- Inspector Steve Keller: [When Stone stops to buy a newspaper] Checking the box scores?
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: Yeah. If Chris knows anything about this Anthony kid, that'll make it a shutout, won't it?
- Inspector Steve Keller: Yeah, old ink fingers, three; fuzz, zip.
- Chris 'Ace' Bane: I take it personally every time a Maggie Ames gets chopped down. Mike, how much good is there left in this world? And how many people are there trying to help what little there is left? You pull Maggie's columns, any one of them, see how she looked at life, at people. Everything she wrote had a smile. Blue skies and whitecaps. Summer storms and rainbows. Snowflakes and holly. The man who killed her scrubbed all that.
- Inspector Steve Keller: [Exiting the ACT Theater after a staging of "Othello"] Play really works too, doesn't it?
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: I guess.
- Inspector Steve Keller: You guess? Whaddaya mean, you guess? Sixteenth Century play that comes to life like that? With such contemporary values? A theme that still holds up?
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: Holds up? I'll tell you what holds up: "Abie's Irish Rose."
- Inspector Steve Keller: "Abie's Irish Rose"? How can you even compare those two plays?
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: They're both plays, aren't they?
- Inspector Steve Keller: Yeah.
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: They both have actors, don't they?
- Inspector Steve Keller: You're puttin' me on.
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: No, I'm not.