Oz (TV Series)

A Game of Checkers (1997)

Terry Kinney: Tim McManus

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• Tim McManus : Schillinger's back in Emerald City. He says he won't harm you. Tell me you won't harm him.

  Tobias Beecher : He burnt a swastika into my flesh. He made me rip up pictures of my family. He made me eat the pages of a law book. He made me wear women's makeup. And, he fucked me up the ass.

  Tim McManus : I know.

  Tobias Beecher : So now I just forgive him?

  Tim McManus : Yes.

  Tobias Beecher : Could you?

  Tim McManus : Yes.

  Tobias Beecher : All right. I forgive him.

• Tim McManus : You say you've changed. Why should I believe you?

  Vern Schillinger : 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.

• Scott Ross : Any last words?

  Tim McManus : Suck my dick.

  Scott Ross : If only there were time...

• Tim McManus : Said, I grew up in a small town, upstate New York. There was only one major industry there, the prison. Everybody's parents either worked at the prison or made a living from, you know, motels, gas stations, or, like my dad, had a diner. Right across the street. It was the fall, we'd just gone back to school, I was about to turn ten. I was very, very excited. A few days before my birthday, though, there was this riot. And it lasted four days. But then the Governor authorized 2500 troops, state troopers, to go back in, take it back. They did, firing at anything that moved. So when the tear gas cleared, 31 inmates and 9 hostages were dead.

  Kareem Said : Attica.

  Tim McManus : Three of my friends' fathers were shot. Instead of going to a birthday party, I went with my family to a memorial service.

  Kareem Said : So that's what this is all about. Emerald City is your birthday party.

• Officer Diane Whittlesey : What's going on?

  Tim McManus : There's a rumor that you're bringing contraband into Emerald City.

  Officer Diane Whittlesey : What?

  Tim McManus : It's bullshit, right?

  Officer Diane Whittlesey : Who'd you hear this from?

  Tim McManus : Tell me it's not true.

  Officer Diane Whittlesey : It's not true.

  Tim McManus : You're lying to me.

  Officer Diane Whittlesey : No, I'm not lying.

  Tim McManus : I have an eyewitness, Diane, that saw you pass cigarettes to Scott Ross. An eye-fucking-witness.

  Officer Diane Whittlesey : Who?

  Tim McManus : Me.

  Officer Diane Whittlesey : Oh.