- Kevin Sullivan: I'm thinking, Kelly, I'm thinking that maybe there's been a little progress in the police department after all. I remember fifteen years ago a rookie cop walks into a DOA scene, sees his partner taking money off a dead person and putting it into his pocket. And for giving him up, this rookie is hung out to dry by every cop on the job.
- Det. John Kelly: You think the old man could have had a heart attack or a stroke?
- EMS Officer: Sure. Before or after he fell thorugh the railing?
- Jack Hanlan: Back then we had an Irish Department. Oh we had some Guineas, we had Jews, we even had a few Niggers, but it was an Irish Department and this city was livable. Harlem before the '64 riots, you could walk down the street, you could do your shopping, you could talk to the Spades like they were people, they even treated each other like human beings. You're a young guy Kelly, you grew up in a different department, in a different city.