- [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: 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.
- [during the riot, the C.O.s are taken hostage]
- Officer Eddie Hunt: This is all your fucking fault, McManus.
- Officer Diane Whittlesey: Shut up, Eddie.
- Officer Eddie Hunt: No, Goddammit. If I'm gonna die, at least I want the bastard that got me whacked to know it.
- Father Ray Mukada: How can you blame Tim?
- Officer Eddie Hunt: How? 'Cause all this Emerald City bullshit. 'Cause Tim thought he could help these cocksuckers. I've seen you in action, man. I've seen you fumble the fucking ball every single play. I just hope if we do die, I get to watch you go first.
- Tobias Beecher: Hello! If you don't mind, I gotta take a shit.
- Vern Schillinger: Beecher, listen...
- Tobias Beecher: Hey! You know, I'm standing in here thinking about all the good times we had, you and me.
- Vern Schillinger: I don't want to fight.
- Tobias Beecher: Oh, no. Of course not. You get into a fight, you fuck up your parole. And I hear for the next three months, you're gonna be a good little boy, so you can get outta Oz, see your two sons. You know, I think that's great. But, you know what I'm wondering? What if Vern doesn't get out? What if, as he comes up for parole, he gets into a brawl, a knock-down, drag-out with his old roomie? What if every time he comes up for parole, Vern gets into some ugly incident and has to serve his entire sentence? And his two sons, they become monsters. That's what I'm wondering about. Prag.
- [Beecher leaves, singing "I Got It Bad"]
- 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.
- Augustus Hill: Yeah, who cares who lives or dies in prison? We read the names in the morning paper and they mean nothing to us. They're faceless. Truth is, we don't wanna put a face on 'em. We don't want to know who they really are. Because then it might hit too close to home, and home is what it's all about, right? Making a home no matter where you are, no matter who you are. At the end of the day, everybody wants somewhere to rest, somewhere to lay their bones, even if it's in a land called Oz. Yeah, like Dorothy says when she wakes up in her own bed back at Aunt Em's, "There's no place like home." There's no fucking place like home.
- Tobias 'Toby' Beecher: [as Schillinger walks by] HEY! It's your move, ASSWIPE!
- Officer Diane Whittlesey: Beecher! Watch it! You're going to have the fastest turnaround time in the history of the hole.
- Simon Adebisi: [as Schillinger walks by] Asswipe.
- [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.
- Augustus Hill: Remember when your high school history teacher said that the course of human events changes 'cause of the deeds of great men. Well, the bitch was lying. Fuck Caesar, fuck Lincoln, fuck Mahatma Gandhi. The world keeps moving cause of you and me, the anonymous. Revolutions get going cause there ain't enough bread. Wars happen over a game of checkers.
- [Dobbins got stabbed during the riot]
- Augustus Hill: You gotta take him to ER!
- Jackson Vayhue: Hill, I go out there, they gonna kick my fucking ass.
- Augustus Hill: They gonna be kicking our asses anyway, brother.
- Jackson Vayhue: No way. This ain't my fault, Hill. He is definitely not my problem, man. I did not start all this shit, Hill!
- Augustus Hill: What difference does it make, huh? Look, you think 'cause of who you are you can pick and choose when to take responsibility. You can't. Sometimes you gotta step up.
- 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.
- Officer Anthony Nowakowski: Hey, what're you doing?
- Kenny Wangler: Nothing.
- Officer Anthony Nowakowski: Yeah? Well, why don't you do it somewhere else?
- [smiles and walks away]
- Kenny Wangler: Stupid hacks.
- Simon Adebisi: [apprehended, crazed from drug withdrawal] I'm dying, brother.
- Tobias Beecher: You shouldn't have stolen my fucking watch!
- [slaps him on the forehead]
- Simon Adebisi: Hey, bro, don't be like that!