Virgil Cane Quotes in An Innocent Man (1989)

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Virgil Cane Quotes:

  • Kate Rainwood: [Kate is visiting Virgil in prison] I'm here because we don't know what else to do. It's like they haunt Jimmie. And after they came to the house... we need your help. I mean, Jimmie's already introduced me to Malcolm, but he can only do so much.

    Virgil Cane: Those assholes have been riding high so long they think the only thing that can take them down is kryptonite. Of course, they are peabrained, dickless shitheads.

    [Kate laughs]

    Virgil Cane: Which is definitely in our favor.

    [laughs]

    Virgil Cane: Definitely!

    Kate Rainwood: You've been hoping for something like this, haven't you?

    Virgil Cane: [smiling] Let's just say it makes my decade.

    [turns serious]

    Virgil Cane: I'll get exactly the information that you need and I'll reach out to you real soon.

    Kate Rainwood: [impressed] You're just like Jimmie described you... a schemer and a charmer.

    [Virgil smiles]

    Kate Rainwood: Thanks for everything you did for him, Virgil.

    [they stand up and shake hands]

  • Jimmie Rainwood: All right, you talked and I listened.

    Virgil Cane: Hey! HEY! Don't be talkin' out the side of your neck while I'm trying to do you a solid.

  • Virgil Cane: Ain't life a motherfucker.

  • [former LBPD Officer Parnell is being escorted into the prison main room]

    Virgil Cane: Hey! Officer!

    [Parnell looks around. Every inmate starts to glare at him]

    Virgil Cane: Ain't life a motherfucker.

  • Jimmie Rainwood: [Jimmie visits Virgil in the prison welding shop] Hey! How did you get my pass set up?

    Virgil Cane: Works around the joint. We do things for each other. Listen, somebody's gotta give you the game or you're fucked. It's simple in here. An insane place with insane rules. It all ends up being logical. If you're white, you hang white. Otherwise, the niggers are gonna eat you alive.

    [Rainwood hangs head in disinterest]

    Virgil Cane: You're not listening to me! Civil rights, brotherly love, all that shit, that gets left at the front gate. Right now you got a problem with Jingles. Now you can go to the Aryan Brotherhood for help... that asshole Butcher and his party. But in the end, they'll make you their kid. You'll be part of the AB for life. Or you can handle your problem by yourself. I got respect in here 'cause I earned it... anybody fucks with me, it's their life.

    [Jimmie turns on his heel to leave]

    Virgil Cane: Hey! Where are you going?

    Jimmie Rainwood: You talked and I listened.

    Virgil Cane: Hey! Hey... don't you be talking out of the side of your neck when I'm trying to do you a solid.

    Jimmie Rainwood: [returns] All right, all right. Let's get it all out on the table. Every time I turn around, someone's giving me advice. Mostly it's about killing. So what's your interest in me?

    Virgil Cane: There's not much chance I'm ever getting out of here. Those cops of yours are part of the reason. That's what we've got in common. I got my last armed robbery conviction behind them. The rest is my business.

    [puts mask on and resumes welding]

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