- [remarking on a multi-millionaire's death]
- Chopstick Joe: Harrison Koo - somehow you figure I guy like that, if he can't take it with him, he just wouldn't go.
- Hotshot Charlie: Wonder what kind of a run Chops has for us today.
- Terry Lee: If he's up to par, it'll add up to low pay and high blood pressure.
- [reading Koo's obituary]
- Terry Lee: Harrison Koo - King Midas himself!
- Hotshot Charlie: So the old boy's finally grounded. Wonder what he looks like.
- Chopstick Joe: A stiff countenance no doubt.
- Terry Lee, Hotshot Charlie: Oh, no!
- Dragon Lady: Do I understand you wish to kidnap a corpse and hold it for ransom?
- Lu San: Yes, there is no family. Harrison Koo's estate will spare no expense to recover the body should it disappear before it comes to rest with his ancestors.
- Dragon Lady: You are taking a chance. If you have been his trusted retainer for so many years, will you not be remembered in his will?
- Lu San: Possibly, but Harrison Koo was not a sentimentalist and I should like something more than a token remembrance for the time I have devoted to him.
- Dragon Lady: Well, that should be interesting.
- Lu San: And profitable.
- Dragon Lady: If all goes well.
- Lu San: That is why I have come to the Dragon Lady.
- Dragon Lady: Then you have come to the right place.
- Terry Lee: The note - that perfume...
- Hotshot Charlie: What about it?
- Terry Lee: There's only one person with perfume like that in the Orient.
- Hotshot Charlie: The Dragon Lady!
- Chopstick Joe: Oh, no. She wouldn't double-cross an old pal like Chopstick Joe.
- Hotshot Charlie: Aw, she'd dice you up for a dime, fat boy.
- Terry Lee: Hotshot, old boy...
- Hotshot Charlie: Terry, my lad...
- Terry Lee: Dragon Lady.
- Hotshot Charlie: Lu San.
- Terry Lee: I'll take the high road.
- Hotshot Charlie: And I'll take the low.
- Chopstick Joe: And I'll take aspirin.
- Dragon Lady: You had better go now, Mr. Lee. You will learn nothing here!
- Terry Lee: But you're the girl who can teach me. See you around, D.L.
- Hotshot Charlie: [to himself] Hurry up, Terry. It's not that I'm scared, it's just that fright runs in my family. What a lovely spot for romance and adventure... what a night to run in dark alleys.
- Hotshot Charlie: Curiousity killed the cat.
- Dragon Lady: And you both are exceedingly curious.
- Terry Lee: Yeah, well, if we got go, there's one burning question...
- Dragon Lady: Your American humor escapes me.
- Hotshot Charlie: Note the coffin, note the contents. Sandbags!
- Dragon Lady: So where is the body?
- Hotshot Charlie: You tell us.
- Terry Lee: You don't think that we... Oh, hold on, D.L. We get mixed up in a lot of crazy things but body snatching is a little out of our line.
- Hotshot Charlie: Unless it's five foot four, eyes of blue - and alive.
- Terry Lee: Tell the boys to point the artillery the other way.
- Hotshot Charlie: Yeah, we're getting powder burns.
- Hotshot Charlie: You're on the spot, D.L.
- Dragon Lady: Then it behooves me to move off the spot - and put someone else on it.
- Dragon Lady: My stalwarts, no one will believe you, so I trust you will be as discrete as you are valorous.
- Chopstick Joe: There you are flyboys - paid in full.
- Terry Lee: I read in the paper where Harrison Koo's body was finally interred in the ancestral plot. Just thought you'd be interested.
- Chopstick Joe: Very complicated plot I should say, but Air Cathay always delivers - coffins or coconuts, eh, boys?
- Hotshot Charlie: The only other coffin we want to fly is yours.
- [last lines]
- Chopstick Joe: [answering phone] Air Cathay - who wants to fly where? What? You say a woman is having a baby and wants it born in Hong Kong? Sure thing - I got pilots who can outfly any stork. One moment... Flyboys! I have an assignment for you!
- [Terry and Hotshot wave goodbye to Chopstick from outside his office and then hastily depart]
- Chopstick Joe: You better call a taxi, Mister.