Oz (TV Series)

A Game of Checkers (1997)

Eamonn Walker: Kareem Said

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Quotes 

• [during the riot, Adebisi goes through severe heroin withdrawals, and starts looting. Said points the gun at him] 

  Kareem Said : Adebisi! It's over!

  Simon Adebisi : You want to kill me?

  Kareem Said : No, I don't want to kill you.

  Simon Adebisi : That's right, you want to save my ass.

  Kareem Said : That's right, I want to save you.

  Simon Adebisi : Then, please, give me some tits. Give me some tits. GIVE ME SOME FUCKING TITS!

• 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.

• Kareem Said : You wanna save this place, right? And I want to destroy it. Brick by hypocritical brick.

• [During 1997 prison riot] 

  Inmates : [chanting]  Said! Said! Said!

  Kareem Said : [Raises his hand and all inmates stop chanting]  Gentlemen.

  Warden Glynn : What's this about Said?

  Kareem Said : If you have to ask, Glynn, then we got a long day ahead of us.