- [closing bumper]
- Broderick Crawford: The clowns at the circus are real funny, but on the highway they're murder. This is Broderick Crawford - I'll see you next week.
- Officer Barney: This Barlow - he's, uh, mixed up in the rackets, isn't he?
- Dan Mathews: Yeah, the numbers.
- Officer Barney: I never heard of him connected with anything rough, though.
- Dan Mathews: Well, you have now.
- Dan Mathews: Figure it out - plane lands on an isolated firebreak, apparently no emergency. Ranger reports the landing, ranger turns up dead, plane turns up deserted. Whoever set the plane down had a good reason; didn't wait to share his secret with the ranger.
- Officer Barney: On the other hand, it might be somethin' real simple... engine trouble.
- Dan Mathews: Barney, the ranger didn't die of engine trouble.
- [after receiving the ransom money, the Coopers refuse to release their hostage]
- Cooper's Wife: After all, we took good care of her all this time; now it's her turn to take care of us.
- Dan Mathews: You played your part real well, but you don't ad-lib so good.
- Steve Wasson: W-What are you talking about?
- Dan Mathews: Figure it out. When you and the Barlows saw me, they didn't know me from Adam. I coulda been here to collect the ransom, but you knew different. You were surprised. You were the one who told 'em to stay back, remember?
- [last lines]
- Officer Barney: Well, how'd you figure that one out?
- Dan Mathews: I went to Patrol Academy, remember?
- [first lines]
- Narrator: Not every crime in which the Highway Patrol is involved takes place in a car or on a highway. On the seventh of November, a case began when a forest ranger sighted a small airplane flying at a dangerously low altitude over the Ridgeway State Forest area and alerted the Highway Patrol for possible emergency aid.