- Sgt. Joe Friday: This is the city, Los Angeles, California. Some people claim it's a collection of suburbs, not a city at all. Others say that in ten years every city in America will look like Los Angeles does today. One thing's sure, it's a city that's not afraid to experiment, where the unusual is taken for granted. Five-thousand people move to Los Angeles every month.
- [Friday is meeting one of the fur thieves in the hotel bar; his signal is that he's carrying a copy of the Sunday comics from the Los Angeles Times]
- Floyd Sinclair: You always carry the comics section around with you?
- Sgt. Joe Friday: Only when I need 'em.
- Floyd Sinclair: You're early.
- Sgt. Joe Friday: So are you.
- Floyd Sinclair: You the buyer?
- Sgt. Joe Friday: Man's up in the room.
- Floyd Sinclair: You got the cash?
- Sgt. Joe Friday: You got the merchandise?
- Floyd Sinclair: Brought a sample.
- Sgt. Joe Friday: We don't deal in samples.
- Floyd Sinclair: I don't deal in hotel rooms.
- Sgt. Joe Friday: You've got the fur that's burning a hole in your closet, not me, fella.
- Floyd Sinclair: How do I know what I'll find in your room?
- Sgt. Joe Friday: Not who, what.
- Floyd Sinclair: Huh?
- Sgt. Joe Friday: We can go a hundred thousand big ones.
- Floyd Sinclair: How far did you bring the money?
- Sgt. Joe Friday: K.C.
- Floyd Sinclair: Know a guy named Andy Logan back there?
- Sgt. Joe Friday: No, and you don't either. Now let's can that two-bit check-out routine and talk fur, or else you can take that box of rabbits you got there and amble on.
- Floyd Sinclair: Take it easy.
- Sgt. Joe Friday: You're the one that wants to unload. I didn't come here to listen to some punk who ate a big breakfast.
- Floyd Sinclair: Just trying to play it close, that's all.
- Sgt. Joe Friday: You play it any closer, it's gonna be behind you.
- Floyd Sinclair: One more thing before we go to the room.
- Sgt. Joe Friday: Yeah, what's that?
- Floyd Sinclair: How do I know you and the man got that much money?
- Sgt. Joe Friday: The same way we know you've got that much fur.
- Roger Brucker: I don't mind getting involved. I just want to get my monies worth.
- Sgt. Joe Friday: Now how's that, Mr. Brucker?
- Roger Brucker: I pay taxes to hire you guys, don't I?