- Madeline Randall: Murder?
- Perry Mason: By definition under the law, committing a felony is acting maliciously. When that malicious felonious act is the proximate cause of the death of a human being, even an accidental death...
- Paul Drake: The malice of the felony becomes the malice aforethought in the death, and you wind up with homicide.
- [first lines]
- Reed Brent: [while standing at his dying aunt's bedside] Shouldn't we call the doctor again, Mr. Grover?
- Justin Grover: He said he'd be here in half an hour. it's ten more minutes.