“- Jesse Stone: How quickly can your people match the bullets to the ones from the first victim?
- Captain Healy: I'm the state homicide commander. I'm not God.
- Jesse Stone: I thought they were the same thing.”
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone
Stephen McHattie - Captain Healy

“Is that your answer, old man? Well, I guess you're a hard case too.”

Paul Newman - Luke

“Any man who gives up his gun to some punk is a coward. Any man who does can kiss his badge goodbye, if I can help it. You're policemen. Put your trust in God.”
Ned Wilson - LAPD Captain

“You policemen are always in such a hurry. As if dead men didn't have all eternity.”

Claude Rains - Sir John Talbot

“- Walter Neff: What do the police figure?
- Barton Keyes: That he got tangled up in his crutches and fell off the train. They're satisfied. It's not their dough.”

Fred MacMurray - Walter Neff
Edward G. Robinson - Barton Keyes