The Purge: Election Year (2016)

Edwin Hodge: Dante Bishop

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• Dante Bishop : [taking out a group of mercenaries]  Where you all at? What the hell are you all doing up there? Bring your asses down here.

  Joe Dixon : [triumphant laugh]  My negro.

• [after planning to kill him, Bishop spares Minister Owens at Roan's urging] 

  Dante Bishop : You better fucking win.

• Reporter #1 : [reporting on a riot in Washington, D.C]  This is just one of a dozen protests around our capital after reports emerged claiming that the New Founding Fathers had been using the Purge to help their own economic agenda. Here's a recent statement by incendiary Purge detractor Dante Bishop.

  Dante Bishop : For the past 20 years, the NFFA has taken to legalized murder to decrease the poor population, which in turn keeps the government's spending down. Less welfare, less healthcare, less housing.

  Reporter #1 : Recent reporting suggests that the growing anti-Purge sentiment may have a monumental effect on the upcoming presidential election. Establishment NFFA candidate Minister Edwidge Owens has been losing ground to wildcard Independent candidate Senator Charlie Roan. 18 years ago, Roan was forced to watch the brutal execution of her entire family on Purge night and entered the political arena soon after with one goal in mind: to put an end to the annual holiday.

  Senator Charlie Roan : I have no doubt that the soul of our country is at stake. The Purge has to come to an end.

  Reporter #1 : Senator Roan is proving to be the greatest threat to the NFFA regime since they first took office 25 years ago.

• Dante Bishop : Dawn called. Told me you guys were coming through. So, the NFFA came at you tonight? Can't say I'm surprised. Let me show you around, get you settled in.

  Senator Charlie Roan : You set all this up, Mr. Bishop?

  Dante Bishop : Yes, this is my organization. We have doctors, and nurses, EMTs, paramedics. This is their way of protesting this damn night.

  Leo Barnes : How many people know about this place?

  Dante Bishop : Just the volunteers, and the homeless that we invite in. Look, these are the real victims of the Purge. The people that the NFFA are trying to eliminate so that they don't have to take care of them anymore.

  Leo Barnes : These men that are armed, you'll have them at all the entrances and the rooftop?

  Dante Bishop : Yes. My men will keep you safe. Or as safe as you can be on Purge Night.

• Marcos : Where are we?

  Laney Rucker : You'll see.

  Leo Barnes : [entering a makeshift hospital]  What is this place?

  Dante Bishop : We call this a Safe Zone.

• Senator Charlie Roan : Mr. Bishop, I've heard stories of tactics that you employ on Purge Night. I can't say that I agree with any of it.

  Dante Bishop : I'll tell you what. You get elected, you stop this night, and I don't have to do what I do anymore. Let's go, Angel.

  Senator Charlie Roan : Fair enough.

• Dante Bishop : What the hell are you doing here? Trying to get yourself killed?

  Leo Barnes : Is that the tunnel for the cathedral?

  Dante Bishop : How the fuck do you know about the tunnel?

  [Leo brushes past him] 

  Dante Bishop : I asked you a question.

  Leo Barnes : [inspecting the entrance]  This is no longer an assassination. This is a rescue mission.