- Pete Cochran: The police will give you protection.
- Bob Hardy: In real life, there's no such thing.
- Pete Cochran: Is it the Syndicate? Look, there's nothing they fear more than publicity, right? You make it public, they wouldn't dare hurt you.
- Bob Hardy: You want to put that in writing? Have it notarized and carve it on my tombstone.
- Linc Hayes: I'm truly sorry. But the point is, if he kills Hardy, he'll get the gas chamber. That's three people dead. And who wins?
- Capt. Adam Greer: Go before the grand jury. Tell them who really owns the agency.
- Bob Hardy: I'm Bob Hardy, not Andy Hardy. You want a Boy Scout, go to the junior high school.
- Bob Hardy: You know that business about your whole life flashing before your eyes? Well, Ernest Hemingway's flashed by mine.
- Joseph Bellen: Pack up and get out.
- Bob Hardy: I'll go to the police.
- Joseph Bellen: You'll go nowhere. You'll go nowhere because we own you. We own your car, your house. That two-hundred-dollar suit that doesn't fit. The tie, the monogrammed shirt. The alligator shoes, the bridgework in your mouth. Ours. You own nothing. Nothing! You're a mouth. A piece of meat. A clown. A buffoon. You're a name on a piece of paper.
- [rips sheet of paper in half]
- Joseph Bellen: I tear you up.
- Gloria Hardy: Julie, you tell Pete to stay away from my husband.
- Julie Barnes: But if someone is trying to hurt him, shouldn't we go to the police?
- Gloria Hardy: Oh, what can they do? He's like, like Humpty Dumpty, all shattered. All the policemen in the world can't put him back together again.
