- [first lines]
- Sally Wilson: Ever since I found out, I've been in shock.
- Jessica Fletcher: Well, I can certainly understand that. When I was your age, I wanted desperately to be completely independent.
- Sally Wilson: I wanna be a really good book editor.
- Jessica Fletcher: And I wanted to be a good teacher.
- Sally Wilson: Yeah, but your father didn't buy the school. Mine's negotiating to buy the publishing house.
- Jessica Fletcher: Which would make him my publisher.
- Sally Wilson: And my boss. Goodbye credibility. Once again, I'd be a rich kid dabbling in one of Daddy's companies.
- Jessica Fletcher: Well, I can certainly testify for your excellence as an editor. And as you know, I'm not that easy to please.
- Sally Wilson: Simon Legree in a skirt.
- [last lines]
- Sgt. Tom Jarrow: Well, actually, it's, uh, it's you I wanted to see.
- Jessica Fletcher: Me?
- Sgt. Tom Jarrow: Yeah, I wanted to let you know I was serious about taking that course of yours. I just put in for a leave of absence.
- Sally Wilson: Well, you realize, you'll have to live in the city for a while.
- Sgt. Tom Jarrow: Yeah. Well, then, I guess I'll just have to make the best of it. Won't I...
- [softly]
- Sgt. Tom Jarrow: Won't I?
- [Tom starts kissing Sally]
- Jessica Fletcher: I hope you'll keep one or two evenings free for studying.
- [while still kissing, each hold up a hand with the 'Ok' gesture]