"The next best thing to violence is sex. And seeing as there's nearly 500,000 single women in London, I must be in with half a chance. Especially as I'd fuck anything that's breathing."

"My granddad, old Bill Farrell, drove us to drink with his stories about the war and how he fought to put the "Great" into Britain. He said fighting at football was nothing compared to fighting with the Germans... Although, he was right. We're an island race. It's what we do best. It's not about color or race, it's just the buzz of being in the frontline. Truth is, I just love to fight."

"Getting beaten up by football hooligans is like having V.D. The fucking pain goes on forever. But that's what makes it so exciting."

"I'm gonna smash the fuckin' granny out of that."

"Problem was, he'd taken so many beatings on the terraces that he weren't scared of anyone. And the correct medical term for that is a "total fuckin' psycho"."

"What else are you gonna do on a Saturday? Sit in your fuckin' armchair wankin' off to Pop Idols? Then try and avoid your wife's gaze as you struggle to come to terms with your sexless marriage? Then go and spunk your wages on kebabs, fruit machines and brasses? Fuck that for a laugh! I know what I'd rather do. Tottenham away, love it!"

"There's nothing different about me. I'm just another bored male, approaching 30, in a dead-end job. Casual sex, heavily cut drugs and occasionally kicking fuck out of someone."

"Jesus! I was expecting a bowl of cornflakes and a quick wank..."

"Kicked half to death, florists, cabbies, nightmares and visions; one of the old soldiers gone forever; Bright gone for a seven; and bollocks so ruptured that the only thing I'll be pulling for months is a chain. After all that you really do have to ask yourself if it was all worth it... course it fucking was!"

"What else you gonna do on a Saturday? Sit in ya fucking armchair wanking off to Pop Idols? then try and avoid your wife's gaze struggle to come to terms with your sexless marriage? Then go and spunk your wages on kebabs, fruit machines and brasses? I know what I'd rather do. Tottenham away. Love it!"

"Once upon a time, I did get fuckin' done in, me and the lads went up to Dundee, and we got turned over by the two psychos known as the Carlin cousins, they fuckin' sliced and diced through our whole squad, and then a squad of old bill, and three police horses couldn't stop them. They're fuckin' insane."

"Are you tryin' to mug me off in front of my pals?"

"You fucking little mug!"

"Don't fuck about, ping him!"

"I've never fucking liked you, you little cunt. Do you know what I'm thinking? I'm thinking I should take you outside and open you up."

"We'll get the beers safe and then we'll outflank 'em, yeah?"

"Thought you would've done that by now. You know why you haven't? Because you think this might be an irreparable mistake. Because deep inside you, you know it doesn't matter what the rules say. When the lights go out, and you ask yourself "is she better off here or better off there", you know the answer. And you always will. You... you could do a right thing here. A good thing. Men live their whole lives without getting this chance. You walk away from it, you may not regret it when you get home. You may not regret it for a year, but when you get to where I am, I promise you, you will. I'll be dead, you'll be old. But she... she'll be dragging around a couple of tattered, damaged children of her own, and you'll be the one who has to tell them you're sorry."

"[voiceover] I always believed it was the things you don't choose that makes you who you are. Your city, your neighborhood, your family. People here take pride in these things, like it was something they'd accomplished. The bodies around their souls, the cities wrapped around those. I lived on this block my whole life. Most of these people have. When your job is to find people who were missing, it helps to know where they started. I find the people who started in the cracks and then fell through. This city can be hard. When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to his children. "You were sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves."

"[voiceover] And like that, she was gone. We gave our statements. Nick and Remy the same. All of us spared any blame for Amanda's death. Jack Doyle resigned on the condition that he and he alone be held accountable. He was granted the dignity of early retirement, but the humiliation of half a pension. It was an ignominious end to an illustrious career."

"[voiceover] I couldn't stop running it over and over and over in my mind. The vague and distant suspicion that we never understood what happened that night; what our role was. Or maybe it was just like the hundreds of other children who disappear each year and never return. Amanda was even more haunting for never being found."

"[about Remy] He lied to me. I can't think of one reason big enough for him to lie that's small enough not to matter."

"I planted evidence on a guy once, back in '95. We were paying $100 an eight-ball to snitches. We got a call from our pal, Ray Likanski. He couldn't find enough guys to rat out. Anyway, he tells us there's a guy pumping up in an apartment up in Columbia Point. We go in, me and Nicky. Fifteen years ago, when Nicky went in, it was no joke. So it's a... it's a stash house, right? The old lady's beat to shit, the husband's mean, cracked out, trying to give us trouble, Nicky lays him down. We're doing an inventory, but it looks like we messed up because there's no dope in the house, and I go in the back room. Now, this place was a shithole, mind you? Rats, roaches, all over the place. But the kid's room, in the back, was spotless. No, I mean, he swept it, mopped it; it was immaculate. The little boy's sitting on the bed, holding onto his playstation for dear life. There's no expression on his face, tears streaming down. He wants to tell me he just learned his multiplication tables."

"You gotta take a side.You hurt a child,You molest a child You're not on My side.If you see me coming, you better run, because I am gonna lay you the fuck down! Easy."

"Kids forgive, they don't judge, they turn the other cheek, and what do they get for it?"

"A four year old child is on the street. It's seventy-six hours and counting. And the prospects for where she might be are beginning to look grim, you understand? Half of all the children in these cases are killed, flat out. If we don't catch the abductor by day one, only about ten percent are ever solved. This is day three"

"Do you have any children? My only child was murdered. She was twelve. Did you hear about it? What you probably didn't hear, and what I hope you never have to deal with is what that feels like. What I have to deal with. Knowing that my little girl likely died crying out for me to come and save her. And I never did. My little girl died afraid and alone in a shallow ditch bank by the side of the road, not ten minutes from my house. I know what it feels like to lose a child. Now damn it, you force my hand and then you question the way I handle it. I honor my child with this division. So that no parent has to go through what I've known. This child. That's all I care about. I'm gonna bring her home."

"EVERYONE WANTS THE TRUTH...UNTIL THEY FIND IT."

"BASED ON THE NOVEL FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF MYSTIC RIVER"

"Casey Affleck - Patrick Kenzie"

"Michelle Monaghan - Angie Gennaro"

"Morgan Freeman - Captain Jack Doyle"

"Ed Harris - Detective Sergeant Remy Bressant"

"John Ashton - Detective Nick Poole"

"Amy Ryan - Helene McCready"

"Madeline O'Brien - Amanda McCready"

"Amy Madigan - Beatrice "Bea" McCready"

"Titus Welliver - Lionel McCready"

"Slaine - Bubba Rogowski"

"Edi Gathegi - Cheese"

"Mark Margolis - Leon Trett"

"Michael K. Williams - Devin"

"Jill Quigg - Dottie"

"Margo Martindale - Trish Steger"

"Summer Phoenix - Jen Malmskog"

"Michael Emerson - Reverend"

"Frances Sternhagen - Marge Murray"

"James Murtaugh - Reverend Fred Phelps"