- [first lines]
- Simon Templar: [narrating] Lovely, really beautiful. When it comes to prisons, this goes to the top of the list. Devil's Island revisited. Well, there's at least one consolation. I won't be here forever. Oh, in case you didn't know, I'm not a resident, I'm just visiting.
- Sandy: Oh, why the hell did they have to release him? For God's sake, he was in for life!
- Simon Templar: It's called 'parole', Sandy, it's a kind of forgiveness.
- Airport Security: Just a flying visit, Mr. Gates, or are you intending to stay in England?
- Roy Gates: I don't exist, so I can't hear you.
- Airport Security: Well, you look very real to me, sir.
- Roy Gates: Then you're obviously out of touch with your government's attitude towards me. I don't exist.
- Airport Security: Sir, this is very childish, just tell us where you'll be staying?
- [Gates refuses to answer]
- Simon Templar: And now Roy's gonna kill him, right?
- Diskett: What? You crazy? Oh, you mean the obit card he sent him? No, he just sent that to shake the beggar up, that's all.
- Simon Templar: And that gun you gave him, what was that for, stirring his tea?