Stockard Channing credited as playing...
Bess
- Bess: You have a visitor in there, a Miss Sophie De Vega.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Pretty?
- Bess: Prettier than me, but I'm easier.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: I'm saving you for the rainy season.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Don't be stubborn, you crazy Frenchman. Time is on their side!
- Bess: I don't think he's being stubborn - I think he's being dead!
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Just once I'd like to see somebody die *regular* on this case!
- Bess: Hold onto your hat. Vladimir Tserijemiwtz is Ezra C.V. Mildew Dezire Jr.!
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Wait a minute. Tserijemiwtz has two T's. The name you come up with don't have none.
- Bess: That was the whole key. Some people spell the Czar of Russia T-S-A-R. But in America we spell it C-Z-A-R.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Any fool knows that.
- Bess: So when I tried the American spelling, I came up with Ezra...
- Bess, Lou Peckinpaugh: ...C.V. Mildew Dezire Jr.!
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Of course! - Who the hell is he?
- Bess: The owner of the Golden Gate Bridge.
- Lou Peckinpaugh: Right. You did fine, angel. Now forget you ever heard that name. Don't ever repeat it to anyone.
- [the phone rings]
- Bess: [into phone] Hello? - Yes, he is. Who's calling, please?
- [to Lou]
- Bess: It's him! Ezra C.V. Mildew Dezire Jr.!
- Lou Peckinpaugh: I told you not to repeat it!