- [after much patient pressure, the desk clerk has finally offered up some details]
- Desk Clerk: Am I helping you, sir?
- Delgetti: I never had it so good.
- Chalmers: Lieutenant, don't try to evade the responsibility. In your... parlance, you blew it. You knew the significance of his testimony, yet you failed to take adequate measures to protect him. So to you, it was a job, no more. Were it more, and you had the dedication I was led to believe...
- Bullitt: You believe what you want. You work your side of the street, and I'll work mine.
- Captain Bennet: He let the killers in himself? Why would he do a thing like that?
- Bullitt: I'm waiting to ask him.
- Captain Bennet: What about the setup? What do you make of that?
- Bullitt: Shotgun and a backup man. Professionals.
- Captain Bennet: Albert Edward Renick, used car salesman, Chicago.
- Chalmers: Who's Renick?
- Bullitt: He was the man who was shot at the Hotel Daniels. You sent us to guard the wrong man, Mr. Chalmers.
- Bullitt: Who else knew where he was?
- Chalmers: What?
- Bullitt: Who else knew where he was?
- Chalmers: What are you implying?
- Bullitt: Well, they knew where to look for him, and they used your name to get in.
- Chalmers: Are you suggesting I disclosed his whereabouts?
- Bullitt: Well, somebody did. And it didn't come from us.
- Chalmers: Come on, now. Don't be naive, Lieutenant. We both know how careers are made. Integrity is something you sell the public.
- Chalmers: I do not choose to have people accuse me of false promises for the sake of cheap sensationalism, or to be compromised by your lieutenant.
- Pete Ross: This is Pete. We lost him.
- telephone voice: He's your brother, Ross. If you can't find him, we have people who can. And *you're* paying for the contract.
- Bullitt: [revealing Johnny Ross' death] I've got him downstairs, under a John Doe.
- Baker: [stunned] You are sick. Smuggling a dead man out of a hospital, and now two men killed who may have had nothing to do with it?
- Bullitt: The man I was chasing killed Ross.
- Captain Bennet: How do you know? Did you see him?
- Bullitt: Yes. He tried to nail me with a shotgun, a Winchester pump.
- Baker: The radio report said the two men were burned beyond recognition. Now all he's got are two dead men. It would never hold up in court.
- Cathy: I thought I knew you. But I'm not so sure anymore. Do you let anything reach you? I mean, really reach you? Or are you so used to it by now that nothing really touches you?
- Captain Bennet: Play it by the book from now on.
- Bullitt: Does Chalmers run the case, or do I?
- Captain Bennet: All I'm interested in is results. Do whatever you think is best. I'll try to back you up.
- Cathy: I know it's there, but I don't have to be reminded of the whole thing. The ugliness around us!
- Chalmers: Lieutenant, I shall personally officiate at your public crucifixion, if Ross doesn't recover during the course of the hearing, so I can at least present his deposition. And, I assure you, I shall not suffer the consequence of your incompetence. And even if there wasn't any, I'm rather certain I can prove negligence on your part.