- Photographer: Look, if you had to listen to half the crap some of these chicks come out with, you'd be foaming at the mouth within a week.
- Lt. James Dempsey: [Dempsey is taking photographs of a model on a motorcycle] Yeah, life is hard, then you die.
- Photographer: Pardon?
- Lt. James Dempsey: Everybody should read the New York Times.
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: But as you're living in London, I really think you ought to read an Evening Standard occasionally.
- Lt. James Dempsey: The Evening Standard is not a paper, it's a postage stamp.
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Well if you want something big enough to sleep under, at least buy the London Times.
- Lt. James Dempsey: I'll tell you what, I'll get two copies, and we can head for the park, huh?
- [wraps his American newspaper around Makepeace]
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Eh, she lived alone, chief. Worked for a small agency.
- Chief Supt. Gordon Spikings: I'm not a red Indian, Makepeace, I'm a detective superintendent. If you want to call me anything, call me 'sir'. Still picking up bad habits?
- [indicating Dempsey]
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Still trying not to, sir.
- Lt. James Dempsey: [having been dropped off by Makepeace in the middle of Albert bridge] You're all heart, Harry. It's made of steal.
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: So, I've been checking the address book that Chas found at her flat.
- Chief Supt. Gordon Spikings: You're not going to tell me she had the whole Tory party down in alphabetical order, are you? 'Cause if you do, I shall start laughing. I shall go: Ho. Ho. Ho.
- Chief Supt. Gordon Spikings: And by the way, where is Starsky or Butch or whatever he calls himself?
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: I dropped him on Albert Bridge. he wanted to do some legwork.
- [winks]
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: [Dempsey and Makepeace enter a ransacked house] Hm. Looks just like your place.
- Lt. James Dempsey: After the maid came.
- Lt. James Dempsey: [waiting for Davis to make a move] How do you feel about traffic duty right now?
- Det. Sgt. Harry Makepeace: Yeah, the hours are good.
- Lt. James Dempsey: I like the little white gloves.