Brannigan Quotes in K-9 (1989)

[Dooley meets Jerry Lee]

Brannigan: There he is, the best nose on the force. He could stick that snout in the wind right now and lead you to a stash in the middle of Tijuana.

Dooley: Listen, I gotta be up front with you. I got a real bad feeling about this dog.

Brannigan: Hey, tough shit. That's all I got. Not I want you to take care.

Dooley: Don't worry about the dog.

Brannigan: It's not the dog I'm worried about.

Brannigan: You think you got problems? I gotta to take my wife and kids on vacation. I've got a plane to catch in 3 hours.

Dooley: Plane? You said plane?

Brannigan: But I ain't gonna catch the plane because I gotta wait here for the SWAT team.

Dooley: Can I have the dog if I get you on the plane? You're airborne, you're airborne!

Brannigan: I'll tell you what, you get me on the plane and you can marry the goddamn dog!

Dooley: You got it!

Brannigan: Goddamn lunatic!

[Brannigan approaches a motorcyclist who has just thrown a bag in the Thames]

Brannigan: Can you swim?

Motorcycle Courier: Yes.

Brannigan: Go get it!

[pushes motorcyclist into the river]

Cmdr. Charles Swann: This isn't Chicago!

Brannigan: You're right, you can't get a decent burger anywhere in this town.

Brannigan: [ordering breakfast at Swann's club] I'll have two eggs over easy, a side of bacon, and a short stack.

Cmdr. Charles Swann: Let me translate.

[to the waiter]

Cmdr. Charles Swann: . That will be two eggs lightly fried on both sides, a rasher of bacon, and a modest stack of pancakes.

Brannigan: But not *too* modest.

Brannigan: [after kicking down door] Knock, knock!

Brannigan: Kinda strange, having a couple of cops advise you on what's in your client's best interest.

Mel Fields: Knock it off, Brannigan. If Larkin's friends in Chicago find out I'm in bed with the Yard, they'll part my hair with a blowtorch!

Det. Sgt. Jennifer Thatcher: My father flew with the RAF. He said there were only three things wrong with the Yanks: 'oversexed, overpaid and over here'.

Brannigan: I really walked into that one - and deserved it. I'm sorry.

Det. Sgt. Jennifer Thatcher: Might we start again, sir?

Brannigan: Why? We're doing fine.

[Brannigan has used a revolver wrapped in a plastic bag to coerce Angell into revealing the whereabouts of Ben Larkin. Brannigan then puts the weapon on the table and telephones police headquarters]

Brannigan: You must be getting old, Angell, trying to push second-rate paper like this.

[Brannigan reaches the desk sergeant and doesn't notice that Angell has taken the gun in the plastic bag]

Angell: Turn around, big man!

Brannigan: Angell, you're a real bush-leaguer.

Angell: Oh yeah?

[Angell squeezes the gun's trigger, but it clicks empty]

Brannigan: Oh, you know something, I don't think it's loaded.

Angell: [flying into a rage] Why you dirty lousy mick! You got no rules! You got no...!

[Brannigan grabs a piece of wood and clobbers Angell, who falls unconscious onto the table. Brannigan ties him up while the desk sergeant on the phone yells for him]

Brannigan: [to the phone] Nice to be wanted.

Angell: [waking up] Listen Brannigan, you're dead! There's a contract out on you!

[Brannigan tosses the empty gun on the table next to Angell]

Brannigan: Try explaining that to your parole officer.

Brannigan: How's the world's second-best navy?

Royal Navy Sailor: You should know.

Brannigan: Last time I was here people were getting bombed a different way!

[Larkin employed Gorman the hitman to plant a bomb in Brannigan's flat. It has just gone off, blowing a hole in the wall through which the Albert Memorial is visible]

Brannigan: [ironically] Larkin paid twenty-five grand to get me that view.