- Abby Taylor: [to Jessie Stone] Larry, Curly, and Moe want to talk with you.
- Comden: On behalf of the town council, Jim, and Carter, and I thought we ought to get brought up to speed on things.
- Hansen: So, what's really going on?
- Chief Jesse Stone: We have two killings. We're not sure whether it's the same weapon or weapons.
- Hansen: That's all you know?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Correct.
- Hansen: You don't have any clues, nothing?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Correct.
- Jim Burns: Well, hell.
- Comden: I told you he wasn't a talker.
- Hansen: So what do we tell the press?
- Chief Jesse Stone: I like "no comment."
- Comden: Well, what is it you have your officers doing over at the high school?
- Hansen: Maybe you could allocate your personnel a little better.
- Jim Burns: Damn it, don't you talk?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Only when I have something to say.
- Hansen: Couldn't we get this thing resolved quicker with F.B.I. or state help?
- Chief Jesse Stone: The F.B.I. and state police bring the national media. You won't like this town when they're through with it.
- Hansen: Look, we think you should take all the resources you have and concentrate on the killings.
- Chief Jesse Stone: I'm a cop. I've been a cop for a long time. I'm good at it. I know how to do this. You don't.
- Jim Burns: Damn it, we can fire you.
- Chief Jesse Stone: You can. But you can't tell me what to do.
- Chief Jesse Stone: You shoot, you always shoot to kill. It's not like in the movies. You've got about a half a second to figure out what needs to be done.
- Abby Taylor: I guess you need to be that way if you're a policeman.
- Chief Jesse Stone: Maybe I'm a policeman because I am that way.
- Bo Marino: I'm walkin' out of here.
- Chief Jesse Stone: No, you're not.
- Bo Marino: You think you can stop me?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Of course I can. You're all show muscle. Hell, a 120-pound woman hauled you in here in handcuffs.
- Chief Jesse Stone: i *know* who killed them.
- Captain Healy: Do you have motive?
- Chief Jesse Stone: No.
- Captain Healy: Witnesses?
- Chief Jesse Stone: No.
- Captain Healy: Weapon?
- Chief Jesse Stone: No.
- Captain Healy: Hell, I'll warm up a cell right now.
- Candace Pennington: Did you ever box?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Oh, I don't box, I fight.
- Candace Pennington: What's the difference?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Rules.
- Candace Pennington: There's a dog here. What's his name?
- Chief Jesse Stone: What do you think his name is?
- Candace Pennington: Reggie.
- Chief Jesse Stone: You think he's looks like a Reggie?
- Candace Pennington: It's what it says on his collar.
- Chief Jesse Stone: Oh.
- Chief Jesse Stone: How quickly can your people match the bullets to the ones from the first victim?
- Captain Healy: I'm the state homicide commander. I'm not God.
- Chief Jesse Stone: I thought they were the same thing.
- Captain Healy: Think how disappointed *I* am. It could be a long process.
- Chief Jesse Stone: The sooner we confirm it, the sooner we'll have the national media on us.
- Captain Healy: The process just got longer.
- Chief Jesse Stone: [sincerely] Thanks.
- Chief Jesse Stone: They seem to have an interest in me, and maybe I can encourage them to develop it.
- Captain Healy: So these to people, they have an interest in killing people, and now they seem to have an interest in killing you?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Is this a great country or what?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Looks like 0.22s.
- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: It's a murder, isn't it, Jessie?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Probably.
- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: Do you think the tide washed him up here?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Uh... a body that's been in the ocean and washed up on shore doesn't look like that.
- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: More beat up.
- Chief Jesse Stone: Yep.
- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: He's got some marks on his face.
- Chief Jesse Stone: That would be the gulls.
- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: Uh... could have lived without knowin' that.
- Dr. Perkins: Anthony said on the phone we got a murder?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Well, you're the crime scene guy, Doc, but there's two bullet holes in his chest.
- Dr. Perkins: Well, that'll be a clue.
- Chief Jesse Stone: In all the years I've been a cop, I've never heard the police chief referred to as "skipper".
- Abby Taylor: I hope you don't take this in any negative way, but you may be the simplest person I've ever met. You know what you know, and you do what you do, and you just keep doing it. Like a mule.
- Chief Jesse Stone: Or a jackass.
- Chief Jesse Stone: Smart criminals don't use registered guns to commit murder.
- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: You think he's smart?
- Chief Jesse Stone: He or she.
- Reporter: You the Chief?
- Chief Jesse Stone: I am.
- Reporter: How can you aren't in uniform?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Casual Tuesday.
- Chief Jesse Stone: Suit. Write me up statement for the local paper about how we have this all under control.
- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: Me?
- Chief Jesse Stone: Yeah, you're good at that.
- Luther 'Suitcase' Simpson: I am?