- Brett Woodard: You ever been someplace you couldn't leave, and you couldn't stay... both at the same time?
- Detective Wayne Hays: I knew they wouldn't listen to me. But you shoulda stopped that.
- Detective Roland West: Me? What am I supposed to do? You were there.
- Detective Wayne Hays: I'm sayin', I talk, it don't mean anything. Don't matter if I'm right. You, at least, you talk, it means somethin' to 'em. Might consider what you're saying. You mighta stopped them 'em from doing that.
- Detective Roland West: Bulls**t. Who knew until it was on the TV? Why didn't you stop 'em?
- Detective Wayne Hays: They ain't my tribe, man. Take care of your s**t.
- Detective Roland West: Tribe? Where you think you are, as****le*?
- Detective Wayne Hays: I know where I am.
- Detective Roland West: Do ya? It don't sound like it.
- Detective Wayne Hays: Son, I know where I am in a way you will never understand.
- Detective Roland West: Are you high, Purple Hays? 'Cause you're makin' about as much goddamn sense as my grandmother's dementia.
- Detective Wayne Hays: No, I'm sayin' I know where I am.
- Detective Roland West: Hey, good for you.
- Detective Roland West: You wanna execute him? We can bury him right out here, I don't give a s**t. Throw him off a bridge... Nobody'll care.
- Detective Wayne Hays: Put him in holding, get his parole violated. He'll be back in Wrightsville tomorrow. Full sentence.
- Detective Roland West: If you say so.
- Detective Wayne Hays: Talk s**t about us... I'll have monstrous ni***rs f**k him to death in his cell.
- Ted LaGrange: [muffled grunting]
- Detective Wayne Hays: D'you here me, boy? You will bleed black c**k.
- Elisa Montgomery: Well, I'm interested in the intersectionality of marginalized groups within authoritarian and systemic racist structures.