Burch Quotes in Spartan (2004)

Burch: She dyed her hair. They see that red hair, what do they do, her hair grows out, when they see that red hair? Somebody recognizes her? What do they do when they realize who they took?

Scott: They kill her.

Burch: You're fuckin'-A right, they kill her.

Burch: What about if we had to go off the meter? I need a man, a man who can unquestioningly follow orders.

Scott: The door is closed sir.

Burch: I need to ask you to do something.

Scott: I am here to get the girl back, sir. And there is nothing I will not do to get the girl back.

Burch: Yah a slave. Yah a Georgia slave!

[savagely beats Solomon until his paddle breaks. He switches to a whip and continues]

Burch: Are yah a slave?

Solomon Northup: No.

Burch: Well, my boy, how yah feel now?

Solomon Northup: I am Solomon Northup. I am a free man; a resident of Saratoga, New York. The residence also of my wife and children who are equally free. I have papers. You have no right whatsoever to detain me...

Burch: Yah not any...

Solomon Northup: And I promise you - I promise - upon my liberation I will have satisfaction for this wrong.

Burch: Resolve this. Produce your papers.

[Solomon searches and finds no papers]

Burch: Yah no free man. And yah ain't from Saratoga. Yah from Georgia. Yah ain't a free man. Yah nuthin' but a Georgia runaway. Yah a runaway nigger from Georgia.