“I don't like your work, Conover. I've seen quite a bit of it both here in London and and elsewhere on the continent. Don't like the smell of you either. That underground smell, the sick sweetness of decay. You haven't robbed and killed merely for gain like any ordinary halfway decent thug. No, you're in love with cruelty for it's own sake.”

Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes

- John Connolly: Jimmy's no ordinary criminal.
- FBI Agent Charles McGuire: Well, you're right about that.
- FBI Agent Charles McGuire: [reading from dossier] "A vicious animal who won't take no for an answer." "Violent decisiveness at any hint of betrayal." Oh! "A ripened psychopath determined to succeed above all else."
Joel Edgerton - John Connolly
Kevin Bacon - FBI Agent Charles McGuire

“My mama used to say that America's the big melting pot. You bring it to a boil and all the scum rises to the top.”
Billie Neal - Bobbie

“You'd like it here, you know. We've got everything. Power cuts, strikes, unemployment, race riots, and a terrific crime rate.”

Sir Sean Connery - Paul Bradley

“You want to know what my crime is? My crime was being born. I'm thirty-eight years old, and I've been locked up twenty-six of those. I educated myself in here, and I've come to understand that this country was built on exploiting the black man.”

Brent Jennings - Abdul Elijah