- Commissioner Anthony X. Russell: [after Kane drops his shield on Russell's desk] What am I supposed to do with that?
- Chief Inspector Charles Kane: Commissioner, I thought you'd never ask.
- Commissioner Anthony X. Russell: I'm not at all convinced that Madigan is one of our best men. I haven't seen him in years and yet I somehow always have the feeling he's out on the streets there somewhere doing something I'd rather not know about.
- [first lines]
- Det. Rocco Bonaro: [in declining a cigarette offered to him by Madigan] Eleven days already.