- Buddy Noone: Who wants to go to the desert anyway?
- Terry McCaleb: You go where the clues lead.
- Buddy Noone: Don't they ever lead to the beach?
- Terry McCaleb: Somebody's trying to jerk us all off.
- Detective Arango: Well personally, I like being jerked off.
- Detective Arango: "Happy Valentine's day". Way to make a come back. Some people get flowers, some people get chocolates. You get a dead guy.
- Buddy Noone: We're Cain and Abel. We're Kennedy and Oswald. We're shit in the bottom of somebody's shoe.
- Detective Arango: Hey McCaleb! We don't need your doughnuts... or your shit! We've got enough of our own!
- Terry McCaleb: Where you're going?
- Buddy Noone: We're going to lean on him, right? You go after him, I pull you off. Good cop, bad cop.
- Terry McCaleb: Ah no. You stay with the car!
- Buddy Noone: C'mon man, Starsky and Putz.
- Graciella Rivers: [about photograph] Why don't you just look at it again, please. Just one more time, and you'll know why. Just tell me if you see anything, feel any thing.
- Terry McCaleb: Miss Rivers, I'm a retired FBI man not a psychic.
- Detective Arango: This is a run-of-the-mill ordinary convenience store robbery. It's an idiot with a gun and a mask, with the right ratio of balls to brains, pulled the trigger. That's all this is.
- Terry McCaleb: Remember how you said I was your friend, and I could tell you the truth? Well I don't need you at all.
- [last lines]
- Graciella Rivers: [about the boy fishing] Poor baby, he's been at it all morning.
- Terry McCaleb: Yeah. I wish I could get a big fat marlin and put it on his line.
- [first lines]
- Detective Arango: [referring to McCaleb at crime scene] Okay, listen. Whatever happens, it'll be his face on the front page.
- Jaye Winston: [the heart McCaleb received from his transplant belongs to one of the victims] Conflict of interest. Did that ever occur to you, conflict of interest?
- Terry McCaleb: How much do I owe you?
- Buddy Noone: Seven cases of beer, but since he's a good kid and a hell of a fisherman, just make it two.