- Broderick Crawford: [frequently used sign off line] See the Highway Patrol in action again next week. Until then remember, leave blood at the Red Cross, or your community blood bank, not on the highway. This is Broderick Crawford saying see you next week.
- Jimmy Withers: I think we're wasting our time.
- Sam: We'll waste a lot more time in prison if he puts the finger on us.
- Jimmy Withers: Not much time, Sam. They'll give us the works for knocking off that watchman.
- Sam: No two ways about it - we gotta get this guy. Killin' him is the only way we can get in the clear!
- [first lines]
- Narrator: One of the most important elements in the investigation of a crime is to know whether the criminal is a professional or an amateur. The amateur presents the greatest problem, because he doesn't follow a set pattern, but presents a strange and unintelligible M.O. One Sunday last March, an amateur planned to burglarize a warehouse. His method was crude and direct. But in the execution of his robbery, he ran into unexpected problems, brought about by a one-in-a-million chance coincidence.
- [last lines]
- Dan Mathews: [to Jim Rogers] Hey look. If the judge gives you a break, we'll see what we can do about getting you a job.
- Peg Rogers: Jim, are you all right?
- [Mr. And Mrs. Rogers hug each other]
- Dan Mathews: Seeing as you delivered the killers personally, why don't you take this?
- [He hands Mrs. Rogers a twenty-dollar bill]
- Dan Mathews: It'll hold you for a little while.
- [to Jim Rogers]
- Dan Mathews: But you gotta come with us.
- [to Sergeant Williams as they walk toward the Rogers' house]
- Dan Mathews: How about twenty till next payday.