"[Teasing Angel Mercer] She's got a boyfriend, she's got hard dick in her right now. She screaming somebody else's name and the last thing she's doing is thinking about is your black ass."

"Mark Wheeler - Pengelly"

"Jack McGee - Schmidt"

"Kevin Casey as Nightingale"

"Juan Ramirez - Ray Santos"

"Cedric Young - Grindle"

"Anthony Mockus, Sr. - Chief John Fitzgerald"

"J. T. Walsh - Alderman Martin Swayzak"

"Jason Gedrick - Tim Krizminski"

"Donald Sutherland - Ronald Bartel"

"Rebecca De Mornay - Helen McCaffrey"

"Jennifer Jason Leigh - Jennifer Vaitkus"

"Scott Glenn - John "Axe" Adcox"

"Robert De Niro - Inspector Donald "Shadow" Rimgale"

"William Baldwin - Brian McCaffrey"

"Kurt Russell - Lt. Stephen "Bull" McCaffrey/Capt. Dennis McCaffrey"

"In that instant it can create a hero... or cover a secret."

"One breath of oxygen and it explodes in a deadly rage."

"Silently behind a door, it waits."

"Ronald Bartel: The funny thing about firemen is... Night and day they are always firemen."

"Ricco, Pathologist: [to Brian about picking up the burned body] Jesus Christ! He's not going to sell you insurance, pick him up!"

"[Rimgale and Brian crash Alderman Swayzak's press conference] These detectives would like to question you on how come you paid Donald Cosgrove, Jeffrey Holcomb and Alan Seagrave to create a phony manpower study! Ask him who made money off firemen dying!"

"Jesus, Stevie, you never know when to quit, do you? Do you ever wonder why you're stuck a fucking lieutenant for life?"

"I'm not gonna quit, Stephen. You hear me?"

"Look at him. That's my brother, Goddamn it."

"The only problem is that in this job is there's just no place to hide. It's not like having a bad day selling log cabins. You have a bad day here and somebody dies... and that's just not fucking good enough."

"Well, I thinks its union bylaw that if you get your picture in the paper, even if it's bullshit, that you gotta buy the whole company a drink."

"I told you to stay right be-fucking-side me, Brian!"

"You go, we go."

"One case of scotch, Brian? Man, you're getting cheap in your old age!"

"How do you do it, man? How do you manage to keep coming up with new and amazing ways to fuck up? I mean, that Scotch bullshit? Am I really supposed to believe you came crawlin' home because you felt heartstrings moan for the family biz? You were bankrupt, man! The scary thing is, you probably coulda got away with it for awhile."

"Goddamn you, Gaerity. Look what you've done."

"Chris O'Neill - Boyle"

"Mike Starr - Francis, The Barkeeper"

"Cuba Gooding Jr. - Bomb Squad Class Member"

"Ruben Santiago-Hudson - Officer Blanket"

"Loyd Catlett - Officer "Bama""

"Christofer de Oni - Officer Robby Cortez"

"Caitlin Clarke - Officer Rita"

"John Finn - Captain Fred Roarke"

"Stephi Lineburg - Lizzie"

"Forest Whitaker - Officer Anthony Franklin"

"Lucinda Weist - Nancy"

"Faleena Hopkins - Gaerity's Sister"