Carroll O'Connor credited as playing...
Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie
- Linda Ainslee: Am I supposed to dissolve into a puddle of tears here? Sorry, you lose again.
- Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie: I know what you are. You're an accomplice. You're a sadistic silent partner, and you make me sick. You make me sick!
- [goes out the door]
- Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie: You-make-me-sick!
- Sgt. V.L. 'Bubba' Skinner: Say Chief, What you say I take the music man for an old time ride before I bring him in , huh?
- Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie: Bubba, Please leave that kind of talk in the past. Will you just go get the man?
- Sgt. V.L. 'Bubba' Skinner: Yes sir.
- Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie: And don't touch him more than you have to make a lawful arrest.
- Sgt. V.L. 'Bubba' Skinner: Yea.
- [Turns to walk away]
- Sgt. V.L. 'Bubba' Skinner: . Yea.
- Sgt. V.L. 'Bubba' Skinner: Well then, Mr. Ainslee, tell me this. Why in the world do you think that Mrs. Tibbs positively identified you as the man who raped her, huh?
- Stephen Ainslee: I don't know. Maybe she's disturbed or having some sort of hysterical reaction or something.
- Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie: I think I'm going to have "some sort of hysterical reaction or something" if I don't get you out of my sight.
- Stephen Ainslee: Only too glad to leave.
- Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie: But you're not leaving.
- Stephen Ainslee: Where we going?
- Chief William O. 'Bill' Gillespie: Where we going? Bubba, tell him where he's going.
- Sgt. V.L. 'Bubba' Skinner: Why, you're going to a cell.