- James Andrews: [to Boyd] You want peace on Earth? It doesn't come without security. You want freedom and democracy? Let me do my job!
- James Andrews: It's a science, Boyd, not a passion. You need men like me.
- Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd: You break the human spirit... and take away the will to live. Do we need men like that?
- Sir Cyril Barrett: Torture is a practice which corrupts the basic fundamental of human rights. Devalue that benchmark, and it's a very slippery slope.