- [last lines]
- Sheriff Mort Metzger: What's this?
- Dr. Seth Hazlitt: Bill for my services. Wayne here took that bullet in your behalf, you know. Good Samaritan law suggests that you pay his expenses. Minus what I owe you, well, I figure, possibly, $70 from you, and we'd be dead even.
- [first lines]
- Wayne Metzger: Excuse me, I don't mean to bother you, but are you Jessica Fletcher?
- Jessica Fletcher: Yes, I am.
- Wayne Metzger: I knew it. I've read your books. All of them. I think you're terrific.
- Jessica Fletcher: Well, that's very kind. Thank you.