Oz (TV Series)

The Routine (1997)

Terry Kinney: Tim McManus

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• Tim McManus : In Em City we treat each other the way that we would like to be treated. We treat each other with respect.

  Kareem Said : And what happens when one of us does not respect the other?

  Tim McManus : There's violence.

  Kareem Said : Then prison life isn't all that different from the outside world.

  Tim McManus : Your celebrity status doesn't buy you any extra advantages here. All my prisoners are equal.

  Kareem Said : How ironic. To finally be an equal in a place where I do not have the freedom to enjoy it.

• Tim McManus : A new inmate comes in, we sit on him, send him back out, he's back with a vengeance. If we don't do something different, we don't do something radical, right now, we're never gonna break the chain.

• Mike Healy : Fucking McManus is out of fucking control. He tells me yesterday he's thinking of starting a quiet time. You ready for that? An hour every day the cons gotta sit in silence. I mean, what's next? Milk and cookies? Arts and crafts?

  Tim McManus : Maybe you should've listened to what I was saying, Healy. We gotta make 'em be quiet in here, because when they get out and get a job, they're gonna have to sit and do their work and be quiet.

  Mike Healy : Oh, come on, man. What kind of fairy dust have you been snorting? These stupid fucks aren't gonna go work for fucking Microsoft.

  Tim McManus : Bullshit. If an inmate survives Oz, he's got balls on the street. I wanna take some of the glamor away from that. I wanna take some of the glory away from that. Maybe a high school education, maybe to learn to fucking read.

• Tim McManus : Dino, do you know why in Em City I put lifers in with all the rest? So that people can learn to live together. And not just for when they get released. Even if you're in here for the rest of your life, even if you're here until you die, your life can have some purpose.

  Prisoner #96C382 Dino Ortolani : [talking to a cockroach in a jar]  Hey, you hear that?

  [turns to McManus] 

  Prisoner #96C382 Dino Ortolani : Are you on drugs, McManus? If you're not, you should start.

• Sister Peter Marie Reimondo : Oh, Tim, you wanna be careful.

  Tim McManus : About what?

  Sister Peter Marie Reimondo : Of playing God once too often. If you're not careful, the real one's gonna get very pissed off.