Double Jeopardy (1999)

Roma Maffia: Margaret

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• [as Libby works in the prison kitchen, Margaret gives Libby some legal advice for when she's released from prison] 

  Margaret Skolowski : Pay attention, because this is the best goddamn advice you're ever gonna get. Ever hear of something called double jeopardy? Fifth Amendment to the constitution?

  Margaret Skolowski : [Libby shakes her head left to right]  Huh? No? Well, double jeopardy provides that 'no person may be tried for the same crime twice.' You got that? Keep stirrin'. The state says you already killed your husband. They can't convict you of it a second time. That means that when you leave here, and you track him down, and when you find him you can kill him. That's right. You can walk right up to him in Times Square, put a gun to his head and pull the fuckin' trigger, and there's nothin' anybody can do about it.

  Margaret Skolowski : [Libby makes a slight smile]  Kinda makes you feel warm and tingly all over, don't it? That's right. keep stirrin'.

• [Libby takes advice from Margaret and Evelyn on what to tell the parole board] 

  Libby Parsons : I feel like I've grown these past six years.

  Margaret Skolowski : 'Grown'? Honey, they don't want to hear that you've turned into some kind of tree, okay? So you just repeat after me, 'If I could trade places with my husband, I would.'

  Libby Parsons : [Libby rolls her eyes]  Ugh. 'If I could trade places with my husband, I would.'

  Evelyn Lake : That's good. Now, throw in a lot of that born-again-Jesus stuff. They like that.

• [Libby meets the female inmates Margaret and Evelyn] 

  Margaret Skolowski : Who's this?

  Evelyn Lake : Rich-bitch from Whidbey island. She ain't gonna make it.

  Margaret Skolowski : What do you think, a year?

  Evelyn Lake : Five cartons says she offs herself inside of six months.

  Margaret Skolowski : Deal.

  Libby Parsons : Get away from me.

  Evelyn Lake : Hey, take it easy. We're your new best friends.

  Margaret Skolowski : Heard you did your husband. He probably deserved it.

  Evelyn Lake : Mine did.

  [Margaret and Evelyn walk off smiling] 

• [Evelyn and Margaret give Libby some encouragement to find her son] 

  Evelyn Lake : Heard you're tryin' to reach your friend, the one with your boy.

  Libby Parsons : Yeah, I can't find 'em. They disappeared.

  Margaret Skolowski : Oh, hon - If you could disappear that easy, believe you me, I wouldn't be here right now.

  Evelyn Lake : [Evelyn chuckles]  Me, either.

  Margaret Skolowski : Think. Use your head. There's gotta be a way to track him down.

• Margaret Skolowski : [sitting down next to Libby in the prison yard]  Ooh, you're low on cigarettes. If you want to make any friends, I advise you buy another pack fast. On account of your personality, it ain't the best I've ever seen.

• [Libby stirs a giant pot in the kitchen prison] 

  Margaret Skolowski : Put some elbow grease behind that stirring. Nobody wants to eat any burnt tapioca.

  Libby Parsons : Does it smell like it's burning?

  Margaret Skolowski : Oh, I swear you got shit for brains, girl.