Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)

Pat Corley: Lt. Palmyra

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• Lt. Palmyra : Not only did you screw up the stakeout, but another little old lady was mugged. And to make matters worse, we're the laughingstock of the whole 28th precinct. And by the time those crumbs get through spreading it around town, we'll be the laughingstock of the whole god damn New York City police force.

  Sergeant Clifton Sleigh : With all due respect, I...

  Lt. Palmyra : What respect? What do you know about respect? You sure as hell don't respect me.

  Sergeant Clifton Sleigh : Oh, yes, I do.

  Lt. Palmyra : I got an ulcer, I'm losing my hair, and you're driving me straight to the funny farm! You call that respect?

• Sergeant Clifton Sleigh : What happened tonight was not entirely my fault.

  Lt. Palmyra : Three years on the police force, you don't know how to handle a common drunk?

  Sergeant Clifton Sleigh : You had to be there.

  Lt. Palmyra : Sleigh... if it wasn't for the fact that you're a third-generation police officer, and that your father was not only my captain but my daughter's godfather, and a close personal friend of nearly twenty years, I'd have you back doing guard duty at the public library!

  Sergeant Clifton Sleigh : I request no special attention because of my family.

  Lt. Palmyra : Don't tell me what you request! I owe your old man! Your grandfather talked me into being a cop! He used to walk the toughest beat in Boston, all he carried was a rolled-up newspaper!

  Sergeant Clifton Sleigh : He still carries it.

• Lt. Palmyra : Sleigh, until this came, I was a desperate man faced with two choices: retirement or murdering you.

  Sergeant Clifton Sleigh : Gee, I don't know what to say.

  Lt. Palmyra : Fortunately, you don't have to say anything. The police commissioner said it for both of us. Congratulations, Sleigh. You're assigned to special duty with the Sûreté.

  Sergeant Clifton Sleigh : Sûreté? Me? Paris, France? There must be some mistake.

  Lt. Palmyra : Oh, undoubtedly.

  Sergeant Clifton Sleigh : I trust you'll bring this error to the commissioner's attention.

  Lt. Palmyra : I considered it. But then I remembered the immortal words of Theodore Doppler, the Cousebay Strangler whose death sentence was commuted two minutes before they pulled the switch. "Never look a gift horse in the mouth."

  [opening his office door] 

  Lt. Palmyra : Bon voyage, Sleigh. Bon voyage.