- Pel Pelham: [referring to his son] But I want him to live on what he learns from books, not his wits. I don't want him outside the world always looking in. I don't want him to be an outsider.
- Jenny Pelham: Oh, well, if you have to go around feeling sorry for yourself, at least put your pants on.
- Reporter: [in the murdered girl's apartment] Murder, murder, murder!
- Lindley: A sad business, but it's a living.
- [leaving the room]
- Lindley: Come on, boys. Soon as you wrap it up, get everything over to my office.
- Reporter: Got any angles, sir?
- Lindley: Well, let's see what Mr. Lewis the bookmaker has to say about the letter.
- Reporter: Maybe she lost a bet.
- Lindley: Maybe it was the other way around. Somebody paid her off, that's for sure!
- Harry Stanton: Are you still on the wagon, doctor?
- George: Oh certainly sir, most certainly. These old lips of mine have taken to water like a duck.
- Harry Stanton: I hope you have a good nights sleep tonight Rorke. One thing - I don't have to worry about you talking any more.
- Pel Pelham: Look, Lindley, you do your job; I'll do mine. I could never do your job because I'd always be for the underdog.
- Lindley: That could be a dangerous dog sometimes.
- Rorke: [on a subway platform] I'm only guessing, but I think it must have been very lonely for you sitting up in that room all that time with her so cold and so dead. But something I don't have to guess about - like how a man plays Santy Claus to a pretty young girl while...
- [the rest is indistinguishable as the train roars by]
- Rorke: That dame felt like she'd been dead at least two hours when that midget fell over her. With that party going on down here any one of these nature's wonders could have gone up there and knocked her off.