- Officer Jim Reed: [about Malloy changing his mind to Reed's perspective without prompting] Pete, you know sometimes you really confuse me.
- Officer Pete Malloy: Ah, you don't believe everything I tell you, do you?
- Officer Jim Reed: Pretty much, yeah.
- Officer Pete Malloy: That's right, you should... except when I'm talking through my hat!
- Officer Pete Malloy: [about not going along with Reed's idea to purchase a specific Christmas gift requested by a little boy] I guess I sound pretty hard-hearted, huh.
- Officer Jim Reed: No, I understand, uh, Mr. Kerr, the Mains, I guess they all need a lot of things, too.
- Officer Pete Malloy: That's right. Besides, you can't let yourself get all bent out of shape every time you see somebody unhappy on this job. Get involved up to a point. You go beyond that you go screamin' up the walls.
- Officer Jim Reed: Yeah, I guess you're right.
- Harvey Ward: [emphatically about what he wants for Christmas] What I want is a *dump* truck!
- Officer Pete Malloy: No kidding.
- Harvey Ward: [emphatically] A yellow *dump* truck!
- Officer Jim Reed: What would you do with it?
- Harvey Ward: Put stuff in it, and raise up the back end. Dump it out!
- Officer Pete Malloy: [to Reed in mock condescension] Even you oughta know that.
- Harvey Ward: We got a pile of dirt out back and I'm gonna *dump* that.
- Officer Jim Reed: [knowing that there probably isn't such a toy in their pile of gifts] Supposed Santa brings you something else?
- Harvey Ward: [shaking his head negatively] A *dump* truck!
- Officer Pete Malloy: Well, there'an awful lot of other nice toys.
- Harvey Ward: A *dump* truck! A yellow *dump* truck!