- Sam McCloud: Have you ever heard about the law against police harrassment?
- Scoop Henderson: I thought that only worked the other way?
- Sam McCloud: Well, we're fixing to change the way it works.
- Sgt. Phyllis Norton: Gladys, I just can't do it, face being in the same room as a corpse.
- Sgt. Gladys Harris: That's because you're not married. You should go home to my husband a couple of times.
- Simms: Château Lafeety. That must be an off-brand, I never heard of that.
- Sgt. Joe Broadhurst: Must be.
- Elton Packer: Hey listen, I hope the guy's alright, it's no fun getting shot.
- Sam McCloud: Well, I think he'd agree with you, he's dead.
- Sam McCloud: This is official police business.
- Dr. Simon: Police business?
- Sam McCloud: McCloud. I'm on temporary assignment from New Mexico.
- Dr. Simon: Well, I knew in this heat crisis they were calling up the reserves, but that's a long way.
- Dan Kiley: Suspicion of assault isn't the kind of case that turns the whole department upside down.
- Chet Mason: No, but killing a girl in a police precinct is.
- Dan Kiley: Yes, well, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
- Officer Rizzo: Will you look at this? I graduated third highest in the history of the academy, and here I am, guarding the ladies john. Why don't they show this kinda garbage on television? They'd see what a cop's life's really like.
- Coroner: Now until the crisis is over, there'll be no more individual pickups, except in cases of extreme emergency.
- Sam McCloud: Well, how dead does a person have to be before you concider him an extreme emergency?
- Sgt. Joe Broadhurst: You mean that, sir?
- Chief Peter B. Clifford: You know any sane person who's making jokes in this heat?
- Sgt. Joe Broadhurst: Only McCloud...
- Chief Peter B. Clifford: I said 'sane person'.
- Punk: Now as I understand the law, you can't keep us in this holding area for more than 24 hours without bringing charges against us. Is that correct?
- Officer Rizzo: How do I know, wise guy? Do I look like Perry Mason?
- Sgt. Joe Broadhurst: What else can go wrong?
- Detective Polk: You know, I wish you'd quit saying that. Every time you do the situation seems to get a little worse.
- Sgt. Joe Broadhurst: Well, that's just your imagination. What else can go wrong?
- [there is an explosion at the electric company and all the lights in the precinct go out]
- Sgt. Joe Broadhurst: If we can't handle one small fire, a baby, two burglaries and a couple of homocides...
- Detective Polk: Three. McCloud just called in on his car radio. Elton Packard is dead.
- Dan Kiley: Football betting is a license to steal. It's amazing how a man who wouldn't think of putting two dollars on a poney's nose will bet his wife's wedding ring on the Miami Dolphins and brag about his winnings in church.