The Big Heat (1953)

Peter Whitney: Tierney

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• Tierney : All any of these dames owe me is a night's work, one night at a time. They come and go like flies.

  Dave Bannion : Only this fly got herself strangled.

  Tierney : These things happen, Sergeant. Outside of my place, some of these babes keep pretty shady company. It figures. They know nobody cares much what happens to 'em.

• Dave Bannion : [about Lucy Chapman]  Where did she live?

  Tierney : If I ask for an address, they lie. It's not worth the bother. They're floaters. Not much more than a suitcase full of nothin' between them and the gutter.

  Dave Bannion : Hey, you know somethin'? You ought to be doin' radio commercials - how to talk a lot and say nothin'.