- Jim Chee: That Davis woman was coming on to you strong.
- Joe Leaphorn: Means she's got something to hide.
- Joe Leaphorn: You have any pots hidden in here?
- Maxie Davis: Police assault of the wardrobe!
- [referring to her closet]
- Emma Leaphorn: At least I'm willing to fight. I don't need you to cure me, Joe. I can cure myself, I just want you to stay close. Are you listening to me?
- Joe Leaphorn: How hard is it to make this stuff?
- Emma Leaphorn: Okay, Joe, okay. I give up. We'll change the subject: sauerbraten. How hard is it to make? Pretty hard, it took me all afternoon, so eat it!
- Joe Leaphorn: This suspect of mine, she left a pot of it on her stove. You wouldn't make this dish if you were planning on murdering someone and taking off?
- Emma Leaphorn: No, I wouldn't.
- Joe Leaphorn: Sauerbraten.
- Emma Leaphorn: What about it?
- Joe Leaphorn: You always do it.
- Emma Leaphorn: I never made it before in my life.
- Joe Leaphorn: Something stares me in the face, drives me crazy, I can't figure it out, and you make me see it. My suspect is out there somewhere all alone, waiting for someone to find her.
- Emma Leaphorn: You know, by the time I finish my treatments, all my hair's going to fall out. I'm gonna be cue ball. What do you want with a cue ball?
- Joe Leaphorn: I always liked pool.
- Joe Leaphorn: You watching that hokey cooking show again?
- Emma Leaphorn: It relaxes me.
- Joe Leaphorn: I think you got something going for that guy. You'd tell me if I got something to worry about anything, right?
- Jim Chee: You should've called me at the station earlier.
- Janet Pete: And you should've applied for the Washington transfer like we talked about.
- Jim Chee: I intended to.
- Janet Pete: What, in Indian time?
- Joe Leaphorn: Have you heard anything from Dr. Friedman Bernal?
- Randall Elliot: No, and frankly I'm getting a little nervous about it.
- Maxie Davis: Oh Randy, don't be such a chauvinist pig. Ellie'd out-survive you in the desert any week of the year.
- Janet Pete: If you follow Leaphorn around like you do, you'll end up like Leaphorn.
- Jim Chee: I thought you said Joe was a fine man.
- Janet Pete: A nice, semi-retired loser who's never going anywhere!
- Joe Leaphorn: You'll catch a cold up there.
- Emma Leaphorn: Would you stop being such an old woman!
- Joe Leaphorn: What did you say?
- Emma Leaphorn: Quit using me as an excuse to keep moping around.
- Joe Leaphorn: You're a pot dealer, Slick.
- Slick Nakai: I am offended and affronted. I am a clean and sober Christian!
- Joe Leaphorn: I meant dealer in pottery.
- Jim Chee: Look, you're Joe Leaphorn. The legenday Joe Leaphorn.
- Joe Leaphorn: You know you're road kill whenever they start calling you legendary.
- Joe Leaphorn: What'd you say the name of this numero uno suspect is?
- Dispatcher Clem Allison: Dr. Eleanor Friedman Bernal.
- Joe Leaphorn: Sounds like a weather system.
- Delbert Tsosie: That's a lot of watch to give up for a woman who'll never stick around.
- Jim Chee: By Wednesday, or you give it back.
- [fixing Janet's car]
- Delbert Tsosie: Indian giver!
- Joe Leaphorn: I know that you're into believing in the old ways. But if you're gonna stay being a cop, you're gonna have to get over it. The death deal.
- [to Chee]
- Amos Whistler: I came that close to dying!
- Slick Nakai: That's because you didn't pray to Jesus.
- Amos Whistler: I pray to Jesus! It's the chindi! He's been here a lot longer than Jesus!
- [referring to Navajo ghosts]
- Jim Chee: So, you looking forward to getting home to Emma?
- Joe Leaphorn: Some things you ought to be able to figure out yourself.
- Jim Chee: And I wrecked a loaner car chasing those guys.
- Joe Leaphorn: Good-looking, big deal tribal attorney Janet Pete's snazzy convertible?
- Jim Chee: Man, this reservation gossips!
- Joe Leaphorn: Entertainment tonight.