- P.T. Moore: I wouldn't put anything past old Raymond - not if he could see a nickle profit in it.
- Chuck Martin: Well, he might be tight fisted, but that doesn't mean he'd commit murder.
- P.T. Moore: Not even if I raised the ante to a dime?
- Chuck Martin: So somebody staged a phony airplane crash and messed up a legitimate insurance claim. Why?
- Lt. Hurst: Yeah, why? To cover a murder that wasn't a murder?... Why?
- Lt. Hurst: P.T., are you a fisherman?
- P.T. Moore: Yeah and a darned good one.
- Lt. Hurst: What do you do when the fish won't strike; when they won't rise to your bait?
- P.T. Moore: You change the bait. What's that got to do with this? We're chasin' a murderer who didn't even commit a murder.