- Joey Scianti: Now let me get this straight: this big art collector wants to buy the Madonna with street dope? What the hell is this world coming to?
- [looking over at his partner driving the car]
- NYPD Det. Jeffrey Whitehead: This is a piece by Lucia Lammermoor, representing a search for the purest possible form. Thee painter here is engaged in a sort of aesthetic mysticism.
- [showing slide pictures of art to Sonny and Tubbs, talking about one which is nothing more than a white square with some light play]
- Detective James Crockett: Yeah, I'll say it's pure. So pure I can't even find it.
- [walking up to the projection screen trying to see what is being talked about while Tubbs laughs in the background]
- Detective James Crockett: The Scianti's are in the dope business, too. We could use dope to make the buy.
- NYPD Det. Jeffrey Whitehead: A serious collector won't accept narcotics.
- Detective James Crockett: Who the hell is talking about serious collectors? On a evolutionary scale, the Scianti's are about, oh, one step below amoeba.