“Crime rates have been dropping, dropping, dropping. Fear of crime has been going up, up, up. It doesn't make any sense. But it makes perfect sense when you see what we're hearing from politicians and seeing in the news media.”
Barry Glassner - Himself

“- Sunhill: I thought you hated places like this.
- Brenner: I do. However the murderer may be in this room, sitting all smug and shiny... until we walked in. And now maybe he's a little less smug and a little less shiny. And that's pretty cool, don't you think?”

Madeleine Stowe - Sara Sunhill
John Travolta - Paul Brenner

“- Lord Peter Wimsey: What seems to be the trouble?
- Inspector Kirk: We're reconstructing the crime.”
Robert Montgomery - Lord Peter Wimsey
Leslie Banks - Inspector Kirk

“- Chief Painter: What are you doing here?
- Michael Shayne: Ask me later. I haven't thought of an answer yet.”

Donald MacBride - Chief Painter
Lloyd Nolan - Michael Shayne

“Never again will you dare - in my presence - to condone your crimes under the mask of patriotism.”

Flora Robson - Queen Elizabeth