- [first lines]
- Narrator: The law enforcement officer's job of apprehending criminals is a difficult one. It is made even more difficult when the criminal is an intelligent craftsman, an expert at his brand of lawbreaking. Stanley Wright was such a man. His method of safecracking was thorough and sensational.
- [Wright is seen cracking a safe, removing the money from it, and departing the premises]
- Narrator: The Highway Patrol, in trying to gather sufficient evidence to apprehend him, soon realized they were pitted against a strategist whose plans were thorough, whose rare ability at listening to a safe to open it left no clues, no guilt-revealing evidence.
- [last lines]
- Dan Mathews: Did you enjoy the sermon, Wright?
- Stanley Wright: Fine. You shoulda heard it.
- Dan Mathews: Lemme see your hands.
- [to Officer Johnson]
- Dan Mathews: Gimme the light.
- Stanley Wright: Fluorescent powder is used for a lot of things, Mr. Mathews.
- Dan Mathews: Yeah, sure is. It's all over your wife's hands and the package she didn't get to mail.
- Mrs. Wright: Honey, I knew it wouldn't work. I told you we couldn't get away with it.
- Dan Mathews: You shoulda stayed and listened to the sermon. Take 'im away.