- George Romack: Smitty, you figure that note he got's tellin' the truth?
- Whispering Smith: I don't know, but if it is, we'll have to try to keep a murderer from being murdered.
- George Romack: You know, there seems to be somethin' unlawful about that.
- Whispering Smith: [narrating] I had made an intensive investigation of Miller's past. His life read like an open book... with the first few chapters torn out.
- [to Tina and Vincent who have been arrested on a charge of attempted murder]
- Ralph Miller: You cost me a lot today, but it's gonna cost you a lot, too - about twenty years! I hope you have a lot of fun together... with all those bars between you.
- [last lines]
- Dr. Johnson: There's something I have to know - who wrote that second note to Miller?
- Whispering Smith: Well, after I became convinced that the man who wrote the first one was only trying to get Miller to confess, I decided to help, so I used the best weapon against the man possible - the man himself.