- Lennart Kollberg: Ask yourself this: Who was Stig Nyman?
- Martin Beck: I didn't really know him very well...
- Lennart Kollberg: Don't be evasive! Who was he? Or rather, what was he?
- Martin Beck: A police officer.
- Lennart Kollberg: Not a satisfying answer
- Einar Rönn: A police lieutenant...? I have to make a phone call
- Lennart Kollberg: Well. What was he?
- Martin Beck: A bad policeman.
- Lennart Kollberg: Wrong! Nyman was a fucking lousy policeman!
- Malm: [after the helicopter have been shot down] We'll have to call in the armed forces.
- Martin Beck: What can they do?
- Gunvald Larsson: [sarcastically] Bomb the house. Bring in the heavy artillery, or...
- Martin Beck: Or what?
- Gunvald Larsson: Or deploy paratroopers. We could even drop a dozen police dogs.
- Martin Beck: Shut up, Gunvald.
- Policeman throwing up at hospital: Sorry
- Einar Rönn: That's ok. It can happen to the best of us.
- Policeman throwing up at hospital: Is it always like this?
- Einar Rönn: Honestly, I've been a police officer for twenty years, and I have never seen anything like this.
- Malm: [a police helicopter has been shot down by the man on the roof] He shot down the helicopter.
- Gunvald Larsson: So that's your conclusion?
- Gunvald Larsson: In the building Dalagatan Thirty-four there is a madman firing from the roof or the top floor with an automatic rifle.
- Gunvald Larsson: There are two dead police officers in the fountain in front of the Eastman Institute.
- Gunvald Larsson: Sound the alarm in all inner city police districts.
- Bohlin (civilian): Why the hell didn't you shoot him? I don't understand?
- Gunvald Larsson: Well, no one expected that. Do you have a license for that gun?
- Bohlin (civilian): ... no
- Gunvald Larsson: Then you're in trouble.