- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: D'you know where Red is?
- Jo: You never stop, do you?
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: Stop?
- Jo: You're like a little clockwork ferret - wind you up, point you in the right direction and off you run.
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: I stop when they stop. That's the the name of the game.
- [the previous day, when a villain threatened Regan with a broken bottle, Regan froze for a moment. Now he wonders if he is getting too old to do the job]
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: I'm overweight - you know that, George?
- Det. Sgt. George Carter: Is this strictly relevant?
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: I drink too much, I smoke too much. Most of the time I sit on my arse, and when I'm not doing that, I'm chasing after some lunatic whose sole intention, given half the chance, is to smash me bloody head in.
- Det. Sgt. George Carter: That is, if you manage to get there on time.
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: Right.
- Det. Sgt. George Carter: You're not still going on about the other day, are you?
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: It happened, though, didn't it? And d'you know why?
- Det. Sgt. George Carter: [humourously] Your trousers fell down!
- Det. Insp. Jack Regan: Consequences, George. For one split second I thought of the consequences. For one split second I looked at that bottle in his hand, and I thought "If he uses that and I'm too slow...".