Stingray (1978)

Harry Gorsuch: Sgt. Murphy

Quotes 

• Lt. Herschel : I don't believe it. Two homicides last night, a million dollars worth of smack in the area and you can't find anything on them.

  Sgt. Murphy : Lieutenant, we searched that car from top to bottom. They're clean!

  Lt. Herschel : I don't believe it. We've got Lonigan right here in the station. Lonigan, who would tear the hands of a baby for a few bucks. Tony, I don't give a shit about, since he's only the faggot in the lot.

  Sgt. Murphy : Lieutenant, what do you want us to do? We held them over twenty-four hours. We've got to let 'em go.

  Lt. Herschel : All right.

  [walks over to Lonigan and Tony] 

  Lt. Herschel : Well, unfortunately, you two are free to go.

  Lonigan : Lt. Herschel, if you're the fair man I think you are, you owe myself and my associate here an apology.

  Lt. Herschel : Lonigan, old buddy, let me tell you something. A little number down in the alley last night has your name written all over it. Now, I don't know where you ditched the stuff, but you're lucky you came clean because if my boys found so much as a pocketknife, you and Greaseball would be our permanent guests in the big house.

  Lonigan : [laughing hysterically]  Yeah! The big house? How about Little House on the Prairie? We even got a Kojak in here!

  Lt. Herschel : Get out of here, Lonigan. Take Scumbag with you.

  Tony : [offended]  Hey, look...

  Lonigan : Icy calm. Icy calm. Bye!

  [Lonigan is still laughing when he and Tony leave] 

• Sgt. Murphy : Why can't they keep the damn kids out of the street?

• Lt. Herschel : [after seeing the charred wreck of the police car]  Jesus, I haven't seen anything like this since Korea.

  Sgt. Murphy : Yeah, they didn't stand a chance. What in the hell did they use, anyway, a goddamn bazooka?

  Lt. Herschel : What do you mean, what did they use? Weren't you listening to Klugman? That's what we pay him two grand a year for. It was an Armalite with explosive shells.

  Sgt. Murphy : Well, who uses those damn things, anyway?

  Lt. Herschel : Abigail Bratowski. That's her M.O. Lonigan and that asshole buddy of his run with her, sometimes.

  Sgt. Murphy : Bratowski. Boy, that dame is trouble.

  Lt. Herschel : No shit. Next to Abigail Bratowski, Ma Barker was a nun.

  Sgt. Murphy : [confused]  A nun?

• Police : Hey! Lt. Herschel! There's another one in the backseat with an ice pick in his neck.

  Lt. Herschel : [confused]  An ice pick?

  [the policeman hands him the bloodied ice pick from Lonigan's neck and cleans it off with his hanker chief] 

  Lt. Herschel : Looks like Lonigan and Tony double-crossed the dame and she tracked them down.

  Sgt. Murphy : Well, she's a persistent dame. Hell, she tore up half the countryside.

  Lt. Herschel : [gives Lonigan's dead body a friendly pat on the back]  Tough luck, Lonigan.