Oz (TV Series)

Sonata da Oz (2003)

Tom Atkins: Mayor Wilson Lowen

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• Mayor Wilson Lowen : [alone in Loewen's private hospital room]  You fucking cocksucker. You swore to me you would never let me serve a day.

  Governor James Devlin : Wilson, they were burning down the city.

  Mayor Wilson Lowen : Correction! They were burning down *their* city, *their* neighborhoods, *their* businesses!

  Governor James Devlin : The violence was escalating, spreading...

  Mayor Wilson Lowen : So you send in the National Guard, tear gas, rubber bullets. What you don't do is humiliate a man, especially when that man knows where the bodies are buried.

  [Devlin freezes] 

  Mayor Wilson Lowen : I want my pardon, Jimmy, and I want it fucking today. I'm not going to spend another night in this cesspool. Do you understand me? I don't care what kind of political typhoon it causes. If you don't give me my pardon, I will call a press conference and I will tell tales, Jimmy, tales of corruption, tales of graft, tales of voter fraud! By the time I'm finished, you'll be sitting right next to me in Unit J playing Par-fucking-cheesi!

  Governor James Devlin : [nods weakly]  All right. I'll figure out a way.

  Mayor Wilson Lowen : Yeah, you always do, Jimmy. That's why you're my boy.

  Governor James Devlin : [walks out looking defeated, and then says to his assistant standing outside]  Perry, there's something I want you to do; something that requires enormous discretion...