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Pink Burglar

Wingtips - this is a white collar gang.

"Where's the flaming get-away driver?!"

'I was here first. How about a little professional courtesy?'

'Don't worry about my husband, he stays out quite late since he started working for those Italian guys, in the black limousines.'

'Gee whiz, I don't know why I confessed to a crime I didn't commit. Maybe so I'd have an alibi for the one I did do.'

Robber counters victim's bible quotation with his own.

"Thank heaven no, in this neighbourhood we only have major crime."

"Bad luck definitely comes in threes...first my ex gets hit by a bus...then I lose my job as a bus driver...and now this!"

We're here at House of Java cafe at an all-too-familiar scene. House of Java.net Cybercafe. Tommy Jones, a local boy, has been caught stealing a scone. A minor offense? Not to the cafe's proprietor. He's demanding the boy be sentenced as an adult. But I'm eight! Wahhh! Add a year to the sentence for whining and crying.

Round up all the king's horses and all the king's men for questioning.

"But he had a mask and I thought he was a burglar."

"Stop summoning me about rising sea levels. I do costumed supervillains staling jewels, men in beanies grabbing handbags - that sort of thing."

Cat Burglar

"Puss in cement boots"

'I'm sure that the autopsy will confirm it was a suicide.'

'You shouldn't knock them back so quickly.'

'Ah Mr Bond, I haven't been expecting you...'

"'A body at rest'? -- Are you writing murder mysteries now, Isaac?"

Money laundering - shows money flowing out of US vault.

Bernard Madhoff $50-billion Ponzi financial scheme.

"I felt I could make more of a difference within the system."

"So, just to be clear: the 'voices inside your head' told you to launder the money from forfeited law enforcement seizures in exchange for federal tax breaks for your Uncle Mark in Costa Rica?"

Whodunnit. Whoreallydunnit.

'This could be me and you, your honor. Heading for Las Vegas!'

'Any ideas on motive?' 'Only one, Chief.'

''Rumplestiltskin' sounds like an ALIAS to me!'

'All right pal, just hand over the nose and nobody gets hurt.'

The evidence destroyed

"You're not grandma at all! In fact, I think this is a case of identity theft!"

"Don't make me send in the bad cat."

'They're very proud of me. I'm the first in my family to be convicted of a white-collar crime.'

'During the break, my client stole my wallet.'

'Mark Antony addreses the mob'

"I'll never understand it. I followed the generally accepted principles of embezzling."