- [first lines]
- Simon Templar: [narrating] It had been a memorable dinner. The lobster was subtle, the champagne chilled to perfection and the dessert, well that was straight aphrodisiac in whipped cream. It's too bad she was a model and had an early call. You can't, as Socrates said, win 'em all.
- Simon Templar: I thought you were supposed to be off sick?
- Parkinson: What the hell has it got to do with you, whoever you are, and who the hell are you anyway?
- Simon Templar: Where have you just been?
- Parkinson: I refer to my previous anwer.
- Simon Templar: Now why do you listen in on the police broadcasts, hm?
- Parkinson: Because I like to hear the world going to hell in a bucket!
- Loader: You've proved you're a giant among little men. Making the bomb single handed was... extraordinary. We'd very much like to see it.
- Parkinson: Now don't try to soft soap me, Professor Loader. It was you that did it. You put the mark on me. You told all the world about me and the whole rotten world believed you. I couldn't even get a job making lightbulbs!
- Commander Denning: Get this walking obscenity outta here! Book him with obstruction, willful mis-information, abetting a fellony, book him for being alive!