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Police Captain Hank Quinlan
- [Quinlan fires a pistol at Vargas, not hitting him]
- Quinlan: That wasn't no miss, Vargas. That was just to turn you 'round, so I don't have to shoot you in the back. Unless you'd rather run for it.
- Tanya: We're closed.
- Quinlan: You've been cookin' at this hour?
- Tanya: Just cleanin' up.
- Quinlan: Have you forgotten your old friend, hmm?
- Tanya: I told you we were closed.
- Quinlan: I'm Hank Quinlan.
- Tanya: I didn't recognize you. You should lay off those candy bars.
- Quinlan: It's either the candy or the hooch. I must say, I wish it was your chili I was gettin' fat on. Anyway, you're sure lookin' good.
- Tanya: You're a mess, honey.
- Quinlan: Yeah. That pianola sure brings back memories.
- Tanya: The customers go for it - it's so old, it's new. We got the television too. We run movies. What can I offer you?
- Pete Menzies: Convictions. Sure. How many did you frame?
- Quinlan: Nobody.
- Pete Menzies: Come on, Hank. How many did you frame?
- Quinlan: I told you. Nobody. Nobody that wasn't guilty. Guilty. Guilty.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Well, Captain, I'm afraid this is finally something you can't talk your way out of.
- Quinlan: You want to bet?
- Quinlan: An old lady on Main Street last night picked up a shoe. The shoe had a foot in it. We're gonna make you pay for that mess.
- Pete Menzies: You're a killer.
- Hank Quinlan: Partly. I'm a cop.
- Pete Menzies: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Drunk and crazy as you must have been when you strangled him. I guess you were somehow thinking of your wife, the way she was strangled.
- Hank Quinlan: I'm always thinking of her, drunk or sober. What else is there to think about, except my job, my dirty job?
- Pete Menzies: You didn't have to make it dirty.
- Hank Quinlan: I don't call it dirty. Look at the record, our record, partner. Huh?
- Pete Menzies: Sure, sure, sure.
- Hank Quinlan: Well? All those convictions.
- Quinlan: Our friend Vargas has some very special ideas about police procedures. He seems to think it don't matter whether the killer's hanged or not, as long as we obey the fine print in the rulebook.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Captain, I don't think a policeman should work like a dog catcher.
- Quinlan: No?
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Putting criminals behind bars, no! In any free country, a policeman is supposed to enforce the law and the law protects the guilty as well as the innocent.
- Quinlan: Our job is tough enough.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: It's supposed to be tough! It has to be tough.
- Quinlan: Who's the Jane?
- Dist. Atty. Adair: His wife.
- Quinlan: Well, what do you know. She don't look Mexican either.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: You are a policeman, aren't you?
- Quinlan: Aren't you? You don't seem very fond of the job.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: There are plenty of soldiers who don't like war.
- 'Uncle' Joe Grandi: In this thing we're partners, see. Shall we - drink to that?
- Quinlan: I don't...
- 'Uncle' Joe Grandi: Juanita, two more double bourbons. Make 'em nice and big.
- Pete Menzies: All these years you've been playing me for a sucker. Faking evidence.
- Quinlan: Aiding justice, partner.