- Minister: A city sewn up tight but safely... a city where hooligans are kept in check and suspicious characters are forced to move on. For God's sake, George, to most law-abiding citizens it sounds like Utopia!
- George Cowley: Aye... That's what they thought about Hitler's Germany!
- [the draconian regime instigated by Chief Constable Green has just been toppled]
- Chief Constable Green: It was Chives. He took it upon himself. Overstepped his authority.
- George Cowley: Chives was a runaway truck, careering downhill, running over the guilty *and* the innocent. A runaway truck. But *you* released the handbrake.
- Chief Constable Green: [horrified] George!
- George Cowley: [snarling] The name is Cowley! *Mister* Cowley! I don't know what we'll be able to make stick against you, Green, but I do know that whatever the outcome, you'll never have authority again. Not even to see kids across the road.
- Chief Constable Green: [plaintively] My motives - what I did - I thought was in the public interest.
- George Cowley: Aye. That's the tragedy.