Criminal Minds (TV Series)

Strange Fruit (2013)

Glynn Turman: Charles Johnson

Quotes 

• Charles Johnson : Where you from, Dave?

  David Rossi : Long Island.

  Charles Johnson : You know, an I-talian from Long Island can be as cold-blooded as a... a Klansman... from Virginia... You ever used the n-word, Dave?

  David Rossi : I'm sure I did. The same guys who called me wop and dago. Everyone I knew back then used that language. So what?

  Charles Johnson : Maybe one day some black people sit in the front of the bus in Floral Park and you start throwing some punches.

  David Rossi : We've already found three bodies, Charles.

  Charles Johnson : Maybe some colored folks sit next to you at Stango's back in the day, and, you know, you get pissed off, you start throwing punches at 'em.

  David Rossi : You're evading, Charles, and that suggests guilt.

  Charles Johnson : You go by that logic, you ain't too innocent your damn self.

  David Rossi : [pause]  There was this one time.

  Charles Johnson : Here we go.

  David Rossi : I was in the ninth grade, and there was this black kid on the baseball team with me.

  Charles Johnson : I knew it. Break out the peanuts.

  David Rossi : He was the runt and I was the second-smallest. You get the picture?

  Charles Johnson : I got it. Come on.

  David Rossi : One day the other guys get mad because he's playing with us...

  Charles Johnson : Nm.

  David Rossi : And they force me to shove him into a locker and keep him there overnight.

  Charles Johnson : Did you do it?

  David Rossi : Sure I did. If not, they would have done it to me.

  Charles Johnson : Call him names?

  David Rossi : We called him every name in the book... And then they made me pee on him in the locker.

  Charles Johnson : You peed on him?

  David Rossi : They made me.

• David Rossi : So, why did you mutilate Mary Ann's genitalia?

  Charles Johnson : I didn't mutilate anything.

  David Rossi : And you cut the other girl, too. And the guy. Sexual punishment across gender lines is... pretty different. I think that somewhere down the line, a man and a woman each made you question your sexuality. You despise both sexes.

• David Rossi : The guy who saved my life in Vietnam was black, as was my second wife.

  Charles Johnson : Brown sugar... I'll be damned... I bet you phone-banked for Obama.

  David Rossi : No, I was too busy putting guys like you away.

• Charles Johnson : Ooh... okay. Send the black guy in. I was wondering when they were gonna play that card. Attention all FBI employees, will the one negro in the building, please, get to the sixth floor.

  Derek Morgan : You finished?

  Charles Johnson : But then again... You're not fully black... are you? Well, that's okay. They say even one drop counts.

• Charles Johnson : Hung me from a tree... Cut me.

  David Rossi : ...Where did they cut you?

  Charles Johnson : ...Where do you think?