22x02 - Cause to Kill Season 22 / Episode 2: - Cause to Kill

Murray Fettle: You're taking the piss
DCI Matt Burke: I'm taking nothing pal, but you are, starting with a murder charge
Murray Fettle: Murder?
DC: And possibly torture
DCI Matt Burke: Don't make him think of two things at once Jackie, otherwise he's brain will overheat and he'll stop breathing
22x02 - Cause to Kill Season 22 / Episode 2: - Cause to Kill

DC: Do you think he's our killer?
DCI Matt Burke: The only thing he's killing is his liver
22x01 - Running Out Of Time Season 22 / Episode 1: - Running Out Of Time

DC Stuart Fraser: Can I be frank Mr Glass?
Walter Glass: You can be whoever you like son.
21x03 - Mind Over Matter Season 21 / Episode 3: - Mind Over Matter

Hookie Barclay: He came staggering out of that lane
DI Robbie Ross: Staggering, was he injured?
DI Robbie Ross: He was injured alright, been hit by a bar.
11x01 - Hellfire Season 11 / Episode 1: - Hellfire

Supt. Jack McVitie: We are going to get our bollocks chewed off for this
DCI Jim Taggart: You'll have to sew mine back on first, Jean had them last night
10x01 - Instrument Of Justice Season 10 / Episode 1: - Instrument Of Justice

DC Jackie Reid: [at post mortem] You can't tell who was attacked first?
Dr. Stephen Andrews: [shakes head and grunts negatively]
DC Jackie Reid: That won't please the boss
Dr. Stephen Andrews: If my work was judged on the sole criterion of bringing joy to Jim Taggart I wouldn't even bother getting out of my bed in the morning.
07x01 - Violent Delights Season 7 / Episode 1: - Violent Delights

DCI Jim Taggart: Come on, I'll buy you both lunch.
Jackie Reid: [to Jardine:] Do you think mourning has affected him? [referring to the recent death of Jean Taggart's Aunt Hettie, whom Jim passionately disliked]
Mike Jardine: Mourning? He couldn't stand the sight of her!
07x01 - Violent Delights Season 7 / Episode 1: - Violent Delights

DCI Jim Taggart: She lost Mrs. Campbell at Central Station, when she was putting her bag into the left luggage.
Supt. McVitie: Is she going to open it? [Reid has mistakenly boarded a London bound train instead of opening the suspect suitcase]
DCI Jim Taggart: She can't - she's at Carstairs Junction! My God... wimmen polis!
07x01 - Violent Delights Season 7 / Episode 1: - Violent Delights

Mike Jardine: Not exactly a heavenly body... [when Jardine looks through Philip Dempster's telescope to see Taggart in the house on the opposite side of the road]
07x01 - Violent Delights Season 7 / Episode 1: - Violent Delights

Jean Taggart: And a limousine too!... You never did anything for her when she was alive, now you do this! I'll never understand you, Jim! [Jean curses Taggart after he goes against Aunt Hettie's wishes and buys a top of the range coffin and hires a limousine for her funeral]
07x01 - Violent Delights Season 7 / Episode 1: - Violent Delights

Mike Jardine: He's refusing to tell us which coffins he put the body parts into. We'll have to exhume the lot.
DCI Jim Taggart: Well then, exhume the lot!
Mike Jardine: That unfortunately includes your Auntie Hettie, sir.
Supt. McVitie: Going somewhere, Jim? [as Taggart walks to the exit]
DCI Jim Taggart: I'm away to see Jean, sir. Then... I think I'll emigrate!
06x03 - Rogues Gallery Season 6 / Episode 3: - Rogues Gallery

Dr. Andrews: I've found a finger, Jim! [as he removes human remains from a compacted automobile]
Jim Taggart: Mammy, Daddy! [staring into the sky in disgust]
06x03 - Rogues Gallery Season 6 / Episode 3: - Rogues Gallery

Jim Taggart: There's a nutter running around Glasgow, pumping bullets into people, locking them in car boots. I don't want to give them a third chance!
Mike Jardine: But sir...
Jim Taggart: What is it with you? Are you in heat or something?
03x03 - Cold Blood Season 3 / Episode 3: - Cold Blood

Burger Van vendor: Hey, I'm the brains of this outfit!
Jim Taggart: Your brains will be on the pavement unless you help us!
03x03 - Cold Blood Season 3 / Episode 3: - Cold Blood

Jim Taggart: [On hearing the dead man's wife had fired 6 bullets into the body] What did he do - forget their anniversary?
03x03 - Cold Blood Season 3 / Episode 3: - Cold Blood

Ruth Wilson: I'm glad he's dead!
03x02 - Funeral Rites Season 3 / Episode 2: - Funeral Rites

DS: [grabs at victim as he almost falls into the quarry] Tommy!
DCI Jim Taggart: [sarcastically] Are you trying to make his day?
DCI Jim Taggart: [looks into quarry to see villain's car going under the water surface] Well, that's the easy part of it.
DS: [stunned] Easy?
DCI Jim Taggart: [grins] Now I have to go home and tell Jean she needs a new hairdresser!
03x02 - Funeral Rites Season 3 / Episode 2: - Funeral Rites

DCI Jim Taggart: [to McPherson, who was thrown into a pile of cow manure] Go and get a wash, you're honking!
03x02 - Funeral Rites Season 3 / Episode 2: - Funeral Rites

Supt. Jack McVitie: Jim, something interesting. Pat Connolly's record. Two years in Berlinnie for grievous wounding, same time as Abernathy.
DCI Jim Taggart: Huh, so that's where they met. [sees funeral party] Sir, would you do me a favor? Ask that funeral party to go home. Bottle of whisky.
Supt. Jack McVitie: Bribery, Jim? Is it true what I hear about young Jardine being a teetotaler and a churchgoer?
DCI Jim Taggart: Aye, it's true.
Supt. Jack McVitie: [smiles] Refreshing change.
DCI Jim Taggart: What's that supposed to mean?
03x02 - Funeral Rites Season 3 / Episode 2: - Funeral Rites

Dr. Stephen Andrews: If you want to know what killed him, I'd say asphyxiation.
DCI Jim Taggart: He was buried alive!
Dr. Stephen Andrews: I can think of a better death.
DCI Jim Taggart: I can think of a better job right now.
03x02 - Funeral Rites Season 3 / Episode 2: - Funeral Rites

DCI Jim Taggart: By the way, Jean.
Jean Taggart: Yes?
DCI Jim Taggart: I don't mean to spoil your evening, but Colin Davidson's trying to murder Maggie.
02x01 - Knife Edge Season 2 / Episode 1: - Knife Edge

Alex Dewar: I wouldn't chop up a woman, terrible waste.
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Det. Sgt. Jackie Reid: Michael Jardine died as he had lived - a brave and honest man. He was the best friend I ever had, and the worst boss.
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DCI Jim Taggart: There's been a Murder.