Call Northside 777 (1948)

James Stewart: P.J. McNeal

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• [McNeal is trying to get Zaleska to name his real partner in the crime and get a chance at parole] 

  P.J. McNeal : What have you got to lose? You're in for life now. C'mon, tell us the truth.

  Tomek Zaleska : Sure, I could say I did it. Then maybe have a chance of getting out, like you say. But if I confessed, who would I name as my partner, Joe Doakes? I couldn't make it stick for one minute. That's the trouble with being innocent. You don't know what really happened. I didn't do it. Me and Frank had nothin' to do with it.

• P.J. McNeal : [to warden, after trying to talk Tomek into confessing to get parole]  You must run a nice jail; this guy doesn't want to get out either.

• P.J. McNeal : Aw, look, Frank, it's a big thing when a sovereign state admits an error. But remember this: there aren't many governments in the world that would do it.

• P.J. McNeal : You look nice. Will you marry me?

  Laura McNeal : I did.

  P.J. McNeal : Oh yeah, yeah, that's right... Thanks.

  Laura McNeal : You're welcome. Just remember I'm here.

• Laura McNeal : What's the matter, won't the pieces fit together?

  P.J. McNeal : *Some* of them, but they make the wrong picture.

  Laura McNeal : Pieces never make the wrong picture. Maybe you're looking at them from the wrong angle.

• P.J. McNeal : Would you be willing to take a lie detector test?

  Frank Wiecek , P.J. McNeal : Mr McNeil, for 11 years I've been waiting for a chance to get to that box.

• Brian Kelly : Well, I want to know why it's worth 5000 bucks to someone to find out who killed a cop 11 years ago.

  P.J. McNeal : 1932 was open season for cops. Over on the north side they were shooting them in pairs, like a brace of ducks.

• Warden of Stateville Prison : Ninety-nine years is a long time.

  P.J. McNeal : Maybe he'd have been better off if he'd got the chair.