- Harry Orwell: [Harry arrives home to find a woman asleep on his couch] I'll admit I was surprised because I never really expected to see Julie Wilson again. She left Thursday. When I got home all of her things were gone. She didn't even bother to leave a note. The interesting part was that Thursday was nearly two years ago.
- Lt. K.C. Trench: Put yourself in his place. Your daughter runs away, she gets hooked on drugs, she moves in with a musician, then she gets pregnant. What would you have done?
- Harry Orwell: I don't know. You got the daughter. What would you have done?
- Lt. K.C. Trench: I don't know. I really don't know.
- Harry Orwell: In Los Angeles, a lot of runaway kids, kids from broken homes, or kids without any parents at all find their way to Venice. They live in a kind of underground subculture.