“- Sheriff Langston: The good citizens of Turley have taken me in their embrace and for one simple reason: I maintain the peace. So, when strangers come to town, I always ask them their business. Have you come for the hanging?
- Emmett: I'm just meeting a guy here and moving on.”
John Marwood Cleese - Sheriff Langston
Scott Glenn - Emmett

“- Lady Margaret Carstairs: I shall report you both to Scotland Yard.
- Inspector Lestrade: ...But I am Scotland Yard.”
Mary Forbes - Lady Margaret Carstairs
Dennis Hoey - Inspector Lestrade

“- Prof. William Kilbane: You come pounding on this door again and I'll have the law on you.
- Inspector Lestrade: I am the law.
- Prof. William Kilbane: Then stop barging in and out of my room like a chambermaid.”
Frederick Worlock - Prof. William Kilbane
Dennis Hoey - Inspector Lestrade

“Three cops for a councilman's son, but no one for this dead girl.”
Barbara Gehring - Lt. 'Hawk' Hawkins

“- Ryan Mitchell: We lost three really good men out there today - they were friends of mine.
- Adm. Frank Peterson: You also eliminated an enemy power plant and munitions dump, to say nothing of a cocaine plantation. Ron and Nancy are going to be very proud of you.”
Costas Mandylor - Ryan Mitchell
William Sadler - Adm. Frank Peterson