Bad Country

Title Card:
In the spring of 1983 a single arrest led a cop to an informant in southern Louisiana. Together they brought down a criminal empire.

[first lines]

Bud Carter:
South Louisiana in the 1980s was a different kind of time and place. Some called it lawless. But it wasn't. Others said we just got a certain way of doing things down here. But it ain't that either. Instead, I call it what it was. Hell with the lid off.

Bud Carter:
Cops got rules, criminals don't. And if you up and cross that line, it just might cost you your life. Welcome to Dixie.

Morris:
I just need a favor.

Watkins:
It's not a favor, it's a felony!

Morris:
Look, the less you know, the better off you are.

Watkins:
Okay. Then the less information I give you, the better I feel.

Bud Carter:
Saint Augustine once wrote, "hate is like drinking poison and hoping the other guy dies."