Investigation quotes

- Sheriff Hank Dawson: So, where's your uglier half?
- A.J. "Stoney" Stoneman: I left him out there to deal with Martinez.
- Sheriff Hank Dawson: I'm gonna have to drag my ass all the way up there to investigate a double homicide?
- A.J. "Stoney" Stoneman: A man can't sit around all day drinking coffee.
Keith Carradine - Sheriff Hank Dawson
Peter Fonda - A.J. "Stoney" Stoneman

“- Andrew Pennington: What the hell is going on?
- Hercule Poirot: We're going through your private papers, sir, isn't that obvious?”
George Kennedy - Andrew Pennington
Peter Alexander Ustinov - Hercule Poirot

“- Romulus: There is something I kind of have my heart set on.
- Lulu: What?
- Romulus: It's something I want more than chocolates or a car, or...
- Lulu: What do you want, Daddy?
- Romulus: The autopsy report on Scotty Gates.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Romulus
Aunjanue Ellis - Lulu

- Brenner: Did you... play together?
- Colonel Robert Moore: What a truly excellent question. You see, here at Psy Ops, that's one of the things that we teach - Threatening quietly. Think of the echoes inherent in those four simple words. "Did you... Play together?". Did you go out with her? Did you fuck her? Did you love her? If you did... Did... (continue)(continue reading)

John Travolta - Paul Brenner
James Woods - Colonel Moore

“- M.J. Monahan: Nobody in this department has ever worked a serial case before.
- Lt. Quinn: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I have.
- M.J. Monahan: The Zodiac, right?
- Lt. Quinn: That's right.
- M.J. Monahan: Did anyone ever catch the Zodiac, sir, or did he die of old age?”

Holly Hunter - M.J. Monahan
J.E. Freeman - Lt. Quinn

“- Judge John Channing: Are you trying to tell me that while every policeman in the state was looking for you, you were serving dinner to the district attorney, his wife and our governor? How is that possible?
- Nick Gardenia: Well... you have to prepare everything in advance.”
Harold Gould - Judge John Channing
Chevy Chase - Nicholas Gardenia

“- Sgt. Aloysius 'Al' Mackey: Now, Marty - he's a religious guy. It doesn't seem to help him much. We see things sometimes, cops; that other people don't see. It leaves stains.
- Willie: When you're investigating and collecting clues?
- Sgt. Aloysius 'Al' Mackey: We don't collect clues - we collect garbage and pray somebody confesses. That's...” (continue)(continue reading)
James Garner - Sgt. Aloysius 'Al' Mackey
Margot Kidder - Willie

“Solving mysteries was a lot more fun than selling them.”
B.J. Ward - Velma Dinkley

“- Kent: Come up with anything yet?
- Brenner: No. Just a preliminary list of suspects.
- Kent: Already. Who?
- Brenner: Everyone.”

Timothy Hutton - Colonel Kent
John Travolta - Paul Brenner

“- Rigby Reardon: If you want me to investigate your father's death, I get ten dollars a day, plus expenses.
- Juliet Forrest: Will two hundred dollars be enough in advance, Mr Reardon?
- Rigby Reardon: Two hundred, I'd shoot my grandmother.
- Juliet Forrest: That won't be neccessary.
- Rigby Reardon: Never can tell. In my last case, I had to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steve Martin - Rigby Reardon
Rachel Ward - Juliet Forrest

“Are you taking my duplication investigation seriously or are you disrespecting my duplication investigation?”
LL Cool J - Captain Patrick Zevo

“You've been digging, Luke, and if you keep digging you'll be digging your own grave.”
Paul William Walker IV - Caleb Mandrake

“- Detective Sapir: So nobody took the mummy.
- Night Watchman: I would've heard them.
- Detective Sapir: 'Course he would've. What a stupid question. Did you take him?
- Night Watchman: No sir!
- Detective Sapir: Just a shot.”

Stan Shaw - Detective Sapir
Ernie Brown - Night Watchman

“- Fenster: I don't know anything about no fuckin' truck.
- Interrogation Cop: Oh, yeah? Well, your friend McManus told us a different story altogether.
- Fenster: Oh, is that the one about the hooker with the dysentery?”
Benicio del Toro - Fenster
Christopher McQuarrie - Interrogation Cop

“- Miss Piggy: I spy because I care!
- Kermit the Frog: Well I care, too!”
Frank Oz - Miss Piggy
Jim Henson - Kermit the Frog

“Detective without curiosity is like glass eye at keyhole - no good.”
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan

“Dith Pran! P-R-A-N. He disappeared in Phnom Penh in 1975. Pran is his first name. Any information you can give... well, we're hoping for any information at all! He was last seen in '75.”

Sam Waterston - Sydney Schanberg

“I'm on the verge of wrapping up this case.”
Bob Hoskins - Eddie Valiant

“- Mia Baran: I haven't believed foR so long... So when the pool was empty I thought: maybe there is a God. And He knows what we did. And He's coming for us.
- Nicole Horner: It's not God, Honey. That's a lady detective with one breast.”

Isabelle Adjani - Mia Baran
Sharon Stone - Nicole Horner

“- Dr. Edwards: The assailant is highly sophisticated, yet childlike. Vulnerable but canny. Capable of both tenderness and extreme brutality. The murderer is highly intelligent, yet strangely out of touch with reality. Sexual, yet surprisingly innocent. This individual has an insatiable craving for normalcy, which will make your investigation all...” (continue)(continue reading)
Richard Fancy - Dr. Edwards
Charles Busch - Captain Monica Stark

“- Verbal: You tell me, Agent Kujan, if I told you the Loch Ness Monster hired me to hit the harbor, what would you say?
- Dave Kujan: Turn state's evidence; we'll put you on the stand. We'll hear it out.
- Verbal: I've got immunity now, what could you possibly offer me?”
Kevin Spacey - Verbal
Chazz Palminteri - Dave Kujan

“- Arnie Metzger: Stay out of things.
- Helena Ayala: That is going to be rather difficult when all the evidence is against us.”
Dennis Quaid - Arnie Metzger
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Helena Ayala

“- Daniel Challis: Teddy, do me another favor, will you? Find out everything you can about Conal Cochran. He runs Silver Shamrock, the Halloween mask people.
- Teddy: Conal Cochran. Okay, but this is gonna cost you some serious dinners when you get back.
- Daniel Challis: I'm always ready for dinner with you.
- Teddy: Liar. Bye.”
Tom Atkins - Daniel Challis
Wendy Wessberg - Teddy

“I found out more in two hours than you did in two weeks. I know who killed Gerald.”

Liam Neeson - Briar Gates

“- Dr. Watson: Lord Mayor! Don't move until Holmes has searched the area for clues!
- Sherlock Holmes: My God I've trained you well, Watson!”
Ben Kingsley - Dr. Watson
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes