Michael Douglas credited as playing...
Nick Conklin
- Nick Conklin: Just hope they got a Nip in this building who speaks fucking English.
- Matsumoto Masahiro: [overhearing] Assistant Inspector Matsumoto Masahiro, Criminal Investigation section, Osaka Prefecture police. And I do speak fucking English.
- Sugai: [on Sato] He might as well be an American. His kind respect just one thing: money.
- Nick Conklin: So what are you into it for? Love?
- [He starts to light a cigarette, Sugai's bodyguard yanks it out of his mouth and draws back his fist to punch him, before Sugai snaps out an order. The bodyguard bows quickly and steps back]
- Sugai: I was 10 when the B-29 came. My family lived underground for three days. When we came up the city was gone. Then the heat brought rain. Black rain. You made the rain black, and shoved your values down our throat. We forgot who we were. You created Sato and thousands like him. I'm paying you back.
- Matsumoto Masahiro: Perhaps you should think less of yourself and more of your group, try to work like in Japanese. I grew up with your soldiers; you were wise then. Now - music and movies are all America is good for. We make the machines, we build the future, we won the peace.
- Nick Conklin: And if there was *one* of you guys who had an original idea, you'd be so tight that you couldn't even pull it out of your ass!
- Berg, Internal Affairs: That's a king-sized nut. I admire your thrift
- Nick Conklin: Yeah, well, life's a bitch.
- Crown, Internal Affairs: We did the math, Hero. You're twenty grand in the hole a month. You're into the shylocks, Conklin, you're takin'.
- Nick Conklin: Look, you wanna charge me, you charge me, okay? You wanna jerk off, you go back to your office.
- Nick Conklin: A couple of guys I used to work with in the department took some money from some drug dealers. No big deal.
- Matsumoto Masahiro: They stole?
- Nick Conklin: They liberated funds.
- Matsumoto Masahiro: Theft is theft. There is no gray area.
- Nick Conklin: Hey Matsu, New York is one big gray area.
- Nick Conklin: Sugai-san, I am the solution... to your problems. I can take him out. Okay? I'm nothing but a worthless gaijin and everybody knows he killed my partner.
- Nick Conklin: What are you busting my ass for?
- Joyce: Because you could get me killed, Detective. You see, there's a war going on here, and they don't take prisoners.
- Nick Conklin: What are you talking about?
- Joyce: It's between Sato and an old-time boss, a guy named Sugai.
- Nick Conklin: Who knows about this?
- Joyce: Counting you and me?
- Nick Conklin: Yeah.
- Joyce: Eleven million.
- Joyce: Look, I've been living in this country for seven years, and I still can't read the headlines. Yes means no. Maybe means never.
- Nick Conklin: You still didn't answer my question. How do I get to him?
- Joyce: Let the police handle it. Nobody's going to help a gaijin.
- Nick Conklin: Gaijin?
- Joyce: Yeah, a stranger. A barbarian. A foreigner. Me and you... More you.
- Nick Conklin: Now, you got a counterfeiting ring goin' on & you should talk to your partner before you go to the suits. So fuck you very much!
- Nick Conklin: [handing over his keys] Give that to Internal Affairs. They can water my fucking plants!
- Oliver: [before Nick's meeting with Internal Affairs] You'll walk Nick. If you tell the truth and keep your wits. Run your mouth and they'll screw you man.
- Nick Conklin: I've got nothing to hide.
- Oliver: I hope not, for my sake.
- Nick Conklin: A wise guy gotta eat too, you know. Just my luck, I'm under investigation, I'm havin' lunch with the Mob. Intelligence probably got this place wired.
- Det. Charlie Vincent: Yeah? Well, if you gotta beef, all you gotta do is to talk into my left titty here.
- Nick Conklin: [toast] To those gallant crime fighters in Internal Affairs Division.
- Nick Conklin, Det. Charlie Vincent: Fuck 'em.
