Quotes
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Benton Fraser : It would have been a party of six.
Herb Lantrell : Brought a bunch of nuns up on a retreat. That help?
Benton Fraser : Not unless they were carrying firearms.
Herb Lantrell : You're sure they were Americans, eh?
Benton Fraser : They were all wearing new boots, they were driving a Jeep Wrangler, and they carried big guns.
Herb Lantrell : Americans it is.
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Benton Fraser : [tossing guy in cell] That's the last time he'll fish over the limit!
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Benton Fraser : I guessed. I had a hunch.
Ray Vecchio : No, no, no, no. You don't have hunches. I have hunches.
Benton Fraser : I had one of your hunches, Ray. Felt good.
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Fraser : [Diefenbaker is half on, half off Vecchio while the detective is driving the car] He's deaf. You have to speak very loud and very slow and enunciate.
Ray Vecchio : GET-OFF-ME-EXCLAMATION-MARK!
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Ray Vecchio : So, uh, what's your first name, anyway? I mean, I can't keep calling you 'Fraser.'
Benton Fraser : Benton.
Ray Vecchio : So what's your first name?
Benton Fraser : Benton.
Ray Vecchio : Do you *have* a first name?
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Benton Fraser : When I graduated from the Academy, my father gave me one piece of advice. He said, 'Always... ' No. He said, 'Never... '
[Ray gives him a quizzical stare]
Benton Fraser : Well, actually he gave me two pieces of advice. I've forgotten the other one, but the important one is, never chase a man over a cliff.
Ray Vecchio : That's supposed to mean something in Canadian, isn't it?
Benton Fraser : If you're going to take on a man, you'd better know more than he does. Now our strength is, I know this area better than anyone. Their weakness is, they think they have an advantage.
Ray Vecchio : Let me see that bag. Being an American, I also know where my strength lies, and that's in being as heavily armed as possible at all times.
[dumps an assortment of guns, grenades and knives out of the bag]
Ray Vecchio : It's all completely legal, I swear to you.
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Benton Fraser : I don't imagine the death penalty would be an effective deterrent for attempted suicides.
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Underhill : I talked to the Super at your last job. He suggested transferring you further north.
Benton Fraser : Well, that would put me in Russia, sir.
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[Fraser asks Gerard to give him a transfer to the Canadian Consulate in Chicago so he investigate his father's murder]
Gerard : What was the biggest city you ever worked in?
Benton Fraser : Moosejaw.
Gerard : Yeah, and you were transferred out after five weeks because you couldn't adapt to such an urban life style. You're like your father. Out there in no man's land, there isn't a better cop in the world. But in Chicago, they'd eat you alive in a minute. Sorry.
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Benton Fraser : Excuse me, can I have your attention please? Thank you. Anyone carrying illegal weapons if you would place them on the bar. You are under arrest.
[a knife is thrown into the wall near Fraser's head]
Benton Fraser : You realize I'm going to have to confiscate that?
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Benton Fraser : What's the one thing you hear Americans say about Canadians over and over again? 'They're such nice, polite, people.' So we use that against them. We let them underestimate us.
