- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: [after throwing a suspect in water] Sorry, James, a bit of Medieval justice. If you drown, you're innocent. If you swim, you're guilty.
- DS Jane 'Panhandle' Penhaligon: [From behind a door] I want to be alone.
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: Greta Garbo?
- DS Jane 'Panhandle' Penhaligon: Before my time.
- DS Jane 'Panhandle' Penhaligon: Beck raped me, sir.
- DCI Charlie Wise: I never heard that.
- DS Jane 'Panhandle' Penhaligon: Detective Sergeant Beck raped me, sir.
- DCI Charlie Wise: You've got evidence?
- DS Jane 'Panhandle' Penhaligon: He smokes, he drinks whiskey, he wears the right kind of aftershave, and he handled the slides.
- DCI Charlie Wise: That's not evidence.
- DS Jane 'Panhandle' Penhaligon: He's destroyed the evidence!
- Floyd Malcolm: What do you dread most, eh? You and every other white man? Your nice white wife getting raped by a big - and I mean a BIG - black man? It's a pile of crap. I know it.
- [Points to Skelton]
- Floyd Malcolm: HE knows it. But it's there, yeah?
- [Points to Fitz's chest]
- Floyd Malcolm: And it's there, right?
- [Points to Fitz's head]
- Floyd Malcolm: And maybe, MAYBE, that's why he does it.
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: So he rapes white women as some kind of revenge against white men?
- Floyd Malcolm: Possibly.
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: I see. So he's homosexual?
- Floyd Malcolm: No.
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: I got a patient, you see, Floyd? He only makes love to other men's wives. Single woman, unattached? Can't do it. Married woman? Wham, bam, thank you, ma'am. Likes to do it in the other guy's sitting room, on the other guy's carpet. Likes to wash himself down afterwards in the other guy's bathroom. He's screwing the other guy.
- Floyd Malcolm: I'm not queer!
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: Who's talking about you?
- DCI Charlie Wise: He's in intensive care. He's lying there like a cabbage.
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: [Sarcastically] It can't be that bad - he's doin' impressions.
- DCI Charlie Wise: Keep your opinions to yourself. You've already upset a fellow officer.
- DS Jimmy Beck: Who?
- DCI Charlie Wise: So just keep your mouth shut.
- DS Jimmy Beck: Who've I upset?
- DCI Charlie Wise: It doesn't matter.
- DS Jimmy Beck: I'm sorry, sir, but it does. Someone's complained about me, yeah?
- DCI Charlie Wise: Yeah.
- DS Jimmy Beck: Penhaligon?
- DCI Charlie Wise: No.
- DS Jimmy Beck: I don't believe you.
- DCI Charlie Wise: Tough.
- DS Jimmy Beck: DCI Billborough would've never allowed this. A copper going behind her mate's back?
- DCI Charlie Wise: I'm not Billborough!
- DS Jimmy Beck: [Sarcastically] No, sir.
- DCI Charlie Wise: Jimmy, don't push your luck.
- DS Jimmy Beck: DCI Billborough always encouraged us to speak our minds.
- DCI Charlie Wise: Oh, piss off.
- [Jimmy pauses]
- DCI Charlie Wise: Piss off!
- DS Jimmy Beck: [Sarcastically] Sir!
- [Beck leaves the room]
- DCI Charlie Wise: "If it were up to me, I'd give you a medal." You said that?
- DS Jimmy Beck: No, sir.
- DCI Charlie Wise: I don't believe you. The man's a criminal, he put...
- DS Jimmy Beck: No jury's gonna convict him!
- DCI Charlie Wise: ...a fellow human being into hospital.
- DS Jimmy Beck: A pervert, sir! Not a human being!
- DCI Charlie Wise: A human being! Now would you like to wait in my office? I'll talk to you there! Wait in my office.
- Floyd Malcolm: Look, I don't need to rape.
- DCI Charlie Wise: Yeah, the old ones are always the best, aren't they.
- Floyd Malcolm: I drive a cab. I pick up girls full of booze. I get plenty of offers. I don't need to rape. So please, let me go.
- Floyd Malcolm: So what do I get for raping these women?
- Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald: Life, hopefully.
- DS Jane 'Panhandle' Penhaligon: Do you think he should be on this case?
- DCI Charlie Wise: Jimmy Beck?
- DS Jane 'Panhandle' Penhaligon: Shouldn't we get someone a little more sensitive? Atilla the Hun, maybe?
- DCI Charlie Wise: You'd go off the case before Beck, love.