- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: [Walking to the car after questioning the Rudolphs] Those kids were playin' there, all right. The way that joker made it sound, no kid would wanna miss what was going on there.
- Inspector Steve Keller: I wonder how much that Billy really knows.
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: Well, he knows enough not to tell the old man the truth. Hey, what a way to raise kids, huh? Spook stories and spankings.
- Inspector Steve Keller: [Stunned upon entering the junk-stuffed Edgerton home] I don't believe it. I really don't believe it. Rudolph said the old man collected trash. Looks like he imported the whole city dump.
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: I don't know, buddy-boy. There is junk... and there is junk.
- Inspector Steve Keller: [Chuckling] Yeah, but this is bananas time. I mean, this old guy is totally out of his tree.
- Detective Lt. Mike Stone: Yeah, my guess is when his brother wouldn't go out into the world, Harlan brought the world in to him.
- Inspector Steve Keller: [to the hysterical mother of a missing child] You have a family doctor?
- Mrs. Dunham: Why?
- Inspector Steve Keller: He could prescribe something for you to relax.
- Mrs. Dunham: I don't want a doctor - I want my boy!