- Title Card: In the spring of 1983 a single arrest led a cop to an informant in southern Louisiana. Together they brought down a criminal empire.
- Bud Carter: Saint Augustine once wrote, "hate is like drinking poison and hoping the other guy dies."
- [first lines]
- Bud Carter: [voice over] South Louisiana in the 1980s was a different kind of time and place. Some called it lawless. But it wasn't. Others said we just got a certain way of doing things down here. But it ain't that either. Instead, I call it what it was. Hell with the lid off.
- Bud Carter: Cops got rules, criminals don't. And if you up and cross that line, it just might cost you your life. Welcome to Dixie.
- John Nokes: [on those marked for assassination] If I'm number two on this list... who the fuck is number one?
- [Jesse nods towards Bud]