A scene from In the Heat of the Night 1967
Tibbs

I'm going home, man.

Gillespie

They're your people!

Tibbs

Not mine! Yours! You made this scene.

Gillespie

Look, you want me to beg you, is that it?

Tibbs

Look, I've had your town- up to here!

Gillespie

Boy, it would give me a world of satisfaction to horse whip you, Virgil.

Tibbs

[laughing]

My father used to say that. He even did a couple of times.

Gillespie

Yeah, well, not enough to suit me! Now you listen to me. Just for once in my life I'm gonna hold my temper. I'm tellin' you you're gonna stay here. You're gonna stay here if I have to go inside and call your chief of police and have him remind you of what he told you to do. But I don't think I have to do that, you see? No. Because you're so damn smart. You're smarter than any white man. You're just gonna stay here and show us all. You've got such a big head that you could never live with yourself unless you could put us all to shame! You wanna know somethin', Virgil? I don't think that you could let an opportunity like that pass by.

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