- [last lines]
- [Leonard Stone has been apprehended by the Highway Patrol after he fled in a car with two female hostages, and is being taken back to the patrol car. Mathews stops at Ella Brewster's car, which Stone had been driving]
- Chief Dan Mathews: Awright, ladies. You can get up now. You know, I wouldn't advise it again, but that key bit, that took a lotta nerve.
- Mrs. Ella Brewster: Well, if you'd seen him shoot that nice young man in cold blood...
- Chief Dan Mathews: Now just a minute, ladies. I don't know how you're gonna take this, but this 'nice young man' you're talking about, he committed two murders today.
- Mrs. Ella Brewster: [to Marie] Why, imagine! We've been riding all day with a murderer. Wait till Walter and Cathy hear about this.
- Sgt. Ken Williams: [Approaches the car carrying a briefcase] Here's part of the motive - counterfeit plates.
- [Takes money from the briefcase]
- Sgt. Ken Williams: This stuff looks real.
- Leonard Stone: It is real - twenty thousand dollars - and it belongs to me.
- Chief Dan Mathews: You hear that, ladies? Take a look. Twenty thousand dollars. He's not gonna be able to spend a nickle of it.
- [to Stone]
- Chief Dan Mathews: Awright, move.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Law enforcement agencies do not agree with the common belief that society always benefits when criminals exterminate each other. For when the underworld settles its disputes by violence, there is no regard for the safety of innocent citizens. The Highway Patrol was faced with this problem early last month. Les Curtis had worked as errand boy for a master counterfeiter, Alfred Manson. Now, as he and Manson prepared to deliver a set of counterfeit engraving plates, Curtis decided his apprenticeship was over.