- [opening narration]
- Peter Denver: The Black Widow, deadliest of all spiders, earned its dark title through its deplorable practice of devouring its mate.
- Peter Denver: Were you drunk when you did these?
- Costume Designer: A little.
- Peter Denver: They're very good.
- [discussing a woman who has been charged with murdering her husband's lover]
- Detective Lt. C.A. Bruce: Nancy Ordway's trouble was that she was a purpose girl who forgot her purpose. She fell in love. Unfortunately the fellow she fell in love with was Miss Carlotta Marin's husband. Personally I would as soon try to take something away from Rocky Marciano.
- [Rocky was an American professional boxer and world heavyweight champion at the time]
- Detective Lt. C.A. Bruce: .
- Iris Denver: What do you think they will do to Lottie?
- Detective Lt. C.A. Bruce: That I couldn't tell. A thing like that is up to the jury.
- Peter Denver: I can hardly wait.
- Iris Denver: [Iris disapprovingly] Why Peter.
- Peter Denver: No, I mean for one of the greatest dramatic actress in this country to open in court. I can already see her in the witness chair. Without any make up, her hair just a little straggled and grey. Wearing a rather faded print dress from a bargin basement. And no girdle. And when this poor, brave, pathetic little housewife gets through with that jury...
- Detective Lt. C.A. Bruce: They'll probably convict me.
- Peter Denver: That is not impossible.
- [stirring music - The End]
- Peter Denver: How old are you?
- Nancy Ordway: Nineteen. No, that's not true. I'm 20. I just hate to admit it. 'Cause in the 20s you ought to have accomplished something.
- Peter Denver: I know. Mozart had written an opera by the time he was 12.
- Brian Mullen: And, what if you could prove that he was at that movie the time the girl was killed?
- Detective Lt. C.A. Bruce: To Tell you the the truth Mr Mullen, I've rarely met a murderer who wasn't at a movie at the time of the murder.
- Iris Denver: [Urging Peter to stop in at Carlotta's party] Just long enough for her to see that you're there.
- Peter Denver: If she'll look fast enough.
- Brian Mullen: [Stopping Peter from leaving Lottie's party] Oh no, you don't. You're not going to leave me in there all by myself.
- Peter Denver: Would you like to go out on the terrace?
- Brian Mullen: Good heavens! You're not thinking of jumping, are you?
- Iris Denver: Lottie behaving herself?
- Peter Denver: Well, I think I'm the only one around the theater still speaking to her, but nobody's actually clobbered her yet.
- Peter Denver: Where on earth did you and Lottie meet all these people?
- Brian Mullen: Who's met 'em?
- Brian Mullen: [to the waiter.] Bring Mr. Denver a drink, will you?
- Party waiter: Yes, sir
- Brian Mullen: Yours is the first face I've recognized here tonight.
- Nancy Ordway: Funny thing about New York. Sometimes you meet the hostess at a party like this, and sometimes you don't. I came to this one with another girl, but she's disappeared.