- Joe Beacom: [Sadistically to Lorna about the high tension cables that are all around her] All you gotta do, Cookie, is get up and take a walk. You'll fry so fast it'll curl your hair.
- Policeman: [after Calhoun has left the office] Nothin's done right unless Tough Willy does it himself.
- Lt. William Calhoun: [Calhoun has evidently heard the comment and angrily reenters, hands on hips and glaring] How long you been working here?
- Policeman: [Timidly] Four weeks tomorrow, Lieutenant.
- Lt. William Calhoun: You need twenty-five years before you're eligible for a pension...
- [He takes a piece of fruit from the lunchbox on the desk]
- Lt. William Calhoun: ... and you won't make it. Not if you ever call me Willy.
- [He throws the fruit at the policeman and leaves]
- Inspector Donnelly: The people you have to deal with are lice. They never keep their word to anyone about anything; they won't to you.
- Marge Wrighter: Gonna send that kid home, aren't you, Joe? I mean after we collect.
- Joe Beacom: She'll go home... they ever fish her out of the river. Let's have the coffee, huh?
- Lorna Murchison: You will let my father go, won't you?
- Joe Beacom: [Flippantly] Why should I hurt the old boy or you, Cookie? I don't bit the hand that feeds me a hundred grand.
- Lt. William Calhoun: [to Joyce] If anyone asks me to stick my neck out, I want to know who's doing the askin'.
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