- Dempsey: [exhausted from running] I've been around the park five times. I should have been a wino instead of a jogger. There's nobody but that guy in the grey leather jacket.
- Makepeace: So, she was doing the ironing.
- Dempsey: So?
- Makepeace: There isn't a washing machine in the flat.
- Dempsey: So?
- Makepeace: So, where did she do her laundry?
- [simultaneously with Dempsey]
- Makepeace: They met in a launderette
- Dempsey: [simultaneously with Makepeace] They met in a laundromat. And then he followed her home!
- Swabey: [calling a public telephone] I'm disappointed in you
- Makepeace: Why? Why are you disappointed in me? Tell me.
- Swabey: I thought I could trust you.
- Makepeace: In what way?
- Swabey: To come here alone.
- Makepeace: I am alone.
- Swabey: [scoffs] Your colleague under the Elm tree. Your other two friends in the Granada.
- Makepeace: [speaking on the radio] If you are a woman between the age of 18 and 35, and brunette, please listen carefully. Your response may save another life. We believe that the man known as the Thriller Killer is murdering women as part of a vendetta against someone that he is close to or has been close to in the past. You may be that woman. Please listen to this recording of his voice.