- Inspector Minty: Tell me something I don't know.
- Inspector Herbert: I wish I could.
- [this exchange is repeated several times as the story progresses]
- Inspector Herbert: [at the scene of a murder] I can see the tabloids now: 'Headless Girl in Topless Club'.
- Inspector Minty: That's rich. Ever think about a career in journalism?
- Inspector Herbert: No. Too cutthroat for me.
- Jack Lynch: [while interrogating his murder suspect] Get me the tabloids. I've got a story they're gonna love: 'Innocent Hollywood Writer Decapitates Three Women to Get Ahead.'
- Inspector Herbert: White woman, white killer. Statistics show most mass murderers kill within their own ethnic group.
- Inspector Minty: Jack tell you that?
- [Jack is the police department's expert on serial killers]
- Inspector Herbert: Yeah.
- Inspector Minty: What about Jeffrey Dahmer?
- Inspector Herbert: Jack said Dahmer was different. He killed outside his ethnic group, but he only ate the people he liked.