- [first lines]
- [Detectives Flint and Arcaro bring an arrestee and a witness into the precinct station for booking. Detective Arcaro stops the suspect in front of the desk sergeant to start the booking process]
- Desk Sergeant: Well, well, the late late show.
- Det. Frank Arcaro: Roger Fallon, F-A-L-L-O-N, alias Romeo Fallon, alias Robert Flagler, alias Roger Hanshaw, alias John Doe.
- Desk Sergeant: Where do you live, Roger?
- Roger 'Romeo' Fallon: In a tree.
- Desk Sergeant: You don't say. In a tree.
- Det. Frank Arcaro: Social climbing. We found him under a rock. Wake up the stenographer, will ya? We gotta take his statement.
- [to Fallon]
- Det. Frank Arcaro: Come in.
- [Detective Arcaro leads Fallon to the holding area]
- [last lines]
- [Virginia Cort leaves the precinct station. Detective Flint goes after her and she stops on the front steps]
- Det. Adam Flint: Miss Cort. Miss Cort. Wait a minute. Don't run off like this. Let me drive you home.
- Virginia Cort: I have some pride. I care about whom I'm seen with in public.
- [She walks hurriedly down the sidewalk]
- Narrator: This is the love story of Roger Fallon and Virginia Cort. It is the story of solitude without end, and without solution.