John Saxon credited as playing...
Lt. Donald Thompson
- Nancy Thompson: [on the phone, referring to Glen] Hi, Daddy. I know what happened.
- Lt. Thompson: I haven't been upstairs yet.
- Nancy Thompson: Yeah, but you know he's dead, right?
- Lt. Thompson: Yeah, apparently he's dead.
- Nancy Thompson: Listen, Daddy, I've got a proposition for you. Listen very carefully, please.
- Lt. Thompson: Nancy.
- Nancy Thompson: I'm going to go and get the guy who did it, and I want you to be there to arrest him when I bring him out. Okay?
- Lt. Thompson: Just tell me who did it. I'll go get him, baby.
- Nancy Thompson: Fred Krueger did it, Daddy, and only I can get him. It's my nightmare he comes to.
- Cop #3: [after seeing the crime scene in Glen's room] What the *hell* did that, Lieutenant?
- Lt. Thompson: I don't know. What's the coroner got to say?
- Cop #3: He's been in the john pukin' since he saw it.
- Nancy Thompson: [at the police station] You know Tina, she dreamed this was gonna happen.
- Lt. Thompson: What?
- Nancy Thompson: She had a nightmare that someone was trying to kill her.
- [to her mother, sobbing]
- Nancy Thompson: That's why we were there, Mom. She just didn't wanna sleep alone.
- Lt. Thompson: [about Nancy] What was she doing there?
- Marge Thompson: Hello to you, too, Donald.
- Lt. Thompson: [returning greeting sarcastically] Marge.
- Nancy Thompson: The killer's still loose, you know.
- Lt. Thompson: You're saying somebody else killed Tina? Who?
- Nancy Thompson: I don't know who he is, but he's burned and he wears a weird hat and a red and green sweater, really dirty. And he uses these knives, like giant fingernails...
- Lt. Thompson: [cuts her off and guides her into the car, to Marge] You better keep her home for a few days, until she really gets over the shock of this.
- Marge Thompson: I've got something better. I'm going to get her some help.
- Glen Lantz: We have reason to believe there may be something very strange going on.
- Lt. Thompson: You got that right.
- Nancy Thompson: What are you doing here?
- Lt. Thompson: There's an unsolved murder and I hate unsolved murders, especially ones that my daughter is mixed up in. What are *you* doing here?
- Nancy Thompson: Look, I just gotta see that he's okay.
- Sgt. Garcia: I just checked on him ten minutes ago, he's sleeping like a baby. He's not going anywhere.