- Simone: I will come right to the point, Mr. Midnight. If you do not help my husband he will be killed. Yes, it is as simple as that.
- Hans Weidman: You were hired by Mrs. Morgan to protect her husband. You arrived too late.
- Johnny Midnight: Too late to prevent murder. But not too late.
- Johnny Midnight: [narrating] The therapy room at Westlake Sanitarium, where people worked at things with their hands under the watchful guidance of staff doctors to help them get off the make-believe stages on which they've been acting out their lives for so long. They were not actors, though, they were for real. And to them, their little make-believe worlds were real, too,