- Chief Jesse Stone: Want to make some overtime?
- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: Sure.
- Chief Jesse Stone: Walk the perimeter.
- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: Looking for anything special?
- Chief Jesse Stone: A clue would be good.
- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: Such as?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Anything that looks like a clue.
- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: [Finds a necklace] Think it's hers, Jesse?
- Chief Jesse Stone: It doesn't do us any good to think it's not.
- Chief Jesse Stone: He probably wouldn't be the town hero if he were ugly.
- Lilly Summers: Well that's cynical.
- Chief Jesse Stone: I prefer observant.
- Lilly Summers: And being observant would make you cynical, wouldn't it?
- Chief Jesse Stone: You seem observant.
- Lilly Summers: I try.
- Chief Jesse Stone: But you don't seem cynical.
- Lilly Summers: Well, I'm in the hope business.
- Chief Jesse Stone: I don't want to ruin your party. But cars need to be moved, behavior needs to be modified.
- Norman Shaw: We'll move the cars. And we'll quiet down. And I'll have your job...
- [walking away]
- Chief Jesse Stone: Probably not.
- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: What's "casuistry" mean?
- Chief Jesse Stone: I don't know.
- Carole Genest: You ever go to college?
- Chief Jesse Stone: No. But Porche Roberts did.
- Carole Genest: Who's Porche Roberts?
- Chief Jesse Stone: My first girl friend.
- Carole Genest: What's that got to do with college?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Nothing, but I think about her a lot.
- Carole Genest: You think if you went to college things would have turned out different with her?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Probably not, but I would have gotten an education.
- Carole Genest: From her or from school?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Both.
- [first lines]
- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: She's been in the water a long time.
- Chief Jesse Stone: Yeah.
- Chief Jesse Stone: What pushed your button?
- Dr. Dix: My boozer button?
- Chief Jesse Stone: The precipitating event.
- Dr. Dix: Booze. I was a drinker of opportunity. I got my hands on it; I drank it.
- Chief Jesse Stone: Well, I was alright till my wife left me.
- Dr. Dix: No you weren't. Even when you were sober... you were a drunk waiting to happen.
- Chief Jesse Stone: Just what did my wife tell you about me?
- Dr. Dix: Ex-wife. She says you have a hyperactive sense of responsibility. She says, you feel the divorce was your fault, even though she was the one having the affair. She thinks you also feel responsible that your friend Abby Taylor was murdered.
- Chief Jesse Stone: I am responsible.
- Dr. Dix: You working on a murder case now?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Yes.
- Dr. Dix: That your fault too?
- Chief Jesse Stone: [smiles knowingly] I sense a parable.
- Dr. Dix: My wife left me because I was a drunk.
- Chief Jesse Stone: Booze kill the job too?
- Dr. Dix: It did.
- Chief Jesse Stone: So, how'd you get sober?
- Dr. Dix: I stopped drinking. You're a drunk because you drink. You don't drink, you're not a drunk.
- Chief Jesse Stone: You don't believe in addiction?
- Dr. Dix: Sure I do. I was addicted. I still am. But that was just an explanation. If you want to stop drinking, pal, you got to do more than explain it.
- Chief Jesse Stone: You're a cold bastard, aren't you?
- Dr. Dix: Getting sober is cold bastard work.
- Chief Jesse Stone: I need a drink.
- Dr. Dix: Me too.
- Chief Jesse Stone: [looks away and swigs coffee]