Sabotage (1936)

Matthew Boulton: Superintendent Talbot

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Superintendent Talbot : That's queer. Is that girl psychic? She said that Verloc was...

  Detective : Dead, sir? You don't need second sight in a case like this.

  Superintendent Talbot : But she said it before! Or was it after...?

• Superintendent Talbot : Well, what luck with Mrs. Verloc?

  Ted Spencer : She knows nothing, sir, nothing at all.

  Superintendent Talbot : What makes you think so?

  Ted Spencer : She has a straight answer to everything, besides her manner.

  Superintendent Talbot : Pretty woman?

  Ted Spencer : What's that got to do with it, sir?

  Superintendent Talbot : I know, I'm too tender-hearted myself, especially where women are concerned.

• Superintendent Talbot : The Home Office has been on and they're scared something worst than tonight's job may happen.

  Ted Spencer : What's the idea, sir? What's the point of all this wrecking?

  Superintendent Talbot : Making trouble at home to take our minds off of what's going on abroad. Same as in a crowd. One man treads on your toe and while you're arguing with him, his pal picks your pocket.

  Ted Spencer : Who's behind it?

  Superintendent Talbot : Ah, they're the people that you and I will never catch. It's the men they employ that we're after.