American Violence (2017)

Kaiwi Lyman: Jackson Shea

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• Jackson Shea : You've read some papers. Some file a prison hack too stupid to make it on the outside wrote about me after he showed me some inkblots. You read that shit and think you're inside my head? Doc, you don't know a fucking thing about me.

  Amanda Tyler : You're right, Jack. I don't know a fucking thing about you. And if I did, I wouldn't be here wasting my time, or yours. Would you like me to leave?

• Jackson Shea : [about attacking his abusive uncle]  It was the first time in my life I was ever in control of the events that guided me. Nothing's more freeing than that.

  Amanda Tyler : You know you could've stopped him without putting him in the hospital. You chose to fly into a rage.

  Jackson Shea : Don't you get it, doc? We're all just caged animals. With animal instincts.

• Jackson Shea : I gave that bastard a preview of what's waiting for him in hell. Belmont got what he deserved, but I wanna make one thing real clear to you, doc. I didn't commit murder. I performed an execution. There's a difference.

• Richard Morton : You know the difference between a criminal, and a law man? One, lives rent free, three meals a day, a bed. The other one, can't even pay his rent. And our uncle, who lives back there on the east coast, doesn't pay people like me shit. I'm thinking of retiring soon, and I got three daughters. So you do the math.

  Jackson Shea : You know what the real difference is between crooks and law men is, warden?

  Richard Morton : Try me.

  Jackson Shea : What side of the bars they're on.