- Doctor Senator: You didn't serve in the war, did you?
- [Ebal grunts]
- Doctor Senator: I was in the legal corps. Army. Pushing papers. After the cease-fire, they send me to Nuremberg for the trials. Last Negro in Germany, I'd imagine.
- Ebal Violante: Mmm-hmm.
- Doctor Senator: You ever heard of the Double V? It's what they sold us. Fight for our country, and we get two victories. One for America and one for we sons of servitude. No more lynchings. No more blackjacks at the polls.
- Ebal Violante: Hmm. Okay.
- Doctor Senator: So they send me to Nuremberg, and this colonel tells me he's got a big job for me. Says, You're going to interview Herman Goring, the Reichsmarschall himself. Says, Days, weeks, however long it takes to get him to talk. Says, I need you, Doctor Senator, Esquire, to use your training, your skills to build the people's case. Well, now, what is that if not the Double Victory, hmm? So I sit with the man for six weeks, eight hours a day, six days a week, and we get into it. The first two weeks, he just stares at me, murder in his eyes. But I use my wiles. You know, appeal to his ego, get him talking. Soon he won't shut up. Bragging about every little thing, and I type it down and write it up for the colonel word-for-word. I spend two weeks crafting my conclusion, my analysis of international law. Then, one Sunday morning, after services, I knock on the colonel's door and I give him my report. You know what he does? Throws it in the trash. Yeah. 400 pages with footnotes. Throws it in the trash and says, I just wanted to make that old Nazi squirm... having to answer to a Negro.
- [Senator's voice trails off, his face contorted in anger and pain]
- Doctor Senator: So... you say respect the deal? Excuse me if I say our word is exactly as good as yours.
- Rabbi Milligan: You ever play poker?
- [Satchel shakes his head]
- Rabbi Milligan: But you know there's a game called poker, played with cards.
- [Satchel nods]
- Rabbi Milligan: Well, there's this saying in poker: you play the hand you're dealt. You and me, we're proof of that. You see, when yours truly was a boy, he had the same thing happen to him, what happened to you.
- Satchel Cannon: You got traded?
- Rabbi Milligan: What?
- Satchel Cannon: From baseball. That's what my daddy said. I got traded to another team.
- Rabbi Milligan: Exactly. I got traded twice. Except, well, for you, you get to go back to your original team one day.
- Satchel Cannon: Is this your original team?
- Rabbi Milligan: No. My team was shite.
- Doctor Senator: You still think the slaughterhouse was the right play?
- Loy Cannon: Oh, yeah.
- Doctor Senator: Hm-hmm. Hubris to think you can control things. That's why God created tornadoes. To remind us.
- Loy Cannon: Yeah, but you can raise the odds.
- Captain Martin Hanhuck: Jesus on a stick!
- Dick 'Deafy' Wickware: Language.
- Captain Martin Hanhuck: What?
- Dick 'Deafy' Wickware: Keep a civil tongue. I'm saying.
- Captain Martin Hanhuck: Who the hot Christ are you?
- Dick 'Deafy' Wickware: You always take the Lord's name in vain with this much gusto?
- Captain Martin Hanhuck: You're fuckin'-A right. Flannigan! You want a cup of coffee?
- Officer Flannigan: Yeah, Chief?
- Captain Martin Hanhuck: Black, two sugars.
- Dick 'Deafy' Wickware: Thank you, no. In my faith we abstain from caffeinated beverages both hot and cold.
- Captain Martin Hanhuck: In your...?
- Dick 'Deafy' Wickware: There were 12 tribes of Israel. Ten were lost.
- Captain Martin Hanhuck: Lost who, what, now?
- Dick 'Deafy' Wickware: Ten were lost. Two of those made their way across the sea to this great and sacred land. The Nephites and the Lamanites. Once here, the rebellious Lamanites were cursed by God with skin of blackness so they would not be attracted to my people.
- Captain Martin Hanhuck: The... What do you - - Nephites?
- Dick 'Deafy' Wickware: Mormons. You asked my faith. I'm a priest of the Mormon Church and a member of the Quorum of Seventy. Do you mind? I haven't eaten since last evening.
- Captain Martin Hanhuck: Last time I checked there's still a kill order on the books for all Mormons in the state of Missouri.
- Dick 'Deafy' Wickware: Sadly the people of Missouri are not sympathetic to our faith.
- Captain Martin Hanhuck: And yet here you are.
- Dick 'Deafy' Wickware: And yet here I am, solid in my beliefs and unafraid.
- Captain Martin Hanhuck: And for why?
- Dick 'Deafy' Wickware: I'm sorry?
- Captain Martin Hanhuck: I'm saying with all due respect to Your Holiness, what the slippery fuck are you doing in my office at 8:00 a.m. on a Wednesday mornings, Mormon or no?
- Dick 'Deafy' Wickware: U.S. Marshal Dick Wickware in pursuit of two cons escaped the night previous from Our Lady of Regret Women's Prison.
- Captain Martin Hanhuck: For shit's sake son why the Christ didn't you just say so when I first walked in?
- Dick 'Deafy' Wickware: Captain Hanhuck I can safely say that you blasphemy more than any man I've ever met. And I've been to Cleveland.