- Joe Tulley: Frankie, please help me just one more time!
- Frank Tulley: If the cops don't find that car, they'll come back.
- Joe Tulley: Not for awhile, Frank. And by that time, there's not gonna be anything left.
- Frank Tulley: It's taking an awful chance.
- Joe Tulley: Frankie, nobody's ever gonna know! Please, Frankie! If that guy dies, they're gonna kill me!
- Frank Tulley: [glumly] He's already dead.
- Mr. Larkin: I knew him pretty well, Mr. Mathews. He'd never let anybody push him around.
- Chief Dan Mathews: Yeah, I know. The morgue is full that type.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: To law enforcement agencies, one of the most dangerous criminals is the unpredictable, armed beginner. Because he is always nervous, often frightened, his comparatively minor crimes frequently explode into crimes of major violence. Such an explosion occurred six weeks ago, when Joe Tulley, with his wife, Gloria, attempted what appeared to be a simple holdup of a service station.
- [last lines]
- Frank Tulley: My brother. He's had that comin' for years.
- Chief Dan Mathews: Where you're going, you'll have plenty of time to explain that to 'im.