- Hamilton Burger: Your honor, this is just another wild-eyed, dramatic grandstand play for which counsel is so noted.
- Della Street: [Proofreading letters prepared by a typist, addressing Mason] You let a dangling participle get by.
- Perry Mason: Ha. You undangle it.
- Perry Mason: The witness claims he saw you roll a body off the Santa Monica pier last night.
- James Kincaid Alias Duane Jefferson: The man ought to be examined. He's as mad as a hatter.
- James Kincaid Alias Duane Jefferson: If I am permitted to speak my mind, may I say that I am in complete agreement with Mr. Burger..
- Hamilton Burger: If it please the court, I don't need any support or agreement from the defendant in this case.
- Hamilton Burger: Mr. Jefferson, am I correct in assuming that you're presenting yourself here as an example of the last stronghold of chivalry, sort of a modern Sir Galahad?
- James Kincaid Alias Duane Jefferson: I am simply withholding information I have no right to reveal.
- Hamilton Burger: Well then, will you state for us flatly here and now that Mrs. Patricia Taylor was not your companion of the evening on the night of the murder?
- James Kincaid Alias Duane Jefferson: I can only tell you that I'll not name the lady.
- Hamilton Burger: And while you pretend to protect the lady who shall be nameless, you're willing to vilify and besmirch Mrs. Patricia Taylor. I think we can use less gentlemen like you sir. No more questions.
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- Perry Mason: Oh, Barney, when you get a chance, would you take this watch up to Crawford Jewelry for me?
- Elevator Operator: Right away, Mr. Mason.
- Perry Mason: Thank you.