- [first lines]
- Man: Look, you fool. Ambassadors get 10 minutes of my time. Dictators, maybe a quarter of an hour. You've been bending my ear for the past 40 minutes. Now, clear out before I have you thrown out.
- Richard Diamond: McAllister, the first day I walked into the 44th Street station house and saw you sitting behind the desk in a captain's uniform, I lost all my boyhood illusions. I suggest you do the same. Now, good bye.
- McAllister: I made you, Diamond. I spotted you from the beginning and trained you from scratch, and you know it.
- Richard Diamond: You spotted me, McAllister, and made my life miserable, that's all.
- McAllister: If it weren't for the benefit of the years of my experience, you'd still be pounding a beat on New Lots Avenue.
- Richard Diamond: That's it. Get outta here, McAllister. Get lost, will ya?