Impact (1949)

Charles Coburn: Lt. Quincy

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• Lt. Tom Quincy : Are you Ah Sing? Understand? You understandee English?

  Ah Sing : [nodding and speaking in perfect English]  Also French, Italian, and Hebrew.

• Hotel Clerk : [looking at a photograph]  I was on night duty then, all right; but, I sure don't remember a looker like this. Quite a dish, eh?

  Lt. Tom Quincy : A little too highly seasoned for my digestion, thanks.

• Lt. Tom Quincy : You seem to have been very fond of Mr. Williams.

  Su Lin Chung : Su Lin honored to serve him five years.

• Lt. Tom Quincy : It sort of opens up a new can of peas on the Williams accident.

• Lt. Tom Quincy : Last known address, care of his sister, Mrs. Joseph Rosetti, Irving Apartments, Berkeley. Well, what are you waiting for Quincy, let's go.

• Lt. Tom Quincy : Fate plays an important part in these matters.

• Lt. Tom Quincy : Who do you think she beat a path to the telegraph office to wire to? The League of Decency?

• Capt. Callahan : That ought to be enough to get an indictment out of the Grand Jury. Go pick her up.

  Lt. Tom Quincy : I'd like to play a long shot, first. It might give us two for one.

  Capt. Callahan : Well, take 'em one at a time. A bird in the hand...

  Lt. Tom Quincy : Is not going to lead us to its mate. I'd like to give the lady a little more rope.

• Marsha Peters : The maid seems to be our only hope now. We've got to keep looking until we find her, that's all.

  Lt. Tom Quincy : That's all?

  Marsha Peters : Wait! She was naturalized, wasn't she?

  Lt. Tom Quincy : Shuffling chopsticks. Quincy, you dumb flatfoot. This - this Su - Su what's-her-name was Chinese born. If her Port of Entry was San Francisco, there'd still be a file on her.

• Marsha Peters : This ties it all up, doesn't it?

  Lt. Tom Quincy : Yeah, like a greased pig.