- Tommy McConnel: My people aren't big birthday folk.
- Michel Dorn: You do not celebrate your birthday?
- Tommy McConnel: More like counted them down. When we were kids, my Da would remind us that every birthday brought us closer to being charged as adults.
- Louis Daniel: You are serious?
- Tommy McConnel: When theft is the family business, knowing when you come of age is an important fact.
- [last lines]
- Carl Hickman: Back when I was a young cop, still in the blues, my brother was the biggest drug dealer in the area that I worked.
- Tommy McConnel: Are you serious?
- Carl Hickman: Oh, yeah. Rule was never talk about it in front of my mother.
- Tommy McConnel: She didn't know?
- Carl Hickman: She definitely knew. We all just pretended that she didn't.
- Tommy McConnel: Wow.
- Carl Hickman: Point is, we all got family hanging around our neck. Doesn't reflect on who you are. Not to the people who really know you.
- Tommy McConnel: Where is he now?
- Carl Hickman: Who's that, my brother? 20 years sober. Yeah. Runs the Narcotics Anonymous program in Queens.
- Tommy McConnel: So you're saying there's hope for my family?
- Carl Hickman: No. No, after what I saw, they're completely lost. What I'm saying is, you can stop apologizing for them. They're not your burden. See you tomorrow?
- Tommy McConnel: Sure no one else will have me.
- Carl Hickman: Around here, that's a pretty big club.
- Arabela Seeger: [about birthday cake] We were going to use 30 candles, but the fire department has rules against that much open fire.
- Sebastian Berger: Yeah, they'd have to be waiting with a hose in case you couldn't get the job done.
- Tommy McConnel: No McConnell's ever had any trouble getting a job done.
- Eva Vittoria: Why does everything you say sound dirty?
- Tommy McConnel: Your mind makes it that way. It's the way you think about me.
- Eva Vittoria: Yeah, you wish.
- Tommy McConnel: You need some help?
- Rose McConnell: Fold laundry?
- Tommy McConnel: Aye, I could.
- Rose McConnell: Is that what men do where you're from?
- Tommy McConnel: I'm from here.
- Rose McConnell: No. No, you're not. Not anymore.
- Tommy McConnel: A thing like that doesn't change. Where a man is born is just a fact.
- Rose McConnell: Where a man is from is a whole 'nother thing. And that was the toast your Da gave at our wedding.
- Miles Lennon: [about the Irish] You don't understand these people the way I do. In fact, I hesitate to call them people at all.
- Michel Dorn: Excuse me?
- Tommy McConnel: There has to be a different way to live. That's the other thing I learned from you. You always said, "If no one else is going to do a thing needs done, then you do it." So that's what I did. And I thought one of us going into their world might just make a difference.
- Michael McConnell: So that day cost me two sons.
- Tommy McConnel: Aye. But it might save your grandchildren.
- Michel Dorn: We just celebrated Detective McConnell's 30th birthday. He was three in 1987. Same age as your twins.
- Miles Lennon: Yeah, well, at least he got to be 30.
- Miles Lennon: I was doing my job.
- Michel Dorn: And do you feel better now? Has the pain gone?
- Miles Lennon: I'm sorry?
- Michel Dorn: No, it has not gone. It will never go. That will only happen with forgiveness.
- Miles Lennon: I can never forgive those bastards.
- Michel Dorn: Not them. You. Yourself. You must, you have to forgive yourself. That's how it all begins. Trust me.
- UK Uniformed Cop 1: Armed police. Stand still!
- Tommy McConnel: What are you doing?
- Armed Police Officer: Keep your hands where we can see them
- Tommy McConnel: I'm a detective, kiss my bollocks!