The Best Sister Peter Marie Reimondo Quotes

Father: We work with criminals. We try to understand the reasons why they broke the law so we can help them. We examine the psychological elements, the sociological, we consider their family backgrounds, environment, addictions, blah, blah, blah. Usually there's an answer, if not a cure. But sometimes we come face to face with a larger, more stunning reality. We come face to face with pure evil, and we are powerless. I believe that Kirk has no hope for salvation. He is pure evil.
Sister: I don't disagree that there's evil in the world. I do disagree that we're powerless against it. Ray, you and I have dedicated our lives to overcoming evil through love. God's love.

Sister: I want to find the three men who raped Peter Schibetta.
Warden: Why?
Sister: Why, Leo? Why?
Warden: Look, we're doing everything we can to keep the number of reported rapes down.
Sister: Reported? Listen to you, your own daughter was raped.
Warden: Well... this is different. This is Oz.
Sister: Rape is rape, Leo.
Warden: I don't agree. Here, rape has a leveling effect. Peter Schibetta, from the day he arrived, wanted to be a tough guy, wanted to follow in his father's footsteps, running things, hurting people. Well, he got stopped by Adebisi, and now he got stopped again.
Sister: What's going on? Do you have something personal against Schibetta?
Warden: No, no, simply survival of the fittest, as natural and basic as Darwin.
Sister: You and I have disagreed about a lot of things over the years, but this is...
Warden: Peter Marie...
Sister: "... a leveling effect."? You want rape to do your job?

[Schillinger blows up because Beecher is coming up for parole]
Sister: [to CO] This session's over!
Officer: Let's go, Schillinjur.
Vernon: [shouts] Schillinger! God DAMN IT! Schillinger! I've been here NINE FUCKING YEARS! You'd think you'd know how to say my goddamn name!

[Keller is in Sister Pete's office having a session with her]
Sister: You and Schillinger were together at Lardner when you were how old?
Chris: 17.
Sister: He saved your life.
Chris: Mmmm-mmmm.
Sister: Did you have sex together?
Chris: Yeah.
Sister: Did he force himself on you?
Chris: Vern likes the power part of sex, so I let him think he did.
Sister: Do you enjoy sex with men?
Chris: I enjoy sex, don't you?

Sister: Rape is rape, Leo.
Warden: I don't agree. Here, rape has a... a leveling effect.

Chris: Hey, I'm gonna see you today, right?
Sister: Three o'clock, visiting one of your ex-wives.
Chris: Yeah.
Sister: Which one? Kitty or Angelique?
Chris: Bonnie, wife number 2 and number 4, she's the best.
Sister: Hmmm.
Chris: There she is, there she is.
Sister: Aha, a redhead.
Chris: No, the other one.
Sister: Chris she's...
Chris: Huge.
Sister: Well, did she gain some weight after the divorce?
Chris: No, she was that way when I married her. Both times. Bye.
[He goes into the visitation room and starts making out with Bonnie]

Sister: Simon, after the riot, you went into severe heroin withdrawal. I thought you kicked the habit?
Simon: I did.
Sister: Oh, come on. These reports say you're still using. Now, I want you to come to drug counseling.
Simon: Rehab is bullshit. No offense.
Sister: Fine. Then I'll have you tested for drug use every week and if you keep using, I'll send you to the Psych Ward. Have you ever been to the Psych Ward here, Simon? Peter Schibetta's there, along with twenty other guys who've lost all sense of reality.
Simon: Reality? Oz?

[Beecher confronts Schillinger after Hank got away with killing Beecher's son]
Tobias: I'm going to kill you, motherfucker!
Vernon: [after the COs pull them apart] Well, I guess you heard the good news about Hank.
Sister: Take him back to Em City!
Tobias: [while being hauled away] COCKSUCKER! You fucking cocksucker! You wait! YOU FUCKING WAIT!
Vernon: [after Beecher is gone] Whew. Got quite a temper on him, doesn't he?

Sister: Cyril, give me the puppet.
Cyril: [as Jericho] Fuck you, you cunt.

Augustus: [In Em City] Oz.
Tim: [In his office] Oz.
Tobias: [In the infirmary] Oz.
Vern: [In his Gen. Pop. cell] Oz.
Sister: [In the Gen. Pop. section] Oz.
Ryan: [In the guard booth of Em City] Oz.
Warden: [in front of fellow officers] Oz.
Miguel: [In Solitary] Oz.

Sister: Do you like sex with men?
Chris: I like sex. Don't you?

Father: [At the funeral of an African American CO Joseph Howard] Eternal rest grant unto him, Oh Lord, and let perpetual light shine down upon him. And now, Tim McManus would like to say a few words. Tim.
Tim: Joe loved to bet on the horses, and so, in honor of him, I would like to...
[singing]
Tim: Camp town races sing this song, doo-dah, doo-dah, Camp town racetrack's five miles long Oh, the doo-dah day.
[Blacks in Audience including Glynn begin to look at McManus with disgust]
Tim: Gonna run all night, Gonna run all day. Bet my money on a bobtail nag, Somebody bet on the bay.
Warden: [a scene later in the Warden's office] Come in.
Sister: Leo, we want to talk about Tim.
Warden: I have had all the discussion about Tim McManus I'm gonna have.
Sister: He's clearly in distress.
Warden: Yes.
Dr. Gloria Nathan: He needs help.
Warden: That's what I told him.
Sister: So, you've seen him?
Warden: He just left.
Dr. Gloria Nathan: We've been looking everywhere.
Warden: He just left.
Dr. Gloria Nathan: Well, where'd he go?
Warden: I have no idea.
Sister: Alright, we'll try him at home tonight.
Dr. Gloria Nathan: If not, we'll just see him here tomorrow.
Sister: Right.
Warden: I don't think so.
Dr. Gloria Nathan: Why not?
Warden: I just fired him. Good night.

Sister: So you went along with Beecher not in the name of the Aryan Brotherhood, but to see if he would love you no matter what.
Chris: At first I wanted unconditional surrender, then I wanted unconditional love. But Beecher don't love me.
Sister: And that's killing you inside.
Chris: Yeah.

Chris: Show me your tits.
Sister: Don't do that.
Chris: Sorry.

Sister: We do not choose God. God chooses us.
Chris: What happens to those of us who he don't choose?

Tim: [McManus discovers that a CO Karl Metzger is a member of the Aryan Brotherhood] So before Metzger came to town, he lived in Montana where he was part of the White Supremacy Warriors.
Sister: You sure of this, Tim?
Tim: I got a friend who works in the FBI who verified it.
Warden: Even so, you can't fire a man for what he did 15 years ago. I need proof that he's in cahoots with Vern Schillinger, that he's responsible for what happened to Busmalis, Beecher, and the others.
Tim: Nobody will testify against Metzger.
Warden: Well, the union's not gonna let us do anything without evidence. He's also very popular with the other CO's. I don't need any more morale problems.
Tim: So we let him stay on board till maybe he kills somebody?
Warden: I'm afraid, we have no choice.
Tim: Even though he only thinks of you as a Nigger?
Warden: What did you say?
Tim: A Nigger.
Warden: If you're trying to piss me off, you're succeeding. I don't want Metzger in this building one minute longer than you do. But if I'm going to take him down, I'm gonna need ammunition.

Sister: I had a thought in the shower this morning - about you
Tobias: You think about me when you're naked in the shower?

Sister: [McManus has an engagement ring ready for Diane Whittlesey on the day she's scheduled to return from her two-week vacation in London with her daughter, but Peter Marie visits him at his office with some news] Well, you know, she and Didi were standing in front of Buckingham Palace and she got into a conversation with a guard.
Tim: I thought they didn't talk.
Sister: He was on break. Anyway, um, one thing led to another, and, um... they're going to get married.
Tim: [smiles, laughs] Right.
Sister: I'm serious.
Tim: [stops, looks at her, face slowly drops, the words sink in] She's getting married... to a *Bobby?*
Sister: No, no, not a Bobby, Tim. He's a guard. He guards the Queen!
Tim: [hollers] Yeah, well, then I can see how they've got a lot in fucking COMMON! Oh, FUCK! Jesus fucking Christ! Did she leave a number?
Sister: She doesn't want to talk to you.
Tim: Yeah? Well, I've got a hell of a lot I wanna say to her!
Sister: Which is why she doesn't wanna talk to you. She really feels very badly.
Tim: [sarcastically] Oh, really?
Sister: Now listen, Tim. Diane Whittlesey has not had an easy life. Poverty, spousal abuse, single motherhood, her mom dying after a very long illness. And just now on the phone, her voice - she sounded so happy.
Tim: Happy. Sure.
[slowly exhales and sits back at his desk]
Sister: If you need to talk...
Tim: What I need is a drink.
[pulls a bottle of whiskey out from his desk drawer]
Sister: Tim...
Tim: Don't worry, Sister. This is what guys who've been dumped do in order to move on.
[pours himself a glass and raises it in a toast]
Tim: Cheerio.
[downs it]