Query (1945)

Jimmy Hanley: Peter Rogers

Quotes 

• Peter Rogers : Masterick? Who's he?

  Sullivan : Someone who made the headlines 15 years ago when you were a revolting child in a pram and I was doing your job ten times better than you could even if you had brains.

• Peter Rogers : I'm still wondering where you come into this story, GS. You seem to know an awful lot about it for somebody who wasn't there.

  Sullivan : I know all about it because although I was only a cub reporter in those days, I happened to have the old-fashioned idea that my job was to get stories instead of missing trains.

• Jill Masterick : Masterick never committed that murder: he's quite innocent - it's all a mistake. And now he's out of prison he's going to prove it and you're to be the first one to know about it. This is the chance you've always wanted.

  Peter Rogers : Who has told you this beautiful fairytale?

  Jill Masterick : Masterick himself!

  Peter Rogers : I thought so. Did you ever know of a criminal who wasn't innocent in his own estimation?