- Lt. Tragg: [at the murder scene] Uh, what brings you here?
- Perry Mason: I wanted to have a little talk with Marshall Scott.
- [pause]
- Perry Mason: Murder?
- Lt. Tragg: That's right. What was the little, uh, talk about?
- Perry Mason: That's, um, confidential, Lieutenant. That bookend the murder weapon?
- Lt. Tragg: That's, um, confidential, Counselor.
- [last lines]
- Brander Harris: [while dining with Perry and Delta] Well, premeditation or no, I don't know how I can ever repay you.
- Perry Mason: Uh...
- [hands Brander Harris the check for dinner]
- Hamilton Burger: Perry, I've got enough problems of my own without you adding any. The newspapers are gonna have a field day with this thing. "District attorney charged with murder." Can't you just see it.
- Perry Mason: Kind of smirches the name of district attorney doesn't it?
- Hamilton Burger: Yes, it does.
- Perry Mason: Embarrasses me. Puts me in the position of having to pull your chestnuts out of the fire.
- [smirks and walks away]
- [first lines]
- Switchboard Operator: [on switchboard] Waring House Hotel.
- [pause]
- Switchboard Operator: Hold on, please.