- Officer Pete Malloy: [to Reed about Malloy's girlfriend Judy attending his Medal of Valor presentation] She's curious to see what you get because I got shot.
- [the Medal of Valor speech]
- Emcee: [following a drumroll, a trumpet fanfare and applause from the audience] The City of Los Angeles was one year old when in 1851 a man named Samuel Whiting assumed office as City Marshal. Now, he was the entire Los Angeles Police Department, serving a community of sixteen hundred and ten people. Our population today approaches the three million mark, but law enforcement, when the chips are down, continued to remain the responsibility of just one man: the line officer, the cop on the beat. He starts his watch certain only of at least eight more hours of uncertainty. Now we've long since learned to turn to him instinctively for help, and he instinctively responds. He's denied the luxury of choice because on the day he became a policeman, he made an irrevocable commitment to place the public good above any and all personal considerations. Now, there are few who envy the cop his job, but fewer by far are those among us who will ever know the supreme satisfaction that must be his in the knowledge that he is performing a service so essential, that without him, our city, our homes, and our lives would enter an endless nightmare of fear and panic. Only when that essential service involves extreme peril to the life of the officer, or to the life of another human being, and only when the officer possesses an awareness that the action he takes may save a life at the risk of his own, does the Department regard him as eligible for its most cherished award, the Medal of Valor. And so it is that this ceremony, we are to witness, officially recognizes acts of heroism above and beyond the demands of duty as performed over the past year by six officers of the Los Angeles Police Department.