Chemist Quotes in The French Connection (1971)

[analyzing drug shipment]

Chemist: Blast off: one-eight-o. Two hundred: Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Two ten: U.S. Government certified. Two twenty: lunar trajectory, junk of the month club, sirloin steak. Two thirty: Grade A poison. Absolute dynamite. Eighty-nine percent pure junk. Best I've ever seen. If the rest is like this, you'll be dealing on this load for two years.

Joel Weinstock: So you tell me it's worth the half million?

Chemist: I want my lawyer.

Alex Cross: I am your lawyer.

Chemist: Are they missing any limbs? I hate it when they have missing limbs.

Chemist: What are you looking for?

Marcus Vindictus: A pack of Trojans!

Chemist: Gee, I just ran out!

Eddie Kagle: [arriving in Hell] Florida never smelled like this... like rotten eggs...

Chemist: Precisely, young man. Rotten eggs. The unpleasant odor is caused by H2SO4, hydrogen sulfuric acid, the most common compound of hydrogen and sulphur. Am I right? I poisoned my wife with a sulphur compound; my young wife. She was unfaithful. I was a chemist.

Eddie Kagle: What do you mean... 'was?'

Chemist: Before they hanged me.