- [last lines]
- District Attorney Wallace Doherty: I say to you: Go to your authorities - give them a chance to destroy racketeering. It is more costly to be cowardly; it is more dangerous to knuckle under. Think it over.
- John Rudolph - Building Inspector: I ought to see Doherty. I know a little something.
- Chief Building Inspector: Boy, it's always dangerous to know a little something.
- [first lines]
- MGM Crime Reporter: Once again, as the MGM crime reporter, it is my privilege to bring to you another episode in our 'Crime Does Not Pay' series. May I present Mr. Wallace Doherty, district attorney of a metropolitan county.
- District Attorney Wallace Doherty: I'm going to show you the inside workings of a very dangerous racket - one that might destroy the life of anyone in this audience. For obvious reasons, I will have to use fictitious names for persons, buildings, and companies. Let me show you what happened in our city.
- Morris Zuto: We make our own luck. With thirty-eight millions worth of building going up in this town, we're gonna get our fair share.
- Police Detective: We finally caught up with you.
- Morris Zuto: Maybe.
- Foreman Cooper: No, Zuto - that orchid's *your* funeral.