- FBI Agent Smithers: You boys don't seem to understand something. There's a lot of water out there, and it's beginning to lap up around your ears.
- Det. Dave Starsky: Funny. I don't feel wet. You?
- Det. Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson: Dry as a desert.
- Det. Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson: You're newly assigned here, aren't you? Well, you see, my partner and I have been in this precinct for six years.
- Det. Dave Starsky: Seven.
- Det. Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson: Seven years. And we...
- Policewoman: And now you're not and I am. Was anything else missing?
- Det. Dave Starsky: Yeah. How about a great big chunk of my will to live.
- Det. Dave Starsky: Hey.
- Det. Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson: Yeah?
- Det. Dave Starsky: We either try to find out who these guys are, or we try to lose them.
- Det. Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson: Beats the hell outta me.
- Det. Dave Starsky: Hang on.
- [Starsky guns the engine]
- Det. Dave Starsky: Put on the red light.
- Det. Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson: What red light?
- Det. Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson: Nice little car, huh? I call her Belle.
- Det. Dave Starsky: Let's go. We're late.
- Det. Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson: Wait a sec, wait a sec. You didn't tell me what you think.
- Det. Dave Starsky: I don't know. I can't tell you.
- Det. Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson: What's that supposed to mean?
- Det. Dave Starsky: It means I'm embarrassed.
- Det. Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson: Embarrassed about what?
- Det. Dave Starsky: A grown man doesn't drive a car like that. Not a grown man
- FBI Agent Waldheim: Thomas May is a gentleman who we know all about.
- Det. Dave Starsky: Whom. Whom we know all about.
- FBI Agent Smithers: Now, you boys are beginning to try my patience.
- Det. Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson: Really? Try mine!