- [discussing Dr. Helm]
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: I thought he was the most ill-mannered, foul-smelling, arrogant...
- Marta: Don't tell me you've run out of insults.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: ...tarantula.
- Marta: Ah, a tarantula with a big wide smile, broad shoulders, blue eyes...
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: Green eyes.
- Col. Luis Montoya: Disappeared?
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: Colonel, I'm only concerned because my people are gossiping when they should be working.
- Col. Luis Montoya: Perhaps your people need a firmer hand.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: You're right. Maybe because I'm not a man they take advantage of me.
- Col. Luis Montoya: Senorita, I'm in the middle of some business...
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: One of my workers is convinced that once men enter your jail, they're never heard from again.
- Col. Luis Montoya: Disappearing husbands are nothing new. You know, senorita, many a man discovers - alas, too late - that he has made an error in his choice of life companion.
- Col. Luis Montoya: [to Captain Grisham] The senorita was just leaving.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: I was?
- Col. Luis Montoya: Regrettably.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: About Torlio...
- Col. Luis Montoya: Be careful, Maria Teresa. If one so beautiful as you were to disappear, it would break my heart.
- Maria Teresa Alvarado: Don't worry, Colonel. I have no intention of disappearing.
- [holding the Queen's mask, which Grisham found after she jumped off a cliff into the ocean]
- Col. Luis Montoya: The skin of the fox is one thing, the fox itself is another thing entirely.
- [while stroking the Queen of Swords' throat]
- Sergeant Alonzo: Such a pretty neck... Get word to Captain Grisham! He will want to slit it himself.
- Col. Luis Montoya: Today is the anniversary of my father's death. I never let a special day pass without celebrating.
- Marta: To find such exultation in death is a rare gift, Colonel.