- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: There were gay lads in the IRA?
- Colum Hennessey: Mmm... one or two.
- [Shrugs]
- Colum Hennessey: It was the only way we could successfully infiltrate the MI5.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, these men are armed and dangerous, and you being an FBI agent you're more used to shooting at unarmed women and children...
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: Oh, fuck you, Sergeant!
- Gerry Stanton: [while Clive Cornell is handing the bent coppers a briefcase of money] It's all there, yeah?
- Clive Cornell: Excuse me?
- Gerry Stanton: It's all there?
- Clive Cornell: No, it's not. I've skimmed a couple of grand off the top.
- Gerry Stanton: What?
- Clive Cornell: 'Course it's fucking all there. This is the pay-off, yeah? We pay you off, you and your pals keep your fucking noses out of our business. That's the dynamic in this situation. Why the fuck would I then cheat you out your money? Eh? Why would I do that? That doesn't make any sense. That'd defeat the entire purpose of the fucking interaction. Fuck me!
- [walks away angrily]
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Are the lights growing dim?
- Liam O'Leary: Don't mock me.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: It's good enough for ya.
- Liam O'Leary: There's so many... so many things I wanted to do.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Like what for fuck's sake? Running with the bulls at Pamplona?
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: You know, I can't tell if you're really motherfuckin' dumb, or really motherfuckin' smart.
- Garda Aidan McBride: I'm on it sarge.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: "I'm on it Sarge." He thinks he's in fuckin' Detroit.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: What are you reading?
- Eileen Boyle: Oh.
- [Shows Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov]
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Never got into the Russians. They take too long getting to the fecking point.
- Eileen Boyle: Not even Dostoevsky, no?
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Come on now, he was the main offender.
- Francis Sheehy: Who was up there firing that cannon?
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: The FBI lad, probably hadn't had this much fun since they burned all those kids up in Waco.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: This is a Gaelic speaking region. Did they not teach you that at Langley?
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: No, they did not teach us that at Langley. For the simple fact that Langley is the CIA, you idiot, not the FBI!
- Garda Aidan McBride: [Sergent Boyle is stroking the crotch of the dead victim] I don't think that's appropriate.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Why don't you fuck off to America with your appropriate, fuckin' Barrack Obama.
- Gabriela McBride: He's gay. Like when one man put's his...
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I'm familiar with the mechanics of it, yea.
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: You have anybody you want me to call?
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Nah, I don't have anybody. Just pin a medal on my body like those boys coming home from Iraq.
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: Fuck you again Sergeant.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: You've taken' somethin'.
- Eugene Moloney: I have not.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: You've taken somethin'. You didn't even act surprised, for fuck sake!
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: [at a house during Boyle's "day off"] How you doin', ma'am. Special Agent Wendell Everett, Federal Bureau of Investigation. I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions?
- Woman at Bartley's House: [in Irish] Bartley! There's a black man at the door!
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: Oh. You don't... you don't speak any English, huh?
- Bartley: [in Irish] What can I do for you?
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: And... *you* don't speak any English.
- Bartley: [in Irish] This is Ireland. Go over to England if you want to speak English.
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: I just wanna show you a few pictures, see if you've... seen any of these men in the last few days? This gentleman...
- Bartley: [in Irish] No, I haven't. And even if I had, I wouldn't tell you. Now you'll have to excuse me, I have to fix this lamp. It was a birthday present from my aunt in Australia. Good day to you.
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: ...is there anyone else here I -
- [door is shut in his face]
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [answering the door] Ah, listen, I think there's been a mix-up. You've the wrong night.
- Gabriela McBride: I'm sorry?
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: You're from the agency?
- Gabriela McBride: No. My husband is missing.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Oh, I'm sorry. Come in, come in.
- [realizing he has no pants on]
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I'll just slip into something a little less comfortable.
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: [Sergeant Boyle and FBI agent Wendell are driving at night. Boyle asks a question in a friendly manner, idle chat as getting to know each other. FBI agent answers] Two boys. Stocken is five years old and Hughie has just turned three months old. I've got a picture of them.
- FBI agent Wendell Everett, Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [Boyle interrupts quickly] Don't want to see it.
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: [agent seems confused] Excuse me?
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [straight faced copper explains] I don't want to see it. Babies all look the same. The only time a baby doesn't look like every other baby is when it's a really ugly baby. So unless you're about to show me a photo of a really ugly baby then I don't want to see it.
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: That's pretty fucking rude.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Maybe it is maybe it isn't.
- Sinead Mulligan: Now it can be revealed. I have very small breasts.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: That's okay, I have a very small penis.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: It's not as if you're that hard to please.
- Eileen Boyle: Yeah, that's what they said to me at the orgy.
- [last lines]
- Man With Camera: Didn't you foil a drug-trafficking operation and knock off a trio of drug barons to boot? What's unhappy about that?
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: Lost a good man.
- Man With Camera: I wouldn't be too sure about that now. I mean, they never recovered a body, did they?
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: It's a big sea out there. He's dead. Either burned up or drowned.
- Eugene Moloney: But he was a really good swimmer.
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: I'm sorry, son, that was just bullshit. He weren't never in the Olympics.
- Man With Camera: Maybe so. Sure it's easy enough to look up anyways.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Like the fat man said, if you have to be careful not to drink too much, it's because you're not to be trusted when you do.
- Aidan McBride: [entering the pub] Little early for a drink. You're still on duty. You've been gone all afternoon.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [playing a video game] You gonna continue to make a series of declarative statements, or are you gonna fuckin' tell me something?
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [interrupting the briefing] I thought only black lads were drug dealers?
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: I'm sorry, what?
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I thought only black lads were drug dealers? And Mexicans. What do they call them. They have a word for them.
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: Yeah, there's a word for you too, sir. But I'm not gonna go into that right now. Anyway, as I was saying, these men are highly dangerous...
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [blurting out] Mules. Drug mules.
- Gerry Stanton: That's enough of your guff now, Boyle. Apologize to the man.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Huh? Apologize for what?
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: For your racist slurs, for one thing.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I'm Irish, racism is part of my culture.
- Gerry Stanton: You know when you hear tell about someone being liquidated, you know, by the mob, like?
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: Mm.
- Gerry Stanton: What does that actually mean?
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: Means they've been killed. I mean, what else would it mean?
- Gerry Stanton: Yeah, I know that. But does it mean they've actually been turned into liquid?
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: Heh, heh, heh. Turned into liquid.
- [realizing he's serious]
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: No. Just killed.
- Gerry Stanton: Yeah, I suppose turning someone into liquid would be too time-consuming, huh? Take ages.
- [first lines]
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [red car speeds past his speed trap, tires screech, car crashes]
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [finds drugs in the pocket of dead teen] I don't think your mammy would be too pleased about that now.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: [walks aside and swallows one of the pills] What a beautiful fuckin' day.
- Clive Cornell: I fuckin' hate bent coppers, I swear to God.
- Francis Sheehy: Did they try something?
- Clive Cornell: No, they didn't try something.
- Liam O'Leary: What's the problem, then?
- Clive Cornell: I'm just fuckin' sick and tired of the kind of people we have to deal with in this business.
- Liam O'Leary: What do you expect? We're drug traffickers.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: What's a derringer?
- Colum Hennessey: It's like a baby gun. One of the gay lads used to... used to like secreting it on his person, you know.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: There were gay lads in the IRA?
- Colum Hennessey: There are one or two. Well, it was the only way we could successfully infiltrate the MI5.
- Clive Cornell: [loading in drug shipment] Where the fuck did you find those three?
- Francis Sheehy: Oh, I put an ad in the paper saying, "Henchmen wanted."
- Clive Cornell: It's not often you come across that kind of integrity in our business. Yeah, we can't have that.
- Francis Sheehy: [looking at O'Leary] We'll have to make sure he's out of harm's way.
- Liam O'Leary: Why's it always me, though?
- Clive Cornell: Because you're a psychopath.
- Liam O'Leary: I'm a sociopath, not a psychopath. They explained that to me.
- Francis Sheehy: What's the difference?
- Liam O'Leary: Don't know. It's a tricky one.
- Liam O'Leary: [holding a gun on him] You should get a dog. Or a parrot, maybe. Something to raise the alarm, you know. Ned Kelly had a peacock.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I've always wanted a giraffe.
- Garda Aidan McBride: You got a call from Galway. You're to head in tonight to attend a briefing from a fella who's over from the FBI. Special Agent Wendell Everett.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: So what?
- Garda Aidan McBride: Maybe it's about the murder. Maybe he's got a psychological profile on the killer or something.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: It's drug smuggling. Either that or they've had another fuckin' sighting of Whitey Bulger at some fuckin' museum.
- Francis Sheehy: [dropping his binoculars] Nothing. Tomorrow night's sell, we're good to go.
- [thumbs up]
- Clive Cornell: I fuckin' hate that.
- Francis Sheehy: What?
- Clive Cornell: Americanisms. "Good to go."
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: I can't tell if you're really motherfucking dumb or really motherfucking smart.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: So... Kenosha, Wisconsin, you were saying. Did you grow up in the projects?
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: What?
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Did you grow up in the projects? Or did they not have the projects in Kenosha, Wisconsin?
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: No, I did not grow up in the projects. It might surprise you to learn, Sergeant Boyle, that I actually come from a very privileged background. And by "privileged," I mean prep schools, Yale. I was a Rhodes scholar. Bet you don't even know what a Rhodes scholar is.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: I do know what a Rhodes scholar is.
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: Really? Enlighten me.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Kris Kristofferson.
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: Yeah, Kris Kristofferson was a Rhodes scholar. You... you are correct.
- Sergeant Gerry Boyle: Privileged background, huh?
- FBI agent Wendell Everett: Summer in the Hamptons, skiing in Aspen, that kind of thing.
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