Michael Pavone: Jimmy O'Brien

Quotes 

• Mary Elizabeth : You son of a bitch! You scared me when I was a kid but you do NOT scare me now!

  Jimmy O'Brien : What're you talking about?

  Mary Elizabeth : Cross! Gasoline! My front yard!

  Jimmy O'Brien : Calm down, Peanut, what's happened?

  Mary Elizabeth : You burnt a cross on my yard and don't peanut me!

• Jimmy O'Brien : [Rene recalls 35 years ago when Jimmy and his partner pulled she and Sara over, held a gun to Rene's head and made Sara call herself a nigger]  That wasn't me.

  Rene Jackson : But you watched, and enjoyed it. And through time you have continued to watch, is this all you do?

  Jimmy O'Brien : I don't always watch and you know it you fancy assed high heeled nigger!

  [court gasps] 

  Rene Jackson : You hate me, don't you?

  Jimmy O'Brien : Yes I do, and that ain't illegal either.

  Rene Jackson : No, but you went from hating to hurting and God bless Alabama because in this state, hurting IS illegal!

• Jimmy O'Brien : Somebody take me home.

  Mary Elizabeth : [under her breath]  It's alive.

  [to her father] 

  Mary Elizabeth : Ask him about the cross, he'll brag about it.