Ivan Danko: I have car under control.
Art Ridzik: Yeah, I'm sure they taught you all about cars and the price of insurance at your famous Russian school in Kiev!
Ivan Danko: In socialist countries, insurance not necessary. State pays for everything.
Art Ridzik: Yeah? Well, tell me something, Captain. If you've got such a fucking paradise over there, how come you're up the same creek as we are with heroin and cocaine?
Ivan Danko: Chinese find way. Right after revolution, they round up all drug dealers, all drug addicts, take them to public square, and shoot them in back of head.
Art Ridzik: Ah, it'd never work here. Fucking politicians wouldn't go for it.
Ivan Danko: Shoot them first.

Red Heat är en actionfylld film där den stränge Moskvapolisen Ivan Danko, spelad av Arnold Schwarzenegger, följer en sovjetisk knarkkung till Chicago. Där tvingas han samarbeta med den skojfriske polisen Art Ridzik, spelad av James Belushi, trots deras olikheter. Med spänning och humor tar filmen oss med på en intensiv jakt genom Chicagos gator.