- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: [Examining a logo on a piece of evidence] Whaddaya call it?
- Inspector Steve Keller: It's a unicorn.
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: Unicorn, that's it. What do you know about unicorns, buddy-boy?
- Inspector Steve Keller: Unicorn. Singular. Not more than one. Used a lot in ancient myths. There's only one way to catch it.
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: How's that?
- Inspector Steve Keller: Well, it lays its head in the lap of a virgin.
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: Well, now, you would know that. Information like that's gonna get you right to the top, buddy-boy!
- Abel Hoffman: Two cops were shot with this gun.
- Father Joe Skarn: You did that?
- Abel Hoffman: Same as. I was there.
- Father Joe Skarn: No, it's not the same. Not if you didn't pull the trigger.
- Abel Hoffman: It is to the law.
- Father Joe Skarn: Not God's law.
- Abel Hoffman: I don't know nothin' about God's law, Scarne. But I do know what cops do to guys they think killed cops.
- Abel Hoffman: [to Father Scarne] Don't talk to me about dreams, okay? I heard the dreams you dish out to those losers over at your mission. Nothin' matters now. "It'll be better in Heaven." Well, I want it now, and I'm gonna get it.
- Father Joe Skarn: Look, we're both pros, Mike. We both go to the book for all our answers, only there's a difference in the books.