- Chief Supt. Gordon Spikings: [picks up the phone] Commissioner? They've done it again. Petrol station this time. But we may have got them. Someone spotted the getaway van. Commissioner, I don't care what squad they're from - Special, Diplomatic or Obscene Publications. If this tip-off is right we would seem to have cornered a whole bloody military platoon. And all I've got on the spot is a crazy Yank who thinks he's Clint Eastwood and my only intelligent detective. *She* I don't want to lose.
- Lt. James Dempsey: There's no need to be ashamed, you froze.
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Ah, I froze, did I?
- Lt. James Dempsey: Like an iceberg.
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: I'll show you an iceberg.
- [walks off]
- Lt. James Dempsey: This is ridiculous.
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: What's ridiculous?
- Lt. James Dempsey: Cruising around in a black neighborhood pretending not to be noticed. They can smell that we're cops.
- [kicks a can across the street]
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Wouldn't be a problem if you'd listened to my idea.
- Lt. James Dempsey: Oh, which one was that? The one about disguising ourselves as uniformed policemen?
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Well, if we were in uniform they wouldn't know we were undercover, would they?
- Lt. James Dempsey: You know what? If you were only dumb and a real blond, you'd be a real dumb blonde.
- Lt. James Dempsey: [after bringing in Reuben Osuna on a horse, Dempsey hands in his badge] I quit.
- Chief Supt. Gordon Spikings: Why?
- Lt. James Dempsey: Because I've had it. With Tinkerbell. I've had it. Up to here.