- [to Layton who is about to go undercover]
- Chief Superintendent Gault: Think of yourself as a research student doing a survey of crime... from the inside.
- Layton: With a fifty-fifty change of getting killed.
- [Remick turns on the television]
- Johnny Remick: I wonder what rare intellectual treat they'll have for us tonight.
- [it is a cops-and-robbers drama]
- Johnny Remick: Crime. It's all we get these days. I wouldn't mind if they showed the underworld as it really was.
- Ruth Lombard: But then they would have to show criminals as ordinary people trying to make a living. The public would never stand for that.