- Iris Long: You wouldn't cross the street to say hello to me if I lay naked on a zebra crossing.
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: Look, Iris, the world does not revolve round your body - this bloke Gallileo proved it: it goes round the sun.
- [Regan has been summoned to a meeting with Superintendent Grant on his day off. DS Jellineck is taking him to Grant's office]
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: [sarcastically] I really appreciate this, Sergeant. I was going to be spending a dull afternoon watching Fulham play.
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: How long have you worked for Superintendent Grant?
- Det. Sgt. Jellineck: Six months. For my money he's the best superintendent a DS could have.
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: There *is* a certain amount of wastage amongst his personnel. I mean his men keep dying on him. It's pretty dangerous working for Grant, isn't it?
- Det. Sgt. Jellineck: We have the highest arrest rate in the Met.
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: Yeah - cardiac arrest.
- [talking about Grant]
- Det. Sgt. Jellineck: Sometimes I think he's his own worst enemy.
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: [grimly] Not while I'm around!
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: Get dressed.
- Iris Long: All right. What do you think I should wear? Something inexpensive cos of the bullet holes? Or something dark so it doesn't show the blood?
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: Stop pretending you're on the bloody game. You'd *like* to be, but you don't have the application. Why don't you just rest on your reputation as a good lay, and leave it at that.
- Iris Long: You're getting hysterical.
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: I'm not gettin' hysterical. I'm gettin' trrified.
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: All right, you tell m why I'm here.
- Iris Long: Because you wanted to combine business with pleasure. That's plain, isn't it?
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: Look, Iris, the world does not revolve around your body. This bloke Galileo proved it goes round the sun.
- [panicking as he runs downstairs to the bar]
- The Old Man: [yells] Old Bill! All over the place! It's the police!
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: [angrily to Grant] This is just another of your crap-up schemes that sen many a keen young jack to his grave! Well, I'm havin' nothin' to do with it! Nothin'!