- Jack Reacher: [When Hubble sits too close in the prison yard] I'm not a ventriloquist. Get off my lap.
- Jack Reacher: Hell, no wonder Sharon left you.
- Oscar Finlay: You keep my wife's name out of your mouth.
- Roscoe Conklin: [to Reacher] Sir? If you step over here, i can process you. I'm not asking, sir, I'm telling. But don't worry, I won't kick your ass unless you make me.
- Jack Reacher: Just thinking maybe my brother told me about Blind Blake for a reason. Thinking about him lying in that morgue. Thinking I'm supposed to do something about it.
- Oscar Finlay: Like what?
- Jack Reacher: I guess I'll find everybody responsible, and kill every last one of them.
- Jack Reacher: [Reacher's first line, six and a half minutes in] I don't need a lawyer.
- Oscar Finlay: He speaks.
- Jack Reacher: When he wants to.
- Oscar Finlay: And why don't you need a lawyer?
- Jack Reacher: Because I didn't kill anybody... At least not recently... and not in this town.
- Young Reacher: [after bully pushes him down] Okay.
- [Takes off jacket. Turns to Joe, who is taking off his jacket]
- Young Reacher: You don't have to do this. It's my fight.
- Young Joe: It's never just your fight... You know, Mom was right. trouble does kind of seem to find you.
- Roscoe Conklin: [Looking at computer] There's no facebook, snapchat, instagram. No driver's license, mortgage, insurance claims. No online profile at all. the only proof Jack Reacher exists is the fact that he's sitting in that room.
- Oscar Finlay: So you expect me to believe that you, a man with no criminal record, that you just blew a man away? A double barrel shotgun blast right to the face? and then burned the body?
- Paul Hubble: [unaware that's not how the murder went down] Yes, I did.
- Spivey: [At prison intake of Hubble and Reacher] Drop them drawers, bend over and spread.
- Jack Reacher: No.
- Jack Reacher: [When 5 guys confront hi in prison shower room] If you boys knew what's about to happen to you, you'd leave now. So I'll give you to the count of three. One...
- [Reacher headbutts first guy before he even gets to 'two.']
- Oscar Finlay: [after hearing Reacher's military record] What in God's name is a guy like that doing in Margrave?
- Roscoe Conklin: What's a guy like that doing in jail? Hate to be the one who put him in there.
- Oscar Finlay: Get out of my office.
- Oscar Finlay: Reacher, come with me.
- Jack Reacher: No.
- Oscar Finlay: Excuse me?
- Jack Reacher: Not until you let these zip ties come off. We both know I didn't kill anybody, and they are uncomfortable.
- Oscar Finlay: [turns to officer Roscoe] Get the box cutter.
- Jack Reacher: That's okay. I got it.
- [tears off the zip ties that cuffs his wrist, then picks them up from the ground]
- Jack Reacher: You guys recycle?
- Oscar Finlay: What if I'm thinking I'm sitting across from a man who doesn't mind killing and who has the knowledge and training to murder someone and cover it up?
- Jack Reacher: You'd be right. But not this murder.
- Paul Hubble: [to Finlay after seeing scary car in front of his house] I did it. I killed the guy. It was me.
- Jack Reacher: [Eating prison breakfast] You should eat. You look like hell.
- Paul Hubble: That's 'cause I saw you gouge a man's eyes out.
- Jack Reacher: He started it.
- Oscar Finlay: [to Reacher] You seem to be confused about your role in this situation. You are my detainee and suspect, not my partner or my equal. And you're certainly not by employment, appearance, or lifestyle choice a cop any more.
- Jack Reacher: [Riding back from prison with Roscoe] I'm gonna need some new clothes first. Lockup's made me a bit gamey.
- Roscoe Conklin: Oh, we got a Merl's Men shop in town.
- Jack Reacher: I don't need anything that fancy. Just T-shirt and jeans. I travel light.
- Jack Reacher: [Examining 1st victim's scarred left hand] We were wrestling. I pinned him against the stove. Didn't know my mother had just turned it off. That's how my brother got this scar.
- Roscoe Conklin: [Giving mug of coffee to Reacher in jail cell] Assumed you liked it black.
- Jack Reacher: How'd you figure?
- Roscoe Conklin: Seem like a non-nonsense kind of guy. Cream and sugar are nonsense.