Season 1

Diane Wittlesey: There’s something in the air. And it ain’t love.

Kareem Said: I would give my life for you.
Jefferson Keane: You gonna have to.

Lenny Burrano: Donald Groves. You killed your parents and ate them, right?
Donald Groves: I only ate my mom. I was saving my dad for Thanksgiving.
Lenny Burrano: That’s festive.

Leo Glynn: after McManus refuses a dinner invitation Too much work to do, right? You can take a break from saving the world. Even Jesus had supper.
Tim McManus: Yeah, and right afterwards he was betrayed and crucified.

Groves: Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Father Ray Mukada: What?
Groves: I don’t know what to do. I’ve never done this confession thing before.

Mukada: Catholicism is “nifty”?
Groves: You have that whole mystical transubstantiation bit going.
Mukada: That’s right. The Eucharist becomes the body of Christ.
Groves: So you’re actually eating His flesh and drinking His blood.
Mukada: That’s right.
Groves: Now how can I not get behind a religion like that?

Jeremy Goldstein: I mean, you don’t think of me as a Christ-killer or anything like that?
McManus: Well I’m not even really sure that Christ died.

Groves: They say lethal injection causes no pain. How do they know? Did someone come back from the dead and say they didn’t feel anything?

Beecher: Were you around when the last person in the state was executed?
Bob Rebadow: I was the last person in the state executed.

Miguel Alvarez: Hey, Father. Where was God when my son died?
Mukada: Same place He was when His own son died.

Sister Pete: Christ was executed, you know. And if he hadn’t been, the world would be a very different place.
Glynn: A better place?
Sister Pete: I didn’t say that.

Scott Ross: I was a man in love. I still am.
Wittlesey: Save it for the shower room.

Ryan: No thanks. I’ve never been big on tomatoes.
Nino Schibetta: You Irish. You got no appreciation for the simple things in life.
Ryan: What’s simpler than a potato?

Schibetta to Adebisi: How do you keep that hat on your head? Velcro?

Groves: Mister Said. I just wanted to tell you that, um, the whole thing with the spoons, the whole Allah thing? It’s awesome. butchering Arabic A-salami I-like-em.

Sister Pete: Don’t think of me as a psychologist. Don’t think of me as a nun. Think of me as your mother. Kareem, take your medicine!

McManus announces a lockdown
Alvarez: Gee Dad, I hope I can still make it to the prom.

Beecher: I need you to move me to another cell block.
McManus: All the cell blocks are full.
Beecher: Then move me to another prison.
McManus: Do I look like a travel agent to you?

Officer Anthony Nowakowski: Hey, what’re you doing?
Wangler: Nothing.
Officer Nowakowski: Yeah? Why don’t you do it somewhere else?
Kenny goes under the stairs
Wangler: Stupid hacks.
Adebisi: You’ the lookout!
Wangler: I’m the lookout.
Adebisi: Go on! Look out!

At the beginning of the riot
Glynn: What’s this about, Said?
Said: If you have to ask, Glynn, we got a long day ahead of us.

Said: I am willing to share the power. That is why I asked you here. You see, we can become a kind of council. We will—together—make all the decisions.
Ross: We can talk parliamentary procedure later. How many guns do you have?