"Perry Mason" The Case of the Hesitant Hostess (TV Episode 1958) - William Hopper as Paul Drake

Inez Kaylor : And did you have some reason for coming up here? Uh, besides wanting to change the world.

Paul Drake : Yeah. What happened at the courthouse?

Inez Kaylor : Well, I wouldn't know. I wasn't there very long.

Paul Drake : Oh, I'm painfully aware of that. The point is, why did you leave?

Inez Kaylor : Let's, uh, call it a change of heart.

Paul Drake : You have a change of heart, and an innocent man pays for it, huh?

Inez Kaylor : Oh honey, send him my regrets.

Paul Drake : He'll appreciate that... Right up to the time they drop the cyanide pellets... You don't seem very shook up about it.

Inez Kaylor : Why don't you just quietly drop dead?

Paul Drake : Inez, anybody check your whereabouts the night Kim Lane was murdered?

Inez Kaylor : What kind of a crack is that?

Paul Drake : All I know is you're doing the greatest silent act since they invented talkies. Why?
[last lines]

Della Street : Just what do you know about business colleges?

Paul Drake : Are you kidding? I used to teach at one of the finest.

Perry Mason : Mm-hmm. Paul was a track coach. They figured any girl he couldn't catch in three laps around the desk was, uh, ready for the business world.
Paul Drake : [after someone has taken a handful of pills and locked themselves in the bedroom] You should have used a gun; they haven't figured out a way to remove bullets with a stomach pump yet.

William Hopper: Paul Drake