- F. Ellis Coburn: It's a capital offense, you know.
- Eddie Doyle: What?
- F. Ellis Coburn: What we're doing. It's espionage. If they catch us, the Japanese have every right to ship us back to Tokyo and have us executed.
- Eddie Doyle: You never told me that.
- F. Ellis Coburn: Didn't I?
- Eddie Doyle: No. I would have remembered that.
- F. Ellis Coburn: It's true.
- Eddie Doyle: You're just saying that to try and cheer me up.
- F. Ellis Coburn: It might not make the Denver Post, but it's one hell of an accomplishment.
- F. Ellis Coburn: The night of the mission, sir, we need Shimada out.
- Admiral Byron McAdams: A diversion.
- F. Ellis Coburn: Yes, sir.
- Admiral Byron McAdams: [to Petrie] Arrange a dinner, my place.
- [to Coburn]
- Admiral Byron McAdams: Thursday, you said?
- F. Ellis Coburn: Yes, sir, it's the Chu...
- Harrison Llewelyn Petrie: [interrupting] It is the Chugen holiday, sir.
- F. Ellis Coburn: That's correct, sir. Shimada would feel obligated to attend.
- Admiral Byron McAdams: Petrie, make it happen. Invitations...
- Harrison Llewelyn Petrie: Yes, sir. Embossed, sir?
- Admiral Byron McAdams: No. Crayons. What do you think we are, the goddamned Army? Of course, embossed! Gold leaf, the whole bit.
- Harrison Llewelyn Petrie: Aye-aye, sir!
- Stella Snyder: What's the job?
- Eddie Doyle: B&E.
- Stella Snyder: Where?
- Eddie Doyle: Place called St. Alban's on Q Street.
- Stella Snyder: Oh, Eddie.
- Eddie Doyle: What?
- Stella Snyder: You couldn't have picked a worse joint if you tried.
- Eddie Doyle: I didn't exactly choose it, you know.
- Stella Snyder: Well, if you had chosen it, you couldn't have picked a worse joint.
- Stella Snyder: They got ex-bulls guarding the front entrance. Guys bounced off the force for being so brutal even the other bulls noticed. You remember Duke Lindsay?
- Eddie Doyle: Yeah... he got picked up last year, didn't he?
- Stella Snyder: Yeah. Hitting the St. Alban's. Poor Duke. After what they did to his face with the sidewalk, it's kind of a good thing he got sent up the river. At least he's got decent medical care.
- Naomi Shimada: I thought very carefully about who you would most hate for me to be with... and then I married him.