- Wisecracking Fireman: Well, we didn't interrupt your pinochle game, did we, Captain?
- Captain London: Most inconsiderate - I wish you guys would arrange to have your fires on my day off.
- [Captain London has just rescued Ruth Phelps from a burning building]
- Joseph Lester: I watched. I prayed for you. I knew Ruthie.
- Lt. Jones: About those hoodlums - I don't think you'll ever tie arson on them. Why should they set fire to their own hangout? It's where these punks work on their own hot rods. It was a fire that led to their arrest. It just doesn't make sense.
- Captain London: I was thinking about that myself.
- McCuen: We haven't got anybody else.
- Lt. Jones: Well, then you better get somebody else because the only business these crooks had was robbery!
- Captain London: Robbery? I should have thought of that.