- Tom Bishop: [dying words] Tell Spikings...
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Tell him what, Tom?
- Tom Bishop: It's the man in the red coat...
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Winton Direct marketing services. Where I followed Lindsay's chum.
- Lt. James Dempsey: [browsing files] Lindsay?
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Yes, Dempsey. Lindsay's chum, Prince Charming. Whom I went after while you were amusing yourself with Cinderella.
- Lt. James Dempsey: Cinderella? Oh, the fox!
- Sharon: [about Lucky] Look, gone, he's taken all the bloomin' lot. All me tom.
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: [explaining the rhyming slang to Dempsey] Tomfoolery.
- Lt. James Dempsey: Jewellery.
- Barman: [Dempsey and Makepeace are caught sneaking around in a pub's cellar] Hey, you two!
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Do you mean us?
- Barman: Come on.
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Eh, sorry, we've seemed to have lost our way.
- Lt. James Dempsey: It's my fault, I was looking for the little boy's room.
- Barman: Yeah? And what about her?
- Lt. James Dempsey: Oh, that's my mother. She takes me everywhere.
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: [Dempsey has found evidence on paper, gives it to Makepeace] Dempsey you're...
- [catches herself]
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: ... quite clever.
- [he snatches the paper back]
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Ok, a genius.
- Lt. James Dempsey: I know.
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: [reading aloud from a piece of paper] As requested, we guarantee a 75% coverage of all the households in the United Kingdom. 75%? You should see my Christmas card list, it runs into thousands.
- Lt. James Dempsey: Am I on it?
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: No, you're not.
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Hm, I've had enough of today. Let's go to bed.
- [Dempsey turns and looks hopeful]
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Me in my bed and you in yours.
- Lt. James Dempsey: Harry...
- [unfortunately for him the phone rings]
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Spikings is going to be very unhappy about this.
- Lt. James Dempsey: Why, don't he like theater?
- Lt. James Dempsey: [conversing on walkie talkies] Harry, when this started, we was the good guys and they was the bad guys.
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: [on other line] And now?
- Lt. James Dempsey: Now it's a turkey shoot. And we're the turkeys.
- Chief Supt. Gordon Spikings: Ten billion? Counterfeit notes?
- Det. Sgt. Chas Jarvis: That's what Dempsey said.
- Chief Supt. Gordon Spikings: And he asked for backup?
- Det. Sgt. Chas Jarvis: Priority.
- Chief Supt. Gordon Spikings: My God. You know what that means, don't you? Let's get moving. Before he sinks half the merchant navy!