- Lt. Rod Blake: Didn't you hear a woman scream four or five times right outside you door?
- Frank Parnessa: Oh, I don't know. Maybe I did; probably I didn't.
- Lt. Rod Blake: Don't you think it would be normal to react if you did?
- Frank Parnessa: Lieutenant, down here a woman screams when she's mad, sad, glad or in love. In other neighborhoods maybe she'll sing... down here she screams.
- Gladys Henderson: None of this would have happened. It's the neighborhood!
- Lt. Rod Blake: A neighborhood is what you make it, Mrs. Henderson. You're one of the neighbors.