- Perry Mason: Why did you go to the Blue Bell Motel on the night of the murder?
- Edmund Arthur Lacey: As I said, to thwart any swindle which might reflect on the good name of my publication.
- Perry Mason: Well, if you had no control over Mr. Barnaby's actions, how did you expect to accomplish that?
- Edmund Arthur Lacey: Well, I... I hoped to reason with him.
- Perry Mason: Did you talk with Mr. Barnaby?
- Edmund Arthur Lacey: Well, no. No, I never entered his room.
- Perry Mason: Then how did you hope to reason with him? By mental telepathy?
- [last lines]
- Della Street: It's exactly twenty minutes of ten, and I haven't eaten since noon. Now, which of you two handsome gentlemen is going to take me to dinner?
- Paul Drake: Uh, just a minute.
- [Paul gets a coin from his pocket]
- Paul Drake: Call it, Perry.
- Perry Mason: [as Paul flips the coin] Uh, heads.
- [all watch as it lands on its edge by leaning against a chair leg]
- Paul Drake: Well, we both win.
- Charles Barnaby: You know it's a shame the kind of creeps you gotta do business with, just to make a dishonest buck.
- [first lines]
- Agnes Sims: He's here, lover.
- Edmund Arthur Lacey: Who?
- Agnes Sims: Who do you think? Box 96.