Johnny Cash credited as playing...
Tommy Brown
- Tommy Brown: Aren't you afraid, bein' up here alone with a killer?
- Lt. Columbo: No, sir. No, sir, I had a feeling that sooner or later...
- [switches on the car radio playing "I Saw the Light"]
- Lt. Columbo: Sooner or later you would have confessed, even if I hadn't caught you.
- Tommy Brown: Yeah, you're right, Lieutenant. I would've... 'cause it was gettin' to me and I'm glad it's over.
- Lt. Columbo: Listen, any man that can sing like that can't be all bad.
- Lt. Columbo: I'm not here to pry into your personal life.
- Tommy Brown: My personal life is an open book. Everybody knows I done time.
- Lt. Columbo: Yes, sir, but what you've done since you've gotten out, that's been an inspiration to a lot of people.
- Tommy Brown: Then what're you buggin' me for?
- Lt. Columbo: You know what the problem is? You're a celebrity. Because of you, my boss, he won't let me close up this case until I covered everything. Every loose end's gotta be tied up. Hey, make you crazy. So that's the problem.
- Tommy Brown: That's a cryin' shame. It really is. Man with your talent, real killers loose out there, and they got you chasin' smoke.
- Lt. Columbo: Whadda ya gonna do? That's the job, right? You take the good with the bad.
- Tommy Brown: Now look, Lieutenant, I'm not gonna try to tell you that Edna and I didn't quarrel. You can't go through a day with Edna without quarrelin'.
- Tommy Brown: I'm gonna grab a couple hours shut-eye.
- Edna Basket Brown: Well now, if you're thinking of looking for that child that came to the door, you just forget it, because I'll be right back... to make sure that all you're grabbin' is shut-eye.