Howard Duff credited as playing...
Steve Quain
- [Catherine Ullven watches as Steve Quain attends to some panthers in a train car. At some point, he turns around and notices Ullven]
- Steve Quain: [speaking Italian] Buonasera, signorina.
- Catherine Ullven: [speaking Italian] Buonasera, signore
- [Catherine then says something in Italian he doesn't understand]
- Steve Quain: Boy, if you could speak English, I'd tell you you're really stacked.
- Catherine Ullven: And if you could speak English instead of American, I might understand what you mean.
- Steve Quain: [smiles] Ouch. Skip it.
- [Steve Quain can be seen looking at his panthers in their train car after Catherine failed to show up for a meeting at a bar]
- Steve Quain: [sarcastically] See what you can learn from two wild animals? He and she are having a drink together.
- [in a train car, Steve Quain can be seen speaking with Catherine Ullvan]
- Steve Quain: Um, looking for somebody?
- [Catherine nods as she notices his panthers]
- Catherine Ullven: Your little pets there. I'm a correspondent from the Apex News Service, and I'd like an interview.
- Steve Quain: They won't talk.
- Catherine Ullven: But maybe you will, Mister...
- Steve Quain: Quain. Steve Quain.
- [Quain helps Catherine up as she climbs into the train car]
- [Catherine Ullven can be seen speaking with Steve Quain in a train car]
- Catherine Ullven: I'm Catherine Ullven, and our office wired me to get a story on you and your two black panthers.
- Steve Quain: Uh-huh. Well, uh, I was born in Seattle, Washington, at a very early age. Everybody said I was a singularly beautiful child. At the age of two, I...
- [Catherine holds up a notepad and a pen]
- Catherine Ullven: Oh, I should have told you, Mr. Quain. This is just going to be one story, not a serial. Much as I'd love to hear about your childhood, could we get to the panthers?
- [Steve Quain can be seen showing his panthers to Catherine Ullvan]
- Steve Quain: Raja, Rani, Ms. Catherine Ullvan.
- [one of the panthers growls at Catherine]
- Catherine Ullven: Well, you don't think it will hurt their feelings if I don't shake hands?
- Steve Quain: You'll have to pardon their manners, they don't like trains.