- Dan Mathews: I don't get it. You baby this thing all the way here, then you turn it over to a kid.
- Mr. Garson: We figure it's safer to have only one man handling it than three or four. Cuts down on the nervous reflex action three to one.
- [first lines]
- Narrator: In its constant and relentless fight against crime and the criminal who commits that crime, the Highway Patrol occasionally finds itself playing another unique role in the interests of public safety, such as escorting a cargo of highly potent radioactive material, designed for special industrial use, from its point of arrival at the airport to its final destination along a carefully charted route, to avoid all civilian traffic. The cargo: a handful of pellets - hot, deadly, more lethal than a killer with a loaded gun.
- [last lines]
- Dan Mathews: [to Mr. Garson] You know something? I wouldn't have his job for a million dollars tax free, or yours either. Oh, by the way, pick up the stuff at the tree, will ya?