- Dalton: We don't like names.
- Gingy McAnally: That's because you're riddled with touts. Informers. Weren't any informers in my time.
- Frankie Conroy: Your time's not done, Gingy.
- Gingy McAnally: I'm out. I quit. I'm not going back to prison for anyone.
- Frankie Conroy: You made an oath, boy.
- Dalton: An oath for life.
- Roisin McAnally: It's not the police that keeps people safe around here. It's the organisation that protects us.
- DCI Rennie: The police arrest men in this city, Lieutenant, not the military.
- Lt. David Ferris: I was carrying out orders.
- DCI Rennie: I like my man stripped, weary, and checked into a cell before he's had time to think. I have to work on him. and I don't want him used to being in a cage by the time he's mine. Got it?
- Lt. David Ferris: He's in the cells. Why don't you just take him?
- DCI Rennie: There's a form for these things. One day, in jolly old England, some lawyer'll be putting the arrest under a microscope. So, everything's got to be right, got it?
- DCI Rennie: [gesturing towards a surveillance camera in the interview room] I wouldn't place too much confidence in those cameras if I were you. They break all the time.
- DCI Rennie: But if he's on the floor?
- DCI Rennie: Then we pick him up again!
- Det. Astley: And what if he can't stand up?
- DCI Rennie: Then we find a different way to prop him up!
- DCI Rennie: A week ago I was at the funeral of my two mates you helped die for Ulster.
- Gingy McAnally: What about my bloody mates you helped die over the last twenty years?
- Roisin McAnally: Eight hundred years!
- Gingy McAnally: Right, right. Eight hundred years.
- Gingy McAnally: They said I was dead, Mr Ferris. Every single one of them said I was dead.
- Lt. David Ferris: What else can they say? Their power has been smashed, and it's you that's been smashing it. I can't change the course of this war, can't change it an inch. But you can, Gingy. Compared with what you can do, I'm wasting my time here. All of us are.
- Gingy McAnally: Too right. Get the Brits out, and we'd sort it quick.
- Gingy McAnally: Do you get extra if you shoot a Provo?
- Lt. David Ferris: Lord, no.
- Gingy McAnally: I thought you got extra. That's what we were told.
- Lt. David Ferris: I suppose either one of us gets overloaded with the truth, Gingy.
- Title card: [at the end of the film] During the years 1981-1983 when the British Converted Terrorist Policy was in effect, over 600 people on both sides were arrested based on the statements of 16 Irish Republican Army and 7 Protestant Loyalists. 15 of the 23 ultimately recanted their testimmony.