Tom Atkins credited as playing...
Mayor Wilson Lowen
- Mayor Wilson Lowen: [alone in Loewen's private hospital room] You fucking cocksucker. You swore to me you would never let me serve a day.
- Governor James Devlin: Wilson, they were burning down the city.
- Mayor Wilson Lowen: Correction! They were burning down *their* city, *their* neighborhoods, *their* businesses!
- Governor James Devlin: The violence was escalating, spreading...
- Mayor Wilson Lowen: So you send in the National Guard, tear gas, rubber bullets. What you don't do is humiliate a man, especially when that man knows where the bodies are buried.
- [Devlin freezes]
- Mayor Wilson Lowen: I want my pardon, Jimmy, and I want it fucking today. I'm not going to spend another night in this cesspool. Do you understand me? I don't care what kind of political typhoon it causes. If you don't give me my pardon, I will call a press conference and I will tell tales, Jimmy, tales of corruption, tales of graft, tales of voter fraud! By the time I'm finished, you'll be sitting right next to me in Unit J playing Par-fucking-cheesi!
- Governor James Devlin: [nods weakly] All right. I'll figure out a way.
- Mayor Wilson Lowen: Yeah, you always do, Jimmy. That's why you're my boy.
- Governor James Devlin: [walks out looking defeated, and then says to his assistant standing outside] Perry, there's something I want you to do; something that requires enormous discretion...