Oz (TV Series)

Ancient Tribes (1998)

Terry Kinney: Tim McManus

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• Tim McManus : Said, the Muslims weren't represented at the council meeting.

  Kareem Said : If this council has real power, then we will participate.

  Tim McManus : Well, how do you mean?

  Kareem Said : Do we get to make policy or do we simply rubber stamp yours?

  Tim McManus : This is a prison, not a democracy.

• Augustus Hill : I tell you, I don't belong with those three clowns, man. They're crazy! Especially Beecher. I mean, forget all that shit he did to Schillinger. Beecher bit off some fucker's dick.

  Tim McManus : I know. That was ten months ago.

  Augustus Hill : Oh, yeah, well, then that's ok. I gotta share a pod, McManus. I gotta sleep with one eye open.

  Tim McManus : Sister Peter Marie says he's responding to therapy.

  Augustus Hill : Well, then let her bunk with him.

• Warden Leo Glynn : [Inmate Kenny Wangler started a fight in class]  I want Wangler in the Hole!

  Tim McManus : It's not that he wouldn't read, he couldn't read, the kid can't read Leo.

  Warden Leo Glynn : So that excuses his behavior?

  Tim McManus : No, it gives us insight as to how to help him.

  Warden Leo Glynn : McManus, 150 years ago, it was against the law for a slave to learn to read but some did, you know why because they had a thirst for it, Now the reverse is also true, you cannot force someone to learn how to read!

  Tim McManus : I can try.

  [Glynn lets McManus keep Wangler in Em City] 

• Tim McManus : You don't want to participate, that's fine. Just don't get in my way.

  Kareem Said : McManus, you want us to be allies but that will never happen. Better for you to transfer me back to Gen Pop and be done with me.

  Tim McManus : No. When I was laying in that hospital bed and I was afraid I was gonna die, I started praying. I'm not saying I had any great spiritual awakening, Said, but I did come to realize that my God and yours aren't so different. They both expect the best from us, and for us to find the best in each other.

  Kareem Said : I've written another book, McManus. Coming out next month, it's about the riot. And when I was writing I looked for the best in you. Want to know what I found? A confused, frightened little man.

  Tim McManus : Well, I was frightened and I was confused. But you take a bullet in the chest, you see things differently. People can change, Said. Even me. Even you.

• Tim McManus : [writing his last name on a whiteboard when Kenny refuses to read a book]  What does this say?

  Kenny Wangler : [pauses for a long time, examining it carefully]  McDonald's.