scenes containing all lines spoken by Groves from his first appearance in The Routine to his final appearance in Plan B.
transcripts pulled from here and here.
Groves: I don't want any fucking sponsors. I don't want any fucking routine.
Wittlesey: Shut up, Groves.
Rebadow: Hi, I'm Bob Rebadow. (Groves takes his hand and licks it.) Nice to meet you too.
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[In a classroom]
Burrano: Donald Groves. You killed your parents and ate them, right?
Groves: I only ate my mom. I was saving my dad for Thanksgiving.
Burrano: That's festive. So what can you tell me about Dino Ortolani's murder?
Groves: I got in trouble for sneaking in the morgue.
Burrano: What were you doing in the morgue?
Groves: I was just looking.
Burrano: And they put you in the hole.
Groves: Yeah.
Burrano: And you were in the cell next to Ortolani's when he got burned.
Groves: Yeah.
Burrano: You hear anything?
Groves: No. Not a sound. He didn't scream. He gets set on fire but he doesn't scream. That's balls.
Burrano: Anything else?
Groves: I saw 'em carry him out. Looked like a roasted, broiled chicken. His flesh was all brown and crispy. He looked good enough to eat.
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[At the card table]
Rebadow: Can I help you?
Groves: Black ten on the Jack.
Rebadow: Thanks.
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[Various conversations in Em City]
Ryan: I gotta be interrogated by Burrano again. Like I know anything about Johnny Post.
Rebadow: They cut off his dick and stuck it in his mouth.
Groves: Where'd you hear that?
Rebadow: God told me.
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Rebadow: Wow? [looking at the tattoo on Groves' hand]
Groves: It's "MOM."
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[In the chapel]
Groves: Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Mukada: What?
Groves: I don't know what to do. I've never done this confession thing before.
Mukada: I didn't think that you were Catholic. What are you doing here?
Groves: I got caught sneaking in the morgue again. You ever seen a guy with his prick cut off?
Mukada: No, I can't say that I have.
Groves: It's not pretty. I got put in the hole. The hack comes around and says that he'll let me out for ten minutes if I need to see you so I say yes.
Mukada: Well, you have to go back.
Groves: Wait, Father, maybe I'm a convert.
Mukada: You can't become a Catholic just to get out of the hole. Come on.
Groves: No, no, wait. I've been reading a lot since I got here about different faiths and yours is pretty nifty.
Mukada: Catholicism is nifty?
Groves: You have that whole mystical transubstentiation 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?
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[In Em City. Various conversations]
Schillinger: So the state's gonna let Keane choose which way he's gonna go out. Me, I'd take hanging.
Mack: What about lethal injection?
Schillinger: That's for pussies.
Groves: They say that lethal injection causes no pain. How do they know? Did someone come back from the dead and say they didn't feel anything?
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[In the laundry room]
Rebadow: You need to talk to Keane himself, find out what really went on that day.
Beecher: I know, but getting into death row isn't easy.
Groves: I have a way.
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[In the hospital]
Groves: Poor son of a bitch. [looking at D'Angelo]
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[In Alvarez' and Groves' pod]
Alvarez: Man, I fucking hate lockdowns. I mean getting trapped in this fucking fishbowl, man, I start fiending for some fucking tits. You a tit boy, Groves?
Groves: Drugs are bad.
Alvarez: Bullshit. Man, you had to be fucked up when you ate your mother.
Groves: Mom told me that drugs were bad.
Alvarez: Right. I bet you were a good little boy, right? Did everything your mama told you to.
Groves: I like your scars.
Alvarez: Now I know why McManus put us in the same cell together. You're the only motherfucker in Em City more fucked up than I am.
Groves: Here.
Alvarez: I don't wanna write anybody a fucking letter. I wanna get fucking high.
Groves: You lick the back.
Alvarez: Lick the back?
Groves: It's liquid LSD.
Alvarez: Groves, this gives stamp collecting a whole new meaning, baby.
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[In the hospital]
Groves: How you feeling?
Rebadow: I can't stay here anymore.
Groves: In the hospital?
Rebadow: In Oz.
Groves: Why?
Rebadow: I'm afraid.
Groves: Of what?
Rebadow: Them. The young. When I first came to Oz, we treated our elders with dignity. But these kids, it's all different now. I've decided to leave.
Groves: Leave?
Rebadow: Escape.
Groves: How you gonna do that?
Rebadow: God will show me the way.
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[In the hospital]
Groves: Rebadow, I'm sorry you didn't make it out.
Rebadow: It's ok. It was worth it. The adrenaline rush. I felt 25 again.
Groves: Here's your dinner.
Rebadow: I don't want it.
Groves: OK. What do you want?
Rebadow: I'd like a few years at the end of my life to be free.
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[In Sister Pete's office]
Sister Pete: You say you were having nightmares. Can you remember any of them?
Groves: No. Ow.
Sister Pete: What's the matter?
Groves: My tooth hurts. It's been hurting for a week.
Sister Pete: Then go see a dentist.
Groves: No.
Sister Pete: Why?
Groves: I hate the dentist.
Sister Pete: All dentists, or just Dr. Cocher in particular?
Groves: The concept of dentists.
Sister Pete: Then what? You prefer the concept of pain? Make an appointment, Groves? OK? OK.
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[In the dentist's clinic]
Cocher: How's that gas working? You feel happy? Calm?
Groves: Uh-huh.
Cocher: Good. OK, let's have a look. Open your mouth. Wider. Wider. Wider.
Groves: I can't get any wider.
Cocher: Allrighty, then. They look fine.
Groves: It hurts.
Cocher: It's probably nothing.
Groves: It hurts.
Cocher: Oh, don't be a baby.
Groves: Who are you calling a baby?
Cocher: Nobody. Forget it. Forget I said anything. A-ha. There is a tooth that's rotted out. I'm going to have to pull it. That means I have to get a needle and inject some Novocaine in your mouth.
Groves: I hate needles.
Cocher: Everybody does. Then I have to drill.
Groves: I hate drills.
Cocher: Right now, so do I. Right now I wish there were holistic dentistry.
Groves: I'm in pain.
Cocher: Well, you're going to be in a lot more before we're finished. After that, you won't have any pain. If I cause you pain it's not my fault, so don't bite my head off. I mean, uh...
Groves: I know what you mean.
Cocher: OK. Let's get started. First, the Novocaine. Open wide. Carol, could you give me a hand here, please?
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[In the laundry room]
Groves: This is my tooth. It was in my head. This tooth and I have been together since we were kids. This tooth chewed on my mom.
Ross: You should sell it.
Groves: Sell it?
Ross: Sell it. The tooth from the mouth of Donald Groves? Do you know how much that's worth on the open market?
Groves: How much?
Ross: Plenty.
Groves: Who'd wanna buy my tooth?
Ross: Collectors.
Groves: Collectors?
Ross: Collectors. People collect everything. Stamps, salt and pepper shakers, World's Fair tchochkes. Some people collect crime stuff. Lindbergh ladder, Ted Bundy's toenail clippings, and this.
Groves: We'd have to get a fence, right?
Ross: We're in prison. How hard's that gonna be?
Groves: Ross, if we get a good price, I still got 30 more.
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[In the hospital]
Alvarez: Hey, hey, look who's alive. You know, Said, I gotta tell you, odds were 60-40 you were worm's meat. Yo, Groves, go get Dr. Nathan. Tell her Said finally woke up. You'll pull something out man.
Rebadow: Said, you shouldn't be doing that.
Schillinger: Stupid nigger.
Alvarez: Groves, Groves, get a doctor!
Said: [to Groves] You. Get my clothes. Now.
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[In Em City]
Said: We will stand up, look in the mirror, and say like Solomon, "I am black, I am comely..."
Groves: Mister Said. I just wanted to tell you that the whole thing with the spoons, the whole Allah thing, it's awesome. Asalami I likem.
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[In Groves' and Alvarez' pod]
Alvarez: What's up? Turning Muslim on me?
Groves: He's a great speaker, that Said. He says it's a load of crap that Glynn and McManus aren't under arrest. Said says Glynn's guilty of worse crimes than any of us have committed. You ever kill anybody?
Alvarez: Nah, I ain't done nothing. I got a bum rap, you know. I'm innocent.
Groves: I thought it'd be hard to murder my parents, but it wasn't.
Alvarez: How'd you whack 'em?
Groves: Ball peen hammer.
[Hill narrating, with flashbacks of Groves' crime]
Hill: Prisoner number 97G414, Donald Groves. Convicted July 3, '97. Two counts murder in the first degree. Sentence: life imprisonment.
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[In Groves' and Alvarez' pod]
Groves: I think I should kill Warden Glynn.
Alvarez: What?
Groves: I think I oughta kill Glynn.
Alvarez: All right, look, this is what you should do, all right. You know that chick, Dr. Nathan? All right, you go to her and you tell her to write you a prescription. I'm telling you, she's got me on these anti-depressants right now, and I'm like, I'm sailing, man.
Groves: Nah. My first idea is best. First chance I get I'll murder Glynn.
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[Hill narrating, with scenes of Groves in a courtroom]
Hill: Donald Groves. Convicted August 21. Murder in the first degree in the death of Corrections Officer Lawrence Smith. Sentence: death.
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[On death row]
Groves: Genocide. Killing murderers is genocide.
Glynn: Groves?
Groves: They beat me.
Glynn: Who? [Groves points to the 2 CO's on duty] Groves, you have been condemned to die for the murder of Officer Smith. The state gives you the right to choose any method you wish to die.
Groves: I shouldn't even be talking to you. You should be dead. You were the one that was supposed to die.
Glynn: How do you want to die, Groves? Lethal injection? Electric chair?
Groves: Firing squad.
Glynn: Firing squad?
Groves: Isn't that what they do to assassins?
Glynn: Fine. I'm going to personally paint the target on your heart.
Groves: Warden, Warden, me killing you wasn't personal, you know. It just had to be done.
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[On death row]
Smith's Mom: I'm Loretta Smith. You killed my son. You're a handsome fella.
Groves: Thanks.
Smith's Mom: You broke God's law: Love thy neighbor. I want to hate you but I can't. I feel pity, tears, but no hate. I didn't realize that until this moment. You are my neighbor and I love you and I forgive you with all my heart. That's all. (She leaves and Groves is crying.)
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[On death row]
Mukada: Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou...
Groves: Father?
Mukada: Yeah?
Groves: You know, I've been thinking a lot about my final words. I decided what I wanted to say and I'd like you to write it down and give it to Mrs. Smith. Maybe it'll make her feel better. OK? Will you do that for me?
Mukada: Of course. I think that she'd appreciate that.
Glynn: It's time.
Groves: The sky's a nice color of blue.
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[In the execution chamber]
Mukada: I just have to hear his last words.
Glynn: You can listen through this.
Mukada: Great.
Burrano: Do you have any last words?
Groves: I just want to say that I...
Devlin: What's he saying? (The speaker is very scratchy.)
Mukada: I don't know. Can you fix that? (He knocks on the speaker and a shot is fired.)
Nathan: He's dead.
Mukada: No, what did he say? What were his last words?
Burrano: I don't know. I wasn't really listening.