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Brent Lutz is a police sergeant in Woodstock, Virginia, who teams up with Bill Metcalf to investigate a heroin ring that is running drugs from Harlem down Interstate 81 to Woodstock. The chief suspect is a mysterious man known at first only as D.C., later revealed to be Ronnie Jones. Lutz’s dedication to tracking D.C. and ending the heroin ring begins to take over his life, causing him to work on holidays. It turns into his own version of addiction. Ultimately, Lutz is successful in tracking down and arresting Ronnie Jones, but this does little to stem the opioid epidemic in Woodstock, particularly after fentanyl begins making its way into the region, leading to even more overdose deaths.
Brent Lutz Quotes in Dopesick
The Dopesick quotes below are all either spoken by Brent Lutz or refer to Brent Lutz. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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In the picturesque Shenandoah Valley town of Woodstock, more than two hours north of Roanoke, bulk heroin cut in a Harlem lab had just made its way down I-81. It was the last thing Shenandoah County sergeant Brent Lutz, a Woodstock native, would have expected to find himself doing: stalking a major heroin dealer. But here he was, at all hours of the day and night, clutching a pair of binoculars while crouched in the upstairs bedroom of his cousin’s house a few miles outside of town. He’d spent so much time there in recent days that the mile-wide stench of chicken entrails coming from George’s Chicken across the road no longer bothered him.
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Brent Lutz Quotes in Dopesick
The Dopesick quotes below are all either spoken by Brent Lutz or refer to Brent Lutz. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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In the picturesque Shenandoah Valley town of Woodstock, more than two hours north of Roanoke, bulk heroin cut in a Harlem lab had just made its way down I-81. It was the last thing Shenandoah County sergeant Brent Lutz, a Woodstock native, would have expected to find himself doing: stalking a major heroin dealer. But here he was, at all hours of the day and night, clutching a pair of binoculars while crouched in the upstairs bedroom of his cousin’s house a few miles outside of town. He’d spent so much time there in recent days that the mile-wide stench of chicken entrails coming from George’s Chicken across the road no longer bothered him.
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