- Officer Vince Romano: [Romano has a high class girlfriend] Well, that's the way people do things at the top of the social register.
- Officer Stacy Sheridan: Well, if you climb too fast, Romano, you're gonna get a nosebleed.
- Officer Vince Romano: Jealous, Stacy?
- Officer Stacy Sheridan: Oh sure, I always did want my blood to be as blue as my uniform and, of course, have a butler to call my boyfriend, so I didn't have to talk to him myself.
- Sgt. T.J. Hooker: There she is.
- Officer Vince Romano: Ben Edward's daughter? Hooker, she's beautiful!
- Sgt. T.J. Hooker: And she's my goddaughter, don't you forget that, Romano!
- Sgt. T.J. Hooker: So you wanted to be a hero...
- Ben Edwards: There's all kinds of reasons for ambition. I remember the day you took of that gold badge to climb back in that blue suit. I...
- [chuckles]
- Ben Edwards: I thought you were crazy.
- Sgt. T.J. Hooker: I climbed to the top of the detective ladder. I found it empty. So I climbed back down, got back in touch.
- Officer Vince Romano: 206 Elm Drive is the address Stacy ran down on him. Do we give it to Holland, or what?
- Sgt. T.J. Hooker: We're five blocks from Elm Drive...
- Officer Vince Romano: The 'what' has it.
- Sgt. T.J. Hooker: You tried to hard, Holland. To hard and too fast.
- Detective Holland: It all fell apart because you felt sorry for some crummy security guard.
- Sgt. T.J. Hooker: That's the way it goes, Holland. You had informants, connections, a hot record of arrests and the wrong kind of ambition.
- [a beat]
- Sgt. T.J. Hooker: I've got friends.