- Joel Moss: Tell me, Shayne, why did he call you tonight?
- Michael Shayne: He didn't say. He had a bullet in him.
- Joel Moss: He was carrying a briefcase with him. What was in it?
- Michael Shayne: Sorry to disappoint you, Mr. Moss, but I don't know. Why don't you ask Will Gentry?
- Joel Moss: [puts at a burly thung] Shayne, do you want him to do the questioning?
- Michael Shayne: He'll get the same answers... when he wakes up.
- [quoting from a poem found in "Through the Looking Glass"]
- Michael Shayne: "Twas bryllyg, and ye slythy toves / Did gyre and gymble in ye wabe."
- Lucy Hamilton: Come again?
- Michael Shayne: Just a little "Jabberwocky", Angel. It takes me back to my youth.
- Lucy Hamilton: Is that what the papers are printing these days?
- Michael Shayne: Mmm... Will Gentry and Alice in Wonderland.
- Lucy Hamilton: Oh. Are they dating?
- Michael Shayne: Looks that way.
- Lt. Wallace: He'll see you in a minute, Mr. Shayne. He's in there talking to Joel Moss and his lawyer.
- Michael Shayne: Moss have anything to say?
- Lt. Wallace: Not much. Men in his business keep their mouths shut. It's a tribal custom.
- [to Lucy, his bound and gagged captive]
- Rice: I bet you haven't kept quiet so long in your whole life.