- [on their way to a crime scene]
- Detective Lindsay Monroe: It's quite a shindig.
- Detective Don Flack: Sunday block parties. Springtime in New York City.
- Detective Lindsay Monroe: Right in the middle of the street, huh?
- Detective Don Flack: What do they have up in Montana?
- Detective Lindsay Monroe: Wyoming.
- Ellen Fielding: Laptops were stolen from an agency car two weeks ago.
- [Mac scoffs in disbelief]
- Ellen Fielding: Maybe we could jam the phone somehow, close down the system?
- Det. Mac Taylor: It's too late for that; we have a little under ninety minutes. By the time we close down every phone, every radio, every walkie-talkie...
- Ellen Fielding: We can close down secure networks.
- Det. Mac Taylor: It's not about the networks! Anyone can return a page! There are eight million New Yorkers, six million cell phones, any one of which could trigger the next bomb!