- Jackie Blake: Why doesn't everyone leave me alone? I'd be very happy just working and having a home. Is that so much to ask?
- Ralph Collins: Sure, sure, go ahead, set the table, Ma's little helper. Yeah. Here, you're so anxious to be tied to her apron strings, why don't you put it on.
- Jackie Blake: Lay off, Ralph.
- Ralph Collins: Come on, put it on you. It'll look good.
- [He almost strangles Jackie with the apron]
- [afterword]
- Alfred Hitchcock: [Hitchcock has his tie caught in the lathe] Excuse me a minute.
- [he takes a knife and cuts off his tie]
- Alfred Hitchcock: There.
- [pats the lathe]
- Alfred Hitchcock: I've decided to give this machine to a very dear friend of mine. For two reasons. He's insufferable, and wears long ties. As for the girl you saw earlier, you'll be pleased to know that she acquired a job as a result of appearing on our program.
- [rests arm on lathe]
- Alfred Hitchcock: A talent scout saw her and immediately signed her up as a pair of book ends. And speaking of ends, that is what this is, of our show, that is. But we shall be back another time with another story. Good night.
- [introduction]
- Alfred Hitchcock: [Hitchcock is in a large room with machinery that includes a giant circular saw, lathe, and drill; he is filing away a piece of wood at the lathe when he notices the audience] Oh, there you are; pardon me.
- [turns off lathe and tosses the wood away]
- Alfred Hitchcock: Good evening, fellow hobbyists. I've decided to do it myself. I'm sure most of you would expect me to be all thumbs.
- [he holds his lapels as he faces the audience and we see that his right thumb is bandaged]
- Alfred Hitchcock: This is definitely untrue. The way things are going, I should be very lucky to have any thumbs at all. Tonight's story is about a parolee, and so I thought you might be interested in this machinery
- [nods briefly to the saw]
- Alfred Hitchcock: which has been designed as a therapeutic measure for paroled convicts who may still harbour homicidal tendencies. It gives them a healthy outlet for their energies. You have a saw, lathe, drill...
- [gestures to each of the machines]
- Alfred Hitchcock: As my first project, I've been, er, converting Chippendale furniture into kindling. I'm sure my work here would only bore you, so we've arranged to show you tonight's story in just a moment. Perhaps I should explain, this is a circular saw
- [turns to the saw and switches it on with a spark; the camera pulls out and we see a young lady struggling as she is tied to a giant block of wood on the conveyor belt that is moving towards the saw]