- [first lines]
- Cap't Tom Stevens: I'm Captain Tom Sturgiss of the Buffalo, New York, police department and this is, a murder weapon, cost our city thousands of dollars in time and manpower spent before it was recovered. In just a minute, I'll tell you how it figured in the O'Dell-Griffin Case.
- [repeatedly pistol-whipping a jewelry store employee]
- Frank Griffin: You wanted a break - all right, you got it!
- Cap't Tom Stevens: [narrating] All efforts to identify them from mug shots were futile. If the gang was a local outfit, we hadn't spelled them yet.
- Sgt. Ed Williams: Maybe they're from Canada.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: Maybe. But both the Canadian and American customs have been mighty tough these past few weeks. Sooner or later, they'd catch them smuggling those guns across.
- Sgt. Ed Williams: Finger man on this side - spots the jobs, furnishes the firearms.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: Could be, but our police percentage of unsolved murders is less than three percent. A record like that doesn't attract outside hoodlums.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: [narrating] The call was from a character we knew as Rudy. His background was as dim as the view we took on some of his activities.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: Who gave you the gun, Rudy?
- Rudy: Frank Griffin.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: He used it to club Barossa, but Barossa didn't die. It stands to reason that if they ditched this, they'd also ditch the murder gun. You'd better jog your brains, Rudy, and come up with some fresh memory!
- Cap't Tom Stevens: I'm going to take you down to the spot so you can show me where you tossed that gun. You'd better hit it right on the head or I'm liable to do the same to you.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: You better get your money changed.
- Sgt. Ed Williams: We going to Canada? Maybe I can get a bike there for my kid!
- Cap't Tom Stevens: Or a slug.
- Captain William McAllister: Now, if you gentlemen will come with me, I think we can find the men you want.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: Do you know where they live?
- Captain William McAllister: No, but I believe the old saying the spice of life - in this case, her name is Ginger.
- [Captain Sturgiss hits the bulleye with his dart]
- Ginger: Not bad. Accidental?
- Cap't Tom Stevens: Nine out of ten.
- Ginger: Show me some time.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: It's no secret - to throw straight you just gotta think straight. Want a game?
- Ginger: Ladies aren't allowed.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: Oh?
- Ginger: Billy just lets me practice when there aren't costumers around.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: How about buying you another beer?
- Ginger: Ladies aren't allowed to drink in a bar.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: It's a mighty good-looking ring.
- Sgt. Ed Williams: Two carat diamond with 15 chips - right, Ginger?
- Ginger: I don't know anything about...
- Cap't Tom Stevens: That ring belongs to a clerk in a jewelry store, Ginger. The owner of the store is dead.
- Ginger: Dead?
- Cap't Tom Stevens: Murdered.
- Ginger: I don't know anything about it. Really, I don't know anything about it. I don't want to get mixed up in a murder!
- Cap't Tom Stevens: You are mixed up in it, Ginger.
- [after returning the ring to Captain Sturgiss, Ginger throws a bulls-eye]
- Cap't Tom Stevens: See what happens when you think straight.
- O'Dell: What's the matter? What's this all about? What do you want of me?
- Cap't Tom Stevens: Well, it's not for overtime parking.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: Why so glum?
- Sgt. Ed Williams: Bad news.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: For what?
- Sgt. Ed Williams: The kid.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: What happened?
- Sgt. Ed Williams: I asked Captain McAllister where I could find an English bike.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: What did he say?
- Sgt. Ed Williams: Didn't know. People in Canada make their own.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: Tough.
- Sgt. Ed Williams: There's more.
- Cap't Tom Stevens: Yeah?
- Sgt. Ed Williams: He wants me to find one for him.