- Sgt. Frank Cole: Suicide?
- Lt. Manuel 'Manny' Quinlan: Looks like it. Booze and barbiturates, lots of barbiturates.
- Sgt. Frank Cole: Did you find a note?
- Lt. Manuel 'Manny' Quinlan: Hey, you're interested in statistics, aren't you, Frank?
- Sgt. Frank Cole: Yeah.
- Lt. Manuel 'Manny' Quinlan: I'll give you one: 44.7% of all suicides don't leave notes.
- Sgt. Frank Cole: I didn't know that. Now, is that right?
- Lt. Manuel 'Manny' Quinlan: No, I just made it up.
- [first lines]
- Harry Orwell: Looking back on that day, I realize I would have been dead now if I'd been a better mechanic.
- Harry Orwell: [voiceover] Now maybe I shouldn't have let it bother me. I've been around too long not to know what the world's really like. A lot of married men have affairs. I guess I just didn't want to believe Anne's husband was one of them. I kept asking myself how he afforded that apartment. And then I told myself to forget it; it was not my kind of problem.
- Anne Virdon: Well, what do they call this in detective novels, a "meet"?
- Harry Orwell: Well, I don't know, I never read 'em.
- Lt. Manuel 'Manny' Quinlan: [Harry enjoying a tequila in a Mexican restaurant, approached by Manny] Harry?
- Harry Orwell: Hello, Manny. How'd you find me?
- Lt. Manuel 'Manny' Quinlan: It's my job.
- Harry Orwell: Sit down. Ya wanna hear how I hurt my head?
- Lt. Manuel 'Manny' Quinlan: No, but now that you brought it up...
- Harry Orwell: An alligator bit me.
- Lt. Manuel 'Manny' Quinlan: I don't think I asked you, but if I did, forget it.
- Harry Orwell: [voiceover] Galveston looked like a nice town. I reminded myself to come back someday, but under different circumstances.