- Barney Collier: What is that thing?
- Cinnamon Carter: Eyelash curler.
- Barney Collier: That's the most diabolical-looking piece of equipment I've ever seen.
- Barney Collier: [In the tent, preparing to go on in their roles, Barney's standing in front of a mirror, putting on his makeup, for his role as the clown MC. The makeup's 'standard' clown variety; it's stark white, as Dan comes up from behind] What I want to know is; what comedian thought of this makeup?
- [Dan and Barney laugh]
- Tosk: What are you doing here?
- Cinnamon Carter: I'm with the troupe.
- Tosk: Eh? What do you do?
- Cinnamon Carter: I read minds.
- Tosk: Oh, come on. I don't believe in that. No, it's some kind of a trick. Nobody can read minds.
- Cinnamon Carter: No? Want me to tell you what you're thinking right now?
- Tosk: Sure doesn't take a mind reader.
- Daniel Briggs: Crystal!
- Crystal Walker: Yes, Dan?
- Daniel Briggs: Better spend more time rehearsing your trapeze act.
- Crystal Walker: Why? I've done it eight a week for two years.
- Daniel Briggs: Not without a net.
- Rollin Hand: The guard watches, the bed checks, and exactly how long we take to get up here had to be timed. Timed to the split-second.
- Cardinal Vossek: I see, but timed with what?
- Rollin Hand: Hear that? That calliope? That music is my watch.