- [Last lines]
- Tanya: Isn't somebody gonna come and take him away?
- Schwartz: Yeah, in just a few minutes. You really liked him didn't you?
- Tanya: The cop did... the one who killed him... he loved him.
- Schwartz: Well, Hank was a great detective all right.
- Tanya: And a lousy cop.
- Schwartz: Is that all you have to say for him?
- Tanya: He was some kind of a man... What does it matter what you say about people?
- Schwartz: Goodbye Tanya.
- Tanya: Adiós.
- [Quinlan fires a pistol at Vargas, not hitting him]
- Quinlan: That wasn't no miss, Vargas. That was just to turn you 'round, so I don't have to shoot you in the back. Unless you'd rather run for it.
- Tanya: We're closed.
- Quinlan: You've been cookin' at this hour?
- Tanya: Just cleanin' up.
- Quinlan: Have you forgotten your old friend, hmm?
- Tanya: I told you we were closed.
- Quinlan: I'm Hank Quinlan.
- Tanya: I didn't recognize you. You should lay off those candy bars.
- Quinlan: It's either the candy or the hooch. I must say, I wish it was your chili I was gettin' fat on. Anyway, you're sure lookin' good.
- Tanya: You're a mess, honey.
- Quinlan: Yeah. That pianola sure brings back memories.
- Tanya: The customers go for it - it's so old, it's new. We got the television too. We run movies. What can I offer you?
- Pete Menzies: Convictions. Sure. How many did you frame?
- Quinlan: Nobody.
- Pete Menzies: Come on, Hank. How many did you frame?
- Quinlan: I told you. Nobody. Nobody that wasn't guilty. Guilty. Guilty.
- Vargas: This isn't the real Mexico. You know that. All border towns bring out the worst in a country. I can just imagine your mother's face if she could see our honeymoon hotel.
- Dist. Atty. Adair: An hour ago, Rudy Linnekar had this town in his pocket.
- Coroner: Now you could strain him through a sieve.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Well, Captain, I'm afraid this is finally something you can't talk your way out of.
- Quinlan: You want to bet?
- Quinlan: An old lady on Main Street last night picked up a shoe. The shoe had a foot in it. We're gonna make you pay for that mess.
- Marcia Linnekar: I guess that's my father.
- Pete Menzies: Now, Miss Linnekar, can you identify the woman.
- Marcia Linnekar: I'm not acquainted with my father's girlfriends.
- Dist. Atty. Adair: Well, here comes Hank at last. Vargas, you've heard of Hank Quinlan, our local police celebrity.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: I'd like to meet him.
- Coroner: That's what you think.
- Pete Menzies: You're a killer.
- Hank Quinlan: Partly. I'm a cop.
- Pete Menzies: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Drunk and crazy as you must have been when you strangled him. I guess you were somehow thinking of your wife, the way she was strangled.
- Hank Quinlan: I'm always thinking of her, drunk or sober. What else is there to think about, except my job, my dirty job?
- Pete Menzies: You didn't have to make it dirty.
- Hank Quinlan: I don't call it dirty. Look at the record, our record, partner. Huh?
- Pete Menzies: Sure, sure, sure.
- Hank Quinlan: Well? All those convictions.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Susie, one of the longest borders on earth is right here between your country and mine. An open border. Fourteen hundred miles without a single machine gun in place. Yeah, I suppose that all sounds very corny to you.
- Susan: I could love being corny, if my husband would only cooperate.
- Quinlan: Our friend Vargas has some very special ideas about police procedures. He seems to think it don't matter whether the killer's hanged or not, as long as we obey the fine print in the rulebook.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Captain, I don't think a policeman should work like a dog catcher.
- Quinlan: No?
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Putting criminals behind bars, no! In any free country, a policeman is supposed to enforce the law and the law protects the guilty as well as the innocent.
- Quinlan: Our job is tough enough.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: It's supposed to be tough! It has to be tough.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: This could be very bad for us.
- Susan: For us?
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: For Mexico, I mean.
- Susan: You know what's wrong with you, Mr Grandi? You've being seeing too many gangster movies. Mike may be spoiling some of your fun.
- 'Uncle' Joe Grandi: Mike?
- Susan: My husband, yeah! And if you're trying to scare me into calling him off, let me tell you something Mr. Grandi. I may be scared, but he wont be.
- Quinlan: Who's the Jane?
- Dist. Atty. Adair: His wife.
- Quinlan: Well, what do you know. She don't look Mexican either.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: You are a policeman, aren't you?
- Quinlan: Aren't you? You don't seem very fond of the job.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: There are plenty of soldiers who don't like war.
- 'Uncle' Joe Grandi: You just said it yourself. Somebody's reputation has got to be ruined. Why shouldn't it be Vargas'.
- 'Uncle' Joe Grandi: In this thing we're partners, see. Shall we - drink to that?
- Quinlan: I don't...
- 'Uncle' Joe Grandi: Juanita, two more double bourbons. Make 'em nice and big.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: You're an honest cop!
- Pete Menzies: Sure, I am. And who made me an honest cop? Hank Quinlan.
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Come on, Menzies.
- Pete Menzies: I am what I am because of him.
- Pete Menzies: All these years you've been playing me for a sucker. Faking evidence.
- Quinlan: Aiding justice, partner.
- Schwartz: Intuition?
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Why not? Quinlan doesn't have a monopoly on hunches.
- Sanchez: What are you trying to do?
- Quinlan: We're trying to strap you to the electric chair, boy.
- Pete Menzies: We don't like it when innocent people are blown to jelly around town.
- Quinlan: There's an old lady on Main Street last night, picked up a shoe and the shoe had a foot in it. We're going to make you pay for that mess.
- Sanchez: [to Vargas] They're trying to railroad me! I don't know why. I never stole any dynamite.
- Vargas: [to Quinlan] What make you so very sure it was dynamite?
- Quinlan: My leg.
- Vargas: Your what?
- Pete Menzies: His game leg. Sometimes he gets a kind of twinge, like folks do for a change of weather. "Intuition," he calls it.
- Zita: Hey, I've got this...
- Customs Officer: Are you an American citizen Miss?
- Zita: No, I got this ticking noise
- Customs Officer: Well, okay.
- Zita: No, really!
- Customs Officer: Good night.
- Zita: This ticking noise in my head!
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Can you tell me who's in charge here?
- Blaine: I can't even tell you what happened.
- Pancho's Friend #1: Lady, he says you don't understand what he wants.
- Susan: I understand very well what he wants.
- Pancho's Friend #2: He save your life, lady.
- Susan: Tell him I'm a married woman and that my husband is a great big official in the government, ready and willing to knock out all those pretty front teeth of his.
- Susan: You silly little pig.
- 'Uncle' Joe Grandi: Who are you talking about?
- Susan: I'm talking about you. You ridiculous, old fashioned, jug-earred, lopsided, little Caesar.
- 'Uncle' Joe Grandi: I didn't get that Señora. You'll have to talk slow.
- Susan: I'm talking slow. But, in a minute I'll start to yell.
- 'Uncle' Joe Grandi: I wouldn't do that Señora.
- Blaine: Why aren't you back in Mexico City? Isn't that dope trial coming up?
- Ramon Miguel 'Mike' Vargas: Grandi's? It's next Thursday. I'd hoped to go back on the morning plane.