- Luke Jordan: Where do you come from?
- Susan Caldwell: Azusa. Azusa, California.
- Luke Jordan: Azusa?
- Susan Caldwell: It's kind of a made-up word. Different letters. They put them together - that's how they got the name. Everything from A to Z, USA. A-ZU-SA.
- Luke Jordan: You know one of these days you're going to be singing that song on Broadway and I'm just going to be walking up and down the theater.
- Marian Washburn: Picketing?
- Luke Jordan: No, I just won't have enough dough to buy a ticket.
- Marian Washburn: Oh, That be easy to fix, I just have you wait sit in my dressing room. Then maybe I'll have you get rid of the people that'll be waiting for my autograph.
- Luke Jordan: Make way of Miss Washburn.
- Marian Washburn: Then I let you pinch so I can wake up.
- Jim Fowler: [to Luke] Mrs. Fowler never seems to realise that crime goes on twenty-four hours a day.
- Mary Fowler: When I was a little girl, that's what my mother told me about marriage, only I've found out it isn't so.
- Luke Jordan: [to Inspector Fowler] I've told you we're going to keep talking about this until we stumble on something or other that will clear it up.
- Mary Fowler: I've known for a long time that detective work was stumbling.
- Mary Fowler: [to her husband] How come you didn't catch on?
- Luke Jordan: I apologize.
- Susan Caldwell: [smiling] Apology accepted. And no offense taken I'm sure.
- Luke Jordan: Thank you very much. I'm sure.
- [pause]
- Luke Jordan: Gladly.
- Jim Fowler: Every now and then nice people shoot people who aren't nice people. Really they do. And they go to jail for it too.
- Jim Fowler: I'll admit mister that I've heard stories that make less sense than that. They happen to be true.
- Marian Washburn: [Susan faints] Luke! She fainted.
- Susan Caldwell: [Luke claps] Oh.
- Luke Jordan: I won a bet! They don't say, "Where am I?"
- Susan Caldwell: I think I'll take a little water first. It clears your throat you know.
- [gulps water for twelve seconds]
- Luke Jordan: All clear?