Omar Sharif credited as playing...
Commissaire Abel Zacharia
- Abel Zacharia: I chase petty crooks like you. I take all those risks for $300 a month. Don't you find that outrageous?
- Azad: You have fringe benefits. You race around in your car. You sit at whatever table you want. You don't pay in restaurants. It all adds up.
- Azad: We've each got a job to do. You want to do both. That makes complications.
- Abel Zacharia: Not at all, it's very simple. I play both sides. If things go wrong, I start acting like a policeman again.
- Abel Zacharia: Goodbye, Mister... Mister?
- Azad: Azad. It happens to mean "free" in certain language.
- Abel Zacharia: My name is Abel Zacharia. It means nothing at all.
- Abel Zacharia: [after the 9 minute car chase] You know there's a speed limit in this town?
- Azad: Sorry. I'm a foreigner. I can't read signs in your language.
- Abel Zacharia: Numbers are the same in every language. We are very lenient with foreigners. As long as they don't go too far. Do you know how fast you were going?
- Azad: 20? 30? 40? 50? Don't tell me I was doing 60 - right in the middle of town?
- Abel Zacharia: You were doing 90.
- Azad: Oh, my foot must have got wedged on the accelerator.
- Azad: What do you get in this country for killing a dirty bastard?
- Abel Zacharia: You get hanged. I get a medal - posthumously. They always catch a cop-killer.
- Azad: That's the risk I take.