Quotes for
Bill Jacks (Character)
from "John from Cincinnati" (2007)

"John from Cincinnati: His Visit: Day Seven (#1.8)" (2007)

Steady Freddie Lopez: What do you want?
Bill Jacks: I'm looking for Butchie, he owes me twenty bucks.

Bill Jacks: [to Freddy] So I ask the questions here, and believe me, I care less than a fuck!

Bill Jacks: [Bill is questioning Freddie in regards to himself and Palaka] Why should either of us pay attention to whatever you think?

Bill Jacks: [Bill is angrily referring to John] Where the fuck did he come from?
Ramon Gaviota: [softly] Cincinnati.

Bill Jacks: I got my eye on you.

Bill Jacks: [Bill and John are alone in Butchie's Hotel room; Bill is referencing the message John left on Cass's computer] You're going to tell me exactly what that message means.

Bill Jacks: [to John] Now, I don't want to get violent with you, but I told you no parrot talk.

Bill Jacks: [Bill leaves his interrogation of John] Forget about Cincinnati.

Bill Jacks: Did you kill him?
Steady Freddie Lopez: Nah.

Bill Jacks: [Bill is complaining about Freddie's car] It's like a goddamn matchbook car!

Bill Jacks: [as he is attempting to exit Freddy's car] Jesus Christ Almighty!

Bill Jacks: What does soon mean? Could it mean a thousand years?
John Monad: It could mean a thousand years

Bill Jacks: [to Freddy] He's yours.

Bill Jacks: Did you kill him?
Steady Freddie Lopez: Shape shifters.
Bill Jacks: You don't know what the fuck he is?
Steady Freddie Lopez: No, but whatever the fuck he is. He's got to come true for us.

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"John from Cincinnati: His Visit: Day Three (#1.4)" (2007)

Bill Jacks: [Bill has just picked up the day's morning paper from his floor] Look at this, Zip. This fills me with misgivings. Bandying words like 'Miracle' in the newspaper headline. This can only attract new types of shit heel into that boy's life, which wasn't short of shit heels before.

Bill Jacks: [Bill is attempting to tear off a piece of Duct tape as it gets caught on a few of his teeth] There it is. That's it. That's the doomsday scenario. May this pain come to Clinton for disgracing the Oval Office.
[Bill rips the tape off as fast as he can]
Bill Jacks: Ooh! Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ!

Bill Jacks: [Bill's doorbell rings] Hey, I'm in my underwear, and I don't want any magazines!

Bill Jacks: I got my eye on you.

Bill Jacks: [to Zippy] Okay, going out to help these two... Something new everyday.

Bill Jacks: Safe. I got my eye on you.

Bill Jacks: Where's the dwarf with the dangling arm?
Steady Freddie Lopez: He is in our shared bathroom.

[last lines]
Steady Freddie Lopez: I got a lizard back home. Changes shapes.
Bill Jacks: Chameleons they call 'em

Bill Jacks: You in trouble?
Butchie Yost: No.
Bill Jacks: Well my testicles are on display in the neighborhood. Get in here!

Bill Jacks: My bird Zippy conveyed to me. Just because of obvious dissimilarities between us, we become friends.
Steady Freddie Lopez: He used the word, dissimilarities.
Bill Jacks: He conveyed. I never said he spoke.

Tina Blake: I'm looking for Butchie Yost.
Bill Jacks: Butchie's not here.

Bill Jacks: Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ!

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"John from Cincinnati: His Visit: Day One (#1.1)" (2007)

Bill Jacks: Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
Shaun Yost: He's alive.

Bill Jacks: [Bill and Shaun are riding together in Bill's truck. Bill is being passed on the road by drivers. To the first car that passes him] Up your ass!
[to the second]
Bill Jacks: Up your nose with a rubber hose.
[to the third]
Bill Jacks: Fuck you!
[Bill turns to Shaun]
Bill Jacks: Excuse me, I lost my temper.

Shaun Yost: Is Zippy dead?
Bill Jacks: It's alright. This happens.

Bill Jacks: [to Zippy] Well give the kid a kiss too, as long as you're being stupid.

Bill Jacks: [as Barry attempts to kill himself] Hey! Barry, Barry, Barry! What's the matter with you?

Shaun Yost: [after Cissy is arrested] Pigs got grandma.
Bill Jacks: Haven't I told you not to use that word.

Bill Jacks: I got my eye on you.
John Monad: I got my eye on you.
Bill Jacks: No, I got my eye on you.
John Monad: No, I got my eye on you.

Bill Jacks: How can they be messing around when Cissy is in police custody?

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"John from Cincinnati: His Visit: Day Five (#1.6)" (2007)

Bill Jacks: [to John] Be aware that if you speak in that tone again I will break every bone in your body.

John Monad: Shame on you, Billy. Wonderful.
Bill Jacks: He's imitating my wife... who has passed!

Bill Jacks: You see that guy there? Did he stab you? Yes or no?
John Monad: [to Bill and Vietnam Joe] Better she tries to kill me and fails, than tries to kill herself.

Bill Jacks: [John, Bill and Joe are in Joe's van.] I would like to know our motive and our specific purpose. And I will not directly ask a moron?
John Monad: [again, John simply repeats whatever Bill says] I would like to know our motive.
Bill Jacks: Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ!

Bill Jacks: [Bill is referencing John] He doesn't have a vocabulary. He's a human parrot!
John Monad: I'm a human parrot.

Bill Jacks: [to Vietnam Joe and John] My fucking fibromyalgia is in upheaval!

Bill Jacks: [to John and Vietnam Joe] Judas Priest! The fucking sun's gone down.

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"John from Cincinnati: His Visit: Day Eight (#1.9)" (2007)

Bill Jacks: [Bill is alone in his house] Shaun is gone and Zip is gone on my watch, do you understand? And that's the sum of it from here on in.

Bill Jacks: [suddenly, one of Bill's other birds, after fifteen years, 'talks' to Bill. Bill is startled] Zip? Zip, is that you? Please forgive me. How could I have been so mistaken? Your wish is my command, your ladyship.

Sergeant Anderson: Step off the street, please.
Bill Jacks: Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ!

Bill Jacks: [to Freddy] You got my goddamn bird?

Bill Jacks: Shaun is gone. Zip is gone. All on my watch.

Bill Jacks: Stay, watch and feel! Stay, watch and feel! Lose 'em all one after the other.

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"John from Cincinnati: His Visit: Day Two Continued (#1.3)" (2007)

[first lines]
Bill Jacks: He's much improved. Shaun. He's well. I had Zippy kiss him. Thought I'd take a shot.

Bill Jacks: [Bill is looking out the Yost's family window at the mass of people] Gawkers. Press. Candle Freaks. We're on the precipice of a cluster fuck. I'm thinking I'll go out and thin it out.
Cissy Yost: I'd appreciate it.
Bill Jacks: [reluctantly] Happy to do it.

Mitch Yost: Why did she bring him home?
Bill Jacks: He recovered from his injuries.
Mitch Yost: What are you talking about?
Bill Jacks: A miracle.
[Mitch departs, Bill is speaking to himself]
Bill Jacks: What are you gonna say - Tell him that the bird kissed him... Jesus Christ, almighty!

Bill Jacks: [looking at Vietnam Joe] There's another fucking drug casualty.

Bill Jacks: I have to ask you your business with the Yosts?
Steady Freddie Lopez: My business is none of your business.
Bill Jacks: Do not impede me looking out for these people, dip shit, who looks like someone smashed his face in with a board.

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"John from Cincinnati: His Visit: Day Two (#1.2)" (2007)

Bill Jacks: Come on, Zip. Now, don't hold back on me, Pal.

[last lines]
Bill Jacks: That's it, Zip. That's it. Kiss Shauny too, as long as you're being stupid. Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

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"John from Cincinnati: His Visit: Day Four (#1.5)" (2007)

Bill Jacks: [to Zippy] Yes, I got along with the Hawaiian, Zippy. Twenty six years in law enforcement, I am able to coexist with shit heels.

Bill Jacks: [to Zippy] I got my fish eye on you.

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"John from Cincinnati: His Visit: Day Six (#1.7)" (2007)

Bill Jacks: [leaving message on Butchie's voice mail] Shaunie's here with me. So you may just want to call and get over.

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