Investigation quotes

“- Lincoln Rhyme: Pull up a chair. I want you to tell me everything you know about the crime scene.
- Amelia Donaghy: Basically, you saw my report.
- Lincoln Rhyme: I read your report. I wanna know what you felt. What you feel... in the deepest recesses of your senses.”
Denzel Washington - Lincoln Rhyme
Angelina Jolie - Amelia Donaghy

“- Brenner: What's worse than rape?
- Colonel Robert Moore: When you find that out... then you'll know everything, won't you?”

John Travolta - Paul Brenner
James Woods - Colonel Moore

“Half a tick, Mr. Holmes. You can't go walking into someone's residence, poking about their personal possessions, disrupting their privacy... that's for Scotland Yard.”
Jeffrey Jones - Inspector Lestrade

“- Eddie Valiant: The job will cost you a hundred bucks, plus expenses.
- R.K. Maroon: A hundred bucks? That's ridiculous!
- Eddie Valiant: So's the job.”
Bob Hoskins - Eddie Valiant
Alan Tilvern - R.K. Maroon

“- Mercenary #3: Empty your pockets. I said empty your goddamn pockets right now!
- Bobby Zachs: All right, all right, all right man. I'm just a kid, man, c'mon I'm just a kid! I'm trying to tell you, I lost it down there, I ripped my pocket, everything fell out. The only thing I've got in my pocket, man, is your ass!”
Scott Sowers - Mercenary #3
Morris Chestnut - Bobby Zachs

“- Inspector Winship: How could Lord Morley write us after he was already dead?
- Dr. Tart: Right! You know what? Maybe whoever killed Lord Morley wrote that letter.
- Inspector Winship: If you killed Lord Morley would you write to someone and ask them to find the killer?
- Dr. Tart: Are you saying I killed Lord Morley?
- Inspector Winship: No!...” (continue)(continue reading)
Don Knotts - Inspector Winship
Tim Conway - Dr. Tart

“There's a conspiracy here. The doctor, the reverend, the notary, and the magistrate. What is the secret that unites them? Magistrate Philipse knew there were five bodies to four graves, knew the widow was pregnant, but would not tell me the name of the father. What does this point to? We must proceed by a process of elimination. I shall make a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Johnny Depp - Ichabod Crane

“- Det. Len Gamble: What do you have?
- Det. Thompson: A tailor, murdered with a pair of scissors.
- Det. Len Gamble: Does anyone else work here?
- Det. Thompson: The dead guy's wife.
- Det. Len Gamble: Find her, she may be able to help.”
Lewis Arlt - Det. Len Gamble
Peter Gumeny - Det. Thompson

“Wherever he goes, he will feel hundreds of eyes are staring his way. No matter what he does, no matter where he goes, he will feel hunted. And my friends, you are looking at the hunter!”

Richard Crenna - Lieutenant Fergus Falls

“If I never came to this place, these people would be somewhere else right now. Out shopping or watching TV. But instead, they're here looking for Gene. Afraid something bad has happened. But who could say? My opinion is you could miss a body in a search like this. We keep our eyes to the ground, but we're told to look at the trees as well. I...” (continue)(continue reading)

Owen Wilson - Vann

“- Fenster: Man, I had a finger up my asshole tonight.
- Hockney: Is it Friday already?”

Benicio del Toro - Fenster
Kevin Pollak - Hockney

“- Leo Getz: Leo Getz, private investigator.
- Martin Riggs: Private investigator? Yes, Mr. Getz, I was just wondering if you'd be willing to investigate my privates.
- Leo Getz: Investigate what?
- Martin Riggs: My privates, you stupid shit.”

Joe Pesci - Leo Getz
Mel Gibson - Martin Riggs

“- Lynn Bracken: He takes a cut of our earnings and invests it for us. He doesn't let us use narcotics and he doesn't abuse us. Can your policeman's mentality grasp those contradictions?
- Bud White: He had you cut to look like Veronica Lake.
- Lynn Bracken: No. I'm really a brunette, but the rest is me.”

Kim Basinger - Lynn Bracken
Russell Crowe - Bud White

“- Nick Lassiter: That information can only come from one source; you got a man inside!
- Inspector John Becker: We had a man inside.
- Nick Lassiter: They killed him, right?
- Inspector John Becker: If it was going to be easy, I'd get my missus to do it.”
Tom Selleck - Nick Lassiter
Bob Hoskins - Inspector John Becker

“People know they're being followed when they turn around and see someone following them. They can't tell they're being followed if you get there first.”
Bill Pullman - Daryl Zero

“- John Book: The man who was killed tonight was a policeman, and it's my job to find out what happened. I want you to tell me everything you saw when you went into the bathroom.
- Samuel: There were two.
- John Book: There were two men?
- Samuel: I only saw one.”
Harrison Ford - John Book
Lukas Haas - Samuel

“What you are gonna do gentlemen, is you're gonna make my word good. The target is cops, the weapon is indictments. And I don't give one infinitesimal fuck if they are indictments that will stick or not. Because to a cop any indictment means a departmental trial, which is a euphemism for finished. End of gun, badge, pension, and pals. So I want...” (continue)(continue reading)

Bobby Alto - Mr. Kanter

“- Harry: I was just telling these guys about that accident last night. Find out who that guy was?
- Dan Gillis: Not a thing. No ID. No license plates. No nothing.
- Ernie: Dan, old buddy, with that fancy salary the city of Potters Bluff pays you, and the amount of money the state spends getting you educated, you ought to be able to find some clues.”
Robert Englund - Harry
James Farentino - Sheriff Dan Gillis
Bill Quinn - Ernie

“- Hans Lehman: I must advise you, we may require some more questions at a later date.
- Lisa: You may require questions? You bring me here at a time of sorrow asking questions. Stupid questions. While my uncle is murdered in a public place.”
John Van Dreelen - Hans Lehman
Marthe Keller - Lisa

“Really, Watson, I think you underestimate my own natural deductive abilities.”
Sir Michael Caine - Sherlock Holmes

“- Mrs. Salome Otterbourne: Do forgive me for butting in, but I have a bet with my daughter here, that you're Hercules Porridge, the famous French sleuth.
- Hercule Poirot: Not quite. I am Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian sleuth.”
Dame Angela Lansbury - Mrs. Salome Otterbourne
Peter Alexander Ustinov - Hercule Poirot