- [first lines]
- Whispering Smith: [narrating] When you're hunting a hold-up gang, the roadway to a deserted old house sometimes looks inviting - sometimes.
- [Smith hears a shot and sees a man crash through an upstairs window and fall to the ground below]
- Whispering Smith: [narrating] I had heard the scream - I was sure of that. There was no sign of the screamer... none at all.
- John Richards: Just disappeared, Smith.
- Whispering Smith: Just disappeared, Chief.
- John Richards: Just disappeared, George.
- George Romack: That's what the man said, Chief. I heard him.
- Whispering Smith: All right, you two, but I'm telling you I saw it - the body of Frank Molloy.
- John Richards: Well, I don't care. I don't care if it's a copy of the gun that killed Alexander Hamilton. This whole thing's ridiculous! I send you out to check up on a hold-up and you come back with some story about a disappearing body and a gun that killed President Lincoln!
- John Richards: Where do you think you're goin'?
- George Romack: He's my partner.
- John Richards: Well, you just sit yourself right down *partner*. I want someone to be around in case Smitty's wrong. Frnak Molloy might stop in and say he saw a missing detective last night.
- John Richards: Do you know what she could do if we couldn't produce a body? She could go to the mayor and the city counselmen. We'd all be out on the street.
- Whispering Smith: Chief, I swear I saw him.
- John Richards: Will you stop saying that! I don't care what you think you saw... but I'll tell you what you'd better see. You'd better see Frank Molloy - alive or dead - and you better bring him back here so I can see him! Understand?
- John Richards: Well, what are you waiting for?
- George Romack: Me? Nothing. You told me to stay around here and wait.
- John Richards: I know what I said, now get moving, *partner*.
- Whispering Smith: You know that scream I heard?
- George Romack: Yeah.
- Whispering Smith: It came at least 30 seconds after the shot.
- George Romack: So?
- Whispering Smith: It was a fake to get me into the house so they could get rid of that body.
- George Romack: You know somethin' else, Smitty? That scream you heard ain't nothin' to the one Richards' gonna let out when we come back without Molloy.
- Peggy Casson: Is this an official visit?
- Whispering Smith: Nooo, I'd like to think of it as a friendly little visit.
- Peggy Casson: What's on your mind, *friend*.
- [referring to Frank Molloy]
- Whispering Smith: There's been talk you've been holding his hand.
- Peggy Casson: Talk's wrong. I've just been listening to his troubles. You know me, Smitty, as long as a man can buy, I can listen.
- Whispering Smith: Tell you anything interesting?
- Whispering Smith: Hmm, mostly that the Arabs are right.
- Whispering Smith: The Arabs?
- Peggy Casson: Mm-hmm. An Arab prizes his horse first, his wife second and never trusts a friend.
- Whispering Smith: I'd like to try something.
- John Richards: Is it legal?
- Whispering Smith: I'll nail Molloy's killer so no jury will ever turn him loose.
- John Richards: Well, I'll take that for "yes".
- Whispering Smith: Well, what you brought you two out here? I wouldn't worry about Monty and Pete - they're well taken care of. Well?
- Jim Conley: All right, so we're in love. Any law against that?
- Whispering Smith: No, there isn't. But there's a law against murdering a husband who finds out about it.