- Perry Mason: [Lt.Tragg enters Perry's office] Well, how are you, Tragg?
- Lt. Tragg: Well, I'm glad to see you in a good humor. Now, sit down and let me make you unhappy.
- Perry Mason: The traffic in narcotics has enraged every decent-thinking man and woman in this country.
- 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.
- [first lines]
- Larry Coles: I'm warning you, Sanders. I catch you hanging around here again, I'll call the cops.
- Perry Mason: Did you see her purse perhaps?
- [waits as there is no response]
- Perry Mason: Well, did you?
- Martha Rayburn: Yes.
- Perry Mason: Wasn't that purse identical with the one you now hold?
- [waits as there is no response]
- Perry Mason: Well, Miss Rayburn.
- Martha Rayburn: Yes, it was. I gave it to her. Most of my hostesses carry similar handbags.
- Perry Mason: But just a few seconds ago you said that you felt that your help would be spoiled by such gifts. That it was against your policy to give them.
- Martha Rayburn: Well really, I don't consider a handbag a gift.
- Perry Mason: I am afraid the distinction escapes me.
- [turns and walks away]
- 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.