“Bill... what's made you change your mind about Tibbs?” – Mayor Schubert, In the Heat of the Night ... Movie Quotes Database

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A scene from In the Heat of the Night 1967

Mayor Schubert

Bill... what's made you change your mind about Tibbs?

Gillespie

Who says I have?

Mayor Schubert

Last Chief we had... he'd have shot Tibbs one second after he slapped Endicott, claimed self-defense.

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Gillespie Rod Steiger More Gillespie quotes →

Mayor Schubert William Schallert

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Virgil Tibbs Now listen, hear me good, Mama. Please. Don't make me have to send you to jail... There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time. Chief Gillespie I got the motive which is money and the body which is dead!