- Lilli Marlowe: Ever since I was a little girl, I dreamed I'd meet a drunken slob in a bar who'd give me fifty bucks and we'd live happily ever after.
- Cal Bruner: Sorry to break it up on you.
- Lilli Marlowe: Well, too bad. First time I ever lost a man to a man. That was fun while it lasted.
- Cal Bruner: [Questioning Lilli about a hot $50 bill] Where'd you get the $50?
- Lilli Marlowe: You know, I've seen all this on "Dragnet".
- Cal Bruner: Save the jokes for the customers.
- Cal Bruner: You ever been married?
- Lilli Marlowe: Yeah, I tried it once, when I was 18.
- Cal Bruner: Well?
- Lilli Marlowe: Ah, he was a great guy, broke, never sober. One day he went on the wagon, took a look at me and thought I was his first wife.
- Jack Farnham: What do we look for now?
- Cal Bruner: First we look for a haystack then we look for a needle.
- Narrator: [Voiceover, epilogue] A policeman, unlike most men, lives close to evil and violence. He can, like all men make his own private hell. The good pass through it with minor burns, the evil stumble and fall and die in strange places.