Philip Goodwin credited as playing...
Deputy Chief Renard
- Deputy Chief Renard: And who is this incompetent?
- Chief Inspector Dreyfus: Oh, I think I know the perfect man for the job. Find him and bring him to Paris. His name is Clouseau.
- Chief Inspector Dreyfus: [sarcastically] Well, this is a glorious day for France.
- Inspector Jacques Clouseau: How so, chief inspector?
- Chief Inspector Dreyfus: Because a stupid idiot named Clouseau is going to be stripped of his rank while I take over his case.
- Inspector Jacques Clouseau: You have a second man named Clouseau?
- Chief Inspector Dreyfus: [mutters softly] My God. Leave us alone for a moment. You, out. Go, go. Go. I must have a private word with Inspector Clouseau.
- [Everyone, except for Renard and Ponton leaves the room]
- Chief Inspector Dreyfus: Understand something, Clouseau. When I made you an inspector, it was not because I thought you had any value as a detective. It was because I thought you were the stupidest policeman in all of France. A hopeless, deluded idiot.
- Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Then I was not promoted for my merits?
- Chief Inspector Dreyfus: I only made you inspector because I needed someone who would quietly get nowhere until I was ready to take over the case myself.
- Inspector Jacques Clouseau: I was trying to catch a killer.
- Chief Inspector Dreyfus: You were trying-- You were trying to become a hero. Well, you will be stripped of your rank, ridiculed by the media, and I will be done with you. And now if you will excuse me, ex-Inspector, I must go and prepare for the arrest which will win me the Medal of Honor, catapult me to the National Assembly, and after that, who knows? Goodbye, Clouseau.
- Deputy Chief Renard: Shall we lock him up?
- Chief Inspector Dreyfus: Look at him. He is finished. Let him go home to obscurity.
- [He and Renard leave the room]
- Chief Inspector Dreyfus: [He looks at Ponton with disappointment] You knew?