In the Heat of the Night
1967
Gillespie: Whatcha hit him with? Tibbs: Hit whom? Gillespie: "Whom"? Are you a northern boy? What's a northern boy doing down here?
Chief Gillespie: I got the motive which is money and the body which is dead.
Virgil Tibbs: They call me MISTER Tibbs!
Chief Gillespie: Mr Tibbs! Well Mr Woods take Mr Tibbs! Take him down to the depot and I mean boy like now!
(first lines) Ofcr. Sam Wood: Where you keeping the pie tonight? Ralph Henshaw, diner counterman: I ate the last piece just before you came in.
(last lines) Chief Gillespie: You take care, y'hear? Virgil Tibbs: Yeah.
Mayor Webb Schubert: What made you change your mind about Tibbs? Gillespie: Who said I did? Mayor Webb Schubert: (refering to Tibbs' slapping of a white man) Last Chief we had would've shot Tibbs two seconds after he slapped him and claimed Self Defense !
Ofcr. Sam Wood: (to Virgil) Take me ten minutes to get a king size Coke and a wedge of pie. That is if that peckerwood ain't sold out yet.