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Chief Inspector Dreyfus: [on the telephone] Don't ask why, just do it. You have the flight number. He leaves tomorrow out of JFK. He'll be easy to spot. He's got white hair, a thin mustache, brimming with self-confidence, and completely lost.
Chief Inspector Dreyfus: [sarcastically] Well, this is a glorious day for France.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau: How so, chief inspector?
Chief Inspector Dreyfus: Because a stupid idiot named Clouseau is going to be stripped of his rank while I take over his case.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau: You have a second man named Clouseau?
Chief Inspector Dreyfus: [mutters softly] My God. Leave us alone for a moment. You, out. Go, go. Go. I must have a private word with Inspector Clouseau.
[Everyone, except for Renard and Ponton leaves the room]
Chief Inspector Dreyfus: Understand something, Clouseau. When I made you an inspector, it was not because I thought you had any value as a detective. It was because I thought you were the stupidest policeman in all of France. A hopeless, deluded idiot.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Then I was not promoted for my merits?
Chief Inspector Dreyfus: I only made you inspector because I needed someone who would quietly get nowhere until I was ready to take over the case myself.
Inspector Jacques Clouseau: I was trying to catch a killer.
Chief Inspector Dreyfus: You were trying-- You were trying to become a hero. Well, you will be stripped of your rank, ridiculed by the media, and I will be done with you. And now if you will excuse me, ex-Inspector, I must go and prepare for the arrest which will win me the Medal of Honor, catapult me to the National Assembly, and after that, who knows? Goodbye, Clouseau.
Deputy Chief Renard: Shall we lock him up?
Chief Inspector Dreyfus: Look at him. He is finished. Let him go home to obscurity.
[He and Renard leave the room]
Chief Inspector Dreyfus: [He looks at Ponton with disappointment] You knew?
