- Lt. Seidensticker: Yes, what is it, son?
- Detective Schulman: [smiling] Don't call him son. Call him detective.
- Lt. Seidensticker: [disbelieving] You're Beauregard Lockley?
- Bo Lockley: [smiling] I'm afraid so.
- Bo Lockley: You know somethin' Crunch, you're a black man yourself.
- Richard 'Crunch' Blackstone: No, I'm not a black man. Those panther mothers, they're black men. I'm a negro.
- Bo Lockley: All right, you're a negro. and, uh, a lot of the black guys in here are negroes.
- Richard 'Crunch' Blackstone: Now listen Beauregard, because the lesson is this. Nothin' nothin' is ever what it looks like. Always know who the players are. You got to know who the players are. You got to know who the actors are. And never move until you know that. And don't just be knowing it. Know it!