- Inspecteur Pascal: Listen, Deval, stick to the press release.
- le journaliste Deval: Well, for once I was almost going to tell the truth!
- Planquine: It's not a testimony, it's a serial novel. It stops at the precise moment when it becomes interesting.
- Legal: For a first criminal case, it's a piece of cake.
- Inspecteur Pascal: One always says that about other people's cases
- Dalbret: Stéphane Machau, another friend of Jacques Sartory's.
- Marcheau: Pleased to meet you.
- Inspecteur Pascal: Pascal... Inspector Pascal from the Police Judiciaire.
- Marcheau: Pleased to meet you all the same.
- Liliane Roy: It's impossible.
- Inspecteur Pascal: Why?
- Liliane Roy: Because you're intelligent.
- Inspecteur Pascal: But you told me earlier I was crazy. Well It's true that one can be both at the same time.
- Planquine: My boy, there are no miracles in policing, except in crime novels. It's a difficult, thankless, unpopular job, a job without glory, made up of patience and hard work. I know my men, I know how to choose and I've chosen you.
- Inspecteur Pascal: Boss, you're really a top-notch fellow!
- Thérèse: Well done! Sherlock Holmes shaking hands with Fouché!