- Detective Nick Ferro: Either of you jocks so much as move, you wind up at the morgue in a Dixie Cup.
- Lt. Theo Kojak: Absolutely no way the killer could've gotten past you?
- Ingram: Not through the front lobby, no, sir. Seven p.m to seven a.m. nobody enters or exits that I don't okay. Tradespeople, tenants, guests, everybody logs in and out. Everybody.
- Lt. Theo Kojak: Seven to seven and no relief. You must have cement kidneys.
- Detective Nick Ferro: [Ferro invites Kojak back home for a drink] Retsina okay?
- Lt. Theo Kojak: Retsina? You gotta be kidding. You're actually holding?
- Detective Nick Ferro: It's not exactly in big demand. Five years and I still have the same bottle you gave us for our housewarming. It doesn't spoil, does it?
- Lt. Theo Kojak: [smiles] Spoil? You buy it rotten. You could drop a dead cat into it, it wouldn't make any difference.
- Bartender: You know, a funny thing: some joker was in here a couple of weeks ago asking about the same blonde.
- Lt. Theo Kojak: Can you describe him?
- Bartender: [blows through his teeth] Hey, women I remember, dad, but, eh, men? Well they're, eh, they're just like suits and ties to me, you know?
- Prince: [on phone] You can put my name at the top of your Christmas list. Guess what we found in the shower drain?
- Lt. Theo Kojak: [on other line] A redhead... Prince, you're a pussycat.
- Foster Bridges: Kojak... now that's some heavy, heavy necktie you got. I mean a cat on the loose would cop an awful lot of heavy, heavy trade with a tie like that.
- Lt. Theo Kojak: Foster, you drive a hard bargain.
- [starts to take off his tie to give it to Foster]
- Lt. Theo Kojak: Oh, Frank, it hurts. I pinned the gold on him myself.
- Capt. Frank McNeil: Theo, don't gouge yourself. He kept it polished.
- Lt. Theo Kojak: Hm-hm. Until last night...
- Lt. Theo Kojak: What's the point? Where would you go? If the subway went to Outer Mongolia, I'd still come after you.
- Lt. Theo Kojak: [Polichek explains how he found a dead body because of Victrola music playing loudly] Well it's not playing now.
- Mr. Polichek: Ja, of course, I turned it off.
- Lt. Theo Kojak: You shouldn't have done that, Mr. Polichek. Did you touch anything else?
- Mr. Polichek: [nervous] Ja, ja, ja, of course, the doorknob.
- Lt. Theo Kojak: [to Ferro] But I should worry, I got you and Olney on the job. I can take two weeks in the Catskills.
- Dr. Agajanian: One week. Olneys been scratched. Of course it's a long time since I probed the vitals of a living person, but a first year med student could diagnose the fact that Detective Olney has a ruptured appendix.
- Det. Olney: Sorry partner, I thought it was just a case of measles.
- Detective Nick Ferro: Well then, eh, Bridges is our boy?
- Lt. Theo Kojak: [sarcastic cuckle] Well he can't be in two places at once, can he? And one place we know he was when Forsyth was being killed, was in the Tombs, sweating out a B and E. But the gun wasn't at the tombs. And a piece doesn't care who uses it.