- Detective Sam Tyler: [the fire chief has handed Sam fragments of the alarm clock used to detonate the first bomb] This is old school. Even al-Qaeda uses electronic timers.
- FDNY Chief: Al who?
- Pat Olsen: I know you. Gene Hunt. 'Cause every autocracy needs a tyrant.
- Lieutenant Gene Hunt: I am not a tyrant. I am a dictator. Big difference.
- Pat Olsen: Does it really matter what I do or say? You'll beat a confession out of me if you have to, won't you?
- Lieutenant Gene Hunt: I will. It's what we call in this line of work "the perks."