- Jim Chee: I don't see how I can do this.
- Wilson Sam: Do what?
- Jim Chee: This case. It's too much.
- Wilson Sam: Wrong, Jim. Cop, medicine man, garbage man... No matter who you are, the dark wind blows on everyone, Jim. You just have to push yourself through it.
- Jim Chee: Did you get a look at 'em?
- German woman: What you say?
- Jim Chee: The boys who took your rental car, do you know what they look like?
- German woman: Oh, all the same. You know, there were Indians, like the two of you.
- [referring to him and Dr. Yazzie]
- Jim Chee: I get it. "Like the two of you."
- [writing in his notebook]
- Emma Leaphorn: Hey, honey. Surfing for porn?
- Lt. Joe Leaphorn: Yeah, right.
- [after he ignores her greeting]
- Jim Chee: You know, you were voted what, ah "Most Likely To Move To Hollywood?"
- Janet Pete: Not that it matters but it was "New York."
- Emma Leaphorn: Hear this Joe? Free medical advice. Hey, Joe has athlete's foot so bad...
- Lt. Joe Leaphorn: For crying out loud, Emma!
- Emma Leaphorn: Oh, don't be embarrassed Joe. Jim here's ah...
- Lt. Joe Leaphorn: Yeah, yeah I know. A medicine man.
- Wilson Sam: You try to walk a straight path in life. When you get to be my age, you look back at your footsteps and you can see where you went wrong.
- Wilson Sam: I don't like it.
- Jim Chee: This isn't about what you like or don't like, it's about keeping you safe.
- Wilson Sam: If I was supposed to live in a beehive, I would've been born a bee. What am I supposed to do in there!
- [referring to a motel]
- Lt. Joe Leaphorn: The young man, is he a resident?
- Nurse: Dr. Stone? He used to run the ER at Santa Fe General. We're still pinching ourselves he moved back here.
- Emma Leaphorn: My husband: The Detective. Be nice.
- Lt. Joe Leaphorn: Give me a hand with this.
- [investigating a grave robbery]
- Officer Gorman: Me? What about Chee?
- Lt. Joe Leaphorn: He's spiritually exempt.
- Officer Gorman: Spiritually exempt, my ass.
- Emma Leaphorn: Do you like to play bingo Doctor?
- Dr. Stone: No, I don't, Mrs. Leaphorn.
- Emma Leaphorn: It's a game of skill.
- Jim Chee: I wasn't out of control.
- Janet Pete: You were. And if Davis was more intelligent or more sober, he'd file a complaint.
- [after arresting Davis]
- Janet Pete: So I've been hearing some talk about you training to be a medicine man. That true?
- Jim Chee: Yup.
- Janet Pete: Wow, a medicine man-cop. Illogical, contradictory, how wonderfully Navajo.
- Emma Leaphorn: I can't tell you how right it feels to be here. Oh, come one. I mean, childhood in Phoenix or not. Joe, can't you... Can't you feel it?
- Lt. Joe Leaphorn: Oh, God, I wish I did. I keep waiting for something, but... nothing.
- Emma Leaphorn: Well, whatever happens from here on out, I'm not leaving.
- Emma Leaphorn: Well, when something bugs you, usually turns out to be important, so I would stay on it. Come one, Joe. You'll solve it. You'll be a little dull until you do, but I know you'll solve it.
- Lt. Joe Leaphorn: You're the best.
- Emma Leaphorn: I know.
- Jim Chee: You say you're a doctor, a healer? Healers don't kill people. Navajo, Western medicine, new or old. We hold the sanctity of life!
- Lt. Joe Leaphorn: You, go on ahead.
- Jim Chee: I can't.
- Lt. Joe Leaphorn: And why not?
- Jim Chee: The ruins. It's not good for healers to be around them.
- Lt. Joe Leaphorn: It's an archaeological dig, Officer Chee. What did you expect to find up here, Easter eggs?
- Emma Leaphorn: You know, you're the most attractive man in this restaurant.
- Lt. Joe Leaphorn: I'm the only man in the restaurant.