- Marie: [eyeing a beautiful high-wire walker] Don't you ever pick on anyone your own age?
- Lou Lindsey: Yeah - a little older, too. You oughta know, baby.
- [Mike's cover is as a carnival barker for a girly-girly show]
- Mike Hammer: Fifty cents! Half a dollar! Girl girls girls girls! Here here! Girls girls! Feast your eyes, men, but check your blood pressure - you're about to see the loveliest chicks this side of gay Paree. And here she is - Suzette Suzette Suzette! Her friends call her Sizzle. Known to all of Europe as the girl with the most tantalizing torso that ever tempted mankind!
- Mike Hammer: And this is Rita! Rita Rita Rita from Rio! This girl's shape launched a thousand revolutions! Do a few revolutions, honey.
- Mike Hammer: And here is Ingrid! Ingrid Ingrid Ingrid, the Danish beauty - the delectable Danish dish with the delicate dimples! What'd ya say, young fella? You can't see her dimples? Well, of course not - not from this distance, but from inside inside inside...
- Dan Manning: You think I got trouble? Doc's got his?
- Mike Hammer: Hmm? Oh, that's Doc's daughter.
- Dan Manning: The guy with her is a first class heel. Doc's gonna kill that drifter if he keeps playin' around.
- [Mike notices Buddy approaching Lou and Ann angrily]
- Mike Hammer: Doc's not the only one. I think I'll buy a ticket to this one.
- [Lou continues to kick Buddy after knocking him down]
- Mike Hammer: The kid's had it. Leave him alone.
- Lou Lindsey: Maybe you'd like a little of the same!
- Lou Lindsey: Goodbye, Lucy. I just thought I'd stop and say goodbye to a couple of old friend of mine.
- Lucy Manning: Where would you find any friends?
- Lou Lindsey: You know, I never could figure out why you let Dan chisel you out of your half of the show.
- Dan Manning: You got big ears, Lindsey - big ears, a long nose and a dirty mouth. Now get out of here!
- Doc Fawcett: What is it, Mike?
- Mike Hammer: It's his heart.
- Doc Fawcett: Get an ambulance, Buddy!
- Mike Hammer: No, get the police, Buddy.
- Doc Fawcett: Police? You said it's his heart!
- Mike Hammer: That's right. He's got a bullet right through it.
- Mike Hammer: [narrating] So there it was. Doc Fawcett was suspect Number One. Buddy Cull's motive was a black eye, a bruised jaw and a fractured pride; Marie Staple nursed the kind of hate that only a disgarded woman can feel and Dan Manning, no matter what Doc thought, could have had a deep enough grudge to kill Lou to hurt Doc, especially if his wife had stirred the jealous fire in his heart. I had to find out who was lying and who had the chance to fire that shot.
- [last lines]
- Lucy Manning: Come on, let's get out of here. I'm tired; I want to sit down.
- Mike Hammer: Honey, they got a chair waitin' for you where you'll sit out the rest of your life. Come on, honey, come on.