- [last lines]
- Plainclothes Officer: He wants to be cooperative. The computer is on a farm southeast of Weberville.
- Dan Mathews: Mr. Ferris is gonna be glad to hear that. Why didn't you run?
- Charlie - First Thief: I figured the odds.
- Dan Mathews: Didn't you figure the odds on this job, too?
- Charlie - First Thief: Yeah. But I didn't figure on that.
- [glances up at Highway Patrol helicopter]
- Dan Mathews: Yeah, they sure are crazy contraptions. I don't know what makes 'em fly. Take him away.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Anytime crime follows a fixed pattern, the pattern itself helps solve the crime. But when crime committed is original, when there is no pattern, then the job is more difficult. And it gets most difficult when the criminal himself follows no fixed pattern, when he walks and talks like any other passerby, when he apparently is just another businessman - brisk, neat, confident.