How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from The Departed.
Quote #1
DIGNAM: So you have family connections down in Southie, right? Through your father?
Dignam wants to talk about Billy's background in the neighborhood in Southie. For starters, he wants to know if Billy is a career criminal, and second, he wants to know if he can use Billy's connections to get close to Frank Costello.
Quote #2
DIGNAM: Your old man was a f***ing hump from Southie. Baggage handler at the airport, right?
Dignam likes to remind Billy that even though he comes from a rough neighborhood, his dad was some nobody who worked at the airport. After all, Dignam probably comes from the harder parts of Boston, and he doesn't want Billy posing as a gangster.
Quote #3
DIGNAM: F***ing family's dug into the Southie projects like ticks.
As Dignam likes to put it, Billy's family goes back for generations in the Southie neighborhood. And this is exactly why Billy might be so valuable as an undercover informant there. After all, it's not like Dignam can just take some kid fresh out of the academy and send him into a neighborhood like Southie.