here. So that when you die, your name dies with you. Everything you are dies when you do. And the world'll be a better place.
I do things different here in Oz than the way we worked on the street. For instance, when I want someone dead, I never grease them myself. I always-- I always talk someone else into doing the deed for me. I make them believe the person I want dead is their enemy. That way the kill can't be traced back to me.
That's so cool.
You got, what, seven years till parole?
Uh-huh.
You think you'll go the distance?
Sure, I'll get out.
Yeah. That's good. You keep believing that, Patrick. You know how I said that I always get someone to kill for me?
Yeah.
Well in your case, I'm gonna make an exception.
Adebisi and Said, hand-in-hand?
It's the end of the fucking universe.
Look, I said I'd protect you from Keller. I'll protect you. Okay?
Okay.
Now buzz off.
[Zabitz leaves]
Jesus, I thought the Jews were supposed to be tough.
That's just the Israelis.
Hmm. Kill him. I'm going to take that shot again.
I prefer to be happy, but self-hate will do in a pinch.
Seven out of 10 inmates are from cities, but 90% of the prisons themselves are in rural areas. You know, farmland, hillsides, forests. Now you'd think such bucolic surroundings would have a calming effect on those inside. But no, out in the wild, things only get wilder.
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