"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."

"My name is Catch. I don't commit any crimes, I walk around town, that's all of it, except for you, the way I feel about you."

"You know what, Sharon? It's not cool that you start showing up around here in your cop uniform, then people will start getting the impression that we're in trouble!"

"Let's talk about something stupid!"

"You're doin it wrong."

"Then I realized that it doesn't have to be perfect... It can be whatever it is."

"The Deeper You Look. The More You Will Find."

"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."

"Juan Ramirez - Ray Santos"

"Kevin Casey as Nightingale"

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

"You go, we go."

"Cedric Young - Grindle"

"Jack McGee - Schmidt"

"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."

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

"J. T. Walsh - Alderman Martin Swayzak"

"Mark Wheeler - Pengelly"

"Jeremy Sisto - Larry Pogue"

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

"Anthony Mockus, Sr. - Chief John Fitzgerald"

"Scott Glenn - John "Axe" Adcox"

"Jennifer Jason Leigh - Jennifer Vaitkus"

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

"Rebecca De Mornay - Helen McCaffrey"

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

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

"Donald Sutherland - Ronald Bartel"

"William Baldwin - Brian McCaffrey"

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

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

"Connor McAuley - Max Lambert"

"Jeremy Ratchford - Ray Micigliano"

"[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!"