- Lt. Tragg: What were you doing on Sunset Canyon Road in the middle of the night?
- Perry Mason: What was homicide doing... same place?
- Lt. Tragg: Well, we have an unnatural interest in murder.
- [last lines]
- Perry Mason: [to Evelyn Bagby] He wanted you to have some compensation for that trouble in Riverside. And then too, you have red hair.
- Della Street: What does that have to do with it?
- Perry Mason: Well, Helene Chaney has red hair. He must be partial to redheads.
- Della Street: [chuckles] Oh.
- Louis Boles: [Speaking of his wife, Vinnie] I've wanted to get her off my back for 25 years. I'd do anything to get away from her.
- Lt. Tragg: Well! Looks like old-home week.
- Perry Mason: Yes, doesn't it? However, I wasn't aware there was a law forbidding an attorney from seeing his client.
- Lt. Tragg: Oh, maybe I can do something about it next session of the legislature.
- [first lines]
- Drake's Operator: [answering phone] Paul Drake Detective Agency.
- Evelyn Bagby: I wanted Mr. Mason. Perry Mason. Isn't this his night number?