- Dressmaker: Our work requires a certain "mise en scene." ... Do you understand Sergeant?
- Sgt. Pantò: Well,,, I try ... So I wanted to ask you if you ever dressed as a woman?
- Dressmaker: Me, dress as a woman? Why would I?
- [Panto stutters, trying to avoid an indelicate or explicit response]
- Dressmaker: Mise en scene?
- Sgt. Pantò: [cutting him off, relieved he didn't have to say it first] "Mise en shame!" Exactly!
- Inspector Lavina: It looks like a psychotic murder,
- Sgt. Pantò: There are so many of them around nowadays, Commissioner.
- Inspector Lavina: Indeed.
- Sgt. Pantò: [bossing his inferiors] You guys get yourselves haircuts. You're looking like a couple of Mau-Maus.
- Professor: [to the inspector] I'll call you tomorrow.
- Inspector Lavina: Do that!
- Sgt. Pantò: [as the professor leaves, out of earshot] Yeah, go fuck yourself!