Brock Peters credited as playing...
Chief Hatcher
- [last lines]
- Det. Thorn: Ocean's dying, plankton's dying... it's people. *Soylent Green is made out of people.* They're making our food out of people. Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle for food. You've gotta tell them. You've gotta tell them!
- Hatcher: I promise, Tiger. I promise. I'll tell the Exchange.
- Det. Thorn: You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You've gotta tell them! Soylent Green is people! We've gotta stop them somehow!
- Hatcher: And what about the furniture?
- Det. Thorn: [motions to chest] Like grapefruit.
- Hatcher: [chuckles] You never saw a grapefruit.
- Det. Thorn: You never saw her.
- Hatcher: What's the story with the Simonson homicide?
- Det. Thorn: It was carefully set up to make it look like he was killed after he caught some punk burglarizing his apartment.
- Hatcher: What do you think it was?
- Det. Thorn: It was an assassination. A well-planned assassination.
- Hatcher: You know this for a fact?
- Det. Thorn: Four reasons. One: the alarm system in the building was out of order for the first time in two years. Two: the bodyguard who was supposed to be protecting him was conveniently out shopping. Three: the punk that broke into the apartment didn't take anything. And four: the punk who killed Simonson was no punk because he used a meat hook instead of a gun to make it look like a punk.
- Hatcher: Well, if the punk didn't take anything from the apartment, what did you take?
- Det. Thorn: Everything I could lay my hands on.
- Hatcher: So, you finally made it. Do you know what time it is?
- Det. Thorn: You tell me. You're the only one here who has a wristwatch.
- Hatcher: I can't. The damn thing won't run.
- Det. Thorn: You know what, Lieutenant?
- Hatcher: What?
- Det. Thorn: [tossing back Hatcher's wristwatch] I think it really is broken this time.